Moritz Gerstung

44.2k citations

55 papers · 5.8k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.5%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Health Informatics top 2%

Papers in

Cancer Research 27
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics 27
Aging 2

Co-authors: Peter J. Campbell Iñigo Martincorena Peter Van Loo Michael R. Stratton Niko Beerenwinkel Artem Shmatko Philip H. Jones Keiran Raine
Journals: Nature Communications (9 papers)Nature Genetics (5 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)Blood (5 papers)Nature (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Moritz Gerstung

53 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of non-small cell lung cancer 2024 · 64 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Cancer
2022 Nature Biotechnology
2020 Nature Cancer
2017 Cell
2015 Science

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Moritz Gerstung, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers Nature ·Artem Shmatko, Alexander W. Jung, Kumar Gaurav, Søren Brunak, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Ewan Birney, Tomas Fitzgerald, Moritz Gerstung	2025	4
2	Integrated in vivo combinatorial functional genomics and spatial transcriptomics of tumours to decode genotype-to-phenotype relationships Nature Biomedical Engineering ·Marco Breinig, Artem Lomakin, Elyas Heidari, Michael Ritter, 野口隼, Jie Zhao, Chris Rinehart, D Pels, Y. Connie, Tanja Poth, Felix Sahm, Peter Schirmacher, Oliver Stegle, Moritz Gerstung, Darjus F. Tschaharganeh	2025	2
3	Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of non-small cell lung cancer Nature Communications ·Marco De Zuani, Hernandez Helga, Jun Sung Park, Stefan C. Dentro, Zaira Seferbekova, Lê Lâm Ngô, Sandra Curras-Alonso, Angela Hadjipanayis, Emmanouil Athanasiadis, Moritz Gerstung, Omer Ali Bayraktar, Ana Cvejic Hit paper breakdown →	2024	64
4	Teacher-student collaborated multiple instance learning for pan-cancer PDL1 expression prediction from histopathology slides Nature Communications ·M. Qasem, Pierre Briand, Artem Shmatko, Alexander Arnold, David Horst, Thomas G. P. Grünewald, Moritz Gerstung, Xiangzhi Bai	2024	10
5	Artificial intelligence Cancer Cell ·Moritz Gerstung, David Liu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, James Zou, Diego Chowell, Jonas Teuwen, Faisal Mahmood, Jakob Nikolas Kather	2024	6
6	Notch1 mutations drive clonal expansion in normal esophageal epithelium but impair tumor growth Nature Genetics ·Emilie Abby, Stefan C. Dentro, Michael Hall, Joanna C. Fowler, Swee Hoe Ong, Roshan Sood, Albert Herms, Gabriel Piedrafita, Irina Abnizova, Christian W. Siebel, Moritz Gerstung, Benjamin A. Hall, Philip H. Jones	2023	50
7	Computational analysis of peripheral blood smears detects disease-associated cytomorphologies Nature Communications ·José Guilherme de Almeida, Emma Gudgin, Martin Besser, William G. Dunn, Jonathan Cooper, Torsten Haferlach, George S. Vassiliou, Moritz Gerstung	2023	6
8	Spatial biology of cancer evolution Nature Reviews Genetics ·Zaira Seferbekova, Artem Lomakin, Lucy Yates, Moritz Gerstung	2022	110
9	p53 mutation in normal esophagus promotes multiple stages of carcinogenesis but is constrained by clonal competition Nature Communications ·Kasumi Murai, Stefan C. Dentro, Swee Hoe Ong, Roshan Sood, David Fernández‐Antorán, Albert Herms, Vasiliki Kostiou, Irina Abnizova, Benjamin A. Hall, Moritz Gerstung, Philip H. Jones	2022	25
10	Artificial intelligence in histopathology: enhancing cancer research and clinical oncology Nature Cancer ·Artem Shmatko, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Moritz Gerstung, Jakob Nikolas Kather Hit paper breakdown →	2022	239
11	Biallelic mutations in cancer genomes reveal local mutational determinants Nature Genetics ·Jonas Demeulemeester, Stefan C. Dentro, Moritz Gerstung, Peter Van Loo	2022	18
