John C. Dawson

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John C. Dawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Dawson has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in John C. Dawson's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (11 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (9 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (8 papers). John C. Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (11 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (9 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (8 papers). John C. Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. John C. Dawson's co-authors include Laura M. Machesky, Neil O. Carragher, Asier Unciti‐Broceta, Margaret C. Frame, Jason T. Weiss, Craig Fraser, E. Elizabeth Patton, Alan Serrels, Dwayne G. Stupack and David D. Schlaepfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Cell Biology and Nature reviews. Cancer.

In The Last Decade

John C. Dawson

43 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Targeting FAK in anticancer combination therapies

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Dawson United Kingdom	23	1.3k	691	504	402	303	46	2.4k
Daniel Rösel Czechia	28	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.5×	793 1.6×	171 0.4×	261 0.9×	70	2.7k
Jan Brábek Czechia	29	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	891 1.8×	174 0.4×	387 1.3×	85	3.1k
Alan Serrels United Kingdom	28	1.5k 1.1×	709 1.0×	740 1.5×	113 0.3×	676 2.2×	40	3.3k
Masanori Gotoh Japan	36	1.9k 1.4×	600 0.9×	183 0.4×	490 1.2×	144 0.5×	55	2.9k
Frank T. Zenke Germany	24	2.1k 1.6×	806 1.2×	746 1.5×	94 0.2×	176 0.6×	70	2.9k
Rüdiger Woscholski United Kingdom	30	3.0k 2.3×	1.0k 1.5×	412 0.8×	260 0.6×	128 0.4×	74	4.1k
Mark S. Dennis United States	36	2.7k 2.1×	265 0.4×	854 1.7×	294 0.7×	479 1.6×	54	4.9k
Khatereh Motamedchaboki United States	25	1.6k 1.2×	737 1.1×	228 0.5×	273 0.7×	49 0.2×	36	2.5k
Banafshé Larijani United Kingdom	30	2.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	479 1.0×	100 0.2×	163 0.5×	94	3.2k
Jagath R. Junutula United States	33	1.9k 1.5×	744 1.1×	1.1k 2.2×	191 0.5×	79 0.3×	53	3.6k

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Dawson, John C., Virginia Álvarez-García, Morwenna Muir, et al.. (2025). FAK modulates glioblastoma stem cell energetics via regulation of glycolysis and glutamine oxidation. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 18(11).

Danks, Mary K., John P. Thomson, Morwenna Muir, et al.. (2025). Genomics‐led approach to drug testing in models of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. Molecular Oncology. 19(11). 3223–3242.

Hollis, Robert L., Richard Elliott, John C. Dawson, et al.. (2024). High throughput screening identifies dasatinib as synergistic with trametinib in low grade serous ovarian carcinoma. Gynecologic Oncology. 186. 42–52. 5 indexed citations

Elliott, Richard, John C. Dawson, Susan M. Anderson, et al.. (2024). Morphological profiling in human neural progenitor cells classifies hits in a pilot drug screen for Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications. 6(2). fcae101–fcae101. 5 indexed citations

Quintanilla, Andrea, Richard Elliott, John C. Dawson, et al.. (2023). Discovery of senolytics using machine learning. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3445–3445. 67 indexed citations

Shave, Steven, et al.. (2023). Phenonaut: multiomics data integration for phenotypic space exploration. Bioinformatics. 39(4). 4 indexed citations

Muir, Morwenna, John C. Dawson, Martin Lee, et al.. (2023). 11β-HSD1 inhibition does not affect murine tumour angiogenesis but may exert a selective effect on tumour growth by modulating inflammation and fibrosis. PLoS ONE. 18(3). e0255709–e0255709. 1 indexed citations

Ravikumar, Balaguru, Richard Elliott, John C. Dawson, et al.. (2023). Chemogenomic library design strategies for precision oncology, applied to phenotypic profiling of glioblastoma patient cells. iScience. 26(7). 107209–107209. 4 indexed citations

Culley, Jayne, Peter W. Nagle, John C. Dawson, & Neil O. Carragher. (2022). Patient derived glioma stem cell spheroid reporter assays for live cell high content analysis. SLAS DISCOVERY. 28(2). 13–19. 2 indexed citations

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Marwick, John A., Richard Elliott, James Longden, et al.. (2021). Application of a High-Content Screening Assay Utilizing Primary Human Lung Fibroblasts to Identify Antifibrotic Drugs for Rapid Repurposing in COVID-19 Patients. SLAS DISCOVERY. 26(9). 1091–1106. 4 indexed citations

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Martello, Andrea, Angela Lauriola, David Mellis, et al.. (2020). Trichoplein binds PCM 1 and controls endothelial cell function by regulating autophagy. EMBO Reports. 21(7). e48192–e48192. 24 indexed citations

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Dawson, John C., Bryan Serrels, Adam Byron, et al.. (2019). A Synergistic Anticancer FAK and HDAC Inhibitor Combination Discovered by a Novel Chemical–Genetic High-Content Phenotypic Screen. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 19(2). 637–649. 19 indexed citations

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Patel, Hitesh, Morwenna Muir, Jocelyn Ward, et al.. (2018). Kindlin-1 Promotes Pulmonary Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Research. 78(6). 1484–1496. 19 indexed citations

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Warchal, Scott, John C. Dawson, & Neil O. Carragher. (2018). High-Dimensional Profiling: The Theta Comparative Cell Scoring Method. Methods in molecular biology. 1787. 171–181. 2 indexed citations

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Warchal, Scott, John C. Dawson, & Neil O. Carragher. (2016). Development of the Theta Comparative Cell Scoring Method to Quantify Diverse Phenotypic Responses Between Distinct Cell Types. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 14(7). 395–406. 14 indexed citations

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Weiss, Jason T., Craig Fraser, Belén Rubio‐Ruíz, et al.. (2014). N-alkynyl derivatives of 5-fluorouracil: susceptibility to palladium-mediated dealkylation and toxigenicity in cancer cell culture. Frontiers in Chemistry. 2. 56–56. 23 indexed citations

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Dawson, John C., Paul Timpson, Gabriela Kalna, & Laura M. Machesky. (2011). Mtss1 regulates epidermal growth factor signaling in head and neck squamous carcinoma cells. Oncogene. 31(14). 1781–1793. 37 indexed citations

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Li, Ang, John C. Dawson, Manuel G. Forero, et al.. (2010). The Actin-Bundling Protein Fascin Stabilizes Actin in Invadopodia and Potentiates Protrusive Invasion. Current Biology. 20(4). 339–345. 241 indexed citations

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Bompard, Guillaume, John C. Dawson, Natalie Andrew, et al.. (2006). N-WASP Involvement in Dorsal Ruffle Formation in Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(2). 678–687. 62 indexed citations

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Dawson, John C., et al.. (2006). Bar domain proteins: a role in tubulation, scission and actin assembly in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Trends in Cell Biology. 16(10). 493–498. 187 indexed citations

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