Brian Lam

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Brian Lam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Lam has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Brian Lam's work include Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (16 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (10 papers). Brian Lam is often cited by papers focused on Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (16 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (10 papers). Brian Lam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Brian Lam's co-authors include Giles S.H. Yeo, Shana O. Kelley, Edward H. Sargent, Fiona M. Gribble, Frank Reimann, Curtis P. Berlinguette, Alice E. Adriaenssens, Joseph Polex-Wolf, Zhichao Fang and John M. Luk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Brian Lam

95 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor-Expressing Cells in the Hypothalamus Regulate Food Intake

2019 237 citations John A. Tadross, Joseph Polex-Wolf et al. profile →
A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

2025 29 citations John A. Tadross, Katherine A. Kentistou et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Lam

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effects of Rare Coding Variants in Severe Early-Onset Obesity Genes in the Population-Based UK Biobank Study 2025 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·(unknown), Sam Lockhart, Brian Lam, Yajie Zhao, Katherine A. Kentistou, Eugene J. Gardner, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Stephen O’Rahilly, Felix R. Day, Ken K. Ong, John R. B. Perry	2
2	Rare Variants in HTRA1, SGTB, and RBM12 Confer Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Independent of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors 2025 ·Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine ·Sam Lockhart, (unknown), Yajie Zhao, Vladimı́r Saudek, Eugene J. Gardner, Katherine A. Kentistou, Brian Lam, Felix R. Day, Stephen O’Rahilly, John R. B. Perry, Ken K. Ong, Meredith E. Jackrel	0
3	Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Indicates Causal Relationships Between Circulating Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Metabolic Health 2025 ·Diabetes ·(unknown), Jianhua Chen, Sam Lockhart, Brian Lam, Katherine A. Kentistou, Yajie Zhao, Eugene J. Gardner, John R. B. Perry, Stephen O’Rahilly, Felix R. Day, Ken K. Ong	0
4	Comparative proteomics of a versatile, marine, iron‐oxidizing chemolithoautotroph 2024 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Roman A. Barco, Nancy Merino, Brian Lam, Bogdan Budnik, (unknown), Fan Wu, Jan P. Amend, Kenneth H. Nealson, David Emerson	2
5	A program of successive gene expression in mouse one-cell embryos 2023 ·Cell Reports ·Maki Asami, Brian Lam, Martin Hoffmann, Toru Suzuki, Xin Lü, Naoko Yoshida, Marcella Ma, Kara Rainbow, Miodrag Gužvić, Matthew VerMilyea, Giles S.H. Yeo, Christoph Klein, Anthony C.F. Perry	14
6	The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus 2023 ·Evolution ·(unknown), Edward D. Burress, Brian Lam, Peter C. Wainwright	6
7	Dax1 modulates ERα-dependent hypothalamic estrogen sensing in female mice 2023 ·Nature Communications ·José M. Ramos Pittol, (unknown), Alexandra Milona, (unknown), Kara Rainbow, Brian Lam, John A. Tadross, Anthony Beucher, William H Colledge, Inês Cebola, Kevin G. Murphy, Irene Miguel‐Aliaga, Giles S.H. Yeo, Waljit S. Dhillo, Bryn M. Owen	5
8	Sulfuric Acid Electrolyte Impacts Palladium Chemistry at Reductive Potentials 2020 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Marta Moreno-González, Aoxue Huang, Phil A. Schauer, (unknown), Brian Lam, James W. Grayson, (unknown), David Dvořák, D. K. Fork, Curtis P. Berlinguette	8
9	Mesenchyme-derived IGF2 is a major paracrine regulator of pancreatic growth and function 2020 ·PLoS Genetics ·(unknown), Ionel Sandovici, Gemma V. Brierley, Nicola M. Smith, Warren E. Zimmer, Ilona Zvetkova, Haydn M. Prosser, Yoichi Sekita, Brian Lam, Marcella Ma, Wendy N. Cooper, Antonio Vidal‐Puig, Susan E. Ozanne, Gema Medina‐Gómez, Miguel Constância	13
10	Ligands Affect Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption by Palladium Nanoparticles 2019 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Noah J. J. Johnson, Brian Lam, Rebecca S. Sherbo, D. K. Fork, Curtis P. Berlinguette	23
11	Calorimetry under non-ideal conditions using system identification 2019 ·Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry ·Benjamin P. MacLeod, D. K. Fork, Brian Lam, Curtis P. Berlinguette	2
12	Facets and vertices regulate hydrogen uptake and release in palladium nanocrystals 2019 ·Nature Materials ·Noah J. J. Johnson, Brian Lam, Benjamin P. MacLeod, Rebecca S. Sherbo, Marta Moreno-González, D. K. Fork, Curtis P. Berlinguette	120
13	Dopant-free molecular hole transport material that mediates a 20% power conversion efficiency in a perovskite solar cell 2019 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Yang Cao, Yunlong Li, (unknown), Brian Lam, Brian O. Patrick, David Dvořák, Zhicheng Xia, Timothy L. Kelly, Curtis P. Berlinguette	100
14	Kinetic phases of Ag–Cu alloy films are accessible through photodeposition 2018 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Kevan E. Dettelbach, Jingfu He, Noah J. J. Johnson, Aoxue Huang, (unknown), Brian Lam, Danielle A. Salvatore, Curtis P. Berlinguette	14
15	Obesity-associated gene TMEM18 has a role in the central control of appetite and body weight regulation 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Rachel Larder, (unknown), Pawan Gulati, Robin Antrobus, Y.C. Loraine Tung, Debra Rimmington, Eduard Ayuso, Joseph Polex-Wolf, Brian Lam, Cristina Dias, Darren W. Logan, Sam Virtue, Fátima Bosch, Giles S.H. Yeo, Vladimı́r Saudek, Stephen O’Rahilly, Anthony P. Coll	49
16	Comparative analysis of triarylamine and phenothiazine sensitizer donor units in dye-sensitized solar cells 2017 ·Chemical Communications ·(unknown), Brian Lam, Chuan Du, Curtis P. Berlinguette	25
17	On how electron density affects the redox stability of phenothiazine sensitizers on semiconducting surfaces 2017 ·Chemical Communications ·(unknown), Brian Lam, Chuan Du, Curtis P. Berlinguette	9
18	TCR usage, gene expression and function of two distinct FOXP3⁺Treg subsets within CD4⁺CD25^hi T cells identified by expression of CD39 and CD45RO 2015 ·Immunology and Cell Biology ·Lingying Ye, Jane Goodall, Libin Zhang, Ekaterina V. Putintseva, Brian Lam, Lei Jiang, Wei Liu, Jian Yin, Li Lin, Ting Li, Xinyu Wu, Giles S.H. Yeo, Mikhail Shugay, Dmitriy M. Chudakov, Hill Gaston, Huji Xu	18
19	Programmable definition of nanogap electronic devices using self-inhibited reagent depletion 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Brian Lam, Wendi Zhou, Shana O. Kelley, Edward H. Sargent	20
20	A yang‐promoting Chinese herbal suppository preparation enhances the antioxidant status of red cells in male human subjects 2004 ·Phytotherapy Research ·Duncan H. Mak, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian Lam, Yu Du, (unknown)	11

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