Andrew Varley

1.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew Varley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Varley has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Infectious Diseases and 2 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Andrew Varley's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (14 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers). Andrew Varley is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (14 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers). Andrew Varley collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Andrew Varley's co-authors include Bowen Li, Janice L. Strap, Allen Yujie Jiang, Róbert Langer, Daniel G. Anderson, Alex Golubovic, Yue Xu, Shufen Xu, Rajith S. Manan and Shun‐Qing Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Varley

17 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Combinatorial design of nanoparticles for pulmonary mRNA delivery and genome editing

2023 186 citations Bowen Li, Rajith S. Manan et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Accelerating ionizable lipid discovery for mRNA delivery using machine learning and combinatorial chemistry

2024 108 citations Bowen Li, Idris O. Raji et al. Nature Materials profile →
AGILE platform: a deep learning powered approach to accelerate LNP development for mRNA delivery

2024 91 citations Yue Xu, Shihao Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Tumor‐Tailored Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Facilitate IL‐12 Circular RNA Delivery for Enhanced Lung Cancer Immunotherapy

2024 62 citations Shufen Xu, Yue Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Varley Canada	12	775	120	118	113	107	18	1.1k
Tongren Yang China	13	835 1.1×	188 1.6×	138 1.2×	90 0.8×	108 1.0×	18	1.1k
Michael Y.T. Chow Hong Kong	12	1.0k 1.3×	85 0.7×	150 1.3×	102 0.9×	335 3.1×	13	1.5k
Qi Pan China	17	1.1k 1.4×	117 1.0×	329 2.8×	77 0.7×	95 0.9×	35	1.4k
Fatemeh Safari Iran	14	483 0.6×	122 1.0×	89 0.8×	38 0.3×	48 0.4×	35	757
Barbara Maertens Germany	12	774 1.0×	63 0.5×	123 1.0×	53 0.5×	25 0.2×	19	1.0k
Jae‐Sung Woo South Korea	23	1.5k 1.9×	193 1.6×	271 2.3×	89 0.8×	393 3.7×	49	2.0k
Teerapong Yata Thailand	21	452 0.6×	314 2.6×	83 0.7×	145 1.3×	82 0.8×	54	1.0k
Jungwook Hwang South Korea	17	675 0.9×	139 1.2×	48 0.4×	42 0.4×	81 0.8×	30	1.1k
Kengo Kitadokoro Japan	17	482 0.6×	127 1.1×	92 0.8×	118 1.0×	34 0.3×	31	1.0k
Lloyd B. Jeffs Canada	12	1.3k 1.7×	192 1.6×	258 2.2×	116 1.0×	330 3.1×	17	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Varley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Varley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Varley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Varley 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 Andrew Varley. Andrew Varley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Varley, Andrew, Shigeki J. Miyake‐Stoner, Parinaz Aliahmad, et al.. (2025). Divergent Delivery and Expression Kinetics of Lipid and Polymeric Nanoparticles across mRNA Modalities. Advanced Science. 12(38). e08907–e08907.

Wang, Ke, Jingan Chen, Shannon J. Tsai, et al.. (2025). A Reverse Transcription Nucleic-Acid-Based Barcoding System for In Vivo Measurement of Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Delivery. PubMed. 5(1). 35–41. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Lijun, et al.. (2025). Zwitterionic Hydrogels: From Synthetic Design to Biomedical Applications. Langmuir. 41(5). 3007–3026. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Shufen, Yue Xu, Jingan Chen, et al.. (2024). Tumor‐Tailored Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Facilitate IL‐12 Circular RNA Delivery for Enhanced Lung Cancer Immunotherapy (Adv. Mater. 29/2024). Advanced Materials. 36(29). 11 indexed citations

Xu, Yue, Shihao Ma, Haotian Cui, et al.. (2024). AGILE platform: a deep learning powered approach to accelerate LNP development for mRNA delivery. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6305–6305. 91 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Bowen, Idris O. Raji, Theresa M. Raimondo, et al.. (2024). Accelerating ionizable lipid discovery for mRNA delivery using machine learning and combinatorial chemistry. Nature Materials. 23(7). 1002–1008. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Xu, Shufen, Yue Xu, Jingan Chen, et al.. (2024). Tumor‐Tailored Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Facilitate IL‐12 Circular RNA Delivery for Enhanced Lung Cancer Immunotherapy. Advanced Materials. 36(29). e2400307–e2400307. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Clinical delivery of circular RNA: Lessons learned from RNA drug development. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 197. 114826–114826. 84 indexed citations

Li, Bowen, Rajith S. Manan, Shun‐Qing Liang, et al.. (2023). Combinatorial design of nanoparticles for pulmonary mRNA delivery and genome editing. Nature Biotechnology. 41(10). 1410–1415. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Jingan, Yue Xu, Shufen Xu, et al.. (2023). Combinatorial design of ionizable lipid nanoparticles for muscle-selective mRNA delivery with minimized off-target effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(50). e2309472120–e2309472120. 76 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2022). SiRNAs with Neutral Phosphate Triester Hydrocarbon Tails Exhibit Carrier-Free Gene-Silencing Activity. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13(4). 695–700. 6 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Building siRNAs with Cubes: Synthesis and Evaluation of Cubane‐Modified siRNAs. ChemBioChem. 22(20). 2981–2985. 3 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew & Jean‐Paul Desaulniers. (2021). Chemical strategies for strand selection in short-interfering RNAs. RSC Advances. 11(4). 2415–2426. 17 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2020). Synthesis and Evaluation of Neutral Phosphate Triester Backbone-Modified siRNAs. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 11(7). 1457–1462. 11 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2020). Effects of Chemical Modifications on siRNA Strand Selection in Mammalian Cells. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics. 30(4). 229–236. 11 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Utilizing the Ethylene-releasing Compound, 2-Chloroethylphosphonic Acid, as a Tool to Study Ethylene Response in Bacteria. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Varley, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Establishing a Role for Bacterial Cellulose in Environmental Interactions: Lessons Learned from Diverse Biofilm-Producing Proteobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1282–1282. 102 indexed citations

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Lyne, Rachel, Richard Smith, Kim Rutherford, et al.. (2007). FlyMine: an integrated database for Drosophila and Anopheles genomics. Genome biology. 8(7). R129–R129. 276 indexed citations

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