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Alexander M. Tsankov

Mount Sinai Medical Center · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Occupational and environmental lung diseases, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, and Immune cells in cancer.
h-index
35
citations
12,384
works
162
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Oncofetal reprogramming drives phenotypic plasticity in WNT-dependent colorectal cancer
Nature Genetics 2025cited by 44position: middledoi
Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours
Nature 2025cited by 19position: middledoi
Glioblastoma shift from bulk to infiltrative growth is guided by plexin-B2-mediated microglia alignment in invasive niches
Nature Cancer 2025cited by 18position: middledoi
A cellular and spatial atlas of TP53-associated tissue remodeling defines a multicellular tumor ecosystem in lung adenocarcinoma
Nature Cancer 2025cited by 6position: lastdoi
Microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages drive progression of pediatric high-grade gliomas and are transcriptionally shaped by histone mutations
Immunity 2024cited by 27position: middledoi
Hypoxia drives shared and distinct transcriptomic changes in two invasive glioma stem cell lines
Scientific Reports 2024cited by 26position: middledoi
NOTCH1 Drives Sexually Dimorphic Immune Responses in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Cancer Discovery 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Expanding GABAergic Neuronal Diversity in PSC-Derived Disease Models
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024cited by 2position: middledoi
An integrated cell atlas of the lung in health and disease
Nature Medicine 2023cited by 732position: middledoi
Intratumoral dendritic cell–CD4+ T helper cell niches enable CD8+ T cell differentiation following PD-1 blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma
Nature Medicine 2023cited by 379position: middledoi
Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression
Immunity 2023cited by 229position: middledoi
A paracrine circuit of IL-1β/IL-1R1 between myeloid and tumor cells drives genotype-dependent glioblastoma progression
Journal of Clinical Investigation 2023cited by 62position: middledoi
Monocyte depletion enhances neutrophil influx and proneural to mesenchymal transition in glioblastoma
Nature Communications 2023cited by 56position: middledoi
A cellular and spatial atlas of <i>TP53</i> -associated tissue remodeling in lung adenocarcinoma
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023cited by 5position: lastdoi
Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function
Science 2022cited by 419position: middledoi
Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome profiling of pancreatic cancer identifies multicellular dynamics associated with neoadjuvant treatment
Nature Genetics 2022cited by 397position: middledoi
Chronic lung diseases are associated with gene expression programs favoring SARS-CoV-2 entry and severity
Nature Communications 2021cited by 43position: middledoi
A single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-Seq toolbox for fresh and frozen human tumors
Nature Medicine 2020cited by 790position: middledoi
Emergence of a High-Plasticity Cell State during Lung Cancer Evolution
Cancer Cell 2020cited by 393position: middledoi
Author Correction: A single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-Seq toolbox for fresh and frozen human tumors
Nature Medicine 2020cited by 30position: middledoi
A revised airway epithelial hierarchy includes CFTR-expressing ionocytes
Nature 2018cited by 1,247position: middledoi
Analysis of chromatin accessibility uncovers TEAD1 as a regulator of migration in human glioblastoma
Nature Communications 2018cited by 98position: middledoi
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation Enables Functional Validation of GWAS Variants in Metabolic Disease
Cell stem cell 2017cited by 195position: middledoi
A comparison of genetically matched cell lines reveals the equivalence of human iPSCs and ESCs
Nature Biotechnology 2015cited by 279position: middledoi
Automated, high-throughput derivation, characterization and differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells
Nature Methods 2015cited by 262position: middledoi
A Src inhibitor regulates the cell cycle of human pluripotent stem cells and improves directed differentiation
The Journal of Cell Biology 2015cited by 34position: middledoi
A comparison of non-integrating reprogramming methods
Nature Biotechnology 2014cited by 522position: middledoi
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Dynamics during Specification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Cell 2013cited by 447position: middledoi
Genome-wide identification and characterization of replication origins by deep sequencing
Genome biology 2012cited by 100position: middledoi

Grants

RAPID: Single-cell dissection of the cell types and mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2 entry in host cells via the ACE2 receptor and protease TMPRSS2
NSF2028295$200,0002020–2021PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Bruno Giotti · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai6 papers (2023–2025)Nadejda M. Tsankova · The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center5 papers (2018–2025)Roland H. Friedel · Allen Institute for Brain Science4 papers (2018–2025)Dolores Hambardzumyan · Cancer Institute (WIA)4 papers (2023–2024)Aarthi Ramakrishnan · Allen Institute for Brain Science3 papers (2023–2025)Zhihong Chen · Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College3 papers (2023–2023)Gonzalo Piñero · Mount Sinai Health System3 papers (2023–2024)Li Shen · Allen Institute for Brain Science3 papers (2023–2025)Valerie Marallano · Allen Institute for Brain Science3 papers (2023–2025) · 3 papers (2023–2024)Anirudh Sattiraju · Allen Institute for Brain Science3 papers (2023–2025)Hongyan Zou · Allen Institute for Brain Science3 papers (2023–2025)Angelo Angione · Neurological Surgery3 papers (2023–2024)Amaia Lujambio · Center for Migration Studies of New York2 papers (2023–2024) · 2 papers (2024–2025)Aviv Regev · Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology2 papers (2012–2023)John L. Rinn · University of Colorado Boulder2 papers (2013–2015)Rut Tejero · Allen Institute for Brain Science2 papers (2018–2024)Alexander Meissner · Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics2 papers (2013–2015)James Ross · University of Virginia2 papers (2023–2023)