Hanan Alwaseem

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Hanan Alwaseem is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanan Alwaseem has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hanan Alwaseem's work include RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Hanan Alwaseem is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (8 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Hanan Alwaseem collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Hanan Alwaseem's co-authors include Henrik Molina, Kıvanç Birsoy, Konnor La, Ross Weber, Mariluz Soula, Javier García‐Bermúdez, Omkar Zilka, Derek A. Pratt, Rudi Fasan and Erol C. Bayraktar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Hanan Alwaseem

26 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Metabolic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to canonical ferroptosis inducers

2020 538 citations Mariluz Soula, Ross Weber et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanan Alwaseem United States	16	753	487	480	100	84	27	1.2k
Haolong Li China	15	689 0.9×	367 0.8×	322 0.7×	184 1.8×	101 1.2×	35	1.2k
Daniel J. Fridman Canada	5	901 1.2×	869 1.8×	651 1.4×	142 1.4×	90 1.1×	9	1.3k
Robert V. Swanda United States	8	450 0.6×	427 0.9×	331 0.7×	121 1.2×	43 0.5×	9	771
Inese Smukste United States	7	999 1.3×	872 1.8×	654 1.4×	151 1.5×	73 0.9×	8	1.5k
Xiaoshan Zhang United States	18	988 1.3×	272 0.6×	336 0.7×	312 3.1×	84 1.0×	32	1.3k
Erol C. Bayraktar United States	8	1.0k 1.3×	211 0.4×	648 1.4×	182 1.8×	129 1.5×	14	1.4k
Javier García‐Bermúdez United States	12	1.3k 1.7×	613 1.3×	967 2.0×	156 1.6×	91 1.1×	15	1.8k
Xuedong Fang China	17	937 1.2×	384 0.8×	674 1.4×	257 2.6×	67 0.8×	34	1.5k
Clarissa Ribeiro Reily Rocha Brazil	21	960 1.3×	166 0.3×	349 0.7×	293 2.9×	103 1.2×	35	1.4k
Songmao Wang China	10	701 0.9×	121 0.2×	389 0.8×	99 1.0×	83 1.0×	19	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hanan Alwaseem

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Blaze, Jennifer, Shanshan Chen, Søren Heissel, et al.. (2025). Altered tRNA expression profile associated with codon-specific proteomic changes in the suicide brain. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(7). 2871–2879. 1 indexed citations

Minikes, Alexander M., Pei Liu, Hua Wang, et al.. (2025). HIF-independent oxygen sensing via KDM6A regulates ferroptosis. Molecular Cell. 85(15). 2973–2987.e6. 3 indexed citations

Soula, Mariluz, Gökhan Ünlü, Aleksey Chudnovskiy, et al.. (2024). Glycosphingolipid synthesis mediates immune evasion in KRAS-driven cancer. Nature. 633(8029). 451–458. 32 indexed citations

Wu, Xujia, Huairui Yuan, Tingting Duan, et al.. (2024). Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming. Nature Cancer. 5(7). 1024–1044. 15 indexed citations

Blaze, Jennifer, Petr Unichenko, Behnam Javidfar, et al.. (2024). Neuron-Specific Glycine Metabolism Links Transfer RNA Epitranscriptomic Regulation to Complex Behaviors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100432–100432.

Timson, Rebecca C., Artem Khan, Hsi-Wen Yeh, et al.. (2024). Development of a mouse model expressing a bifunctional glutathione-synthesizing enzyme to study glutathione limitation in vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(2). 105645–105645. 4 indexed citations

Requena, David, Søren Heissel, Hanan Alwaseem, et al.. (2023). Disruption of proteome by an oncogenic fusion kinase alters metabolism in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. Science Advances. 9(25). eadg7038–eadg7038. 4 indexed citations

Alwaseem, Hanan, Søren Heissel, Anurag Sharma, et al.. (2022). The pupal moulting fluid has evolved social functions in ants. Nature. 612(7940). 488–494. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Xuhang, Veena Padmanaban, Hanan Alwaseem, et al.. (2022). A pro-metastatic tRNA fragment drives Nucleolin oligomerization and stabilization of its bound metabolic mRNAs. Molecular Cell. 82(14). 2604–2617.e8. 52 indexed citations

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García‐Bermúdez, Javier, Michael A. Badgley, Lou Baudrier, et al.. (2022). Adaptive stimulation of macropinocytosis overcomes aspartate limitation in cancer cells under hypoxia. Nature Metabolism. 4(6). 724–738. 36 indexed citations

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Alwaseem, Hanan, Michele Crotti, Kevin Welle, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive Structure–Activity Profiling of Micheliolide and its Targeted Proteome in Leukemia Cells via Probe-Guided Late-Stage C–H Functionalization. ACS Central Science. 7(5). 841–857. 27 indexed citations

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Alwaseem, Hanan, et al.. (2021). Nanoparticle‐Mediated Delivery of Micheliolide Analogs to Eliminate Leukemic Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow. Advanced Therapeutics. 5(1). 8 indexed citations

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Bayraktar, Erol C., Konnor La, Gökhan Ünlü, et al.. (2020). Metabolic coessentiality mapping identifies C12orf49 as a regulator of SREBP processing and cholesterol metabolism. Nature Metabolism. 2(6). 487–498. 36 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Chaitanya A., Sergiy M. Nadtochiy, Jimmy Zhang, et al.. (2020). ALKBH7 mediates necrosis via rewiring of glyoxal metabolism. eLife. 9. 12 indexed citations

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Soula, Mariluz, Ross Weber, Omkar Zilka, et al.. (2020). Metabolic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to canonical ferroptosis inducers. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(12). 1351–1360. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guarecuco, Rohiverth, Robert T. Williams, Lou Baudrier, et al.. (2020). Dietary thiamine influences l -asparaginase sensitivity in a subset of leukemia cells. Science Advances. 6(41). 9 indexed citations

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Weber, Ross, Hanan Alwaseem, Erol C. Bayraktar, et al.. (2020). Maintaining Iron Homeostasis Is the Key Role of Lysosomal Acidity for Cell Proliferation. Molecular Cell. 77(3). 645–655.e7. 169 indexed citations

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Saab‐Rincón, Gloria, et al.. (2017). Stabilization of the Reductase Domain in the Catalytically Self‐Sufficient Cytochrome P450_BM3 by Consensus‐Guided Mutagenesis. ChemBioChem. 19(6). 622–632. 21 indexed citations

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Alwaseem, Hanan, Benjamin J. Frisch, & Rudi Fasan. (2017). Anticancer activity profiling of parthenolide analogs generated via P450-mediated chemoenzymatic synthesis. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 26(7). 1365–1373. 33 indexed citations

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Alwaseem, Hanan, et al.. (2014). Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Castor Oil. Journal of Chemical Education. 91(4). 575–578. 30 indexed citations

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