Donald E. Ingber

120.4k total citations · 57 hit papers
454 papers, 88.9k citations indexed

About

Donald E. Ingber is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald E. Ingber has authored 454 papers receiving a total of 88.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 155 papers in Cell Biology and 131 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Donald E. Ingber's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (145 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (138 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (66 papers). Donald E. Ingber is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (145 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (138 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (66 papers). Donald E. Ingber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Donald E. Ingber's co-authors include Sui Huang, George M. Whitesides, Christopher S. Chen, Ning Wang, Dongeun Huh, Akiko Mammoto, Geraldine A. Hamilton, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Hyun Jung Kim and Milan Mrksich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Donald E. Ingber

445 papers receiving 86.7k citations

Hit Papers

Geometric Control of Cell Life and Death 1988 2026 2000 2013 1997 2010 2014 1993 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Geometric Control of Cell Life and Death
    1997 3.8k citations George M. Whitesides, Donald E. Ingber et al. Science profile →
  2. Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip
    2010 3.0k citations Dongeun Huh, Benjamin D. Matthews et al. Science profile →
  3. Microfluidic organs-on-chips
    2014 2.4k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  4. Mechanotransduction Across the Cell Surface and Through the Cytoskeleton
    1993 2.3k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. Science profile →
  5. Soft Lithography in Biology and Biochemistry
    2001 2.1k citations George M. Whitesides, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  6. Polycystins 1 and 2 mediate mechanosensation in the primary cilium of kidney cells
    2003 1.6k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  7. Induction of angiogenesis during the transition from hyperplasia to neoplasia
    1989 1.6k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  8. From 3D cell culture to organs-on-chips
    2011 1.4k citations Dongeun Huh, Geraldine A. Hamilton et al. profile →
  9. Mechanotransduction at a distance: mechanically coupling the extracellular matrix with the nucleus
    2008 1.3k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  10. Human gut-on-a-chip inhabited by microbial flora that experiences intestinal peristalsis-like motions and flow
    2012 1.3k citations Hyun Jung Kim, Dongeun Huh et al. profile →
  11. Demonstration of mechanical connections between integrins, cytoskeletal filaments, and nucleoplasm that stabilize nuclear structure
    1997 1.3k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. TENSEGRITY: THE ARCHITECTURAL BASIS OF CELLULAR MECHANOTRANSDUCTION
    1997 1.2k citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  13. Engineering Cell Shape and Function
    1994 1.2k citations George M. Whitesides, Donald E. Ingber et al. Science profile →
  14. Cellular mechanotransduction: putting all the pieces together again
    2006 1.2k citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  15. Synthetic analogues of fumagillin that inhibit angiogenesis and suppress tumour growth
    1990 1.1k citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  16. Tensegrity I. Cell structure and hierarchical systems biology
    2003 946 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  17. Cellular tensegrity: defining new rules of biological design that govern the cytoskeleton
    1993 885 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  18. Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine
    2022 845 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  19. Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells
    2008 838 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  20. A Human Disease Model of Drug Toxicity–Induced Pulmonary Edema in a Lung-on-a-Chip Microdevice
    2012 758 citations Dongeun Huh, Benjamin D. Matthews et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
  21. A heparin-binding angiogenic protein--basic fibroblast growth factor--is stored within basement membrane.
    1988 738 citations Michael Klagsbrun, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  22. Contributions of microbiome and mechanical deformation to intestinal bacterial overgrowth and inflammation in a human gut-on-a-chip
    2015 708 citations Hyun Jung Kim, Donald E. Ingber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. Mechanochemical switching between growth and differentiation during fibroblast growth factor-stimulated angiogenesis in vitro: role of extracellular matrix.
    1989 690 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  24. Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips
    2019 664 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  25. Mechanical control of tissue and organ development
    2010 654 citations Tadanori Mammoto, Donald E. Ingber profile →
  26. Human kidney proximal tubule-on-a-chip for drug transport and nephrotoxicity assessment
    2013 623 citations Geraldine A. Hamilton, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  27. Tensegrity II. How structural networks influence cellular information processing networks
    2003 619 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  28. The structural and mechanical complexity of cell-growth control
