Achia Urbach

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Achia Urbach is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Achia Urbach has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Achia Urbach's work include Renal and related cancers (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Achia Urbach is often cited by papers focused on Renal and related cancers (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers). Achia Urbach collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Netherlands. Achia Urbach's co-authors include Nissim Benvenisty, George Q. Daley, Maya Schuldiner, Ori Bar‐Nur, Yuin‐Han Loh, Garrett C. Heffner, Suneet Agarwal, Hao Zhu, Benjamin Reubinoff and Ofer Mandelboim and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Achia Urbach

21 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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 Lin28/let-7 Axis Regulates Glucose Metabolism

2011 724 citations Hao Zhu, Ng Shyh‐Chang et al. Cell profile →

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Akiko Yabuuchi United States

Jason A. West United States

Kitchener D. Wilson United States

Yoshimi Tokuzawa Japan

Josh Chenoweth United States

Laura Batlle‐Morera Spain

Angelique M. Nelson United States

Cesar Sommer United States

Masayoshi Maruyama Japan

Paul J. Gokhale United Kingdom

Akiko Yabuuchi United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Achia Urbach

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Achia Urbach. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Achia Urbach based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Achia Urbach. Achia Urbach is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Omer, Dorit, Thomas L. Vincent, Swati Singh, et al.. (2025). Human fetal kidney organoids model early human nephrogenesis and Notch-driven cell fate. The EMBO Journal. 44(17). 4681–4719. 1 indexed citations

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Urbach, Achia, et al.. (2024). Characterization of Alternative Splicing in High-Risk Wilms’ Tumors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(8). 4520–4520.

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Armon, Leah, et al.. (2024). Nephron-Specific Lin28A Overexpression Triggers Severe Inflammatory Response and Kidney Damage. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 20(10). 4044–4054. 3 indexed citations

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Urbach, Achia, et al.. (2023). Characterization of Continuous Transcriptional Heterogeneity in High-Risk Blastemal-Type Wilms’ Tumors Using Unsupervised Machine Learning. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3532–3532. 2 indexed citations

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Kanter, Itamar, Naomi Pode‐Shakked, Efrat Bucris, et al.. (2022). Characterization of alternative mRNA splicing in cultured cell populations representing progressive stages of human fetal kidney development. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19548–19548. 4 indexed citations

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Armon, Leah, et al.. (2021). Generation and characterization of iPSC lines from two nuclear envelopathy patients with a homozygous nonsense mutation in the TOR1AIP1 gene. Stem Cell Research. 56. 102539–102539.

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Armon, Leah, Debby Ickowicz, Efrat Bucris, et al.. (2020). Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals mRNA Splice Isoform Switching during Kidney Development. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(10). 2278–2291. 14 indexed citations

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Levy, Etgar, et al.. (2020). Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate Regulation by SMARCB1. Stem Cell Reports. 15(5). 1037–1046. 6 indexed citations

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Robinton, Daisy A., Jérome Chal, Edroaldo Lummertz da Rocha, et al.. (2019). The Lin28/let-7 Pathway Regulates the Mammalian Caudal Body Axis Elongation Program. Developmental Cell. 48(3). 396–405.e3. 44 indexed citations

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Armon, Leah, et al.. (2019). Heterochronic regulation of lung development via the Lin28‐Let‐7 pathway. The FASEB Journal. 33(11). 12008–12018. 11 indexed citations

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Kanter, Itamar, et al.. (2018). Geometry of Gene Expression Space of Wilms' Tumors From Human Patients. Neoplasia. 20(8). 871–881. 17 indexed citations

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Armon, Leah, et al.. (2015). LIN28: A Stem Cell Factor with a Key Role in Pediatric Tumor Formation. Stem Cells and Development. 25(5). 367–377. 20 indexed citations

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Urbach, Achia, Alena Yermalovich, Jin Zhang, et al.. (2014). Lin28 sustains early renal progenitors and induces Wilms tumor. Genes & Development. 28(9). 971–982. 126 indexed citations

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Zhu, Hao, Ng Shyh‐Chang, Ayellet V. Segrè, et al.. (2011). The Lin28/let-7 Axis Regulates Glucose Metabolism. Cell. 147(1). 81–94. 724 indexed citations breakdown →

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Urbach, Achia, Ori Bar‐Nur, George Q. Daley, & Nissim Benvenisty. (2010). Differential Modeling of Fragile X Syndrome by Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell stem cell. 6(5). 407–411. 298 indexed citations

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Loh, Yuin‐Han, Odelya Hartung, Li Hu, et al.. (2010). Reprogramming of T Cells from Human Peripheral Blood. Cell stem cell. 7(1). 15–19. 221 indexed citations

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Loh, Yuin‐Han, Suneet Agarwal, In‐Hyun Park, et al.. (2009). Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human blood. Blood. 113(22). 5476–5479. 444 indexed citations

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Urbach, Achia & Nissim Benvenisty. (2009). Studying Early Lethality of 45,XO (Turner's Syndrome) Embryos Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells. PLoS ONE. 4(1). e4175–e4175. 78 indexed citations

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Eiges, Rachel, Achia Urbach, Mira Malcov, et al.. (2007). Developmental Study of Fragile X Syndrome Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived from Preimplantation Genetically Diagnosed Embryos. Cell stem cell. 1(5). 568–577. 222 indexed citations

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Drukker, Micha, Gil Katz, Achia Urbach, et al.. (2002). Characterization of the expression of MHC proteins in human embryonic stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(15). 9864–9869. 482 indexed citations

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