12	Learning mutational signatures and their multidimensional genomic properties with TensorSignatures Nature Communications ·Harald Vöhringer, Arne van Hoeck, Edwin Cuppen, Moritz Gerstung	2021	24
13	Mutant clones in normal epithelium outcompete and eliminate emerging tumours Nature ·Bartomeu Colom, Albert Herms, Michael Hall, Stefan C. Dentro, Charlotte King, Roshan Sood, Maria P. Alcolea, Gabriel Piedrafita, David Fernández‐Antorán, Swee Hoe Ong, Joanna C. Fowler, Krishnaa T. Mahbubani, Kourosh Saeb‐Parsy, Moritz Gerstung, Benjamin A. Hall, Philip H. Jones	2021	105
14	C. elegans genome-wide analysis reveals DNA repair pathways that act cooperatively to preserve genome integrity upon ionizing radiation PLoS ONE ·Bettina Meier, Nadezda Volkova, Bin Wang, Víctor González‐Huici, Simone Bertolini, Peter J. Campbell, Moritz Gerstung, Anton Gartner	2021	0
15	Genomic copy number predicts esophageal cancer years before transformation Nature Medicine ·Sarah Killcoyne, Coy Quej, David C. Wedge, Dan J. Woodcock, Matthew Eldridge, Rachel de la Rue, Ahmad Miremadi, Sujath Abbas, María Edelmira Calvar Fuentes, Nazim İsmayılov Nazim İsmayılov, Władysław Januszewicz, Loly Sandi F. Naibaho, Moritz Gerstung, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald	2020	77
16	Pan-cancer computational histopathology reveals mutations, tumor composition and prognosis Nature Cancer ·Yu Fu, Alexander W. Jung, Ramón Viñas, Santiago González, Harald Vöhringer, Artem Shmatko, Lucy Yates, Mercedes Jimenez‐Liñan, Luiza Moore, Moritz Gerstung Hit paper breakdown →	2020	367
17	Spatial competition shapes the dynamic mutational landscape of normal esophageal epithelium Nature Genetics ·Bartomeu Colom, Maria P. Alcolea, Gabriel Piedrafita, Michael Hall, Agnieszka Wabik, Stefan C. Dentro, Joanna C. Fowler, Albert Herms, Charlotte King, Swee Hoe Ong, Roshan Sood, Moritz Gerstung, Iñigo Martincorena, Benjamin A. Hall, Philip H. Jones	2020	106
18	Mutational signatures are jointly shaped by DNA damage and repair Nature Communications ·Nadezda Volkova, Bettina Meier, Víctor González‐Huici, Simone Bertolini, Santiago González, Harald Vöhringer, Federico Abascal, Iñigo Martincorena, Peter J. Campbell, Anton Gartner, Moritz Gerstung	2020	137
19	Cohesin-dependent regulation of gene expression during differentiation is lost in cohesin-mutated myeloid malignancies Blood ·Daniel Sasca, Haiyang Yun, George Giotopoulos, 有紀子藤田, Theodore Evan, Nicola K. Wilson, Moritz Gerstung, Paolo Gallipoli, Naoki Iritani, Robert K. Hills, Nigel H. Russell, Cameron S. Osborne, Elli Papaemmanuil, Berthold Göttgens, Peter J. Campbell, Brian J.P. Huntly	2019	39
20	High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin Science ·Iñigo Martincorena, Amit Roshan, Moritz Gerstung, Peter Ellis, Peter Van Loo, Stuart McLaren, David C. Wedge, Anthony Fullam, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, José M. C. Tubío, Lucy Stebbings, Andrew Menzies, Sara Widaa, Michael R. Stratton, Philip H. Jones, Peter J. Campbell Hit paper breakdown →	2015	1123

About Moritz Gerstung

Moritz Gerstung is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Aging, Hematology, Biophysics and Genetics, having authored 55 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (27 papers), Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (8 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers), AI in cancer detection (4 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (2.2k citations), Health Informatics (71 citations), Molecular Biology (3.4k citations), Aging (73 citations) and Oncology (1.1k citations). Moritz Gerstung has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Peter J. Campbell, Iñigo Martincorena, Peter Van Loo, Michael R. Stratton, Niko Beerenwinkel, Artem Shmatko, Philip H. Jones, Keiran Raine, Kerstin Haase and Helen Davies. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, PLoS ONE, Blood and Nature.

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