Abdullah M. Syed

5.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
29 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Abdullah M. Syed is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdullah M. Syed has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 13 papers in Biomaterials and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Abdullah M. Syed's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (13 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (10 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers). Abdullah M. Syed is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (13 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (10 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers). Abdullah M. Syed collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Spain. Abdullah M. Syed's co-authors include Warren C. W. Chan, Shrey Sindhwani, Presley MacMillan, Yuwei Zhang, Stefan Wilhelm, Benjamin R. Kingston, Zachary P. Lin, Ben Ouyang, Jessica Ngai and Yih Yang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Abdullah M. Syed

29 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The entry of nanoparticles into solid tumours

2020 1.3k citations Shrey Sindhwani, Abdullah M. Syed et al. Nature Materials profile →
Quantifying the Ligand-Coated Nanoparticle Delivery to Cancer Cells in Solid Tumors

2018 512 citations Stefan Wilhelm, Abdullah M. Syed et al. ACS Nano profile →
The dose threshold for nanoparticle tumour delivery

2020 412 citations Ben Ouyang, Wilson Poon et al. Nature Materials profile →
Rapid assessment of SARS-CoV-2–evolved variants using virus-like particles

2021 193 citations Abdullah M. Syed, Taha Y. Taha et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abdullah M. Syed Canada	19	2.0k	1.6k	1.4k	582	382	29	3.6k
Du Cheng China	35	2.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.9×	614 1.1×	320 0.8×	96	4.8k
Yuwei Zhang China	17	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	534 0.9×	433 1.1×	38	3.2k
Ben Ouyang Canada	17	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	844 1.5×	653 1.7×	22	4.4k
Dmitri Simberg United States	34	1.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	658 1.1×	928 2.4×	100	4.6k
Qiang Feng China	34	2.0k 1.0×	901 0.6×	3.2k 2.3×	426 0.7×	553 1.4×	76	5.3k
Wilson Poon Canada	11	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	618 1.1×	431 1.1×	21	2.8k
Christopher A. Alabi United States	23	958 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	3.0k 2.2×	421 0.7×	212 0.6×	59	4.4k
Benjamin R. Kingston Canada	15	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	608 1.0×	441 1.2×	18	3.3k
Xuexiang Han China	42	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.9×	1.0k 1.7×	840 2.2×	64	5.4k
Daniel Rosenblum United States	18	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	387 0.7×	380 1.0×	39	3.3k

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Medeiros‐Silva, João, et al.. (2024). Oligomeric State and Drug Binding of the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein Are Sensitive to the Ectodomain. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(35). 24537–24552. 9 indexed citations

Syed, Abdullah M., Alison Ciling, Irene P. Chen, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 evolution balances conflicting roles of N protein phosphorylation. PLoS Pathogens. 20(11). e1012741–e1012741. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Huaying, Abdullah M. Syed, Mir M. Khalid, et al.. (2024). Assembly of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein with nucleic acid. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(11). 6647–6661. 16 indexed citations

Taha, Taha Y., Irene P. Chen, Jennifer M. Hayashi, et al.. (2023). Rapid assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals attenuation of the Omicron BA.1 variant through NSP6. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2308–2308. 31 indexed citations

MacMillan, Presley, Abdullah M. Syed, Benjamin R. Kingston, et al.. (2023). Toward Predicting Nanoparticle Distribution in Heterogeneous Tumor Tissues. Nano Letters. 23(15). 7197–7205. 14 indexed citations

Carlson, Christopher R., Abdullah M. Syed, Alison Ciling, et al.. (2023). Assembly of SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleosomes by truncated N∗ variant of the nucleocapsid protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(12). 105362–105362. 16 indexed citations

Ouyang, Ben, Benjamin R. Kingston, Wilson Poon, et al.. (2022). Impact of Tumor Barriers on Nanoparticle Delivery to Macrophages. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 19(6). 1917–1925. 10 indexed citations

Ngo, Wayne, Jamie L. Y. Wu, Zachary P. Lin, et al.. (2022). Identifying cell receptors for the nanoparticle protein corona using genome screens. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(9). 1023–1031. 61 indexed citations

Zagorovsky, Kyryl, Marı́a Teresa Fernández-Argüelles, Diane Bona, et al.. (2022). Gold Nanoparticle Smartphone Platform for Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infections. PubMed. 2(4). 324–332. 13 indexed citations

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Kingston, Benjamin R., Zachary P. Lin, Ben Ouyang, et al.. (2021). Specific Endothelial Cells Govern Nanoparticle Entry into Solid Tumors. ACS Nano. 15(9). 14080–14094. 99 indexed citations

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Syed, Abdullah M., Taha Y. Taha, Takako Tabata, et al.. (2021). Rapid assessment of SARS-CoV-2–evolved variants using virus-like particles. Science. 374(6575). 1626–1632. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sindhwani, Shrey, Abdullah M. Syed, Jessica Ngai, et al.. (2020). The entry of nanoparticles into solid tumours. Nature Materials. 19(5). 566–575. 1293 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ouyang, Ben, Wilson Poon, Yi-Nan Zhang, et al.. (2020). The dose threshold for nanoparticle tumour delivery. Nature Materials. 19(12). 1362–1371. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malekjahani, Ayden, Shrey Sindhwani, Abdullah M. Syed, & Warren C. W. Chan. (2019). Engineering Steps for Mobile Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices. Accounts of Chemical Research. 52(9). 2406–2414. 48 indexed citations

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Lazarovits, James, Shrey Sindhwani, Anthony J. Tavares, et al.. (2019). Supervised Learning and Mass Spectrometry Predicts the in Vivo Fate of Nanomaterials. ACS Nano. 13(7). 8023–8034. 141 indexed citations

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Syed, Abdullah M., Shrey Sindhwani, & Warren C. W. Chan. (2017). Making vessels more permeable. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1(8). 629–631. 5 indexed citations

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Sindhwani, Shrey, Abdullah M. Syed, Stefan Wilhelm, & Warren C. W. Chan. (2016). Exploring Passive Clearing for 3D Optical Imaging of Nanoparticles in Intact Tissues. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 28(1). 253–259. 39 indexed citations

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Syed, Abdullah M. & Warren C. W. Chan. (2015). How Nanoparticles Interact with Cancer Cells. Cancer treatment and research. 166. 227–244. 16 indexed citations

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Kim, Jisung, Mia J. Biondi, Abdullah M. Syed, et al.. (2015). Integrated Quantum Dot Barcode Smartphone Optical Device for Wireless Multiplexed Diagnosis of Infected Patients. ACS Nano. 9(3). 3060–3074. 163 indexed citations

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Vemula, Praveen Kumar, Éric Boilard, Abdullah M. Syed, et al.. (2011). On‐demand drug delivery from self‐assembled nanofibrous gels: A new approach for treatment of proteolytic disease. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 97A(2). 103–110. 42 indexed citations

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