Benjamin Lai

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Lai is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Lai has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Lai's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (11 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (10 papers). Benjamin Lai is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (11 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (10 papers). Benjamin Lai collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Benjamin Lai's co-authors include Milica Radisic, Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, Boyang Zhang, Anastasia Korolj, Muhammad Imran ul‐haq, Locke Davenport Huyer, Donald E. Brooks, Rajesh A. Shenoi, Rick Xing Ze Lu and Erika Yan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Blood and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Lai

69 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Advances in organ-on-a-chip engineering

2018 734 citations Boyang Zhang, Benjamin Lai et al. profile →
Integrating organoids and organ-on-a-chip devices

2024 67 citations Yimu Zhao, Shira Landau et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Lai Canada	31	1.6k	857	607	547	336	73	3.5k
Peter Timashev Russia	36	2.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	763 1.4×	266 0.8×	426	5.7k
Hon Fai Chan China	30	2.5k 1.6×	966 1.1×	1.2k 1.9×	410 0.7×	237 0.7×	80	4.5k
V. Prasad Shastri Germany	34	2.0k 1.2×	794 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	608 1.1×	364 1.1×	120	4.7k
Huanan Wang China	38	3.2k 2.0×	814 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	821 1.5×	326 1.0×	131	5.5k
Guopu Chen China	45	2.2k 1.4×	736 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	756 1.4×	296 0.9×	85	5.6k
Xiaoxuan Zhang China	41	2.2k 1.4×	763 0.9×	838 1.4×	361 0.7×	193 0.6×	77	5.3k
Jianglin Wang China	35	2.4k 1.5×	776 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	558 1.0×	138 0.4×	116	4.4k
Esmaiel Jabbari United States	44	2.5k 1.6×	783 0.9×	2.2k 3.6×	662 1.2×	534 1.6×	147	5.6k
Shahriar Sharifi Iran	31	1.8k 1.1×	624 0.7×	1.5k 2.5×	487 0.9×	258 0.8×	82	4.1k
R. Langer United States	29	1.7k 1.1×	958 1.1×	1.4k 2.4×	689 1.3×	340 1.0×	59	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Lai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Lai

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Oesterle, Tyler, et al.. (2025). Care coordination in screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): A scoping review. American Journal on Addictions. 35(1). 22–35.

Oesterle, Tyler, Nicholas L. Bormann, Margaret M. Paul, et al.. (2025). Treatment of Substance Use Disorders With a Mobile Phone App Within Rural Collaborative Care Management (Senyo Health): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e65693–e65693. 3 indexed citations

Lai, Benjamin, Shue‐Fen Luo, & Jenn-Haung Lai. (2024). Therapeutically targeting proinflammatory type I interferons in systemic lupus erythematosus: efficacy and insufficiency with a specific focus on lupus nephritis. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1489205–1489205. 3 indexed citations

Shakeri, Amid, Shira Landau, Erika Yan Wang, et al.. (2023). Advances in cardiac tissue engineering and heart‐on‐a‐chip. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 112(4). 492–511. 24 indexed citations

Okhovatian, Sargol, Houman Savoji, S. Campbell, et al.. (2022). Toward Hierarchical Assembly of Aligned Cell Sheets into a Conical Cardiac Ventricle Using Microfabricated Elastomers. Advanced Biology. 6(11). e2101165–e2101165. 17 indexed citations

Cunningham, Julie L., et al.. (2022). Multidisciplinary Controlled Substance Advisory Group Provides Support to the Primary Care Provider. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 97(5). 830–834. 2 indexed citations

Sahraei, Elham, et al.. (2022). Mechanical Properties of Prismatic Li-Ion Batteries—Electrodes, Cells, and Stacks. Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage. 19(4). 13 indexed citations

Wang, Erika Yan, Uroš Kuzmanov, Wenkun Dou, et al.. (2021). An organ-on-a-chip model for pre-clinical drug evaluation in progressive non-genetic cardiomyopathy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 160. 97–110. 33 indexed citations

Lai, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Activation of c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase, a Potential Therapeutic Target in Autoimmune Arthritis. Cells. 9(11). 2466–2466. 21 indexed citations

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Savoji, Houman, Locke Davenport Huyer, Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi, et al.. (2020). 3D Printing of Vascular Tubes Using Bioelastomer Prepolymers by Freeform Reversible Embedding. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 6(3). 1333–1343. 51 indexed citations

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Lai, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Retrospective comparative analysis of choledochoscopic bile duct exploration versus ERCP for bile duct stones. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14736–14736. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yimu, Naimeh Rafatian, Nicole Feric, et al.. (2019). Engineering microenvironment for human cardiac tissue assembly in heart-on-a-chip platform. Matrix Biology. 85-86. 189–204. 80 indexed citations

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Zhang, Boyang, Benjamin Lai, Ruoxiao Xie, et al.. (2018). Microfabrication of AngioChip, a biodegradable polymer scaffold with microfluidic vasculature. Nature Protocols. 13(8). 1793–1813. 62 indexed citations

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Weinhart, Marie, et al.. (2016). Reversible hemostatic properties of sulfabetaine/quaternary ammonium modified hyperbranched polyglycerol. Biomaterials. 86. 42–55. 141 indexed citations

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Yu, Kai, Benjamin Lai, Jonathan H. Foley, et al.. (2014). Modulation of Complement Activation and Amplification on Nanoparticle Surfaces by Glycopolymer Conformation and Chemistry. ACS Nano. 8(8). 7687–7703. 68 indexed citations

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ul‐haq, Muhammad Imran, Benjamin Lai, Rajesh A. Shenoi, et al.. (2013). Design of Long Circulating Nontoxic Dendritic Polymers for the Removal of Iron in Vivo. ACS Nano. 7(12). 10704–10716. 74 indexed citations

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Zou, Yuquan, Benjamin Lai, Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, & Donald E. Brooks. (2010). Inhibitory Effect of Hydrophilic Polymer Brushes on Surface‐Induced Platelet Activation and Adhesion. Macromolecular Bioscience. 10(12). 1432–1443. 24 indexed citations

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Lai, Benjamin, Yuquan Zou, Donald E. Brooks, & Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu. (2010). The influence of poly-N-[(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane)methyl]acrylamide on fibrin polymerization, cross-linking and clot structure. Biomaterials. 31(22). 5749–5758. 18 indexed citations

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Lai, Benjamin, A. Louise Creagh, Johan Janzen, et al.. (2010). The induction of thrombus generation on nanostructured neutral polymer brush surfaces. Biomaterials. 31(26). 6710–6718. 46 indexed citations

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Lai, Benjamin, et al.. (2009). Three-dimensional fluence rate measurement and data acquisition system for minimally invasive light therapies. Review of Scientific Instruments. 80(4). 43104–43104. 3 indexed citations

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