    1999 618 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  29. A complex human gut microbiome cultured in an anaerobic intestine-on-a-chip
    2019 601 citations Sasan Jalili‐Firoozinezhad, David T. Breault et al. profile →
  30. Mechanobiology and diseases of mechanotransduction
    2003 598 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  31. Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation and drug responses in vitro
    2015 585 citations Kambez H. Benam, Rémi Villenave et al. Nature Methods profile →
  32. Gut-on-a-Chip microenvironment induces human intestinal cells to undergo villus differentiation
    2013 571 citations Hyun Jung Kim, Donald E. Ingber profile →
  33. Micropatterned Surfaces for Control of Cell Shape, Position, and Function
    1998 566 citations George M. Whitesides, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  34. Mechanical behavior in living cells consistent with the tensegrity model
    2001 556 citations Thomas R. Polte, Donald E. Ingber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  35. Development of a primary human Small Intestine-on-a-Chip using biopsy-derived organoids
    2018 549 citations Sasan Jalili‐Firoozinezhad, David T. Breault et al. profile →
  36. Integrins as mechanochemical transducers
    1991 542 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  37. Microtubules can bear enhanced compressive loads in living cells because of lateral reinforcement
    2006 531 citations Sanjay Kumar, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  38. Microfabrication of human organs-on-chips
    2013 528 citations Dongeun Huh, Hyun Jung Kim et al. profile →
  39. Cell Fates as High-Dimensional Attractor States of a Complex Gene Regulatory Network
    2005 515 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  40. Viscoelastic Retraction of Single Living Stress Fibers and Its Impact on Cell Shape, Cytoskeletal Organization, and Extracellular Matrix Mechanics
    2006 514 citations Sanjay Kumar, Thomas R. Polte et al. profile →
  41. Vacuum-Assisted Closure: Microdeformations of Wounds and Cell Proliferation
    2004 509 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  42. Microengineered physiological biomimicry: Organs-on-Chips
    2012 505 citations Dongeun Huh, Geraldine A. Hamilton et al. profile →
  43. Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies
    2019 452 citations Nur Mustafaoğlu, Rachelle Prantil‐Baun et al. profile →
  44. Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Breach the Intact Blood–Brain Barrier via Transcytosis
    2019 450 citations Nur Mustafaoğlu, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  45. Preparation of poly(glycolic acid) bonded fiber structures for cell attachment and transplantation
    1993 450 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  46. Matrix elasticity of void-forming hydrogels controls transplanted-stem-cell-mediated bone formation
    2015 447 citations Akiko Mammoto, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  47. Microfluidic Organ-on-a-Chip Models of Human Intestine
    2018 437 citations Sasan Jalili‐Firoozinezhad, Hyun Jung Kim et al. profile →
  48. Shear-Activated Nanotherapeutics for Drug Targeting to Obstructed Blood Vessels
    2012 416 citations Netanel Korin, Benjamin D. Matthews et al. Science profile →
  49. Engineered In Vitro Disease Models
    2015 414 citations Kambez H. Benam, Abhishek Jain et al. profile →
  50. Distinct Contributions of Astrocytes and Pericytes to Neuroinflammation Identified in a 3D Human Blood-Brain Barrier on a Chip
    2016 383 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  51. Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip
    2017 379 citations Akiko Mammoto, Thomas C. Ferrante et al. profile →
  52. An antifouling coating that enables affinity-based electrochemical biosensing in complex biological fluids
    2019 367 citations Pawan Jolly, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  53. Bone marrow–on–a–chip replicates hematopoietic niche physiology in vitro
    2014 354 citations Tadanori Mammoto, Akiko Mammoto et al. Nature Methods profile →
  54. Tensegrity, cellular biophysics, and the mechanics of living systems
    2014 334 citations Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
  55. Is it Time for Reviewer 3 to Request Human Organ Chip Experiments Instead of Animal Validation Studies?
    2020 198 citations Donald E. Ingber profile →
  56. A lab-on-a-chip for the concurrent electrochemical detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in saliva and plasma
    2022 196 citations Joshua Rainbow, Pawan Jolly et al. profile →
  57. Mechanical control of innate immune responses against viral infection revealed in a human lung alveolus chip
    2022 107 citations Amanda Jiang, Yunhao Zhai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald E. Ingber United States 155 40.4k 29.0k 26.6k 8.7k 7.5k 454 88.9k
Kevin W. Eliceiri United States 67 15.9k 0.4× 42.0k 1.4× 14.6k 0.6× 8.6k 1.0× 5.3k 0.7× 313 120.9k
Christopher S. Chen United States 111 27.4k 0.7× 13.7k 0.5× 22.0k 0.8× 4.2k 0.5× 6.0k 0.8× 403 51.5k
Kenneth M. Yamada United States 140 10.0k 0.2× 28.8k 1.0× 25.4k 1.0× 8.3k 0.9× 5.0k 0.7× 701 71.9k
Dennis E. Discher United States 95 21.0k 0.5× 18.3k 0.6× 18.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.4× 5.6k 0.7× 317 58.5k
Erkki Ruoslahti United States 152 12.2k 0.3× 43.8k 1.5× 18.7k 0.7× 11.0k 1.3× 5.0k 0.7× 466 91.3k
David Mooney United States 152 51.4k 1.3× 19.3k 0.7× 11.8k 0.4× 6.4k 0.7× 18.7k 2.5× 656 102.1k
Rakesh K. Jain United States 170 37.4k 0.9× 56.7k 2.0× 9.6k 0.4× 34.7k 4.0× 7.7k 1.0× 862 134.8k
Paul A. Janmey United States 105 14.2k 0.4× 14.1k 0.5× 24.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.3× 3.1k 0.4× 430 47.0k
