John D. Brennan

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
233 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

John D. Brennan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, John D. Brennan has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Molecular Biology, 93 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 41 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in John D. Brennan's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (100 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (67 papers) and Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (33 papers). John D. Brennan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (100 papers), Biosensors and Analytical Detection (67 papers) and Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (33 papers). John D. Brennan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. John D. Brennan's co-authors include Yingfu Li, S. M. Zakir Hossain, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Wen Jin, Michael A. Brook, Meng Liu, Kulwinder K. Flora, Robert Pelton, Qiang Zhang and Jimmy Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

John D. Brennan

229 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Properties and applications of proteins encapsulated within sol–gel derived materials

2002 418 citations John D. Brennan et al. profile →
Biosensing with DNAzymes

2021 341 citations Erin M. McConnell, John D. Brennan et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Combined Aptamer Pulldown‐DNAzyme Cleavage Assay for Intact Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Cells 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·M. Monsur Ali, Anna Christina de Almeida, Dawn White, Alfredo Capretta, John D. Brennan	2
2	Enhancing Clinical Detection Accuracy of Large Structured Viral RNA via DNAzyme Cleavage and Antisense‐Assisted Rolling Circle Amplification 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), Jimmy Gu, (unknown), John D. Brennan, Yingfu Li	2
3	In‐vitro Clinical Diagnostics using RNA‐Cleaving DNAzymes 2024 ·ChemBioChem ·M. Monsur Ali, Parameswaran Nair, Alfredo Capretta, John D. Brennan	4
4	A Rapid Sputum‐based Lateral Flow Assay for Airway Eosinophilia using an RNA‐cleaving DNAzyme Selected for Eosinophil Peroxidase 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·M. Monsur Ali, Manali Mukherjee, Katherine Radford, (unknown), Alfredo Capretta, Parameswaran Nair, John D. Brennan	12
5	A Rapid Sputum‐based Lateral Flow Assay for Airway Eosinophilia using an RNA‐cleaving DNAzyme Selected for Eosinophil Peroxidase 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie ·M. Monsur Ali, Manali Mukherjee, Katherine Radford, (unknown), Alfredo Capretta, Parameswaran Nair, John D. Brennan	0
6	Investigation of discordant SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results using minimally processed saliva 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·Dawn White, Jimmy Gu, (unknown), Deborah Yamamura, Bruno J. Salena, Cynthia Balion, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Alfredo Capretta, Yingfu Li, John D. Brennan	14
7	Combinatorial genetics reveals the Dock1-Rac2 axis as a potential target for the treatment of NPM1;Cohesin mutated AML 2022 ·Leukemia ·Alison E. Meyer, Cary Stelloh, Kirthi Pulakanti, Robert Burns, Joseph B. Fisher, (unknown), Sergey Tarima, (unknown), John D. Brennan, Yongwei Zheng, Aaron D. Viny, George S. Vassiliou, Sridhar Rao	6
8	DNAzymes as key components of biosensing systems for the detection of biological targets 2021 ·Biosensors and Bioelectronics ·(unknown), Erin M. McConnell, John D. Brennan, Yingfu Li	60
9	Selection and characterization of DNA aptamers for detection of glutamate dehydrogenase from Clostridium difficile 2017 ·Biochimie ·Meng Liu, (unknown), John D. Brennan, Yingfu Li	24
10	A Printed Multicomponent Paper Sensor for Bacterial Detection 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·M. Monsur Ali, (unknown), Sana Jahanshahi‐Anbuhi, Balamurali Kannan, Yingfu Li, Carlos D. M. Filipe, John D. Brennan	85
11	Biosensing by Tandem Reactions of Structure Switching, Nucleolytic Digestion, and DNA Amplification of a DNA Assembly 2015 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Meng Liu, Wenqing Zhang, Qiang Zhang, John D. Brennan, (unknown)	64
12	Evaluation of the Calmodulin‐SOX9 Interaction by “Magnetic Fishing” Coupled to Mass Spectrometry 2014 ·ChemBioChem ·Meghan J. McFadden, Todd Hryciw, Arthur Brown, M.S. Junop, John D. Brennan	1
13	Hydrophobic sol–gel channel patterning strategies for paper-based microfluidics 2013 ·Lab on a Chip ·Jingyun Wang, Maria Rowena N. Monton, Xiaoli Zhang, Carlos D. M. Filipe, Robert Pelton, John D. Brennan	128
14	Functional nucleic acid entrapment in sol–gel derived materials 2013 ·Methods ·(unknown), John D. Brennan	6
15	A Guided Materials Screening Approach for Developing Quantitative Sol-gel Derived Protein Microarrays 2013 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·(unknown), John D. Brennan	0
16	An ESI‐MS/MS Method for Screening of Small‐Molecule Mixtures against Glycogen Synthase Kinase‐3β (GSK‐3β) 2008 ·ChemBioChem ·(unknown), Geoff H. Werstuck, Alfredo Capretta, John D. Brennan	11
17	Bridging the Gap between in Vitro and in Vivo Imaging: Isostructural Re and ^99m Tc Complexes for Correlating Fluorescence and Radioimaging Studies 2004 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Karin A. Stephenson, Sangeeta Ray Banerjee, Travis R. Besanger, Oyebola O. Sogbein, M.K. Levadala, Nicole McFarlane, Jennifer A. Lemon, Douglas R. Boreham, Kevin Maresca, John D. Brennan, John W. Babich, Jon Zubieta, John F. Valliant	167
18	So can you 2001 ·(unknown), John D. Brennan	2
19	Interaction of Enantiomers of Lysyl-7-Azatryptophyl-Lysine with Acidic Phospholipid Vesicles: A Fluorescence Study 1995 ·Applied Spectroscopy ·John D. Brennan, Ian D. Clark, Christopher W.V. Hogue, Amando Siuiti Ito, Luiz Juliano, A. C. M. Paiva, (unknown), Arthur G. Szabo	12
20	Ion permeability through bilayer lipid membranes for biosensor development: control by chemical modification of interfacial regions between phase domains 1991 ·The Analyst ·Dimitrios P. Nikolelis, John D. Brennan, R. Stephen Brown, Graham A. McGibbon, Ulrich J. Krull	13

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