Hans‐Hermann Wessels

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Hans‐Hermann Wessels is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans‐Hermann Wessels has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Hans‐Hermann Wessels's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Hans‐Hermann Wessels is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Hans‐Hermann Wessels collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Hans‐Hermann Wessels's co-authors include Neville E. Sanjana, Mateusz Legut, Alejandro Méndez‐Mancilla, Zharko Daniloski, Peter Smibert, Uwe Ohler, Eleni P. Mimitou, Lu Lu, Evan Geller and Markus Landthaler and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Hans‐Hermann Wessels

21 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Massively parallel Cas13 screens reveal principles for guide RNA design
    2020 272 citations Hans‐Hermann Wessels, Alejandro Méndez‐Mancilla et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Hans‐Hermann Wessels 1.2k 252 244 228 131 21 1.6k
Xueqiu Lin 1.3k 1.1× 186 0.7× 145 0.6× 73 0.3× 214 1.6× 22 1.6k
Andrew P. VanDemark 1.7k 1.4× 102 0.4× 193 0.8× 101 0.4× 100 0.8× 42 2.0k
Jennifer A. Smith 1.0k 0.8× 139 0.6× 106 0.4× 231 1.0× 188 1.4× 28 1.4k
Kuo Ping Chiu 1.4k 1.2× 296 1.2× 290 1.2× 158 0.7× 183 1.4× 17 1.9k
Mainul Hoque 2.1k 1.7× 144 0.6× 288 1.2× 149 0.7× 94 0.7× 44 2.5k
Najwa Alhusaini 1.8k 1.5× 100 0.4× 264 1.1× 102 0.4× 130 1.0× 11 2.0k
Steven J. Madore 1.3k 1.1× 120 0.5× 131 0.5× 224 1.0× 176 1.3× 28 1.7k
Zharko Daniloski 721 0.6× 402 1.6× 73 0.3× 137 0.6× 132 1.0× 12 1.1k
Nanhai He 2.2k 1.8× 291 1.2× 180 0.7× 514 2.3× 174 1.3× 21 2.8k
Joppe Nieuwenhuis 962 0.8× 68 0.3× 123 0.5× 117 0.5× 165 1.3× 13 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hans‐Hermann Wessels

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schertzer, Megan D., Keren Isaev, Laura C. J. Pereira, et al.. (2025). Cas13d-mediated isoform-specific RNA knockdown with a unified computational and experimental toolbox. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6948–6948. 2 indexed citations
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Jiang, Longda, Efthymia Papalexi, Hans‐Hermann Wessels, et al.. (2025). Systematic reconstruction of molecular pathway signatures using scalable single-cell perturbation screens. Nature Cell Biology. 27(3). 505–517. 5 indexed citations
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Müller, Simon, et al.. (2025). Precise RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13d. Nature Biotechnology. 44(1). 64–69. 6 indexed citations
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Kowalski, Madeline H., Hans‐Hermann Wessels, Johannes Linder, et al.. (2024). Multiplexed single-cell characterization of alternative polyadenylation regulators. Cell. 187(16). 4408–4425.e23. 18 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, et al.. (2023). Prediction of on-target and off-target activity of CRISPR–Cas13d guide RNAs using deep learning. Nature Biotechnology. 42(4). 628–637. 68 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, Alejandro Méndez‐Mancilla, Yuhan Hao, et al.. (2022). Efficient combinatorial targeting of RNA transcripts in single cells with Cas13 RNA Perturb-seq. Nature Methods. 20(1). 86–94. 47 indexed citations
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Liscovitch‐Brauer, Noa, Antonino Montalbano, Alejandro Méndez‐Mancilla, et al.. (2021). Profiling the genetic determinants of chromatin accessibility with scalable single-cell CRISPR screens. Nature Biotechnology. 39(10). 1270–1277. 64 indexed citations
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Papalexi, Efthymia, Eleni P. Mimitou, Andrew Butler, et al.. (2021). Characterizing the molecular regulation of inhibitory immune checkpoints with multimodal single-cell screens. Nature Genetics. 53(3). 322–331. 104 indexed citations
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Méndez‐Mancilla, Alejandro, Hans‐Hermann Wessels, Mateusz Legut, et al.. (2021). Chemically modified guide RNAs enhance CRISPR-Cas13 knockdown in human cells. Cell chemical biology. 29(2). 321–327.e4. 39 indexed citations
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Guo, Xinyi, Jahan Rahman, Hans‐Hermann Wessels, et al.. (2021). Transcriptome-wide Cas13 guide RNA design for model organisms and viral RNA pathogens. Cell Genomics. 1(1). 100001–100001. 47 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, et al.. (2020). Massively parallel Cas13 screens reveal principles for guide RNA design. Nature Biotechnology. 38(6). 722–727. 272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Daniloski, Zharko, Tristan X. Jordan, Hans‐Hermann Wessels, et al.. (2020). Identification of Required Host Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Cells. Cell. 184(1). 92–105.e16. 348 indexed citations
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Legut, Mateusz, Zharko Daniloski, Xinhe Xue, et al.. (2020). High-Throughput Screens of PAM-Flexible Cas9 Variants for Gene Knockout and Transcriptional Modulation. Cell Reports. 30(9). 2859–2868.e5. 41 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, Svetlana Lebedeva, Antje Hirsekorn, et al.. (2019). Global identification of functional microRNA-mRNA interactions in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1626–1626. 36 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, et al.. (2018). omniCLIP: probabilistic identification of protein-RNA interactions from CLIP-seq data. Genome biology. 19(1). 183–183. 21 indexed citations
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Wessels, Hans‐Hermann, Koshi Imami, Matthias Selbach, et al.. (2016). The mRNA-bound proteome of the early fly embryo. Genome Research. 26(7). 1000–1009. 55 indexed citations
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Tattikota, Sudhir Gopal, Thomas Rathjen, Jean Hausser, et al.. (2015). miR-184 Regulates Pancreatic β-Cell Function According to Glucose Metabolism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(33). 20284–20294. 57 indexed citations
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Mino, Takashi, Yasuhiro Murakawa, Akira Fukao, et al.. (2015). Regnase-1 and Roquin Regulate a Common Element in Inflammatory mRNAs by Spatiotemporally Distinct Mechanisms. Cell. 161(5). 1058–1073. 288 indexed citations
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Tattikota, Sudhir Gopal, Matthias D. Sury, Thomas Rathjen, et al.. (2013). Argonaute2 Regulates the Pancreatic β-Cell Secretome. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 12(5). 1214–1225. 37 indexed citations
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Bloemberg, Tom G., Hans‐Hermann Wessels, Jolein Gloerich, et al.. (2011). Pinpointing biomarkers in proteomic LC/MS data by moving-window discriminant analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta. 83. 5197–5206. 1 indexed citations

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