Emilia Lim

Employment

• University of British Columbia Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• The Francis Crick Institute Visiting Scientist
  2017 - 2023
• Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre Postdoctoral Fellow
  2016 - 2017

Education

• University of British Columbia PhD
  2010 - 2016
• University of Alberta BSc
  2005 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (40)

• Epidermal growth factor receptor dysregulation and climate change: insights into pollution-promoted lung cancer
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0508
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• DNA methylation cooperates with genomic alterations during non-small cell lung cancer evolution
  Francisco Gimeno-Valiente, Carla Castignani, Elizabeth Larose Cadieux +97 more
  Nature Genetics 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02307-x
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• Woodsmoke and diesel exhaust: Distinct transcriptomic profiles in the human airway epithelium
  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.118566
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• The Nature and Nurture of Carcinogenesis
  Cancer Discovery 2025 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-25-0232
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• Woodsmoke and Diesel Exhaust: Distinct Transcriptomic Profiles in the Human Airway Epithelium
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.26.640436
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• Characterizing the evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones with SPRINTER
  Nature Genetics 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01989-z
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• Refphase: Multi-sample phasing reveals haplotype-specific copy number heterogeneity
  PLOS Computational Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011379
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• Tracking early lung cancer metastatic dissemination in TRACERx using ctDNA
  Christopher Abbosh, Alexander M. Frankell, Thomas Harrison +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05776-4
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• Antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote lung cancer immunotherapy
  Kevin W. Ng, Jesse Boumelha, Katey S.S. Enfield +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05771-9
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• Genomic–transcriptomic evolution in lung cancer and metastasis
  Carlos Martínez‐Ruiz, James R. Black, Clare Puttick +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05706-4
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• The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx
  Alexander M. Frankell, Michelle Dietzen, Maise Al Bakir +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05783-5
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• The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx
  Maise Al Bakir, Ariana Huebner, Carlos Martínez‐Ruiz +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05729-x
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• Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants
  William Hill, Emilia L. Lim, Clare E. Weeden +97 more
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05874-3
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• Evolutionary characterization of lung adenocarcinoma morphology in TRACERx
  Takahiro Karasaki, David Allan Moore, Selvaraju Veeriah +97 more
  Nature Medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02230-w
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• Impact of risk factors on early cancer evolution
  Cell 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.013
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• Using DNA sequencing data to quantify T cell fraction and therapy response
  Robert B. Bentham, Kevin Litchfield, Thomas B.K. Watkins +97 more
  Nature 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03894-5
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• Induction of APOBEC3 Exacerbates DNA Replication Stress and Chromosomal Instability in Early Breast and Lung Cancer Evolution
  Cancer Discovery 2021 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-0725
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• Meta-analysis of tumor- and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition
  Kevin Litchfield, James L. Reading, Clare Puttick +25 more
  Cell 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.002
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• Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution
  Thomas B.K. Watkins, Emilia L. Lim, Marina Petković +52 more
  Nature 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2698-6
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• Escape from nonsense-mediated decay associates with anti-tumor immunogenicity
  Kevin Litchfield, James L. Reading, Emilia L. Lim +17 more
  Nature Communications 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17526-5
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