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Last published 2025
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Nicole Massoll

High Impact

Professor

Also affiliated: Baptist Memorial Hospital (2001); UF Health Shands Hospital (2005); University of Michigan (2001); Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (2001); Government of the United States of America (2001); University of Florida (2002–2012); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2001); Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale de la Cellule (2009); Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (2016–2025); Cell Medica (Switzerland) (2005); Florida College (2002–2012)

Faculty Researcher

Pathology, College of Medicine

27 h-index 77 pubs 2,398 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Middle Aged
  • Thyroid Neoplasms
  • Adult
  • Male
  • Biopsy, Fine-Needle
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Thyroid Nodule
  • Animals
  • Mice
  • Mutation
  • Immunohistochemistry

Biography and Research Information

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Nicole Massoll's research focuses on the mechanisms and progression of thyroid cancers. Her work investigates how cellular and molecular components within the tumor microenvironment, such as fibroblasts and collagen remodeling, facilitate cancer advancement, particularly in BRAFV600E-driven thyroid cancers. She has also explored the role of macrophage abundance and PD-L1 expression in oncocytic thyroid cancer. Massoll has contributed to the development of novel models for studying thyroid cancer progression, including murine cell lines and models that progress to poorly differentiated and anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Her research also extends to diagnostic approaches for thyroid nodules, including the evaluation of microRNA expression analysis in conjunction with mutation panels. Massoll is involved in medical education, having contributed to the development of entrustable professional activities for cytopathology fellowships. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 27, with 77 total publications and 2,392 citations, designating her as a highly cited researcher. She leads a research group and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 27
  • Publications: 77
  • Citations: 2,398

Selected Publications

  • Macrophage abundance in oncocytic thyroid cancer is associated with PD-L1 expression (2025)
    Endocrine Oncology DOI OpenAlex
  • Entrustable professional activities for cytopathology fellowship (2024)
    Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of Novel Murine BRAFV600E-Driven Papillary Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines for Modeling of Disease Progression and Preclinical Evaluation of Therapeutics (2023)
    Cancers 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Retrospective Evaluation of the Diagnostic Performance of an Interdependent Pairwise MicroRNA Expression Analysis with a Mutation Panel in Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules (2022)
    Thyroid 39 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of Novel Follicular Thyroid Cancer Models Which Progress to Poorly Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (2021)
    Cancers 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Multiplatform Molecular Test Performance in Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules (2020)
    Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Reply to Letter to the Editor by William Gooding and Simion Chiosea: Alternate diagnostic test interpretation in a retrospective convenience cohort and clinical application of <scp>MPTX</scp> (2020)
    Diagnostic Cytopathology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Analytical and clinical validation of pairwise microRNA expression analysis to identify medullary thyroid cancer in thyroid fine‐needle aspiration samples (2020)
    Cancer Cytopathology 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Multiplatform molecular test performance in indeterminate thyroid nodules (2020)
    Diagnostic Cytopathology 116 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Short-Duration Rapid Chilling of Mastectomy Specimens Does Not Interfere With Breast Cancer Biomarker and Molecular Testing (2018)
    Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Structural alterations in tumor‐draining lymph nodes before papillary thyroid carcinoma metastasis (2017)
    Head & Neck 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Preparation of Biopsy Specimens for Routine and Molecular Cytology: Technical Steps, Pearls, and Pitfalls (2017)
  • Immune Suppression Mediated by Myeloid and Lymphoid Derived Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment Facilitates Progression of Thyroid Cancers Driven by HrasG12V and Pten Loss (2016)
    Journal of Clinical & Cellular Immunology 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rapid onsite evaluation: A comparison of cytopathologist and pulmonologist performance (2015)
    Cancer Cytopathology 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rapid on‐site evaluation of <scp>EBUS‐TBNA</scp> specimens of lymph nodes: Comparative analysis and recommendations for standardization (2015)
    Cancer Cytopathology 38 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.

  • Tumor-stromal crosstalk in papillary thyroid cancer- Resubmission American Cancer Society, Inc. Co-Investigator
  • MRNA translational Control of Cell Cycle Progression American Cancer Society, Inc. Principal Investigator

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