Sushama Varma

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Sushama Varma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sushama Varma has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Cancer Research and 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sushama Varma's work include Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (17 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (8 papers). Sushama Varma is often cited by papers focused on Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (17 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (13 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (8 papers). Sushama Varma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Sushama Varma's co-authors include Robert B. West, Matt van de Rijn, Kelli Montgomery, Shirley Zhu, Marc Bossé, Sean C. Bendall, Michael Angelo, Allison W. Kurian, David Van Valen and Samir Jain and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sushama Varma

56 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A Structured Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Revealed by Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging

2018 653 citations Marc Bossé, Sushama Varma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sushama Varma United States	27	1.3k	1.1k	786	773	504	58	3.4k
Nancy M. Joseph United States	33	1.9k 1.5×	956 0.8×	603 0.8×	529 0.7×	994 2.0×	68	4.2k
Ludwine Messiaen United States	39	2.2k 1.7×	491 0.4×	397 0.5×	892 1.2×	375 0.7×	145	5.0k
Carla Rosenberg Brazil	38	2.8k 2.2×	635 0.6×	731 0.9×	699 0.9×	789 1.6×	183	5.7k
Margaret Leversha United States	24	1.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.3k 1.7×	278 0.6×	37	4.5k
Steven Song United States	6	1.9k 1.5×	892 0.8×	853 1.1×	479 0.6×	259 0.5×	8	3.2k
Samuel Navarro Spain	34	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	587 1.2×	154	3.8k
Toshihide Iwashita Japan	36	3.5k 2.7×	1.3k 1.1×	597 0.8×	537 0.7×	1.1k 2.2×	106	7.3k
Marco Seri Italy	38	2.3k 1.8×	510 0.4×	262 0.3×	345 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	193	5.3k
Raffaele Baffa United States	43	4.5k 3.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.7k 2.1×	963 1.2×	1.1k 2.2×	98	6.6k
Carl‐Henrik Heldin Sweden	23	4.0k 3.1×	1.3k 1.2×	664 0.8×	508 0.7×	395 0.8×	29	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sushama Varma

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sushama Varma

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Qin, Xiaodi, Siri H. Strand, Marissa R. Lee, et al.. (2025). Single-Cell Expression Analysis of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Identifies Complex Genotypic–Phenotypic Relationships Altering Epithelial Composition. Cancer Research. 85(12). 2302–2319. 1 indexed citations

Varma, Sushama, Jack Pengfei Tang, Danielle Graham, et al.. (2025). SCAN-ACT: adoptive T cell therapy target discovery through single-cell transcriptomics. Genome Medicine. 17(1). 89–89.

Poon, Raymond, Qingxia Wei, Joanna Przybył, et al.. (2023). CD142 Identifies Neoplastic Desmoid Tumor Cells, Uncovering Interactions Between Neoplastic and Stromal Cells That Drive Proliferation. Cancer Research Communications. 3(4). 697–708. 5 indexed citations

Chang, Julie, Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, Zhaoqiang Song, et al.. (2023). Cell volume expansion and local contractility drive collective invasion of the basement membrane in breast cancer. Nature Materials. 23(5). 711–722. 32 indexed citations

IJzendoorn, David G.P. van, Magdalena Matusiak, Gregory W. Charville, et al.. (2022). Interactions in CSF1-Driven Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors. Clinical Cancer Research. 28(22). 4934–4946. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Candace C., Marc Bossé, Alex Kong, et al.. (2022). Reproducible, high-dimensional imaging in archival human tissue by multiplexed ion beam imaging by time-of-flight (MIBI-TOF). Laboratory Investigation. 102(7). 762–770. 26 indexed citations

Lee, Joanna Y., Jessica Chang, Antonia A. Dominguez, et al.. (2019). YAP-independent mechanotransduction drives breast cancer progression. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1848–1848. 141 indexed citations

Nam, Sungmin, Hong-Pyo Lee, Joanna Y. Lee, et al.. (2019). Cell cycle progression in confining microenvironments is regulated by a growth-responsive TRPV4-PI3K/Akt-p27 ^Kip1 signaling axis. Science Advances. 5(8). eaaw6171–eaaw6171. 138 indexed citations

Varma, Sushama, Xue Gong, Shirley Zhu, et al.. (2019). Genomic analysis of benign prostatic hyperplasia implicates cellular relandscaping in disease pathogenesis. JCI Insight. 4(12). 27 indexed citations

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Przybył, Joanna, Jacob J. Chabon, Lien Spans, et al.. (2018). Combination Approach for Detecting Different Types of Alterations in Circulating Tumor DNA in Leiomyosarcoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(11). 2688–2699. 44 indexed citations

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Davis, Lara E., Kevin D. Nusser, Joanna Przybył, et al.. (2018). Discovery and Characterization of Recurrent, Targetable ALK Fusions in Leiomyosarcoma. Molecular Cancer Research. 17(3). 676–685. 26 indexed citations

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Przybył, Joanna, Magdalena Kowalewska, Barbara Dewaele, et al.. (2017). Macrophage infiltration and genetic landscape of undifferentiated uterine sarcomas. JCI Insight. 2(11). 13 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiangqian, Vickie Y. Jo, Anne M. Mills, et al.. (2015). Clinically Relevant Molecular Subtypes in Leiomyosarcoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 21(15). 3501–3511. 112 indexed citations

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Lin, Yuan, Scott V. Bratman, Weiguo Feng, et al.. (2013). Neuregulin Autocrine Signaling Promotes Self-Renewal of Breast Tumor-Initiating Cells by Triggering HER2/HER3 Activation. Cancer Research. 74(1). 341–352. 26 indexed citations

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Clay, Michael R., Sushama Varma, & Robert B. West. (2013). MAST2 and NOTCH1 translocations in breast carcinoma and associated pre-invasive lesions. Human Pathology. 44(12). 2837–2844. 15 indexed citations

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Valouev, Anton, Ziming Weng, Robert T. Sweeney, et al.. (2013). Discovery of recurrent structural variants in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Genome Research. 24(2). 300–309. 30 indexed citations

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Beck, Andrew H., Íñigo Espinosa, Badreddin Edris, et al.. (2009). The Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor 1 Response Signature in Breast Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 15(3). 778–787. 154 indexed citations

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Beck, Andrew H., Jonathan Webster, I Espinosa, et al.. (2009). Analysis of stromal signatures in the tumor microenvironment of ductal carcinoma in situ. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 123(2). 397–404. 77 indexed citations

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Liu, Ning, et al.. (2007). Depleting endogenous neurotrophin‐3 enhances myelin formation in the Trembler‐J mouse, a model of a peripheral neuropathy. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 85(13). 2863–2869. 7 indexed citations

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Tolwani, Ravi, et al.. (2004). BDNF overexpression produces a long‐term increase in myelin formation in the peripheral nervous system. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 77(5). 662–669. 76 indexed citations

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