Leah E. Cowen

15.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
156 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Leah E. Cowen is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah E. Cowen has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Infectious Diseases, 71 papers in Molecular Biology and 69 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Leah E. Cowen's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (108 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (67 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (30 papers). Leah E. Cowen is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (108 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (67 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (30 papers). Leah E. Cowen collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Leah E. Cowen's co-authors include Nicole Robbins, Susan Lindquist, Rebecca S. Shapiro, James B. Anderson, Kali R. Iyer, Yunjin Lee, Michelle D. Leach, Aimee K. Zaas, John R. Perfect and Nicole M. Revie and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Leah E. Cowen

150 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Hsp90 Potentiates the Rapid Evolution of New Traits: Drug Resistance in Diverse Fungi

2005 551 citations Leah E. Cowen, Susan Lindquist profile →
Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond

2020 506 citations Yunjin Lee, Emily Puumala et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Mechanisms of Antifungal Drug Resistance

2014 448 citations Leah E. Cowen et al. profile →
Regulatory Circuitry Governing Fungal Development, Drug Resistance, and Disease

2011 444 citations Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen et al. profile →
Antifungal drug resistance: evolution, mechanisms and impact

2018 382 citations Nicole M. Revie, Kali R. Iyer et al. profile →
Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture

2020 326 citations Christina A. Cuomo, Gerard D. Wright et al. mBio profile →
Molecular Evolution of Antifungal Drug Resistance

2017 306 citations Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen et al. profile →
Treatment strategies for cryptococcal infection: challenges, advances and future outlook

2021 229 citations Kali R. Iyer, Nicole M. Revie et al. profile →
Molecular mechanisms governing antifungal drug resistance

2023 117 citations Yunjin Lee, Nicole Robbins et al. PubMed profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leah E. Cowen

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Adaptation of the tetracycline-repressible system for modulating the expression of essential genes in Cryptococcus neoformans 2025 ·mSphere ·Ci Fu, Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen	0
2	Protocol to evaluate translation inhibition in Candida species using fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry 2024 ·STAR Protocols ·Emily Puumala, Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen	2
3	Naamidine A reveals a promising zinc-binding strategy for topical antifungal therapy 2024 ·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ·Emily Puumala, (unknown), Christopher C. Thornburg, Tanja Grkovic, Priya Uppuluri, Luke Whitesell, Barry R. O’Keefe, (unknown), Leah E. Cowen	1
4	Molecular mechanisms governing antifungal drug resistance breakdown → 2023 ·PubMed ·Yunjin Lee, Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen	117
5	Inhibiting C-4 Methyl Sterol Oxidase with Novel Diazaborines to Target Fungal Plant Pathogens 2022 ·ACS Chemical Biology ·Sang Hu Kim, (unknown), Yong-Kang Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Yasheen Zhou, Chunliang Liu, Yan Cai, Haibo Zhou, Xuefei Chen, Emily Puumala, Dustin Duncan, Gerard D. Wright, (unknown), Luke Whitesell, Leah E. Cowen	8
6	A functionally divergent intrinsically disordered region underlying the conservation of stochastic signaling 2021 ·PLoS Genetics ·(unknown), Bob Strome, (unknown), Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen, Alan M Moses	9
7	A small molecule produced by Lactobacillus species blocks Candida albicans filamentation by inhibiting a DYRK1-family kinase 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Martin Daniel-Ivad, Zhongle Liu, Junko Yano, Nicole M. Revie, Robert T. Todd, P.J. Stogios, Hiram Sánchez, Teresa R. O’Meara, Thomas A. Tompkins, Alexei Savchenko, Anna Selmecki, Amanda O. Veri, David R. Andes, Paul L. Fidel, Nicole Robbins, Justin R. Nodwell, Luke Whitesell, Leah E. Cowen	74
8	Fungal-Selective Resorcylate Aminopyrazole Hsp90 Inhibitors: Optimization of Whole-Cell Anticryptococcal Activity and Insights into the Structural Origins of Cryptococcal Selectivity 2021 ·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·(unknown), Emmanuelle V. LeBlanc, D.A. Kuntz, (unknown), Francisco Ortiz, Richard Trilles, (unknown), Tristan M. G. Kenney, (unknown), Nicole Robbins, Noelle S. Williams, Damian J. Krysan, Gilbert G. Privé, Luke Whitesell, Leah E. Cowen, Lauren E. Brown	31
9	Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond breakdown → 2020 ·Chemical Reviews ·Yunjin Lee, Emily Puumala, Nicole Robbins, Leah E. Cowen	506
10	Structure-guided approaches to targeting stress responses in human fungal pathogens 2020 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Emmanuelle V. LeBlanc, Elizabeth J. Polvi, Amanda O. Veri, Gilbert G. Privé, Leah E. Cowen	19
11	Genetic Analysis of Candida auris Implicates Hsp90 in Morphogenesis and Azole Tolerance and Cdr1 in Azole Resistance 2019 ·mBio ·Sang Hu Kim, Kali R. Iyer, Lakhansing Pardeshi, José F. Muñoz, Nicole Robbins, Christina A. Cuomo, Koon Ho Wong, Leah E. Cowen	101
12	High-Throughput Screening Identifies Genes Required for Candida albicans Induction of Macrophage Pyroptosis 2018 ·mBio ·Teresa R. O’Meara, (unknown), (unknown), Michelle E. Maxson, Ryan G. Gaudet, Kristy Koselny, Melanie Wellington, Michael E. Powers, (unknown), Matthew J. O’Meara, Amanda O. Veri, Sergio Grinstein, Suzanne M. Noble, Damian J. Krysan, Scott D. Gray‐Owen, Leah E. Cowen	53
13	Integrin-based diffusion barrier separates membrane domains enabling the formation of microbiostatic frustrated phagosomes 2018 ·eLife ·Michelle E. Maxson, (unknown), Teresa R. O’Meara, Jonathan Plumb, Leah E. Cowen, Sergio Grinstein	42
14	Metal Chelation as a Powerful Strategy to Probe Cellular Circuitry Governing Fungal Drug Resistance and Morphogenesis 2016 ·PLoS Genetics ·Elizabeth J. Polvi, Anna Floyd Averette, Soo Chan Lee, Taeyup Kim, Yong‐Sun Bahn, Amanda O. Veri, Nicole Robbins, Joseph Heitman, Leah E. Cowen	38
15	Hsp90-dependent regulatory circuitry controlling temperature-dependent fungal development and virulence 2014 ·Cellular Microbiology ·Teresa R. O’Meara, Leah E. Cowen	40
16	A novel calcineurin-independent activity of cyclosporin A in *Saccharomyces cerevisiae* 2012 ·Molecular BioSystems ·Sheena D. Singh-Babak, (unknown), Andrew Smith, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow, Leah E. Cowen	7
17	Harnessing Hsp90 function as a powerful, broadly effective therapeutic strategy for fungal infectious disease 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Leah E. Cowen, Sheena D. Singh-Babak, Julia R. Köhler, Cathy Collins, Aimee K. Zaas, Wiley A. Schell, Hamza Aziz, Eleftherios Mylonakis, John R. Perfect, Luke Whitesell, Susan Lindquist	327
18	Population genomics of drug resistance in Candida albicans 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Leah E. Cowen, André Nantel, Malcolm Whiteway, David Y. Thomas, Daniel C. Tessier, Linda M. Kohn, James B. Anderson	102
19	Predicting the emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs 2001 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Leah E. Cowen	2
20	Predicting the emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs 2001 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Leah E. Cowen	29

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