Blake Lash

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 868 citations indexed

About

Blake Lash is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Blake Lash has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 868 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Biomaterials and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Blake Lash's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (2 papers). Blake Lash is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (2 papers). Blake Lash collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Blake Lash's co-authors include Rhiannon K. Macrae, Feng Zhang, Ziad Julier, Mikaël M. Martino, Xiaochen Ren, Michael Segel, Alim Ladha, Sergei Mekhedov, Xin Jin and Eugene V. Koonin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Blake Lash

8 papers receiving 856 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.

Mammalian retrovirus-like protein PEG10 packages its own mRNA and can be pseudotyped for mRNA delivery

2021 289 citations Michael Segel, Blake Lash et al. Science profile →
Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial contractile injection system

2023 137 citations Mirco Friedrich, Akash Guru et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blake Lash United States	8	585	153	133	112	67	10	868
Dehong Yang China	19	610 1.0×	123 0.8×	152 1.1×	57 0.5×	51 0.8×	73	1.2k
Azam Rahimpour Iran	16	380 0.6×	75 0.5×	62 0.5×	97 0.9×	106 1.6×	45	666
Yanmei Qi China	17	489 0.8×	138 0.9×	97 0.7×	117 1.0×	144 2.1×	47	1.1k
Tian Chi China	23	848 1.4×	141 0.9×	101 0.8×	231 2.1×	184 2.7×	53	1.2k
Jorge M. Santos Portugal	18	519 0.9×	183 1.2×	151 1.1×	148 1.3×	40 0.6×	40	1.2k
Philip W. Jordan United States	23	1.0k 1.7×	224 1.5×	113 0.8×	34 0.3×	42 0.6×	53	1.5k
Daniel L. Brunner Austria	5	346 0.6×	121 0.8×	126 0.9×	60 0.5×	44 0.7×	7	783
Mahdi Habibi‐Anbouhi Iran	19	589 1.0×	104 0.7×	95 0.7×	73 0.7×	302 4.5×	68	975
Jeffrey J. Rice United States	10	474 0.8×	43 0.3×	259 1.9×	198 1.8×	51 0.8×	14	924
Martha L. Funderburgh United States	28	701 1.2×	189 1.2×	98 0.7×	198 1.8×	72 1.1×	44	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Blake Lash

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Fields of papers citing papers by Blake Lash

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blake Lash

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Friedrich, Mirco, Julie Pham, Jiakun Tian, et al.. (2025). Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity. Nature. 650(8101). 481–489.

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Friedrich, Mirco, Chris King, Chau-Duy-Tam Vo, et al.. (2025). Rational engineering of minimally immunogenic nucleases for gene therapy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 105–105. 15 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Max E., Daniel Strebinger, Blake Lash, et al.. (2025). Structure and biochemistry-guided engineering of an all-RNA system for DNA insertion with R2 retrotransposons. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6079–6079.

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Madigan, Victoria J., Yugang Zhang, Max E. Wilkinson, et al.. (2024). Human paraneoplastic antigen Ma2 (PNMA2) forms icosahedral capsids that can be engineered for mRNA delivery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2307812120–e2307812120. 15 indexed citations

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Friedrich, Mirco, Akash Guru, Blake Lash, et al.. (2023). Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial contractile injection system. Nature. 616(7956). 357–364. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

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Segel, Michael, Blake Lash, Alim Ladha, et al.. (2021). Mammalian retrovirus-like protein PEG10 packages its own mRNA and can be pseudotyped for mRNA delivery. Science. 373(6557). 882–889. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Jean L., Blake Lash, Bhavana Nayer, et al.. (2021). Restoration of the healing microenvironment in diabetic wounds with matrix-binding IL-1 receptor antagonist. Communications Biology. 4(1). 49 indexed citations

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Schmid‐Burgk, Jonathan L., Linyi Gao, David Li, et al.. (2020). Highly Parallel Profiling of Cas9 Variant Specificity. Molecular Cell. 78(4). 794–800.e8. 145 indexed citations

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Ren, Xiaochen, et al.. (2020). Growth Factor Engineering Strategies for Regenerative Medicine Applications. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 7. 469–469. 190 indexed citations

10.

Toy, Randall, Pallab Pradhan, Nelson C. Di Paolo, et al.. (2019). Modification of primary amines to higher order amines reduces in vivo hematological and immunotoxicity of cationic nanocarriers through TLR4 and complement pathways. Biomaterials. 225. 119512–119512. 28 indexed citations

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