Brandon Leonard

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Brandon Leonard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brandon Leonard has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Brandon Leonard's work include Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (7 papers), interferon and immune responses (3 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (3 papers). Brandon Leonard is often cited by papers focused on Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (7 papers), interferon and immune responses (3 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (3 papers). Brandon Leonard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Switzerland. Brandon Leonard's co-authors include Reuben S. Harris, Nuri A. Temiz, Michael B. Burns, William L. Brown, Emily K. Law, Douglas Yee, Michael A. Carpenter, Rebecca M. McDougle, Anurag S. Rathore and Lela Lackey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Brandon Leonard

22 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

APOBEC3B is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast cancer

2013 639 citations Michael B. Burns, Lela Lackey et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brandon Leonard United States	13	1.0k	451	445	276	231	24	1.5k
Emily K. Law United States	16	1.2k 1.2×	490 1.1×	417 0.9×	333 1.2×	255 1.1×	20	1.7k
Rebecca M. McDougle United States	7	638 0.6×	272 0.6×	215 0.5×	194 0.7×	158 0.7×	8	949
Xue F. Huang United States	20	710 0.7×	381 0.8×	587 1.3×	105 0.4×	781 3.4×	34	1.6k
Silvia Behnke Switzerland	17	508 0.5×	160 0.4×	251 0.6×	124 0.4×	364 1.6×	24	1.2k
Niklas Feldhahn United States	21	1.2k 1.2×	179 0.4×	522 1.2×	211 0.8×	642 2.8×	41	2.1k
Akihiko Yokoyama Japan	23	2.4k 2.3×	144 0.3×	493 1.1×	429 1.6×	236 1.0×	62	3.2k
Sara R. Selitsky United States	21	937 0.9×	528 1.2×	557 1.3×	136 0.5×	470 2.0×	45	1.9k
Dorothy L. Buchhagen United States	17	702 0.7×	237 0.5×	643 1.4×	244 0.9×	156 0.7×	26	1.4k
Jean‐Marc Limacher France	19	583 0.6×	155 0.3×	767 1.7×	159 0.6×	482 2.1×	44	1.4k
Peer Papior Germany	7	609 0.6×	145 0.3×	412 0.9×	458 1.7×	294 1.3×	7	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Brandon Leonard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brandon Leonard

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leonard, Brandon, et al.. (2025). Eliminating Cost Barriers to Lung Cancer Screening Through State Level Policy. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 22(12). 1567–1568.

Shatz-Binder, Whitney, Caleigh M. Azumaya, Brandon Leonard, et al.. (2024). Adapting Ferritin, a Naturally Occurring Protein Cage, to Modulate Intrinsic Agonism of OX40. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 35(5). 593–603. 1 indexed citations

Romei, Matthew G., Brandon Leonard, Zachary Katz, et al.. (2024). i-shaped antibody engineering enables conformational tuning of biotherapeutic receptor agonists. Nature Communications. 15(1). 642–642. 11 indexed citations

Romei, Matthew G., et al.. (2023). Antibody-guided proteases enable selective and catalytic degradation of challenging therapeutic targets. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(5). 104685–104685. 4 indexed citations

Romei, Matthew G., Kannan Sankar, Lipika R. Pal, et al.. (2022). Antibody interfaces revealed through structural mining. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 20. 4952–4968. 4 indexed citations

Leonard, Brandon, Kannan Sankar, Matthew G. Romei, et al.. (2022). Antibody homotypic interactions are encoded by germline light chain complementarity determining region 2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2201562119–e2201562119. 4 indexed citations

Humtsoe, Joseph O., Brandon Leonard, Shizhang Ling, et al.. (2021). Newly Identified Members of FGFR1 Splice Variants Engage in Cross-talk with AXL/AKT Axis in Salivary Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 81(4). 1001–1013. 15 indexed citations

Cui, Zhibin, et al.. (2021). Caspase-8 mutations associated with head and neck cancer differentially retain functional properties related to TRAIL-induced apoptosis and cytokine induction. Cell Death and Disease. 12(8). 775–775. 17 indexed citations

Darwish, Martine, Whitney Shatz-Binder, Brandon Leonard, et al.. (2020). Nanolipoprotein Particles as a Delivery Platform for Fab Based Therapeutics. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 31(8). 1995–2007. 12 indexed citations

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Leonard, Brandon, Neil E. Bhola, Hua Li, et al.. (2019). ATR inhibition sensitizes HPV− and HPV+ head and neck squamous cell carcinoma to cisplatin. Oral Oncology. 95. 35–42. 36 indexed citations

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Leonard, Brandon, Toni M. Brand, Rachel A. O’Keefe, et al.. (2018). BET Inhibition Overcomes Receptor Tyrosine Kinase–Mediated Cetuximab Resistance in HNSCC. Cancer Research. 78(15). 4331–4343. 70 indexed citations

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Leonard, Brandon & Daniel E. Johnson. (2017). Signaling by cell surface death receptors: Alterations in head and neck cancer. Advances in Biological Regulation. 67. 170–178. 19 indexed citations

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Leonard, Brandon, Gabriel J. Starrett, Matthew J. Maurer, et al.. (2016). APOBEC3G Expression Correlates with T-Cell Infiltration and Improved Clinical Outcomes in High-grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 22(18). 4746–4755. 52 indexed citations

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Law, Emily K., Anieta M. Sieuwerts, Kelly LaPara, et al.. (2016). The DNA cytosine deaminase APOBEC3B promotes tamoxifen resistance in ER-positive breast cancer. Science Advances. 2(10). e1601737–e1601737. 160 indexed citations

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Harris, Reuben S., Emily K. Law, Kelly LaPara, et al.. (2016). Abstract S4-07: Tamoxifen resistance driven by the DNA cytosine deaminase APOBEC3B in recurrent estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. Cancer Research. 76(4_Supplement). S4–7. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Dana Lee & Brandon Leonard. (2016). Neuroethics in Higher Education Policy. Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks.

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Leonard, Brandon, Jennifer L. McCann, Gabriel J. Starrett, et al.. (2015). The PKC/NF-κB Signaling Pathway Induces APOBEC3B Expression in Multiple Human Cancers. Cancer Research. 75(21). 4538–4547. 106 indexed citations

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Burns, Michael B., Lela Lackey, Michael A. Carpenter, et al.. (2013). APOBEC3B is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast cancer. Nature. 494(7437). 366–370. 639 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carpenter, Michael A., Ming Li, Anurag S. Rathore, et al.. (2012). Methylcytosine and Normal Cytosine Deamination by the Foreign DNA Restriction Enzyme APOBEC3A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(41). 34801–34808. 111 indexed citations

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Leonard, Brandon, Vikram Sharma, & Vaughn V. Smider. (2006). Co-expression of antibody fab heavy and light chain genes from separate evolved compatible replicons in E. coli. Journal of Immunological Methods. 317(1-2). 56–63. 6 indexed citations

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