Darin Zerti

1.7k total citations
22 papers, 786 citations indexed

About

Darin Zerti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Darin Zerti has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 786 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Ophthalmology and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Darin Zerti's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (16 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (5 papers). Darin Zerti is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (16 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (5 papers). Darin Zerti collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Darin Zerti's co-authors include Majlinda Lako, Joseph Collin, Birthe Dorgau, Rachel Queen, Majed Felemban, Jonathan Coxhead, Rafiqul Hussain, David Steel, Dean Hallam and Evelyne Sernagor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Darin Zerti

21 papers receiving 778 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Darin Zerti United Kingdom	16	582	267	214	122	57	22	786
Birthe Dorgau United Kingdom	20	920 1.6×	297 1.1×	383 1.8×	149 1.2×	85 1.5×	33	1.1k
Xitiz Chamling United States	15	761 1.3×	148 0.6×	285 1.3×	110 0.9×	71 1.2×	23	973
Sarah Decembrini Switzerland	14	621 1.1×	152 0.6×	238 1.1×	98 0.8×	42 0.7×	18	777
Conor M. Ramsden United Kingdom	11	712 1.2×	271 1.0×	227 1.1×	187 1.5×	61 1.1×	23	842
Shweta Singhal United Kingdom	13	657 1.1×	220 0.8×	256 1.2×	210 1.7×	20 0.4×	25	810
Umberto Di Vicino Italy	16	779 1.3×	153 0.6×	189 0.9×	75 0.6×	23 0.4×	22	949
Christine N. Kay United States	13	871 1.5×	504 1.9×	131 0.6×	212 1.7×	39 0.7×	45	1.2k
Caihui Jiang China	16	735 1.3×	445 1.7×	284 1.3×	303 2.5×	66 1.2×	23	1.1k
Amelia Lane United Kingdom	13	820 1.4×	172 0.6×	219 1.0×	85 0.7×	51 0.9×	19	871
Akshayalakshmi Sridhar United States	12	670 1.2×	115 0.4×	266 1.2×	91 0.7×	74 1.3×	14	743

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Gregorio, Jacopo Di, et al.. (2025). Hormetic Effects of Curcumin in RPE Cells: SIRT1 and Caspase-3 Inactivation with Implications for AMD. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(17). 8555–8555.

Queen, Rachel, Luis Ferrández-Peral, Birthe Dorgau, et al.. (2025). Unravelling genotype-phenotype correlations in Stargardt disease using patient-derived retinal organoids. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 108–108. 3 indexed citations

Dorgau, Birthe, Joseph Collin, Agata Rozanska, et al.. (2024). Single-cell analyses reveal transient retinal progenitor cells in the ciliary margin of developing human retina. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3567–3567. 16 indexed citations

Collin, Joseph, Darin Zerti, Birthe Dorgau, et al.. (2023). Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals transcriptional changes of human choroidal and retinal pigment epithelium cells during fetal development, in healthy adult and intermediate age-related macular degeneration. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(10). 1698–1710. 19 indexed citations

Zerti, Darin, et al.. (2023). An overview of retinal light damage models for preclinical studies on age-related macular degeneration: identifying molecular hallmarks and therapeutic targets. Reviews in the Neurosciences. 35(3). 303–330. 12 indexed citations

Rozanska, Agata, Rachel Queen, Joseph Collin, et al.. (2022). pRB-Depleted Pluripotent Stem Cell Retinal Organoids Recapitulate Cell State Transitions of Retinoblastoma Development and Suggest an Important Role for pRB in Retinal Cell Differentiation. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. 11(4). 415–433. 22 indexed citations

Zerti, Darin, Gerrit Hilgen, Birthe Dorgau, et al.. (2021). Transplanted Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Photoreceptor Precursors Elicit Conventional and Unusual Light Responses in Mice With Advanced Retinal Degeneration. Stem Cells. 39(7). 882–896. 39 indexed citations

Tisi, Annamaria, et al.. (2021). Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Factors' Expression in Corneal and Limbal Tissues of Adult Human Donors Aged from 58 to 85. Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 38(1). 56–65. 5 indexed citations

Collin, Joseph, Rachel Queen, Darin Zerti, et al.. (2021). Dissecting the Transcriptional and Chromatin Accessibility Heterogeneity of Proliferating Cone Precursors in Human Retinoblastoma Tumors by Single Cell Sequencing—Opening Pathways to New Therapeutic Strategies?. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 62(6). 18–18. 22 indexed citations

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Zerti, Darin, Marina Moya Molina, Birthe Dorgau, et al.. (2021). IGFBPs mediate IGF-1's functions in retinal lamination and photoreceptor development during pluripotent stem cell differentiation to retinal organoids. Stem Cells. 39(4). 458–466. 15 indexed citations

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Rozanska, Agata, Rachel Queen, Joseph Collin, et al.. (2021). RB1 Depleted Pluripotent Stem Cell Retinal Organoids Recapitulate Cell State Transitions of Retinoblastoma Development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Collin, Joseph, Rachel Queen, Darin Zerti, et al.. (2020). Co-expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the superficial adult human conjunctival, limbal and corneal epithelium suggests an additional route of entry via the ocular surface. The Ocular Surface. 19. 190–200. 101 indexed citations

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Dorgau, Birthe, Majed Felemban, Gerrit Hilgen, et al.. (2019). Decellularised extracellular matrix-derived peptides from neural retina and retinal pigment epithelium enhance the expression of synaptic markers and light responsiveness of human pluripotent stem cell derived retinal organoids. Biomaterials. 199. 63–75. 59 indexed citations

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Mellough, Carla, Joseph Collin, Rachel Queen, et al.. (2019). Systematic Comparison of Retinal Organoid Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveals Stage Specific, Cell Line, and Methodological Differences. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. 8(7). 694–706. 65 indexed citations

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Mellough, Carla, Roman Bauer, Joseph Collin, et al.. (2019). An integrated transcriptional analysis of the developing human retina. Development. 146(2). 65 indexed citations

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Zerti, Darin, Birthe Dorgau, Majed Felemban, et al.. (2019). Developing a simple method to enhance the generation of cone and rod photoreceptors in pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal organoids. Stem Cells. 38(1). 45–51. 46 indexed citations

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Chichagova, Valeria, Dean Hallam, Joseph Collin, et al.. (2018). Cellular regeneration strategies for macular degeneration: past, present and future. Eye. 32(5). 946–971. 76 indexed citations

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Felemban, Majed, Birthe Dorgau, Nicola C. Hunt, et al.. (2018). Extracellular matrix component expression in human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal organoids recapitulates retinogenesis in vivo and reveals an important role for IMPG1 and CD44 in the development of photoreceptors and interphotoreceptor matrix. Acta Biomaterialia. 74. 207–221. 38 indexed citations

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Collin, Joseph, Rachel Queen, Darin Zerti, et al.. (2018). Deconstructing Retinal Organoids: Single Cell RNA-Seq Reveals the Cellular Components of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retina. Stem Cells. 37(5). 593–598. 79 indexed citations

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Maccarone, Rita, Cinzia Rapino, Darin Zerti, et al.. (2016). Modulation of Type-1 and Type-2 Cannabinoid Receptors by Saffron in a Rat Model of Retinal Neurodegeneration. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0166827–e0166827. 35 indexed citations

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