Laura E. McNamara

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Laura E. McNamara is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura E. McNamara has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Laura E. McNamara's work include Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (9 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers). Laura E. McNamara is often cited by papers focused on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (9 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (7 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers). Laura E. McNamara collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Laura E. McNamara's co-authors include Matthew J. Dalby, Richard O. C. Oreffo, Rebecca J. McMurray, Karl Burgess, Nikolaj Gadegaard, Manus Biggs, Emmajayne Kingham, Rahul S. Tare, Penelope M. Tsimbouri and R.M. Dominic Meek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, ACS Nano and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Laura E. McNamara

23 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Nanoscale surfaces for the long-term maintenance of mesen... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Nanoscale surfaces for the long-term maintenance of mesenchymal stem cell phenotype and multipotency
    2011 625 citations Rebecca J. McMurray, Nikolaj Gadegaard et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers

Laura E. McNamara
Rebecca J. McMurray United Kingdom
Andrew R. Cameron Ireland
Penelope M. Tsimbouri United Kingdom
Chelsea N. Salinas United States
Xinming Tong United States
Christopher Moraes Canada
Dayu Teng United States
Kolin C. Hribar United States
Vanessa L.S. LaPointe Netherlands
Yongsung Hwang South Korea
Rebecca J. McMurray United Kingdom
Laura E. McNamara
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura E. McNamara

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Differential effectiveness of dietary zinc supplementation with autism-related behaviours in Shank2 knockout mice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1906). 20230230–20230230. 7 indexed citations
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Sahoo, Jugal Kishore, Laura E. McNamara, Karl Burgess, et al.. (2016). Dynamic Surfaces for the Study of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Growth through Adhesion Regulation. ACS Nano. 10(7). 6667–6679. 86 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Lesley-Anne Turner, & Karl Burgess. (2015). Systems Biology Approaches Applied to Regenerative Medicine. Current Pathobiology Reports. 3(1). 37–45. 5 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., et al.. (2014). The Use of Microarrays and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for the Study of Mechanotransduction from Topography. Methods in cell biology. 119. 293–309. 6 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Lesley-Anne Turner, Enateri V. Alakpa, & A S Brydone. (2014). Research Highlights: Highlights from the latest articles in nanomedicine. Nanomedicine. 9(6). 755–757. 1 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., et al.. (2014). Investigation of the limits of nanoscale filopodial interactions. Journal of Tissue Engineering. 5. 2746265585–2746265585. 66 indexed citations
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Ker, Andrew, Terje Sjöström, Bo Su, et al.. (2014). Scanning electron microscopical observation of an osteoblast/osteoclast co-culture on micropatterned orthopaedic ceramics. Journal of Tissue Engineering. 5. 2746281522–2746281522. 16 indexed citations
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Yang, Jingli, Laura E. McNamara, Nikolaj Gadegaard, et al.. (2014). Nanotopographical Induction of Osteogenesis through Adhesion, Bone Morphogenic Protein Cosignaling, and Regulation of MicroRNAs. ACS Nano. 8(10). 9941–9953. 122 indexed citations
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Sjöström, Terje, Laura E. McNamara, R.M. Dominic Meek, Matthew J. Dalby, & Bo Su. (2013). 2D and 3D Nanopatterning of Titanium for Enhancing Osteoinduction of Stem Cells at Implant Surfaces. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2(9). 1285–1293. 79 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Terje Sjöström, R.M. Dominic Meek, et al.. (2012). Metabolomics: a valuable tool for stem cell monitoring in regenerative medicine. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9(73). 1713–1724. 21 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Richard Burchmore, Mathis O. Riehle, et al.. (2012). The role of microtopography in cellular mechanotransduction. Biomaterials. 33(10). 2835–2847. 128 indexed citations
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Dalby, Matthew J., et al.. (2012). Nanoporous titanium substrates for osteogenesis.. PubMed. 7(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations
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Sjöström, Terje, et al.. (2012). Titanium Nanofeaturing for Enhanced Bioactivity of Implanted Orthopedic and Dental Devices. Nanomedicine. 8(1). 89–104. 38 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E.. (2012). Siblings of people with autism : the experiences of the non-autistic sibling. Open Collections. 1 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Terje Sjöström, Karl Burgess, et al.. (2011). Skeletal stem cell physiology on functionally distinct titania nanotopographies. Biomaterials. 32(30). 7403–7410. 108 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Fahsai Kantawong, Matthew J. Dalby, Mathis O. Riehle, & Richard Burchmore. (2011). Preventing and troubleshooting artefacts in saturation labelled fluorescence 2‐D difference gel electrophoresis (saturation DiGE). PROTEOMICS. 11(24). 4610–4621. 11 indexed citations
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McMurray, Rebecca J., Nikolaj Gadegaard, Penelope M. Tsimbouri, et al.. (2011). Nanoscale surfaces for the long-term maintenance of mesenchymal stem cell phenotype and multipotency. Nature Materials. 10(8). 637–644. 625 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brydone, A S, Matthew J. Dalby, Catherine C. Berry, R.M. Dominic Meek, & Laura E. McNamara. (2011). Grooved surface topography alters matrix-metalloproteinase production by human fibroblasts. Biomedical Materials. 6(3). 35005–35005. 11 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Andrew J., et al.. (2011). Biomimetic microtopography to enhance osteogenesis in vitro. Acta Biomaterialia. 7(7). 2919–2925. 91 indexed citations
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McNamara, Laura E., Matthew J. Dalby, Mathis O. Riehle, & Richard Burchmore. (2009). Fluorescence two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis for biomaterial applications. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 7(suppl_1). S107–18. 26 indexed citations

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