William L. Hwang

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

William L. Hwang is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Hwang has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Oncology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in William L. Hwang's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (8 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (8 papers). William L. Hwang is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (8 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (8 papers). William L. Hwang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. William L. Hwang's co-authors include Hagan Bayley, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Matthew A. Holden, Fei Su, Jay S. Loeffler, Trevor J. Royce, Luke Pike, Brandon A. Mahal, Xiaowei Zhuang and Sebastian Deindl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

William L. Hwang

58 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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Multidisciplinary standards of care and recent progress in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William L. Hwang United States	25	797	797	562	532	334	65	2.4k
Jody V. Vykoukal United States	28	1.1k 1.4×	2.0k 2.5×	371 0.7×	1.1k 2.0×	178 0.5×	75	3.7k
Lu Liu China	29	1.1k 1.4×	787 1.0×	495 0.9×	56 0.1×	193 0.6×	94	2.6k
Lishen Zhang China	15	663 0.8×	487 0.6×	489 0.9×	101 0.2×	155 0.5×	30	2.0k
Yang Du China	30	995 1.2×	2.1k 2.6×	497 0.9×	121 0.2×	383 1.1×	128	3.7k
W. French Anderson United States	27	1.3k 1.6×	829 1.0×	735 1.3×	263 0.5×	173 0.5×	55	3.1k
Jong Woo Lee South Korea	33	1.8k 2.2×	242 0.3×	756 1.3×	888 1.7×	455 1.4×	128	3.9k
Peng Guo China	29	1.2k 1.5×	947 1.2×	394 0.7×	109 0.2×	228 0.7×	109	2.8k
Yoshihiro Morita Japan	23	534 0.7×	134 0.2×	276 0.5×	131 0.2×	153 0.5×	95	1.7k
Takahiro Tsuji Japan	23	593 0.7×	165 0.2×	430 0.8×	80 0.2×	298 0.9×	101	1.8k
Dawid Schellingerhout United States	26	425 0.5×	617 0.8×	356 0.6×	59 0.1×	536 1.6×	106	2.5k

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Cui, Yi, et al.. (2025). Integrated spatial morpho-transcriptomics predicts functional traits in pancreatic cancer. Science Advances. 11(42). eadx0632–eadx0632.

Guo, Jimmy A., Kyle E. Evans, Kazuki Takahashi, et al.. (2025). Integrative genomic identification of therapeutic targets for pancreatic cancer. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116191–116191.

Hwang, William L., et al.. (2024). The Rice Online Expression Profiles Array Database Version 2 (ROADv2): An Interactive Atlas for Rice Functional Genomics. Rice. 17(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Sophia Y., Heng‐Chung Kung, Kai Chen, et al.. (2024). Targeting heterogeneous tumor microenvironments in pancreatic cancer mouse models of metastasis by TGF-β depletion. JCI Insight. 9(21). 6 indexed citations

Hwang, William L., et al.. (2024). Spatial oncology: Translating contextual biology to the clinic. Cancer Cell. 42(10). 1653–1675. 27 indexed citations

Hwang, William L., et al.. (2023). It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness: single-cell transcriptomics sheds new light on pancreas biology and disease. Gut. 72(6). 1211–1219. 8 indexed citations

Guo, Jimmy A., Mohammed Alshalalfa, Daniel Y. Kim, et al.. (2022). DNA repair and immune checkpoint blockade response. Cancer Genetics. 264-265. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

Guo, Jimmy A., Hannah I. Hoffman, Stuti G. Shroff, et al.. (2021). Pan-cancer Transcriptomic Predictors of Perineural Invasion Improve Occult Histopathologic Detection. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(10). 2807–2815. 16 indexed citations

Lebow, Emily S., William L. Hwang, Yi Wang, et al.. (2020). Early experience with hippocampal avoidance whole brain radiation therapy and simultaneous integrated boost for brain metastases. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 148(1). 81–88. 9 indexed citations

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Niyazi, Maximilian, Andrzej Niemierko, Harald Paganetti, et al.. (2019). Volumetric and actuarial analysis of brain necrosis in proton therapy using a novel mixture cure model. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 142. 154–161. 27 indexed citations

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Lamba, Nayan, William L. Hwang, Daniel W. Kim, et al.. (2019). Atypical Histopathological Features and the Risk of Treatment Failure in Nonmalignant Meningiomas: A Multi-Institutional Analysis. World Neurosurgery. 133. e804–e812. 6 indexed citations

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Sanford, Nina N., et al.. (2019). Trimodality therapy for HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer: A population-based study. Oral Oncology. 98. 28–34. 13 indexed citations

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Hwang, William L., Luke Pike, Trevor J. Royce, Brandon A. Mahal, & Jay S. Loeffler. (2018). Safety of combining radiotherapy with immune-checkpoint inhibition. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 15(8). 477–494. 230 indexed citations

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Pike, Luke, William L. Hwang, Trevor J. Royce, Nina N. Sanford, & Brandon A. Mahal. (2018). HPV status predicts for improved survival following chemotherapy in metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx. Oral Oncology. 86. 69–74. 3 indexed citations

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Hwang, Katie L., William L. Hwang, Marc R. Bussière, & Helen A. Shih. (2017). The role of radiotherapy in the management of high-grade meningiomas. Chinese Clinical Oncology. 6(S1). S5–S5. 25 indexed citations

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Hwang, William L., Ariel E. Marciscano, Anat Stemmer‐Rachamimov, et al.. (2015). Correlation of Imaging Characteristics With Histopathological WHO Grade in Meningiomas. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 93(3). E86–E86.

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Hwang, William L., Sebastian Deindl, Bryan T. Harada, & Xiaowei Zhuang. (2014). Histone H4 tail mediates allosteric regulation of nucleosome remodelling by linker DNA. Nature. 512(7513). 213–217. 68 indexed citations

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Deindl, Sebastian, William L. Hwang, Swetansu K. Hota, et al.. (2013). ISWI Remodelers Slide Nucleosomes with Coordinated Multi-Base-Pair Entry Steps and Single-Base-Pair Exit Steps. Cell. 152(3). 442–452. 121 indexed citations

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Maglia, Giovanni, Andrew J. Heron, William L. Hwang, et al.. (2009). Droplet networks with incorporated protein diodes show collective properties. Nature Nanotechnology. 4(7). 437–440. 192 indexed citations

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Maglia, Giovanni, Andrew J. Heron, William L. Hwang, et al.. (2009). Electrical Communication In Droplet Interface Bilayers Networks. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 544a–544a. 1 indexed citations

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