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Sandra Fischer

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Sandra Fischer

Associate Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

The tandem duplicator phenotype may be a novel targetable subgroup in pancreatic cancer.
NPJ precision oncology · 2025
Discordance between biochemical and histological severity in persistent immune checkpoint inhibitor induced liver injury
BMJ Case Reports · 2025
Qualitative and quantitative assessment of gadoxetic acid MRI in distinguishing atypical focal nodular hyperplasia from hepatocellular adenoma subtypes.
European radiology · 2025

All 34 publications

34 publications.

The tandem duplicator phenotype may be a novel targetable subgroup in pancreatic cancer.

Farooq AR, Zhang AX, Chan-Seng-Yue M, Topham JT, O'Kane GM, Jang GH, Fischer S, Dodd A, Holter S, Wilson J, Grant RC, Aung KL, Zogopoulos G, Elimova E, Prince R, Jang R, Moore M, Biagi J, Tang P, Goodwin R, Bathe OF, Marra M, Laskin J, Renouf DJ, Schaeffer DF, Karasinska JM, Notta F, Gallinger S, Knox JJ, Tsang ES

NPJ precision oncology20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41698-025-00888-8 PMID: 40185871

Discordance between biochemical and histological severity in persistent immune checkpoint inhibitor induced liver injury

Chloe Attree, Samuel D. Saibil, Sandra Elisabeth Fischer, Morven E. Cunningham

BMJ Case Reports20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2025-265370 PMID: 40829881

Qualitative and quantitative assessment of gadoxetic acid MRI in distinguishing atypical focal nodular hyperplasia from hepatocellular adenoma subtypes.

Elbanna KY, Khalili K, AlMoharb M, Goel A, Fischer S, Kim TK

European radiology2025

DOI: 10.1007/s00330-025-11679-x PMID: 40369264

Transcriptomic changes in liver transplant recipients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis indicate dysregulation of wound healing.

Pellegrina D, Prayitno K, Azhie A, Pasini E, Baciu C, Fischer S, Reimand J, Bhat M

Frontiers in endocrinology20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1111614 PMID: 37223041

Analysis of various ATP ‐binding cassette transporters revealed quantification of ABCB4 as a potential diagnostic tool in primary sclerosing cholangitis ( PSC )

Cornelia E. Thoeni, Cátia T. Perciani, Diana Nakib, Damra Camat, Ian D. McGilvray, Sonya A. MacParland, Sandra Elisabeth Fischer

Histopathology20231 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/his.15006 PMID: 37488782

Single‐Cell, Single‐Nucleus, and Spatial RNA Sequencing of the Human Liver Identifies Cholangiocyte and Mesenchymal Heterogeneity

Tallulah S. Andrews, Jawairia Atif, Jeff C. Liu, Cátia T. Perciani, Xue‐Zhong Ma, Cornelia E. Thoeni, Michal Slyper, Gökçen Eraslan, Åsa Segerstolpe, Justin Manuel, Sai Chung, Erin Winter, Iulia Cirlan, Nicholas Khuu, Sandra Elisabeth Fischer, Orit Rozenblatt‐Rosen, Aviv Regev, Ian D. McGilvray, Gary D. Bader, Sonya A. MacParland

Hepatology Communications2021312 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/hep4.1854 PMID: 34792289

Can machine learning radiomics provide pre-operative differentiation of combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma from hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma to inform optimal treatment planning?

Liu X, Khalvati F, Namdar K, Fischer S, Lewis S, Taouli B, Haider MA, Jhaveri KS

European radiology2021114 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00330-020-07119-7 PMID: 32749585

Clinical and genomic characterisation of mismatch repair deficient pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Grant RC, Denroche R, Jang GH, Nowak KM, Zhang A, Borgida A, Holter S, Topham JT, Wilson J, Dodd A, Jang R, Prince R, Karasinska JM, Schaeffer DF, Wang Y, Zogopoulos G, Berry S, Simeone D, Renouf DJ, Notta F, O'Kane G, Knox J, Fischer S, Gallinger S

Gut202172 citations

DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-320730 PMID: 32933947

The value of GATA6 immunohistochemistry and computer-assisted diagnosis to predict clinical outcome in advanced pancreatic cancer.

Duan K, Jang GH, Grant RC, Wilson JM, Notta F, O'Kane GM, Knox JJ, Gallinger S, Fischer S

Scientific reports202151 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94544-3 PMID: 34294813

Combined proteomic/transcriptomic signature of recurrence post-liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma beyond Milan

Bhat M, Clotet-Freixas S, Baciu C, Pasini E, Hammad A, Ivanics T, Reid S, Azhie A, Angeli M, Ghanekar A

Clinical Proteomics202122 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12014-021-09333-x

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Sandra Fischer

Research

Latest papers

The tandem duplicator phenotype may be a novel targetable subgroup in pancreatic cancer.

Discordance between biochemical and histological severity in persistent immune checkpoint inhibitor induced liver injury

Qualitative and quantitative assessment of gadoxetic acid MRI in distinguishing atypical focal nodular hyperplasia from hepatocellular adenoma subtypes.

Transcriptomic changes in liver transplant recipients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis indicate dysregulation of wound healing.

Analysis of various ATP ‐binding cassette transporters revealed quantification of ABCB4 as a potential diagnostic tool in primary sclerosing cholangitis ( PSC )

Single‐Cell, Single‐Nucleus, and Spatial RNA Sequencing of the Human Liver Identifies Cholangiocyte and Mesenchymal Heterogeneity

Can machine learning radiomics provide pre-operative differentiation of combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma from hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma to inform optimal treatment planning?

Clinical and genomic characterisation of mismatch repair deficient pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

The value of GATA6 immunohistochemistry and computer-assisted diagnosis to predict clinical outcome in advanced pancreatic cancer.

Combined proteomic/transcriptomic signature of recurrence post-liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma beyond Milan

Frequent collaborators

Ian McGilvray

Steven Gallinger

Anand Ghanekar

Korosh Khalili

David Grant

Kartik Jhaveri

Mamatha Bhat

Gonzalo Sapisochin

Faiyaz Notta

Sonya MacParland

Hyun-Jung Jang

Carol-Anne Moulton

Jordan Feld

Mark Cattral

Laura Dawson

Gideon Hirschfield

Nazia Selzner

Shereen Ezzat

Gary Bader

Alice Wei

Sam Saibil

Harry Janssen

Gary Levy

James Brierley

Leslie Lilly

Paul Greig

Ming Tsao

Mostafa Atri

Robert Beecroft

Masoom Haider

Jaydeep Halankar

Stefano Serra

Xiaoyang Liu

Richard Kirsch

Nitasha Anand

Rachel Goodwin

Blair Gage

Rob Beecroft

Tallulah Andrews

George Zogopoulos