Luca Cassetta

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Luca Cassetta is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Cassetta has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Immunology, 10 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Luca Cassetta's work include Immune cells in cancer (24 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (9 papers). Luca Cassetta is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (24 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (9 papers). Luca Cassetta collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Luca Cassetta's co-authors include Jeffrey W. Pollard, Takanori Kitamura, Guido Poli, Edana Cassol, Massimo Alfano, Bin‐Zhi Qian, Yu Kato, Jiufeng Li, Martha Lopez‐Yrigoyen and Gaël Sugano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Luca Cassetta

32 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Targeting macrophages: therapeutic approaches in cancer

2018 1.4k citations Luca Cassetta, Jeffrey W. Pollard Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →
CCL2-induced chemokine cascade promotes breast cancer metastasis by enhancing retention of metastasis-associated macrophages

2015 509 citations Takanori Kitamura, Bin‐Zhi Qian et al. profile →
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology

2023 321 citations Luca Cassetta, Jeffrey W. Pollard Nature reviews. Cancer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Cassetta United Kingdom	22	2.9k	1.6k	1.4k	558	449	33	4.3k
Filippo Veglia United States	14	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	597 1.1×	272 0.6×	27	4.0k
Amanda C. Poholek United States	30	4.2k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	748 1.3×	252 0.6×	49	5.9k
Richard V. Parry United Kingdom	23	3.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	440 0.8×	116 0.3×	32	4.6k
Gang Zhou United States	34	2.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	504 0.9×	256 0.6×	71	4.6k
Nicole E. Scharping United States	18	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	754 1.4×	201 0.4×	26	3.4k
Tiziana Schioppa Italy	20	2.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	846 1.5×	246 0.5×	32	4.7k
Masahisa Jinushi Japan	35	3.9k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	418 0.7×	138 0.3×	72	5.6k
Martin Oft United States	26	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.6×	490 0.9×	84 0.2×	74	4.8k
Paolo Serafini United States	29	5.9k 2.1×	2.9k 1.9×	1.5k 1.1×	386 0.7×	251 0.6×	39	7.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Cassetta

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Cassetta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Cassetta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Cassetta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Luca Cassetta. Luca Cassetta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Cassetta, Luca & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2023). A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology. Nature reviews. Cancer. 23(4). 238–257. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Massaiu, Ilaria, Paola Songia, Mattia Chiesa, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Oxford Nanopore MinION RNA-Seq Performance for Human Primary Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(12). 6317–6317. 10 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Yrigoyen, Martha, Helen R. Taylor, A Fidanza, et al.. (2020). Production and Characterization of Human Macrophages from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 6 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Yrigoyen, Martha, Luca Cassetta, & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2020). Macrophage targeting in cancer. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1499(1). 18–41. 166 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2020). Tumor-associated macrophages. Current Biology. 30(6). R246–R248. 175 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Yrigoyen, Martha, Helen R. Taylor, A Fidanza, et al.. (2020). Production and Characterization of Human Macrophages from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 16 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Yrigoyen, Martha, Chengtao Yang, A Fidanza, et al.. (2019). Genetic programming of macrophages generates an in vitro model for the human erythroid island niche. Nature Communications. 10(1). 881–881. 46 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca, Espen S. Bækkevold, Sven Brandau, et al.. (2019). Deciphering myeloid-derived suppressor cells: isolation and markers in humans, mice and non-human primates. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 68(4). 687–697. 163 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Yrigoyen, Martha, et al.. (2019). Methods for macrophage differentiation and in vitro generation of human tumor associated-like macrophages. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 632. 113–131. 25 indexed citations

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Robinson, Amy, et al.. (2018). 31. Transcriptional alterations to blood monocytes in breast cancer reveal down regulation of anti-cancer pathways. Cancer Genetics. 226-227. 47–48. 1 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca & Takanori Kitamura. (2018). Targeting Tumor-Associated Macrophages as a Potential Strategy to Enhance the Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 6. 38–38. 169 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2018). Targeting macrophages: therapeutic approaches in cancer. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 17(12). 887–904. 1427 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kitamura, Takanori, Luca Cassetta, Stamatina Fragkogianni, et al.. (2018). Monocytes Differentiate to Immune Suppressive Precursors of Metastasis-Associated Macrophages in Mouse Models of Metastatic Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 2004–2004. 119 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2017). Repolarizing macrophages improves breast cancer therapy. Cell Research. 27(8). 963–964. 47 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca, Roy Noy, Agnieszka Swierczak, et al.. (2016). Isolation of Mouse and Human Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 899. 211–229. 55 indexed citations

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Cassetta, Luca & Jeffrey W. Pollard. (2015). Cancer immunosurveillance: role of patrolling monocytes. Cell Research. 26(1). 3–4. 35 indexed citations

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Yeo, Eun-Jin, Luca Cassetta, Bin‐Zhi Qian, et al.. (2014). Myeloid WNT7b Mediates the Angiogenic Switch and Metastasis in Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 74(11). 2962–2973. 143 indexed citations

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Cassol, Edana, et al.. (2012). Dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3 grabbing nonintegrin mediates HIV-1 infection of and transmission by M2a-polarized macrophages in vitro. AIDS. 27(5). 707–716. 16 indexed citations

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Cassol, Edana, et al.. (2009). M1 and M2a Polarization of Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Inhibits HIV-1 Replication by Distinct Mechanisms. The Journal of Immunology. 182(10). 6237–6246. 151 indexed citations

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Funaro, Ada, Giorgio Gribaudo, Anna Luganini, et al.. (2008). Generation of potent neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against cytomegalovirus infection from immune B cells. BMC Biotechnology. 8(1). 85–85. 16 indexed citations

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