Nicola Aceto

13.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
69 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Nicola Aceto is a scholar working on Oncology, Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Aceto has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Oncology, 28 papers in Cancer Research and 26 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicola Aceto's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (45 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (23 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (9 papers). Nicola Aceto is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (45 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (23 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (9 papers). Nicola Aceto collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Italy. Nicola Aceto's co-authors include Barbara M. Szczerba, Ilona Krol, Daniel A. Haber, Shyamala Maheswaran, Mehmet Toner, Francesc Castro-Giner, Sofia Gkountela, Christoph Rochlitz, Marcus Vetter and William P. Weber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Aceto

68 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis

2014 1.8k citations Nicola Aceto, Aditya Bardia et al. Cell profile →
Neutrophils escort circulating tumour cells to enable cell cycle progression

2019 886 citations Barbara M. Szczerba, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. profile →
Circulating Tumor Cell Clustering Shapes DNA Methylation to Enable Metastasis Seeding

2019 608 citations Sofia Gkountela, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. Cell profile →
E-cadherin is required for metastasis in multiple models of breast cancer

2019 562 citations Ilona Krol, Barbara M. Szczerba et al. profile →
Tracking cancer progression: from circulating tumor cells to metastasis

2020 255 citations Nicola Aceto et al. profile →
Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

2022 189 citations Bich Doan Nguyen-Sträuli, Andreas Wicki et al. profile →
The metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep

