Alain Charest

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alain Charest is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Charest has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alain Charest's work include Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (7 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (6 papers). Alain Charest is often cited by papers focused on Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (7 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (6 papers). Alain Charest collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Alain Charest's co-authors include Vassiliki A. Boussiotis, Michel L. Tremblay, Alan T. Yeo, Laura Strauss, Anthos Christofides, Carol Cao, Ralph Weissleder, Bob S. Carter, Leonora Balaj and Fred H. Hochberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Alain Charest

34 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Protein typing of circulating microvesicles allows real-time monitoring of glioblastoma therapy

2012 641 citations Leonora Balaj, Alain Charest et al. profile →
The complex role of tumor-infiltrating macrophages

2022 560 citations Anthos Christofides, Laura Strauss et al. Nature Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Charest United States	24	2.0k	815	664	532	426	34	3.0k
Michele Cilli Italy	37	2.0k 1.0×	658 0.8×	658 1.0×	933 1.8×	439 1.0×	108	4.0k
Julie L. Prior United States	33	1.8k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	328 0.5×	1.5k 2.8×	352 0.8×	63	4.1k
Andreas Bosio Germany	33	2.0k 1.0×	528 0.6×	592 0.9×	336 0.6×	242 0.6×	93	3.4k
Sandra A. Rempel United States	31	1.4k 0.7×	352 0.4×	655 1.0×	796 1.5×	225 0.5×	51	3.1k
Susann M. Brady‐Kalnay United States	29	2.1k 1.1×	698 0.9×	221 0.3×	319 0.6×	302 0.7×	81	3.2k
Mandar D. Muzumdar United States	14	2.9k 1.4×	441 0.5×	480 0.7×	713 1.3×	224 0.5×	21	4.5k
Irene M. Aspalter United Kingdom	12	1.6k 0.8×	350 0.4×	440 0.7×	285 0.5×	300 0.7×	13	2.6k
Takuya Kato Japan	27	1.4k 0.7×	295 0.4×	404 0.6×	814 1.5×	246 0.6×	59	2.5k
Miller Huang United States	21	1.9k 1.0×	304 0.4×	690 1.0×	483 0.9×	108 0.3×	30	2.9k
Ricardo F. Frausto United States	23	1.3k 0.7×	374 0.5×	340 0.5×	291 0.5×	201 0.5×	49	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Charest

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Christofides, Anthos, et al.. (2025). The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade. Nature Cancer. 6(6). 924–937. 10 indexed citations

Christofides, Anthos, Laura Strauss, Alan T. Yeo, et al.. (2022). The complex role of tumor-infiltrating macrophages. Nature Immunology. 23(8). 1148–1156. 560 indexed citations breakdown →

Zeng, Ailiang, Zhiyun Wei, Rosalia Rabinovsky, et al.. (2020). Glioblastoma-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Facilitate Transformation of Astrocytes via Reprogramming Oncogenic Metabolism. iScience. 23(8). 101420–101420. 47 indexed citations

Bardhan, Kankana, Halil‐Ibrahim Aksoylar, Laura Strauss, et al.. (2019). Phosphorylation of PD-1-Y248 is a marker of PD-1-mediated inhibitory function in human T cells. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17252–17252. 25 indexed citations

Jones, Pamela S., Anudeep Yekula, Julia L. Small, et al.. (2019). Characterization of plasma-derived protoporphyrin-IX-positive extracellular vesicles following 5-ALA use in patients with malignant glioma. EBioMedicine. 48. 23–35. 29 indexed citations

Boussiotis, Vassiliki A. & Alain Charest. (2017). Immunotherapies for malignant glioma. Oncogene. 37(9). 1121–1141. 102 indexed citations

Seib, F. Philipp, Jeannine M. Coburn, Nikolai Klebanov, et al.. (2015). Focal therapy of neuroblastoma using silk films to deliver kinase and chemotherapeutic agents in vivo. Acta Biomaterialia. 20. 32–38. 43 indexed citations

Balaj, Leonora, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Weilin Chen, et al.. (2014). Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models. Pure Amsterdam UMC. 3. 6–6. 1 indexed citations

Balaj, Leonora, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Weilin Chen, et al.. (2014). Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Hannah E., et al.. (2012). The Oncogenic Lung Cancer Fusion Kinase CD74-ROS Activates a Novel Invasiveness Pathway through E-Syt1 Phosphorylation. Cancer Research. 72(15). 3764–3774. 5 indexed citations

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Acquaviva, Jaime, Julie Lessard, Huijun Zhu, et al.. (2011). Chronic Activation of Wild-Type Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and Loss of Cdkn2a Cause Mouse Glioblastoma Formation. Cancer Research. 71(23). 7198–7206. 1 indexed citations

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Gutmann, David H., Charles D. Stiles, Scott W. Lowe, et al.. (2011). Report from the Fifth National Cancer Institute Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium Nervous System Tumors Workshop. Neuro-Oncology. 13(7). 692–699. 6 indexed citations

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Sirois, Jacinthe, Jean‐François Côté, Alain Charest, et al.. (2006). Essential function of PTP-PEST during mouse embryonic vascularization, mesenchyme formation, neurogenesis and early liver development. Mechanisms of Development. 123(12). 869–880. 53 indexed citations

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Charest, Alain, Keara Lane, Kevin McMahon, et al.. (2003). Fusion of FIG to the receptor tyrosine kinase ROS in a glioblastoma with an interstitial del(6)(q21q21). Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 37(1). 58–71. 153 indexed citations

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Charest, Alain, John Dowd, Justin P. Blumenstiel, et al.. (2002). Genome complexity reduction for SNP genotyping analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(5). 2942–2947. 30 indexed citations

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Storring, John M., et al.. (1999). TATA‐Driven Transcriptional Initiation and Regulation of the Rat Serotonin 5‐HT_1A Receptor Gene. Journal of Neurochemistry. 72(6). 2238–2247. 34 indexed citations

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Heesen, M., Michael A. Berman, Alain Charest, et al.. (1998). Cloning and chromosomal mapping of an orphan chemokine receptor: mouse RDC1. Immunogenetics. 47(5). 364–370. 54 indexed citations

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Charest, Alain, John Wagner, Mei Kwan, & Michel L. Tremblay. (1997). Coupling of the murine protein tyrosine phosphatase PEST to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor through a Src homology 3 (SH3) domain-mediated association with Grb2. Oncogene. 14(14). 1643–1651. 45 indexed citations

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Charest, Alain, John Wagner, Sara Jacob, C. Jane McGlade, & Michel L. Tremblay. (1996). Phosphotyrosine-independent Binding of SHC to the NPLH Sequence of Murine Protein-tyrosine Phosphatase-PEST. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(14). 8424–8429. 74 indexed citations

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Charest, Alain, et al.. (1995). Structure of the Murine MPTP-PEST Gene: Genomic Organization and Chromosomal Mapping. Genomics. 28(3). 501–507. 14 indexed citations

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