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Joerg Schwock

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Joerg Schwock

Assistant Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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424

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AFC in Cytopathology Program Director

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Research

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Latest papers

Biomarker Testing Among Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC Across Three Time Periods and Three Testing Platforms-A Brief Report.
JTO clinical and research reports · 2026
Cytohistologic immunohistochemical correlation of epithelial tubo-ovarian neoplasms: Can cell blocks substitute for tissue?
Cancer cytopathology · 2023
Upfront Next Generation Sequencing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022

All 22 publications

22 publications.

Biomarker Testing Among Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC Across Three Time Periods and Three Testing Platforms-A Brief Report.

Fan ZJ, Tudor R, Cabanero M, Le LW, Rabey M, Law JH, Stockley T, Kuang S, Meti N, Fung A, Perdrizet K, Chen K, Li JJN, Ghumman N, Ranich L, Wei C, Sabatini P, Pal P, Hsu YR, Ko HM, Schwock J, Tsao MS, Liu G, Shepherd FA, Bradbury P, Sacher A, Eng L, Leighl NB

JTO clinical and research reports2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtocrr.2026.101012 PMID: 42529245

Cytohistologic immunohistochemical correlation of epithelial tubo-ovarian neoplasms: Can cell blocks substitute for tissue?

Lou SK, Hodgson A, Nofech-Mozes S, Schwock J, Olkhov-Mitsel E, Mirkovic J, Ghorab Z

Cancer cytopathology20234 citations

DOI: 10.1002/cncy.22642 PMID: 36103329

Upfront Next Generation Sequencing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Kuang S, Fung AS, Perdrizet KA, Chen K, Li JJN, Le LW, Cabanero M, Karsaneh OAA, Tsao MS, Morganstein J, Ranich L, Smith AC, Wei C, Cheung C, Shepherd FA, Liu G, Bradbury P, Pal P, Schwock J, Sacher AG, Law JH, Stockley TL, Leighl NB

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)202223 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol29070352 PMID: 35877212

PD-L1 assessment in cytology samples predicts treatment response to checkpoint inhibitors in NSCLC.

Lau SCM, Rabindranath M, Weiss J, Li JJN, Fung AS, Mullen D, Alshamlan N, Ruff HM, Tong LCB, Pal P, Cabanero MR, Hsu YR, Sacher AG, Shepherd FA, Liu G, Bradbury PA, Yasufuku K, Czarnecka-Kujawa K, Mi Ko H, Tsao MS, Leighl NB, Schwock J

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)202212 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.07.018 PMID: 35907387

Pre-operative diagnosis of a Brunner's gland hamartoma by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration.

Cotton J, Bavi P, Ghorab Z, James P, Stefano S, Schwock J, Ko HM

Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for Clinical Cytology20211 citations

DOI: 10.1111/cyt.12964 PMID: 33606303

Cytology of Extraneural Metastases of Nonhematolymphoid Primary Central Nervous System Tumors: Six Cases with Histopathological Correlation and Literature Update.

Schwock J, Mirham L, Ghorab Z

Acta cytologica2021First author

DOI: 10.1159/000517480 PMID: 34311461

Cytomorphologic Features of Gastric-Type Endocervical Adenocarcinoma in Liquid-Based Preparations.

Schwock J, Starova B, Khan ZF, Mirkovic J, Parra-Herran C, Ko HM, Rouzbahman M, Ghorab Z

Acta cytologica2021First author

DOI: 10.1159/000511003 PMID: 33152741

Implementation of PD-L1 22C3 IHC pharmDxTM in Cell Block Preparations of Lung Cancer: Concordance with Surgical Resections and Technical Validation of CytoLyt® Prefixation.

Lou SK, Ko HM, Kinoshita T, MacDonald S, Weiss J, Czarnecka-Kujawa K, Boerner SL, Yasufuku K, Tsao MS, Schwock J

Acta cytologica202019 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1159/000508628 PMID: 32599583

PD-L1 lineage-specific quantification in malignant pleural effusions of lung adenocarcinoma by flow cytometry.

Yoon JY, Nayyar R, Quest G, Pabedinskas D, Pal P, Tsao MS, Schwock J, Ko HM

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)20206 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2020.07.013 PMID: 32799091

Molecular characterization of gastric-type endocervical adenocarcinoma using next-generation sequencing.

Garg S, Nagaria TS, Clarke B, Freedman O, Khan Z, Schwock J, Bernardini MQ, Oza AM, Han K, Smith AC, Stockley TL, Rouzbahman M

Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc201990 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41379-019-0305-x PMID: 31308508

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Joerg Schwock

Research

Latest papers

Biomarker Testing Among Patients With Nonsquamous NSCLC Across Three Time Periods and Three Testing Platforms-A Brief Report.

Cytohistologic immunohistochemical correlation of epithelial tubo-ovarian neoplasms: Can cell blocks substitute for tissue?

Upfront Next Generation Sequencing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

PD-L1 assessment in cytology samples predicts treatment response to checkpoint inhibitors in NSCLC.

Pre-operative diagnosis of a Brunner's gland hamartoma by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration.

Cytology of Extraneural Metastases of Nonhematolymphoid Primary Central Nervous System Tumors: Six Cases with Histopathological Correlation and Literature Update.

Cytomorphologic Features of Gastric-Type Endocervical Adenocarcinoma in Liquid-Based Preparations.

Implementation of PD-L1 22C3 IHC pharmDxTM in Cell Block Preparations of Lung Cancer: Concordance with Surgical Resections and Technical Validation of CytoLyt&#xae; Prefixation.

PD-L1 lineage-specific quantification in malignant pleural effusions of lung adenocarcinoma by flow cytometry.

Molecular characterization of gastric-type endocervical adenocarcinoma using next-generation sequencing.

Frequent collaborators

Ming Tsao

Ming-Sound Tsao

Marjan Rouzbahman

Prodipto Pal

Zeina Ghorab

David Hedley

Kazuhiro Yasufuku

Geoffrey Liu

Jelena Mirkovic

Neesha Dhani

Adam Smith

Amit Oza

Tracy Stockley

Michael Cabanero

Adrian Sacher

Cuihong Wei

Peter Sabatini

Penelope Bradbury

Jennifer Teichman

Katarzyna Czarnecka-Kujawa

Christine McDonald

Lorna Mirham

Hyang-Mi Ko

Bayardo Perez-Ordonez

Ozgur Mete

Anjelica Hodgson

Gregory Pond

Vladimir Iakovlev

Laurie Ailles

Jinzi Zheng

Jonathan Irish

Paul James

Kathy Han

Implementation of PD-L1 22C3 IHC pharmDxTM in Cell Block Preparations of Lung Cancer: Concordance with Surgical Resections and Technical Validation of CytoLyt® Prefixation.