Heather Main

592 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 388 citations indexed

About

Heather Main is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Main has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 388 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Heather Main's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers). Heather Main is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (5 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers). Heather Main collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Canada. Heather Main's co-authors include Urban Lendahl, Agnete Kirkeby, Melissa Carpenter, Michael D. O’Connor, Megan Munsie, Emma Andersson, Ralf Schwanbeck, Lorenz Poellinger, Kian Leong Lee and Henry Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The FASEB Journal and Cell stem cell.

In The Last Decade

Heather Main

19 papers receiving 381 citations

Hit Papers

Pluripotent stem-cell-derived therapies in clinical trial... 2025 2026 2025 10 20 30
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.

  1. Pluripotent stem-cell-derived therapies in clinical trial: A 2025 update
    2025 39 citations Agnete Kirkeby, Heather Main et al. Cell stem cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heather Main Sweden 11 273 57 51 43 39 20 388
Sarah Hochmann Austria 11 214 0.8× 76 1.3× 55 1.1× 51 1.2× 56 1.4× 16 456
Phong D. Nguyen Australia 11 464 1.7× 48 0.8× 94 1.8× 43 1.0× 46 1.2× 16 624
Yvette W. H. Koh United Kingdom 5 304 1.1× 35 0.6× 28 0.5× 38 0.9× 17 0.4× 7 480
Andrew M. Mikosz United States 9 399 1.5× 87 1.5× 40 0.8× 102 2.4× 19 0.5× 13 649
Valerie A. Tornini United States 10 526 1.9× 45 0.8× 55 1.1× 37 0.9× 23 0.6× 14 676
Hongxin Huang China 13 304 1.1× 38 0.7× 33 0.6× 54 1.3× 32 0.8× 29 569
Nicholas D. Leigh United States 13 209 0.8× 31 0.5× 41 0.8× 28 0.7× 20 0.5× 23 502
Marcia Gaete Chile 11 342 1.3× 46 0.8× 28 0.5× 19 0.4× 37 0.9× 18 499
Sandra Gómez‐López United Kingdom 6 514 1.9× 48 0.8× 64 1.3× 57 1.3× 32 0.8× 7 601
Yuka Taniguchi Japan 15 470 1.7× 46 0.8× 53 1.0× 42 1.0× 16 0.4× 26 695

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Main

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Main

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heather Main. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heather Main. The network helps show where Heather Main may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Main

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Main, Heather, et al.. (2025). Bioengineering approaches to trained immunity: Physiologic targets and therapeutic strategies. eLife. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Kirkeby, Agnete, Heather Main, & Melissa Carpenter. (2025). Pluripotent stem-cell-derived therapies in clinical trial: A 2025 update. Cell stem cell. 32(1). 10–37. 39 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Main, Heather, E. Wierzbicka-Hainaut, Jean‐Claude Lecron, et al.. (2025). Heparanase 1 produced by keratinocytes contributes to psoriatic inflammation by promoting neutrophil infiltration. International Immunopharmacology. 167. 115742–115742.
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Main, Heather, Claire Debarnot, Laure Favot, et al.. (2025). The Pathophysiological Functions of Heparanases: From Evolution, Structural and Tissue‐Specific Perspectives. The FASEB Journal. 39(17). e70976–e70976. 2 indexed citations
5.
Main, Heather, Sandra Petrus-Reurer, Alex R. Lederer, et al.. (2024). Clinically compliant cryopreservation of differentiated retinal pigment epithelial cells. Cytotherapy. 26(4). 340–350. 3 indexed citations
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Main, Heather, et al.. (2020). Karolinska Institutet Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank. Stem Cell Research. 45. 101810–101810. 11 indexed citations
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Dumevska, Biljana, et al.. (2016). Derivation of Trisomy 21 affected human embryonic stem cell line Genea021. Stem Cell Research. 16(2). 401–404. 3 indexed citations
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Dumevska, Biljana, et al.. (2016). Derivation of FSHD1 affected human embryonic stem cell line Genea050. Stem Cell Research. 16(2). 503–506. 1 indexed citations
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Dumevska, Biljana, et al.. (2016). Derivation of DM1 affected human embryonic stem cell line Genea067. Stem Cell Research. 16(2). 437–439. 2 indexed citations
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Dumevska, Biljana, et al.. (2016). Derivation of Huntington Disease affected Genea018 human embryonic stem cell line. Stem Cell Research. 16(2). 423–426. 2 indexed citations
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Caron, Leslie, Kian Leong Lee, Biljana Dumevska, et al.. (2016). A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy-Affected Skeletal Muscles. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. 5(9). 1145–1161. 83 indexed citations
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Main, Heather, et al.. (2014). Cell surface antigen profiling using a novel type of antibody array immobilised to plasma ion-implanted polycarbonate. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 71(19). 3841–3857. 10 indexed citations
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Main, Heather, Megan Munsie, & Michael D. O’Connor. (2014). Managing the potential and pitfalls during clinical translation of emerging stem cell therapies. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 3(1). 10–10. 32 indexed citations
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Main, Heather, et al.. (2013). Notch Signaling Maintains Neural Rosette Polarity. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e62959–e62959. 24 indexed citations
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Martini, Simone, et al.. (2013). A Critical Role for Sox9 in Notch-Induced Astrogliogenesis and Stem Cell Maintenance. Stem Cells. 31(4). 741–751. 55 indexed citations
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Das, Debashish, Fredrik Lanner, Heather Main, et al.. (2010). Notch induces cyclin-D1-dependent proliferation during a specific temporal window of neural differentiation in ES cells. Developmental Biology. 348(2). 153–166. 46 indexed citations
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Martini, Simone, Ralf Schwanbeck, Heather Main, Urban Lendahl, & Ursula Just. (2010). Notch1 signaling promotes neuro-ectodermal differentiation of embryonic stem cells via the Notch target gene Sox9.. PubMed. 6(2). 88–88. 1 indexed citations
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Main, Heather, Kian Leong Lee, Henry Yang, et al.. (2009). Interactions between Notch- and hypoxia-induced transcriptomes in embryonic stem cells. Experimental Cell Research. 316(9). 1610–1624. 29 indexed citations
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Marshall, William S., et al.. (2008). Focal adhesion kinase and β1 integrin regulation of Na+, K+, 2Cl− cotransporter in osmosensing ion transporting cells of killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 150(3). 288–300. 24 indexed citations
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Kim, Kwang Young, Hae Jin Jeong, Heather Main, & David J. Garbary. (2006). Fluorescence and photosynthetic competency in single eggs and embryos of Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyceae). Phycologia. 45(3). 331–336. 19 indexed citations

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