David Chisanga

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

David Chisanga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Chisanga has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in David Chisanga's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). David Chisanga is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). David Chisanga collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and South Africa. David Chisanga's co-authors include Suresh Mathivanan, Shivakumar Keerthikumar, Monisha Samuel, Markandeya Jois, Sushma Anand, Lahiru Gangoda, Haidar Al Saffar, Kening Zhao, Naveen Chilamkurti and Dinuka Ariyaratne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

David Chisanga

18 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

ExoCarta: A Web-Based Compendium of Exosomal Cargo

2015 1.1k citations Shivakumar Keerthikumar, David Chisanga et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

Peers

David Chisanga

IMMUN

ONCOL

Yufeng Xie China

Ming Wang China

Myoungjoo V. Kim United States

Eva Wieckowski United States

Patricia Simms United States

Ulf Gehrmann Sweden

Catrina C. Fronick United States

H. Navabi United Kingdom

Katie Teng Canada

Monisha Samuel Australia

Yufeng Xie China

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Countries citing papers authored by David Chisanga

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Chisanga

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Chisanga

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

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Gatwiri, Kathomi, Lillian Mwanri, Agness Tembo, et al.. (2025). Christianity as coping mechanisms for migrants with mental health challenges in Australia: social work implications. Journal of Social Work Practice. 40(1). 33–48.

Tembo, Agness, Kathomi Gatwiri, Lillian Mwanri, et al.. (2025). The Role of Stigma in Help‐Seeking Strategies Among African Migrants in Australia: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 34(3). e70071–e70071.

Gatwiri, Kathomi, Lillian Mwanri, Agness Tembo, et al.. (2025). Exploring the barriers to mental health help-seeking among African Migrants in Australia: A qualitative study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 71(6). 1100–1113.

Chisanga, David, Ahmed A. Moustafa, Agness Tembo, et al.. (2024). Mental health and mental health help-seeking behaviors among first-generation voluntary African migrants: A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0298634–e0298634. 4 indexed citations

Djajawi, Tirta M., Lizzy Pijpers, David Chisanga, et al.. (2024). PRMT1 acts as a suppressor of MHC-I and anti-tumor immunity. Cell Reports. 43(3). 113831–113831. 13 indexed citations

Chisanga, David, Wei Shi, Shoukat Afshar‐Sterle, et al.. (2023). A tuft cell - ILC2 signaling circuit provides therapeutic targets to inhibit gastric metaplasia and tumor development. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6872–6872. 15 indexed citations

To, Sarah Q., David Chisanga, Moritz F. Eissmann, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms of cellular crosstalk in the gastric tumor microenvironment are mediated by YAP1 and STAT3. Life Science Alliance. 7(2). e202302411–e202302411. 2 indexed citations

Luk, Ian Y., David Chisanga, Wei Shi, et al.. (2022). IL-36G promotes cancer-cell intrinsic hallmarks in human gastric cancer cells. Cytokine. 155. 155887–155887. 9 indexed citations

Chisanga, David, Yang Liao, & Wei Shi. (2022). Impact of gene annotation choice on the quantification of RNA-seq data. BMC Bioinformatics. 23(1). 107–107. 11 indexed citations

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Poh, Ashleigh R., Megan A. O’Brien, David Chisanga, et al.. (2022). Inhibition of HCK in myeloid cells restricts pancreatic tumor growth and metastasis. Cell Reports. 41(2). 111479–111479. 11 indexed citations

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Huynh, Jennifer, David Chisanga, Wei Shi, et al.. (2021). Host IL11 Signaling Suppresses CD4+ T cell–Mediated Antitumor Responses to Colon Cancer in Mice. Cancer Immunology Research. 9(7). 735–747. 29 indexed citations

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Gabriel, Sarah S., Carlson Tsui, David Chisanga, et al.. (2021). Transforming growth factor-β-regulated mTOR activity preserves cellular metabolism to maintain long-term T cell responses in chronic infection. Immunity. 54(8). 1698–1714.e5. 110 indexed citations

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Utzschneider, Daniel T., Sarah S. Gabriel, David Chisanga, et al.. (2020). Early precursor T cells establish and propagate T cell exhaustion in chronic infection. Nature Immunology. 21(10). 1256–1266. 169 indexed citations

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Sidwell, Tom, Yang Liao, Alexandra L. Garnham, et al.. (2020). Attenuation of TCR-induced transcription by Bach2 controls regulatory T cell differentiation and homeostasis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 252–252. 63 indexed citations

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Zhao, Kening, Mark R. Bleackley, David Chisanga, et al.. (2019). Extracellular vesicles secreted by Saccharomyces cerevisiae are involved in cell wall remodelling. Communications Biology. 2(1). 305–305. 107 indexed citations

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Muscat, Andrea, David M. Ashley, Violet Mukaro, et al.. (2019). Tailored NEOadjuvant epirubicin, cyclophosphamide and Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound paclitaxel for breast cancer: The phase II NEONAB trial—Clinical outcomes and molecular determinants of response. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0210891–e0210891. 14 indexed citations

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Chisanga, David, Shivakumar Keerthikumar, Suresh Mathivanan, & Naveen Chilamkurti. (2018). Integration of heterogeneous ‘omics’ data using semi-supervised network labelling to identify essential genes in colorectal cancer. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 67. 267–277. 2 indexed citations

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Chisanga, David, Shivakumar Keerthikumar, Suresh Mathivanan, & Naveen Chilamkurti. (2016). Network Tools for the Analysis of Proteomic Data. Methods in molecular biology. 1549. 177–197. 8 indexed citations

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Keerthikumar, Shivakumar, David Chisanga, Dinuka Ariyaratne, et al.. (2015). ExoCarta: A Web-Based Compendium of Exosomal Cargo. Journal of Molecular Biology. 428(4). 688–692. 1117 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chisanga, David, Shivakumar Keerthikumar, Mohashin Pathan, et al.. (2015). Colorectal cancer atlas: An integrative resource for genomic and proteomic annotations from colorectal cancer cell lines and tissues. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D969–D974. 43 indexed citations

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