Ahmed H. Badran

10.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
32 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Ahmed H. Badran is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmed H. Badran has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Ahmed H. Badran's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Ahmed H. Badran is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Ahmed H. Badran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and France. Ahmed H. Badran's co-authors include David R. Liu, Alexis C. Komor, Michael S. Packer, Nicole M. Gaudelli, David I. Bryson, Holly A. Rees, James J. Collins, Jonathan Stokes, Kevin Yang and Kyle Swanson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ahmed H. Badran

31 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage

2017 2.8k citations Nicole M. Gaudelli, Alexis C. Komor et al. Nature profile →
A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery

2020 1.3k citations Jonathan Stokes, Ahmed H. Badran et al. profile →
CRISPR-Based Technologies for the Manipulation of Eukaryotic Genomes

2016 794 citations Alexis C. Komor, Ahmed H. Badran et al. profile →
Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C:G-to-T:A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity

2017 568 citations Alexis C. Komor, Kevin T. Zhao et al. Science Advances profile →
Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance

2021 238 citations Allison J. Lopatkin, Abigail L. Manson 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
Ahmed H. Badran United States	20	5.7k	1.4k	639	519	407	32	6.8k
Jennifer Listgarten United States	26	4.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	587 0.9×	356 0.7×	157 0.4×	51	6.1k
Krzysztof Ginalski Poland	44	4.9k 0.8×	601 0.4×	751 1.2×	483 0.9×	48 0.1×	105	6.3k
Sriram Kosuri United States	22	5.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	395 0.6×	223 0.4×	187 0.5×	33	5.6k
Jian Huang China	42	3.9k 0.7×	467 0.3×	333 0.5×	340 0.7×	50 0.1×	333	6.1k
Iddo Friedberg United States	25	5.7k 1.0×	749 0.5×	576 0.9×	349 0.7×	13 0.0×	59	7.2k
Jack Greenblatt Canada	30	5.6k 1.0×	946 0.7×	297 0.5×	470 0.9×	14 0.0×	67	6.4k
Ahmad S. Khalil United States	33	3.9k 0.7×	983 0.7×	288 0.5×	61 0.1×	30 0.1×	67	5.6k
Jan Gorodkin Denmark	41	4.9k 0.9×	532 0.4×	316 0.5×	163 0.3×	29 0.1×	137	6.4k
Mohan Babu Canada	34	3.6k 0.6×	990 0.7×	517 0.8×	84 0.2×	13 0.0×	139	5.0k
Farren J. Isaacs United States	38	7.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	323 0.5×	241 0.5×	15 0.0×	63	8.2k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Badran, Ahmed H., et al.. (2025). Synthetic approaches to enhance biological carbon capture. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 95. 103350–103350.

Stoytchev, Ilko, et al.. (2024). Directed evolution of hyperactive integrases for site specific insertion of transgenes. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(14). e64–e64. 11 indexed citations

Badran, Ahmed H., et al.. (2024). Efficient genetic code expansion without host genome modifications. Nature Biotechnology. 43(7). 1116–1127. 9 indexed citations

Johnston, Chad W. & Ahmed H. Badran. (2022). Natural and engineered precision antibiotics in the context of resistance. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 69. 102160–102160. 7 indexed citations

Vargas‐Rodriguez, Oscar, Ahmed H. Badran, Kyle Hoffman, et al.. (2021). Bacterial translation machinery for deliberate mistranslation of the genetic code. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(35). 12 indexed citations

Bratulić, Siniša, et al.. (2021). Directed evolution of rRNA improves translation kinetics and recombinant protein yield. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5638–5638. 18 indexed citations

Lopatkin, Allison J., Abigail L. Manson, Jonathan Stokes, et al.. (2021). Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

Lopatkin, Allison J., Abigail L. Manson, Jonathan Stokes, et al.. (2021). Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance. Science. 371(6531). 238 indexed citations breakdown →

Bratulić, Siniša, et al.. (2021). Orthogonal translation enables heterologous ribosome engineering in E. coli. Nature Communications. 12(1). 599–599. 17 indexed citations

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DeBenedictis, Erika A., et al.. (2021). Multiplex suppression of four quadruplet codons via tRNA directed evolution. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5706–5706. 30 indexed citations

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Johnston, Chad W., Ahmed H. Badran, & James J. Collins. (2020). Continuous bioactivity-dependent evolution of an antibiotic biosynthetic pathway. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4202–4202. 21 indexed citations

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Badran, Ahmed H., et al.. (2020). Synthetic Biological Circuits within an Orthogonal Central Dogma. Trends in biotechnology. 39(1). 59–71. 41 indexed citations

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Komor, Alexis C., Kevin T. Zhao, Michael S. Packer, et al.. (2017). Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C:G-to-T:A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity. Science Advances. 3(8). eaao4774–eaao4774. 568 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bratulić, Siniša & Ahmed H. Badran. (2017). Modern methods for laboratory diversification of biomolecules. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 41. 50–60. 14 indexed citations

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Gaudelli, Nicole M., Alexis C. Komor, Holly A. Rees, et al.. (2017). Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature. 551(7681). 464–471. 2789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Badran, Ahmed H., Victor M. Guzov, Melissa M. Kemp, et al.. (2016). Continuous evolution of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins overcomes insect resistance. Nature. 533(7601). 58–63. 151 indexed citations

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Badran, Ahmed H., et al.. (2014). Negative selection and stringency modulation in phage-assisted continuous evolution. Nature Chemical Biology. 10(3). 216–222. 126 indexed citations

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Dickinson, Bryan C., Michael S. Packer, Ahmed H. Badran, & David R. Liu. (2014). A system for the continuous directed evolution of proteases rapidly reveals drug-resistance mutations. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5352–5352. 75 indexed citations

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Furman, Jennifer L., Ahmed H. Badran, Jason R. Porter, et al.. (2010). Toward a General Approach for RNA-Templated Hierarchical Assembly of Split-Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(33). 11692–11701. 37 indexed citations

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Furman, Jennifer L., et al.. (2009). Systematic evaluation of split-fluorescent proteins for the direct detection of native and methylated DNA. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19(14). 3748–3751. 10 indexed citations

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