Ivan Merelli

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ivan Merelli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivan Merelli has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Ivan Merelli's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (21 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (18 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (17 papers). Ivan Merelli is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (21 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (18 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (17 papers). Ivan Merelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Ivan Merelli's co-authors include Luciano Milanesi, Daniele D’Agostino, Federica Chiappori, Stefano Beretta, Andrea Calabria, Luigi Naldini, Samuele Ferrari, Sandra Gesing, Federica Viti and Luisa Albano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ivan Merelli

136 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells

2023 93 citations Samuele Ferrari, Attya Omer et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Durable and efficient gene silencing in vivo by hit-and-run epigenome editing

2024 91 citations Ivan Merelli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ivan Merelli Italy	22	1.3k	407	241	208	149	144	2.0k
Johannes Köster Germany	17	1.6k 1.3×	309 0.8×	165 0.7×	136 0.7×	113 0.8×	44	2.5k
Mohamed Abouelhoda Saudi Arabia	20	822 0.7×	388 1.0×	68 0.3×	170 0.8×	99 0.7×	72	1.6k
Michael D. Linderman United States	22	927 0.7×	351 0.9×	98 0.4×	309 1.5×	318 2.1×	45	2.4k
Niko Popitsch Austria	20	560 0.4×	219 0.5×	111 0.5×	109 0.5×	66 0.4×	46	1.2k
Akira Funahashi Japan	19	2.0k 1.6×	146 0.4×	297 1.2×	120 0.6×	137 0.9×	72	2.9k
Geir Kjetil Sandve Norway	23	1.1k 0.9×	200 0.5×	125 0.5×	390 1.9×	63 0.4×	82	2.0k
William S. Hlavacek United States	36	2.9k 2.3×	402 1.0×	263 1.1×	522 2.5×	32 0.2×	103	4.0k
Adam Kieżun United States	23	1.1k 0.9×	490 1.2×	501 2.1×	423 2.0×	154 1.0×	43	3.2k
D. B. Troup United States	7	2.2k 1.8×	313 0.8×	203 0.8×	170 0.8×	34 0.2×	9	2.9k
Benjamin P. Berman United States	37	4.0k 3.2×	869 2.1×	417 1.7×	439 2.1×	127 0.9×	75	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivan Merelli

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

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Rossari, Federico, Giorgia Alvisi, Melania Cusimano, et al.. (2025). A cross-talk established by tumor-targeted cytokines rescues CAR T cell activity and engages host T cells against glioblastoma in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 17(805). eado9511–eado9511. 1 indexed citations

Beretta, Stefano, Laura Passerini, Marilena Mancino, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic analysis of BM-MSCs identified EGR1 as a transcription factor to fully exploit their therapeutic potential. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1871(8). 119818–119818. 1 indexed citations

Rossari, Federico, Gualtiero Alvisi, Michael D. Cusimano, et al.. (2024). 52P Tumor-targeted cytokine release by genetically-engineered myeloid cells rescues CAR-T activity and engages endogenous T cells against high-grade glioma in mouse models. Immuno-Oncology Technology. 24. 100863–100863.

Beretta, Stefano, Ingrid Cifola, Clelia Peano, et al.. (2024). Human iPSC-derived neural stem cells displaying radial glia signature exhibit long-term safety in mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9433–9433. 5 indexed citations

Barzaghi, Federica, Isabel Pagani, Federico Forneris, et al.. (2024). A novel STING variant triggers endothelial toxicity and SAVI disease. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(9). 6 indexed citations

Ferrari, Samuele, Attya Omer, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2023). Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells. Nature Biotechnology. 42(6). 877–891. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Vavassori, Valentina, Samuele Ferrari, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2023). Lipid nanoparticles allow efficient and harmless ex vivo gene editing of human hematopoietic cells. Blood. 142(9). 812–826. 40 indexed citations

Merelli, Ivan, et al.. (2023). Protocol to differentiate monolayer human induced pluripotent stem cells into inflammatory responsive astrocytes. STAR Protocols. 4(1). 102142–102142.

Cusimano, Melania, Federico Rossari, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2022). Targeted inducible delivery of immunoactivating cytokines reprograms glioblastoma microenvironment and inhibits growth in mouse models. Science Translational Medicine. 14(653). eabl4106–eabl4106. 54 indexed citations

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Mucci, Adele, Gabriele Antonarelli, Giacomo Desantis, et al.. (2021). Myeloid cell‐based delivery of IFN‐γ reprograms the leukemia microenvironment and induces anti‐tumoral immune responses. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 13(10). e13598–e13598. 20 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Samuele, Stefano Beretta, Aurélien Jacob, et al.. (2021). BAR-Seq clonal tracking of gene-edited cells. Nature Protocols. 16(6). 2991–3025. 9 indexed citations

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Lettera, Emanuele, Stefano Beretta, Anastasia Conti, et al.. (2021). Oncogene-induced senescence in hematopoietic progenitors features myeloid restricted hematopoiesis, chronic inflammation and histiocytosis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4559–4559. 32 indexed citations

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Ferrua, Francesca, Elena Fontana, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2021). Premature Senescence and Increased Oxidative Stress in the Thymus of Down Syndrome Patients. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 669893–669893. 17 indexed citations

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Aprile, Annamaria, Alessandro Gulino, Mariangela Storto, et al.. (2020). Hematopoietic stem cell function in β-thalassemia is impaired and is rescued by targeting the bone marrow niche. Blood. 136(5). 610–622. 23 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Samuele, Aurélien Jacob, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2020). Efficient gene editing of human long-term hematopoietic stem cells validated by clonal tracking. Nature Biotechnology. 38(11). 1298–1308. 108 indexed citations

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D’Agostino, Daniele, Alfonso Quarati, Andrea Clematis, et al.. (2019). SoC-based computing infrastructures for scientific applications and commercial services: Performance and economic evaluations. Future Generation Computer Systems. 96. 11–22. 11 indexed citations

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Morganti, Lucia, et al.. (2019). On low‐power SoCs as storage bricks for Bioinformatics. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 32(10). 1 indexed citations

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Galluccio, Nadia, Margherita Romeo, Stefano Beretta, et al.. (2016). SPIRE, a modular pipeline for eQTL analysis of RNA-Seq data, reveals a regulatory hotspot controlling miRNA expression in C. elegans. Molecular BioSystems. 12(11). 3447–3458. 5 indexed citations

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Chiappori, Federica, Luciano Milanesi, & Ivan Merelli. (2016). HPC Analysis of Multiple Binding Sites Communication and Allosteric Modulations in Drug Design: The HSP Case Study. Current Drug Targets. 17(14). 1610–1625. 1 indexed citations

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Corrada, Dario, Federica Viti, Ivan Merelli, Cristina Battaglia, & Luciano Milanesi. (2011). myMIR: a genome-wide microRNA targets identification and annotation tool. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 12(6). 588–600. 21 indexed citations

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