Ine Lentacker

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ine Lentacker is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ine Lentacker has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ine Lentacker's work include Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (41 papers), Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena (27 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (26 papers). Ine Lentacker is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (41 papers), Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena (27 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (26 papers). Ine Lentacker collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Ine Lentacker's co-authors include Stefaan C. De Smedt, Heleen Dewitte, Niek N. Sanders, Rein Verbeke, Ine De Cock, Bart Geers, Joseph Demeester, Chrit Moonen, Roel Deckers and Guillaume Lajoinie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Ine Lentacker

88 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Understanding ultrasound induced sonoporation: Definitions and underlying mechanisms

2013 644 citations Ine Lentacker, Stefaan C. De Smedt et al. profile →
The dawn of mRNA vaccines: The COVID-19 case

2021 342 citations Rein Verbeke, Ine Lentacker et al. Journal of Controlled Release profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ine Lentacker Belgium	39	3.3k	1.6k	1.6k	756	676	90	5.3k
Min Gao China	39	2.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	169 0.3×	106	5.9k
Katsuro Tachibana Japan	43	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	384 0.5×	734 1.1×	150	5.7k
Hai‐Yan Xie China	43	2.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.5×	680 0.9×	179 0.3×	125	5.3k
Jung Soo Suk United States	40	2.3k 0.7×	966 0.6×	3.8k 2.4×	2.6k 3.4×	408 0.6×	81	9.0k
Jo Demeester Belgium	44	1.8k 0.5×	909 0.6×	2.8k 1.7×	1.6k 2.1×	280 0.4×	93	5.9k
Jing Huang China	42	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 2.7×	296 0.4×	104	5.9k
Pirjo Laakkonen Finland	37	934 0.3×	783 0.5×	3.2k 2.0×	805 1.1×	753 1.1×	86	5.8k
Jihong Sun China	30	1.3k 0.4×	675 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	902 1.2×	398 0.6×	129	3.6k
Sandra O. Gollnick United States	33	5.1k 1.6×	2.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	429 0.6×	333 0.5×	74	8.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ine Lentacker

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Théry, Fabien, Kim De Veirman, Karin Vanderkerken, et al.. (2025). Immunopeptidomics identified antigens for mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines with alpha-galactosylceramide in multiple myeloma therapy. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 13(4). e010673–e010673.

Verbeke, Rein, Fabien Théry, Patrick J. Willems, et al.. (2025). Challenges and opportunities in mRNA vaccine development against bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 10(8). 1816–1828. 1 indexed citations

Lentacker, Ine, et al.. (2025). Sequence simplification of antigen coding IVT mRNA allows accelerated synthetic DNA template generation and epitope immunogenicity validation. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 36(3). 102591–102591. 1 indexed citations

Krysko, Dmitri V., Karine Breckpot, Michel Versluis, et al.. (2024). Optimizing high-intensity focused ultrasound-induced immunogenic cell-death using passive cavitation mapping as a monitoring tool. Journal of Controlled Release. 375. 389–403. 5 indexed citations

Pewe, Lecia L., Patrick Willems, Rupert L. Mayer, et al.. (2024). Immunopeptidomics Mapping of Listeria monocytogenes T Cell Epitopes in Mice. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 23(9). 100829–100829. 6 indexed citations

Eeckhoutte, Hannelore P. Van, An Jacobs, Eline Pottie, et al.. (2024). Selective Replacement of Cholesterol with Cationic Amphiphilic Drugs Enables the Design of Lipid Nanoparticles with Improved RNA Delivery. Nano Letters. 24(10). 2961–2971. 12 indexed citations

Keersmaecker, Herlinde De, Deep Punj, Geert Berx, et al.. (2023). Laser-induced vapor nanobubbles for B16-F10 melanoma cell killing and intracellular delivery of chemotherapeutics. Journal of Controlled Release. 365. 1019–1036. 7 indexed citations

Keyaerts, Marleen, Heleen Dewitte, Rein Verbeke, et al.. (2023). Gompertz Model Use in Tumor Growth Curves Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Deprez, Joke, Silke Roovers, Guillaume Lajoinie, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Liposome-Loaded Microbubbles as a Theranostic Tool in a Murine Collagen-Induced Arthritis Model. Scientia Pharmaceutica. 90(1). 17–17. 1 indexed citations

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Harizaj, Aranit, Benedicte Descamps, Stephan Stremersch, et al.. (2021). Cytosolic delivery of gadolinium via photoporation enables improved in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of cancer cells. Biomaterials Science. 9(11). 4005–4018. 8 indexed citations

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Dewitte, Heleen, Silke Roovers, Stefaan C. De Smedt, & Ine Lentacker. (2019). Enhancing Nucleic Acid Delivery with Ultrasound and Microbubbles. Methods in molecular biology. 241–251. 10 indexed citations

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Verbeke, Rein, Ine Lentacker, Karine Breckpot, et al.. (2017). Co-delivery of nucleoside-modified mRNA and TLR agonists for cancer immunotherapy: Restoring the immunogenicity of immunosilent mRNA. Journal of Controlled Release. 266. 287–300. 115 indexed citations

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Broos, Katrijn, Kevin Van der Jeught, Janik Puttemans, et al.. (2016). Particle-mediated Intravenous Delivery of Antigen mRNA Results in Strong Antigen-specific T-cell Responses Despite the Induction of Type I Interferon. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids. 5(6). e326–e326. 89 indexed citations

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Dewitte, Heleen, Rein Verbeke, Karine Breckpot, et al.. (2014). Choose your models wisely: How different murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cell protocols influence the success of nanoparticulate vaccines in vitro. Journal of Controlled Release. 195. 138–146. 13 indexed citations

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Dewitte, Heleen, Sandra Van Lint, Carlo Heirman, et al.. (2014). The potential of antigen and TriMix sonoporation using mRNA-loaded microbubbles for ultrasound-triggered cancer immunotherapy. Journal of Controlled Release. 194. 28–36. 105 indexed citations

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Luan, Ying, Telli Faez, Erik Gelderblom, et al.. (2012). Acoustical Properties of Individual Liposome-Loaded Microbubbles. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 38(12). 2174–2185. 45 indexed citations

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Geers, Bart, et al.. (2010). Ultrasound responsive doxorubicin-loaded microbubbles; towards an easy applicable drug delivery platform. Journal of Controlled Release. 148(1). e59–e60. 9 indexed citations

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Geers, Bart, Ine Lentacker, Angelika Alonso, et al.. (2010). Adeno-associated virus loaded microbubbles as a tool for targeted gene delivery. Journal of Controlled Release. 148(1). e59–e59. 2 indexed citations

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Vandenbroucke, Roosmarijn E., Ine Lentacker, Jo Demeester, Stefaan C. De Smedt, & Niek N. Sanders. (2008). Loading of PEGylated siRNA lipoplexes on microbubbles restores their siRNA delivery capacity in the presence of ultrasound. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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Lentacker, Ine, Stefaan C. De Smedt, & Niek N. Sanders. (2008). Circumventing the endocytotic uptake of highly PEGylated lipoplexes by using lipoplex loaded microbubbles and ultrasound can drastically increase their transfection efficiency. Human Gene Therapy. 19(10). 1095–1095. 1 indexed citations

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