Ellen Poon

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 906 citations indexed

About

Ellen Poon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Poon has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 906 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Ellen Poon's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (13 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (8 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (7 papers). Ellen Poon is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (13 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (8 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (7 papers). Ellen Poon collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United States and China. Ellen Poon's co-authors include Kay E. Davies, Kam Tong Leung, Kenneth R. Boheler, Jeffrey T. Ehmsen, Emily V. Howman, Ronald A. Li, Sarah E. Newey, Adriana Blazeski, Renjun Zhu and Kevin D. Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Poon

31 papers receiving 897 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.

Mitochondrial-Targeted Therapy for Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ellen Poon Hong Kong	18	602	222	174	172	159	32	906
Nina D. Ullrich Germany	19	746 1.2×	335 1.5×	216 1.2×	176 1.0×	141 0.9×	47	1.3k
Suet Yen Chong Singapore	17	500 0.8×	133 0.6×	217 1.2×	111 0.6×	155 1.0×	33	1.1k
Mark Y. Jeong United States	16	754 1.3×	307 1.4×	85 0.5×	215 1.3×	79 0.5×	23	1.1k
Yanzhen Li China	14	658 1.1×	145 0.7×	86 0.5×	382 2.2×	304 1.9×	36	1.2k
Lukas Cyganek Germany	18	685 1.1×	462 2.1×	245 1.4×	194 1.1×	156 1.0×	54	1.1k
Vladimír Rotrekl Czechia	17	421 0.7×	123 0.6×	141 0.8×	85 0.5×	139 0.9×	45	718
Chi Keung Lam United States	19	993 1.6×	633 2.9×	189 1.1×	158 0.9×	131 0.8×	34	1.4k
Zoltán Szabó Finland	16	331 0.5×	231 1.0×	83 0.5×	189 1.1×	56 0.4×	34	729
Arpana Sali United States	14	691 1.1×	163 0.7×	78 0.4×	78 0.5×	77 0.5×	19	807
Birgit Geertz Germany	18	680 1.1×	637 2.9×	78 0.4×	277 1.6×	109 0.7×	35	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Poon

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Yan, Bryan P., et al.. (2025). Cardiovascular Safety of COVID-19 Treatments: A Disproportionality Analysis of Adverse Event Reports from the WHO VigiBase. Infectious Diseases and Therapy. 14(10). 2445–2463. 1 indexed citations

Fang, Meng, Alejandro Hidalgo, Anna Walentinsson, et al.. (2025). Matured hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes possess dematuration plasticity. PubMed. 12. 100295–100295. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Stanley Chun Ming, Asif Javed, Kenneth R. Boheler, et al.. (2023). Adipose tissue-derived human mesenchymal stromal cells can better suppress complement lysis, engraft and inhibit acute graft-versus-host disease in mice. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 14(1). 167–167. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Han, Kathy Yuen Yee Chan, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2023). The Topoisomerase-I Inhibitor Gimatecan Exhibits Potent and Selective Activities Against B-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with a Favorable Cardiotoxicity Profile. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 4252–4252. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shumin, Bin Yan, Binbin Wu, et al.. (2023). Integrated modeling framework reveals co-regulation of transcription factors, miRNAs and lncRNAs on cardiac developmental dynamics. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 14(1). 247–247. 5 indexed citations

Deng, Ruixia, Bin Yan, Carrie B. Lee, et al.. (2022). Temporal Control of the WNT Signaling Pathway During Cardiac Differentiation Impacts Upon the Maturation State of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 714008–714008. 7 indexed citations

Poon, Ellen, et al.. (2021). Importance of evaluating protein glycosylation in pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for research and clinical applications. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 473(7). 1041–1059. 10 indexed citations

Boheler, Kenneth R. & Ellen Poon. (2021). Cell surface markers for immunophenotyping human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 473(7). 1023–1039. 5 indexed citations

Deng, Ruixia, Ellen Poon, Rui Liang, et al.. (2020). Generation of genomic-integration-free human induced pluripotent stem cells and the derived cardiomyocytes of X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy from DMD gene mutation. Stem Cell Research. 49. 102040–102040. 2 indexed citations

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Waas, Matthew, Marisol Romero‐Tejeda, Ellen Poon, et al.. (2019). Are These Cardiomyocytes? Protocol Development Reveals Impact of Sample Preparation on the Accuracy of Identifying Cardiomyocytes by Flow Cytometry. Stem Cell Reports. 12(2). 395–410. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiaxian, Chang Cui, Haiyan Nan, et al.. (2017). Graphene Sheet-Induced Global Maturation of Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(31). 25929–25940. 56 indexed citations

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Chen, Yin, Lü Huang, Xin Dai, et al.. (2017). Facile formation of a microporous chitosan hydrogel based on self-crosslinking. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 5(47). 9291–9299. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shaohong, Ellen Poon, Dongqing Xie, et al.. (2015). Consensus Comparative Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0125442–e0125442.

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Poon, Ellen, Bin Yan, Shaohong Zhang, et al.. (2013). Transcriptome-Guided Functional Analyses Reveal Novel Biological Properties and Regulatory Hierarchy of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Ventricular Cardiomyocytes Crucial for Maturation. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e77784–e77784. 31 indexed citations

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Poon, Ellen, Chi‐Wing Kong, & Ronald A. Li. (2011). Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Approaches for Myocardial Repair: From the Electrophysiological Perspective. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 8(5). 1495–1504. 43 indexed citations

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McCullagh, Karl J. A., Benjamin Edwards, Ellen Poon, et al.. (2007). Intermediate filament-like protein syncoilin in normal and myopathic striated muscle. Neuromuscular Disorders. 17(11-12). 970–979. 19 indexed citations

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Brown, S., Silvia Torelli, I. Ugo, et al.. (2005). Syncoilin upregulation in muscle of patients with neuromuscular disease. Muscle & Nerve. 32(6). 715–725. 18 indexed citations

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Howman, Emily V., et al.. (2002). Syncoilin accumulation in two patients with desmin-related myopathy. Neuromuscular Disorders. 13(1). 42–48. 25 indexed citations

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Poon, Ellen, Emily V. Howman, Sarah E. Newey, & Kay E. Davies. (2002). Association of Syncoilin and Desmin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(5). 3433–3439. 67 indexed citations

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Ehmsen, Jeffrey T., Ellen Poon, & Kay E. Davies. (2002). The dystrophin-associated protein complex. Journal of Cell Science. 115(14). 2801–2803. 112 indexed citations

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