Kolade Adebowale

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 654 citations indexed

About

Kolade Adebowale is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kolade Adebowale has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 654 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kolade Adebowale's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (4 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (3 papers). Kolade Adebowale is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (4 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (3 papers). Kolade Adebowale collaborates with scholars based in United States. Kolade Adebowale's co-authors include Katrina M. Wisdom, Ovijit Chaudhuri, Sungmin Nam, Julie Chang, Marjan Rafat, Robert B. West, Ninna S. Rossen, Rajiv M. Desai, Louis Hodgson and Joanna Y. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kolade Adebowale

10 papers receiving 648 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.

Matrix mechanical plasticity regulates cancer cell migration through confining microenvironments

2018 318 citations Katrina M. Wisdom, Kolade Adebowale et al. Nature Communications profile →
Hydrogels in the clinic: An update

2024 62 citations John R. Clegg, Kolade Adebowale et al. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kolade Adebowale United States	7	382	339	132	111	104	11	654
Ninna S. Rossen United States	8	277 0.7×	284 0.8×	153 1.2×	90 0.8×	120 1.2×	12	604
Anouk R. Killaars United States	7	344 0.9×	268 0.8×	72 0.5×	107 1.0×	211 2.0×	8	694
Elisabeth E. Charrier United States	10	565 1.5×	380 1.1×	50 0.4×	134 1.2×	142 1.4×	11	805
Joanna L. MacKay United States	11	305 0.8×	300 0.9×	109 0.8×	84 0.8×	147 1.4×	12	592
Aashrith Saraswathibhatla United States	7	266 0.7×	204 0.6×	77 0.6×	68 0.6×	137 1.3×	11	521
Shane C. Allen United States	10	232 0.6×	425 1.3×	129 1.0×	129 1.2×	84 0.8×	12	664
Andrew D. Rape United States	12	604 1.6×	563 1.7×	135 1.0×	121 1.1×	256 2.5×	12	1.0k
Sjoerd van Helvert Netherlands	6	403 1.1×	283 0.8×	183 1.4×	70 0.6×	175 1.7×	12	708
Brian D. Cosgrove United States	10	531 1.4×	307 0.9×	71 0.5×	129 1.2×	326 3.1×	13	953
Xiaochen Wang China	10	246 0.6×	292 0.9×	172 1.3×	97 0.9×	141 1.4×	32	646

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kolade Adebowale

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Adebowale, Kolade, et al.. (2026). Engineering macrophages for cancer immunotherapy: emerging insights and therapeutic potential. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1).

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Adebowale, Kolade, Byung Hang Ha, Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, et al.. (2025). Monocytes use protrusive forces to generate migration paths in viscoelastic collagen-based extracellular matrices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2309772122–e2309772122. 3 indexed citations

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Clegg, John R., Kolade Adebowale, Zongmin Zhao, & Samir Mitragotri. (2024). Hydrogels in the clinic: An update. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 9(6). e10680–e10680. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Kyong Soo, et al.. (2024). Dendritic Cell Immune Modulation via Polyphenol Membrane Coatings. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(22). 28070–28079. 2 indexed citations

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Adebowale, Kolade, Rick Liao, Vineeth Chandran Suja, et al.. (2023). Materials for Cell Surface Engineering. Advanced Materials. 36(43). e2210059–e2210059. 24 indexed citations

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Adebowale, Kolade, Jennifer L. Guerriero, & Samir Mitragotri. (2023). Dynamics of macrophage tumor infiltration. Applied Physics Reviews. 10(4). 9 indexed citations

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Adebowale, Kolade, Ze Gong, Jay Hou, et al.. (2021). Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration. Nature Materials. 20(9). 1290–1299. 179 indexed citations

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Gong, Ze, Katrina M. Wisdom, Eóin McEvoy, et al.. (2021). Recursive feedback between matrix dissipation and chemo-mechanical signaling drives oscillatory growth of cancer cell invadopodia. Cell Reports. 35(4). 109047–109047. 22 indexed citations

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Adebowale, Kolade, Ze Gong, Jay Hou, et al.. (2021). Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Chang, Julie, Emily M. Pang, Kolade Adebowale, Katrina M. Wisdom, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2020). Increased Stiffness Inhibits Invadopodia Formation and Cell Migration in 3D. Biophysical Journal. 119(4). 726–736. 34 indexed citations

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Wisdom, Katrina M., Kolade Adebowale, Julie Chang, et al.. (2018). Matrix mechanical plasticity regulates cancer cell migration through confining microenvironments. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4144–4144. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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