Valerie M. Weaver United States 77 11.0k 0.3× 12.4k 0.4× 15.6k 0.6× 11.1k 1.3× 2.8k 0.4× 184 36.6k
Benjamin Geiger Israel 102 7.4k 0.2× 18.8k 0.6× 23.8k 0.9× 3.7k 0.4× 2.4k 0.3× 342 43.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jolly, Pawan, Nandhinee Radha Shanmugam, Badrinath Jagannath, et al.. (2025). An Antimicrobial and Antifibrotic Coating for Implantable Biosensors. Biosensors. 15(3). 171–171. 5 indexed citations
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Shanmugam, Nandhinee Radha, Joshua Rainbow, Jeong‐Chan Lee, Pawan Jolly, & Donald E. Ingber. (2025). Label‐Free Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Biosensing: Evolving Interfaces and Mechanistic Insights. Small Science. 5(12). e202500380–e202500380.
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Özkan, Aliçan, Nina LoGrande, Viktor Horváth, et al.. (2024). 458 MICROBIOME-MODULATED ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME IN HUMAN INTESTINE ORGAN CHIPS. Gastroenterology. 166(5). S–101. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Seongmin, Viktor Horváth, Abidemi Junaid, et al.. (2023). Direct therapeutic effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on nutritional deficiency-induced enteric dysfunction in a human Intestine Chip. EBioMedicine. 99. 104921–104921. 12 indexed citations
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Sahtoe, Danny D., Adrian Coscia, Nur Mustafaoğlu, et al.. (2021). Transferrin receptor targeting by de novo sheet extension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 26 indexed citations
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Papa, Anne‐Laure, Amanda Jiang, Netanel Korin, et al.. (2019). Platelet decoys inhibit thrombosis and prevent metastatic tumor formation in preclinical models. Science Translational Medicine. 11(479). 64 indexed citations
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Ingber, Donald E., et al.. (2018). Multi-scale modeling reveals use of hierarchical tensegrity principles at the molecular, multi-molecular, and cellular levels. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 20. 21–28. 19 indexed citations
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Jalili‐Firoozinezhad, Sasan, Rachelle Prantil‐Baun, Amanda Jiang, et al.. (2018). Modeling radiation injury-induced cell death and countermeasure drug responses in a human Gut-on-a-Chip. Cell Death and Disease. 9(2). 223–223. 157 indexed citations
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Ingber, Donald E., et al.. (2017). The Wyss institute: A new model for medical technology innovation and translation across the academic‐industrial interface. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 2(3). 247–257. 15 indexed citations
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Hotaling, Nathan, et al.. (2016). Tissue Engineered Human Blood-Retinal Barrier-on-a-Chip. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 57(12). 5325–5325. 1 indexed citations
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Fernandez, Javier G., et al.. (2016). Direct Bonding of Chitosan Biomaterials to Tissues Using Transglutaminase for Surgical Repair or Device Implantation. Tissue Engineering Part A. 23(3-4). 135–142. 19 indexed citations
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Benam, Kambez H., Rémi Villenave, Carolina Lucchesi, et al.. (2015). Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation and drug responses in vitro. Nature Methods. 13(2). 151–157. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Polacheck, William J., et al.. (2014). Mechanotransduction of fluid stresses governs 3D cell migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(7). 2447–2452. 206 indexed citations
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Huh, Dongeun, et al.. (2010). Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip. Science. 328(5986). 1662–1668. 3044 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yingjie, Tarek A. Bismar, Jie Su, et al.. (2010). Filamin A regulates focal adhesion disassembly and suppresses breast cancer cell migration and invasion. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 207(11). 2421–2437. 143 indexed citations
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Thodeti, Charles K., Benjamin Matthews, Arvind Ravi, et al.. (2009). TRPV4 Channels Mediate Cyclic Strain–Induced Endothelial Cell Reorientation Through Integrin-to-Integrin Signaling. Circulation Research. 104(9). 1123–1130. 303 indexed citations
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Derda, Ratmir, Anna Laromaine, Akiko Mammoto, et al.. (2009). Paper-supported 3D cell culture for tissue-based bioassays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(44). 18457–18462. 347 indexed citations
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Fredenburgh, Laura E., Olin D. Liang, Alvaro A. Macias, et al.. (2008). Absence of Cyclooxygenase-2 Exacerbates Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Enhances Contractility of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Circulation. 117(16). 2114–2122. 67 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Kaustabh, Charles K. Thodeti, Andrew C. Dudley, et al.. (2008). Tumor-derived endothelial cells exhibit aberrant Rho-mediated mechanosensing and abnormal angiogenesis in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(32). 11305–11310. 148 indexed citations
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Luo, Yaozhi, et al.. (2008). A multi-modular tensegrity model of an actin stress fiber. Journal of Biomechanics. 41(11). 2379–2387. 81 indexed citations

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