2022 180 citations Zoi Diamantopoulou, Francesc Castro-Giner et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	MIRO2-mediated mitochondrial transfer from cancer cells induces cancer-associated fibroblast differentiation 2025 ·Nature Cancer ·Michael Cangkrama, (unknown), Xiaoyu Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Christoph G. Gäbelein, Mai Matsushita, Luca Ferrarese, (unknown), Francesc Castro-Giner, Simran Asawa, Magdalena K. Sznurkowska, Manfred Köpf, Jörn Dengjel, Valentina Boeva, Nicola Aceto, Julia A. Vorholt, Sabine Werner	2
2	PDL1-expressing macrophages infiltrate diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and promote lymphoma growth in a MYC-driven experimental model 2025 ·Blood Cancer Journal ·(unknown), Peter Leary, (unknown), Kristin Stirm, (unknown), Nicola Aceto, Frank Stenner, Lothar C. Dieterich, Michael Detmar, Ekaterina Petrova, Sarah Mundt, Melanie Greter, Alexandar Tzankov, Anne Müller	1
3	A Molecular Voyage: Multiomics Insights into Circulating Tumor Cells 2024 ·Cancer Discovery ·(unknown), Ana Gvozdenovic, Nicola Aceto	14
4	A new time dimension in the fight against metastasis 2023 ·Trends in Cell Biology ·Zoi Diamantopoulou, Ana Gvozdenovic, Nicola Aceto	15
5	Mutant SF3B1 promotes malignancy in PDAC 2023 ·eLife ·(unknown), Eleonora Ioannidi, (unknown), Kim Fabiano Marquart, Simran Asawa, (unknown), André Kahles, Tinu Thomas, Cornelia Schwerdel, Nicola Aceto, Gunnar Rätsch, Markus Stoffel, Gerald Schwank	9
6	Circulating tumour cells in gastrointestinal cancers: food for thought? 2023 ·British Journal of Cancer ·Simran Asawa, (unknown), Ana Gvozdenovic, Nicola Aceto	9
7	NfκB signaling dynamics and their target genes differ between mouse blood cell types and induce distinct cell behavior 2022 ·Blood ·(unknown), (unknown), Martin Etzrodt, (unknown), (unknown), Nicola Aceto, Timm Schroeder	13
8	Combining single-cell tracking and omics improves blood stem cell fate regulator identification 2022 ·Blood ·(unknown), Dirk Loeffler, Yang Zhang, (unknown), Cinzia Donato, Barbara M. Szczerba, (unknown), (unknown), Andreas E. Moor, Berthold Göttgens, Nicola Aceto, Timm Schroeder	16
9	MyCTC chip: microfluidic-based drug screen with patient-derived tumour cells from liquid biopsies 2022 ·Microsystems & Nanoengineering ·Fabienne D. Schwab, Manuel C. Scheidmann, (unknown), André Kling, Lucas Armbrecht, (unknown), Ilona Krol, Karin Strittmatter, Bich Doan Nguyen-Sträuli, Francis Jacob, André Fedier, Viola Heinzelmann‐Schwarz, Andreas Wicki, Petra S. Dittrich, Nicola Aceto	17
10	An In Vivo CRISPR Screen Identifies Stepwise Genetic Dependencies of Metastatic Progression 2021 ·Cancer Research ·Manuel C. Scheidmann, Francesc Castro-Giner, Karin Strittmatter, Ilona Krol, Aino Paasinen-Sohns, Ramona Scherrer, Cinzia Donato, Sofia Gkountela, Barbara M. Szczerba, Zoi Diamantopoulou, Simone Muenst, Tatjana Vlajnic, Leo Kunz, Marcus Vetter, Christoph Rochlitz, Verdon Taylor, Claudio Giachino, Timm Schroeder, Randall J. Platt, Nicola Aceto	18
11	Multi-color clonal tracking reveals intra-stage proliferative heterogeneity during mammary tumor progression 2020 ·Oncogene ·Stefanie Tiede, Ravi Kiran Reddy Kalathur, Fabiana Lüönd, (unknown), Barbara M. Szczerba, (unknown), Tatjana Vlajnic, Benjamin Müller, (unknown), Nicola Aceto, Gerhard Christofori	13
12	Microfluidic isolation of platelet-covered circulating tumor cells 2017 ·Lab on a Chip ·Xiaocheng Jiang, Keith H.K. Wong, Aimal H. Khankhel, (unknown), Eduardo Reátegui, Matthew J. Phillips, Xi Luo, Nicola Aceto, Fabio Fachin, Anh Hoang, Woo Seok Kim, (unknown), Lecia V. Sequist, Shyamala Maheswaran, Daniel A. Haber, Shannon L. Stott, Mehmet Toner	115
13	SHP2 regulates proliferation and tumorigenicity of glioma stem cells 2017 ·Journal of Neuro-Oncology ·Laura Roccograndi, Zev A. Binder, Logan Zhang, Nicola Aceto, Zhuo Zhang, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj, Ichiro Nakano, Nadia Dahmane, Donald M. O’Rourke	30
14	Tunable Nanostructured Coating for the Capture and Selective Release of Viable Circulating Tumor Cells 2015 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Nicola Aceto, Eugene J. Lim, James P. Sullivan, Anne Eeg Jensen, (unknown), Joseph M. Martel, Alexander J. Aranyosi, Wěi Li, Steven Castleberry, Aditya Bardia, Lecia V. Sequist, Daniel A. Haber, Shyamala Maheswaran, Paula T. Hammond, Mehmet Toner, Shannon L. Stott, Eduardo Reátegui	29
15	Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis breakdown → 2014 ·Cell ·Nicola Aceto, Aditya Bardia, David T. Miyamoto, Maria Donaldson Collier, Ben S. Wittner, Joel A. Spencer, Min Yu, (unknown), Amanda Engstrom, Huili Zhu, Brian W. Brannigan, Ravi Kapur, Shannon L. Stott, Toshi Shioda, Sridhar Ramaswamy, David T. Ting, Charles P. Lin, Mehmet Toner, Daniel A. Haber, Shyamala Maheswaran	1786
16	Tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 increases cell motility in triple-negative breast cancer through the activation of SRC-family kinases 2014 ·Oncogene ·Nina Sausgruber, Marie‐May Coissieux, Adrian Britschgi, Jeffrey Wyckoff, Nicola Aceto, Cédric Leroy, (unknown), Hans Voshol, Débora Bonenfant, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj	54
17	Mammary Tumor Formation and Metastasis Evoked by a HER2 Splice Variant 2013 ·Cancer Research ·Abdullah Alajati, Nina Sausgruber, Nicola Aceto, Stephan Duss, Sophie Sarret, Hans Voshol, Débora Bonenfant, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj	52
18	Co-expression of HER2 and HER3 receptor tyrosine kinases enhances invasion of breast cells via stimulation of interleukin-8 autocrine secretion 2012 ·Breast Cancer Research ·Nicola Aceto, Stephan Duss, Gwen MacDonald, Dominique S. Meyer, (unknown), Nancy E. Hynes, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj	46
19	Tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 promotes breast cancer progression and maintains tumor-initiating cells via activation of key transcription factors and a positive feedback signaling loop 2012 ·Nature Medicine ·Nicola Aceto, Nina Sausgruber, Heike Brinkhaus, Dimos Gaidatzis, Georg Martiny‐Baron, Giovanni Mazzarol, Stefano Confalonieri, Micaela Quarto, Guang Hu, Piotr J. Balwierz, Mikhail Pachkov, Stephen J. Elledge, Erik van Nimwegen, Michael Stadler, Mohamed Bentires‐Alj	210
20	Taurolidine and oxidative stress: a rationale for local treatment of mesothelioma 2009 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Nicola Aceto, Pietro Bertino, Dario Barbone, (unknown), Luigi Manzo, Camillo Porta, Luciano Mutti, Giovanni Gaudino	22

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