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ProfessorDepartment of Medical BiophysicsUniversity of Toronto

Jim Woodgett

Professor

Department of Medical Biophysics

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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42 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 ONTARIO), most recently in 2012.

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416

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56,866

Citations

340

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Research

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Latest papers

The Terry Fox Research Institute Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network: A pan-Canadian precision oncology initiative
Cancer Cell · 2025
GSK3β‐Regulated Lipolysis is Required for Histone Acetylation and Decidualization in Early Pregnancy
Advanced Science · 2025
Identification of CDC25 as a Common Therapeutic Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Cell Reports · 2025

All 416 publications

Latest funding

Analysis of developmental cell fate and function through application of advanced flow cytometry and microscopy
ONTARIO · 2012 · Principal investigator
$399,351
Development of Third Generation Technologies for Functional Genomics and Proteomics
ONTARIO · 2007 · Principal investigator
$6,250,000

All 2 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 416 publications.

The Terry Fox Research Institute Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network: A pan-Canadian precision oncology initiative

Aalto T, Abacan M, Abadi S, Aghababazadeh FA, Abbaszadeh Z, Abdelsalam M, Abdul Razak A, Abdulsalam S, Abelman DD, Abolghasemi A

Cancer Cell20256 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2025.03.014

GSK3β‐Regulated Lipolysis is Required for Histone Acetylation and Decidualization in Early Pregnancy

Peiran Wang, Yedong Tang, Xueling Zhao, Ni Yu, Hualan Zhou, Enhao Zhang, Gaizhen Li, Han Cai, Yinan Wang, James Robert Woodgett, Wenbo Deng, Haibin Wang, Zhongxian Lu, Haili Bao, Shuangbo Kong

Advanced Science20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202514291 PMID: 41208306

Identification of CDC25 as a Common Therapeutic Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Jeff C. Liu, Letizia Granieri, Mariusz Shrestha, Dong‐Yu Wang, Ioulia Vorobieva, Elizabeth A. Rubie, Robert A. Jones, YoungJun Ju, Giovanna Pellecchia, Zhe Jiang, Carlo Alberto Palmerini, Yaacov Ben‐David, Sean E. Egan, James Robert Woodgett, Gary D. Bader, Alessandro Datti, Eldad Zacksenhaus

Cell Reports2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116560 PMID: 41191482

Akt/PKB Functions in Cell Migration and Invasion

Jennifer L. Gorman, James Robert Woodgett

Current topics in microbiology and immunology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/82_2025_333 PMID: 41160177

GSK3β Deficiency Expands Obese Adipose Vasculature to Mitigate Metabolic Disorders

Li Wang, Jiajia Li, Ping Tang, Dongliang Zhu, Lixin Tai, Yuan Wang, Tsukiko Miyata, James Robert Woodgett, Lijun Di

Circulation Research202419 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.124.325187 PMID: 39629559

Natural compound screening predicts novel GSK-3 isoform-specific inhibitors

Firdos Ahmad, Anamika Gupta, Hezlin Marzook, James Robert Woodgett, Mohamed A Saleh, Rizwan Qaisar

Biochimie202416 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2024.05.002 PMID: 38723940

PDE4B Missense Variant Increases Susceptibility to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder-Relevant Phenotypes in Mice.

Lipina TV, Li S, Petrova ES, Amstislavskaya TG, Cameron RT, Elliott C, Gondo Y, McGirr A, Mullins JGL, Baillie GS, Woodgett JR, Clapcote SJ

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience20247 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0137-24.2024 PMID: 39256048

Natural compound screening predicts novel GSK-3 isoform-specific inhibitors

Firdos Ahmad, Anamika Gupta, Hezlin Marzook, James Robert Woodgett, Mohamed Ahmed Saleh, Rizwan Qaisar

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)20241 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.22.590490

Single allele loss-of-function mutations select and sculpt conditional cooperative networks in breast cancer

Charles M. Perou, Piotr Mariusz Skowron, Daniel Dotzko, Michael D. Taylor, Katherine Landau Wright, Susan J. Done, Weidong Wang, Sean E. Egan, Katelyn J. Kozma, Jennifer L. Gorman, Giovanna Pellecchia, Jüri Reimand, Aaron Kucharczuk, Eldad Zacksenhaus, Nandula Raghuram, Christian A. Lee, Daria Wojtal, Nathan F. Schachter, James Robert Woodgett, Jean Yee Hwa Yang, Ittai Ben‐Porath, Juhi S. Shah, Adam J. Dupuy, Jean R. Adams, Yingfeng An, Paúl León-Goméz, Rotem Karni, Rita M. Quintana, A. Sorana Morrissy, Amanda J. Loch, et al. (31 authors)

Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)2024Open Access

DOI: 10.17615/t76y-da37

Distinct shared and compartment-enriched oncogenic networks drive primary versus metastatic breast cancer

Gary D. Bader, H Li, Zhe Jiang, J.C Liu, Ronak Ghanbari-Azarnier, Ioulia Vorobieva, Yaacov Ben‐David, Sean E. Egan, Piotr Mariusz Skowron, Ethel Mwewa, Michael D. Taylor, Amjad Ali, James Robert Woodgett, Madhu Shrestha, Philip E.D. Chung, Marianne Koritzinsky, Aurélie Dupuy, Yan-jiao Ju, C.M Perou, Dong Wang, Eldad Zacksenhaus

Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)2024Open Access

DOI: 10.17615/5w04-eg09

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Jim Woodgett

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The Terry Fox Research Institute Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network: A pan-Canadian precision oncology initiative

GSK3β‐Regulated Lipolysis is Required for Histone Acetylation and Decidualization in Early Pregnancy

Identification of CDC25 as a Common Therapeutic Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Akt/PKB Functions in Cell Migration and Invasion

GSK3β Deficiency Expands Obese Adipose Vasculature to Mitigate Metabolic Disorders

Natural compound screening predicts novel GSK-3 isoform-specific inhibitors

PDE4B Missense Variant Increases Susceptibility to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder-Relevant Phenotypes in Mice.

Natural compound screening predicts novel GSK-3 isoform-specific inhibitors

Single allele loss-of-function mutations select and sculpt conditional cooperative networks in breast cancer

Distinct shared and compartment-enriched oncogenic networks drive primary versus metastatic breast cancer

Analysis of developmental cell fate and function through application of advanced flow cytometry and microscopy

Development of Third Generation Technologies for Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Frequent collaborators

James Woodgett

Brad Doble

Bradley Doble

Eldad Zacksenhaus

Sean Egan

William Muller

Vuk Stambolic

Pamela Ohashi

Susan Done

Pingzhao Hu

Josef Penninger

Ming Tsao

Ming-Sound Tsao

Russell Jones

Gary Bader

Michael Taylor

Sorana Morrissy

Livia Garzia

Frank Beier

Rod Bremner

Jennifer Chan

Rob Rottapel

Ebba Kurz

Saima Hassan