Benjamin J. Lesch

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 742 citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Lesch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Hematology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Lesch has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 742 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Hematology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Lesch's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers), Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (1 paper) and Erythropoietin and Anemia Treatment (1 paper). Benjamin J. Lesch is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers), Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research (1 paper) and Erythropoietin and Anemia Treatment (1 paper). Benjamin J. Lesch collaborates with scholars based in United States and India. Benjamin J. Lesch's co-authors include Matthew H. Porteus, M. Kyle Cromer, Liyang Zhang, Natalia Gomez‐Ospina, Daniel P. Dever, Rosa Romano, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Michael A. Collingwood, Mara Pavel-Dinu and Carsten T. Charlesworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Blood Advances.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Lesch

4 papers receiving 729 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.

Identification of preexisting adaptive immunity to Cas9 proteins in humans

2019 665 citations Carsten T. Charlesworth, Daniel P. Dever et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin J. Lesch United States	3	679	258	119	69	56	5	742
Viktor T. Lemgart United States	2	621 0.9×	238 0.9×	110 0.9×	69 1.0×	56 1.0×	2	667
Beruh Dejene United States	4	743 1.1×	317 1.2×	161 1.4×	79 1.1×	63 1.1×	7	813
Carsten T. Charlesworth United States	7	854 1.3×	357 1.4×	157 1.3×	84 1.2×	69 1.2×	10	938
Jason Potter United States	9	984 1.4×	297 1.2×	101 0.8×	81 1.2×	41 0.7×	12	1.1k
Sandeep K. Botla Germany	5	912 1.3×	258 1.0×	176 1.5×	79 1.1×	32 0.6×	5	1.0k
Emma Haapaniemi Finland	4	829 1.2×	260 1.0×	146 1.2×	79 1.1×	32 0.6×	6	934
Beeke Wienert Australia	14	1.0k 1.5×	250 1.0×	63 0.5×	89 1.3×	24 0.4×	16	1.2k
Jenna Persson Sweden	9	1.2k 1.7×	291 1.1×	166 1.4×	79 1.1×	33 0.6×	10	1.2k
Ricardo Dolmetsch Switzerland	2	615 0.9×	198 0.8×	92 0.8×	64 0.9×	24 0.4×	2	660
Deirdre McMenamin United States	8	688 1.0×	441 1.7×	90 0.8×	61 0.9×	61 1.1×	14	816

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin J. Lesch

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin J. Lesch

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Perriman, Rhonda, et al.. (2025). Novel humanized loss-of-function NF1 mouse model of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Blood Advances. 10(3). 837–849.

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Ekman, Freja K., Sridhar Selvaraj, Eric Soupène, et al.. (2025). Engineering synthetic signaling receptors to enable erythropoietin-free erythropoiesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1140–1140. 1 indexed citations

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Bruun, Theodora U. J., et al.. (2025). Multilayered HIV-1 resistance in HSPCs through CCR5 Knockout and B cell secretion of HIV-inhibiting antibodies. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3103–3103. 4 indexed citations

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Martin, Renata M., Jonas L. Fowler, M. Kyle Cromer, et al.. (2020). Improving the safety of human pluripotent stem cell therapies using genome-edited orthogonal safeguards. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2713–2713. 72 indexed citations

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Charlesworth, Carsten T., Daniel P. Dever, Joab Camarena, et al.. (2019). Identification of preexisting adaptive immunity to Cas9 proteins in humans. Nature Medicine. 25(2). 249–254. 665 indexed citations breakdown →

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