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Alberto Cambrosio

ResearcherOther SociologyMcGill University

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Alberto Cambrosio

Researcher

Other Sociology

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (4 CIHR, 2 SSHRC), most recently in 2020.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2013.

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Research

data-driven science large-scale networks research platforms innovation knowledge production knowledge flows open science complex collaboration

Latest papers

Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2026 · senior author
Histology agnosticism: Infra-molecularizing disease?
Studies in history and philosophy of science · 2024
Decision-making as discovery: Vetting clinical research in a leading precision oncology service.
Sociology of health & illness · 2024 · first author

All 23 publications

Latest funding

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$66,097
Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$205,268
The history and sociology of a transnational expert domain: Health Policy and Systems Research
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$121,460

All 14 grants and awards

23 publications.

Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability.

Bourret P, Akrich M, Paterson F, Cambrosio A

Health (London, England : 1997)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13634593251336521 PMID: 40294041

Histology agnosticism: Infra-molecularizing disease?

Campbell J, Cambrosio A, Basik M

Studies in history and philosophy of science2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.02.002 PMID: 38377771

Decision-making as discovery: Vetting clinical research in a leading precision oncology service.

Cambrosio A, Campbell J, Drilon AE, Keating P, Polk JB

Sociology of health & illness2024First author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13719 PMID: 37796533

Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics.

Polk JB, Campbell J, Drilon AE, Keating P, Cambrosio A

Social science & medicine (1982)2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115789 PMID: 36996726

Domain-topic models with chained dimensions: Charting an emergent domain of a major oncology conference.

Hannud Abdo A, Cointet JP, Bourret P, Cambrosio A

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/asi.24606 PMID: 35873705

Multi-polar scripts: Techno-regulatory environments and the rise of precision oncology diagnostic tests.

Cambrosio A, Campbell J, Keating P, Bourret P

Social science & medicine (1982)2022First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.022 PMID: 31133442

Healthcare policy by other means: Cancer clinical research as "oncopolicy".

Cambrosio A, Campbell J, Keating P, Polk JB, Aguilar-Mahecha A, Basik M

Social science & medicine (1982)2022First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114576 PMID: 34826765

Genomic expertise in action: molecular tumour boards and decision-making in precision oncology.

Bourret P, Cambrosio A

Sociology of health & illness2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12970 PMID: 31197873

[Precision medicine in oncology: Challenges, stakes and new paradigms].

Cox S, Rousseau-Tsangaris M, Abou-Zeid N, Dalle S, Leurent P, Cutivet A, Le HH, Kotb S, Bogaert B, Gardette R, Baran Y, Holder JM, Lerner L, Blay JY, Cambrosio A, Tredan O, Denèfle P

Bulletin du cancer2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.bulcan.2019.01.007 PMID: 30713005

Correction to: Informing materials: drugs as tools for exploring cancer mechanisms and pathways.

Vignola-Gagné E, Keating P, Cambrosio A

History and philosophy of the life sciences2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s40656-017-0170-1 PMID: 29204766

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cambrosio, Alberto

Keywords: data-driven science; large-scale networks; research platforms; innovation; knowledge production; knowledge flows; open science; complex collaboration

$66,097

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cambrosio, Alberto

Keywords: data-driven science; large-scale networks; research platforms; innovation; knowledge production; knowledge flows; open science; complex collaboration

$205,268

The history and sociology of a transnational expert domain: Health Policy and Systems Research

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Weisz, George

Keywords: health systems research; global health; world health organization; alliance for health policy and systems research; health systems global

$121,460

Reshaping the cancer clinic: Genomics-driven clinical trials and the evanescent boundary between research and treatment

Nominated PICIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cambrosio, Alberto; Basik, Mark; Keating, Peter

Keywords: Biomarkers; Biomedical Innovation; Cancer Genomics; Clinical Trials; Oncology; Translational Research

$566,100

Oncology's metaknowledge networks: an investigation of the collective dynamics of bio-clinical innovation

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Cambrosio, Alberto; Bourret, Pascale; Cointet, Jean-Philippe; Evans, James A; Keating, Peter

Keywords: Bio-Clinical Collectives; Biomedical Innovation; Cancer Genomics; Clinical Trials; Innovators' Core Set; Metaknowledge; Oncology; Translational Research

$640,576

Traveling Facts: Producing and Circulating Genetic Knowledge through Animal Models

SupervisorCIHR2013CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Nelson, Nicole C

Keywords: Animal Models; Behavior Genetics; Qualitative Research; Science Communication; Scientometrics; Translational Research Theory

$100,000

Traveling Facts: Producing and Circulating Genetic Knowledge through Animal Models

SupervisorCIHR2013Fellowship: Bisby (Prize)

Principal investigators: Nelson, Nicole C

Keywords: Animal Models; Behavior Genetics; Qualitative Research; Science Communication; Scientometrics; Translational Research Theory

$10,000

Genomic medicine enters the clinic: translational research, actionable mutations, clinical utility, and the reframing of oncology

Nominated PICIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Cambrosio, Alberto; Keating, Peter

Keywords: Biomarkers; Biomedical Innovation; Cancer Genomics; Clinical Trials; Clinical Utility; Ethnographic Analysis; Network Analysis; Translational Research

$324,676

Risk and technology a history of pathology's new style of practice 1975-1996

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Keating, Peter A.

Keywords: risk; pathology; 20th century

$60,500

From oncogenes to post-genomic medicine: how molecular biology transformed clincal cancer research, 1975-2000

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Keating, Peter A.

Keywords: cancer; molecular biology; oncogenes; clinical research

$84,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Alberto Cambrosio

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Oncogene-driven advocacy: Collective expertise and therapeutic actionability.

Histology agnosticism: Infra-molecularizing disease?

Decision-making as discovery: Vetting clinical research in a leading precision oncology service.

Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics.

Domain-topic models with chained dimensions: Charting an emergent domain of a major oncology conference.

Multi-polar scripts: Techno-regulatory environments and the rise of precision oncology diagnostic tests.

Healthcare policy by other means: Cancer clinical research as "oncopolicy".

Genomic expertise in action: molecular tumour boards and decision-making in precision oncology.

[Precision medicine in oncology: Challenges, stakes and new paradigms].

Correction to: Informing materials: drugs as tools for exploring cancer mechanisms and pathways.

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Production in Large-Scale Research Networks: Building data platforms to open science

The history and sociology of a transnational expert domain: Health Policy and Systems Research

Reshaping the cancer clinic: Genomics-driven clinical trials and the evanescent boundary between research and treatment

Oncology's metaknowledge networks: an investigation of the collective dynamics of bio-clinical innovation

Traveling Facts: Producing and Circulating Genetic Knowledge through Animal Models

Traveling Facts: Producing and Circulating Genetic Knowledge through Animal Models

Genomic medicine enters the clinic: translational research, actionable mutations, clinical utility, and the reframing of oncology

Risk and technology a history of pathology's new style of practice 1975-1996

From oncogenes to post-genomic medicine: how molecular biology transformed clincal cancer research, 1975-2000

Frequent collaborators

Peter Keating

Mark Basik

George Weisz

Thomas Schlich

Jean-Philippe Cointet

Pascale Bourret