Leonardo D’Aiuto

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Leonardo D’Aiuto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo D’Aiuto has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Leonardo D’Aiuto's work include Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (11 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). Leonardo D’Aiuto is often cited by papers focused on Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (11 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers). Leonardo D’Aiuto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Leonardo D’Aiuto's co-authors include Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar, Edward Nwanegbo, Andrea Gambotto, William J. Bellini, Azaibi Tamin, Simon M. Barratt‐Boyes, Wentao Gao, Paul D. Robbins, Adam C. Soloff and Paul R. Kinchington and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo D’Aiuto

43 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Anti-herpetic tau preserves neurons via the cGAS-STING-TBK1 pathway in Alzheimer’s disease

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo D’Aiuto United States	19	538	292	260	189	97	44	1.1k
Gary M. Wilson United States	23	1.0k 1.9×	408 1.4×	138 0.5×	158 0.8×	150 1.5×	39	1.5k
Sandra Saschenbrecker Germany	20	521 1.0×	146 0.5×	277 1.1×	220 1.2×	97 1.0×	38	1.7k
Shalini Kumar United States	18	388 0.7×	116 0.4×	377 1.4×	481 2.5×	116 1.2×	40	1.4k
Ana Camacho Spain	24	902 1.7×	514 1.8×	137 0.5×	221 1.2×	38 0.4×	108	1.6k
Ronald S. Boshuizen Netherlands	19	464 0.9×	193 0.7×	97 0.4×	142 0.8×	324 3.3×	27	1.0k
Dejian Zhao United States	21	648 1.2×	227 0.8×	187 0.7×	195 1.0×	130 1.3×	46	1.2k
Priya S. Shah United States	18	652 1.2×	91 0.3×	278 1.1×	122 0.6×	167 1.7×	51	1.3k
Shawn P. Iadonato United States	17	710 1.3×	331 1.1×	112 0.4×	114 0.6×	289 3.0×	39	1.4k
D.S. Keller United States	13	552 1.0×	177 0.6×	73 0.3×	133 0.7×	80 0.8×	26	1.2k
Matthew E. Harris United States	12	438 0.8×	277 0.9×	230 0.9×	149 0.8×	133 1.4×	18	881

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Terri G. Edwards, Chaoming Zhou, et al.. (2025). Phosphorylated-tau associates with HSV-1 chromatin and correlates with nuclear speckles decondensation in low-density host chromatin regions. Neurobiology of Disease. 206. 106804–106804. 3 indexed citations

Paranjape, Anurag N., et al.. (2024). A multicellular brain spheroid model for studying the mechanisms and bioeffects of ultrasound-enhanced drug penetration beyond the blood‒brain barrier. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1909–1909. 5 indexed citations

Versace, Amelia, T. Kevin Hitchens, Callen T. Wallace, Simon C. Watkins, & Leonardo D’Aiuto. (2024). 11.7T Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Tractography to Probe Human Brain Organoid Microstructure. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 4(5). 100344–100344. 1 indexed citations

Wood, Joel, Srilakshmi Chaparala, Ansuman Chattopadhyay, et al.. (2024). RNA-Seq time-course analysis of neural precursor cell transcriptome in response to herpes simplex Virus-1 infection. Journal of NeuroVirology. 30(2). 131–145.

McNulty, James, Carlos Zepeda‐Velázquez, Jadranka Milošević, et al.. (2023). Truncated ring-A amaryllidaceae alkaloid modulates the host cell integrated stress response, exhibiting antiviral activity to HSV-1 and SARSCoV-2. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1639–1639. 6 indexed citations

D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Callen T. Wallace, Joel Wood, et al.. (2022). The Impaired Neurodevelopment of Human Neural Rosettes in HSV-1-Infected Early Brain Organoids. Cells. 11(22). 3539–3539. 7 indexed citations

Marques, Ernesto T. A., Matthew Demers, Leonardo D’Aiuto, et al.. (2022). Herpesvirus Infections in the Human Brain: A Neural Cell Model of the Complement System Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 61. 243–264. 1 indexed citations

McNulty, James, Leonardo D’Aiuto, Matthew Demers, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of non-nucleoside anti-viral cyclopropylcarboxacyl hydrazones and initial anti-HSV-1 structure-activity relationship studies. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 30(24). 127559–127559. 14 indexed citations

D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Peter Dimitrion, James McNulty, et al.. (2017). Comparison of three cell-based drug screening platforms for HSV-1 infection. Antiviral Research. 142. 136–140. 21 indexed citations

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McClain, Lora, Yun Zhi, Hannah Cheng, et al.. (2015). Broad-spectrum non-nucleoside inhibitors of human herpesviruses. Antiviral Research. 121. 16–23. 15 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Konasale M. Prasad, Luigi Viggiano, et al.. (2014). Persistent Infection by HSV-1 Is Associated With Changes in Functional Architecture of iPSC-Derived Neurons and Brain Activation Patterns Underlying Working Memory Performance. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41(1). 123–132. 43 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Roberto Di Maio, K. Naga Mohan, et al.. (2011). Mouse ES cells overexpressing DNMT1 produce abnormal neurons with upregulated NMDA/NR1 subunit. Differentiation. 82(1). 9–17. 17 indexed citations

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Minervini, Crescenzio Francesco, Simona Ruggieri, Michele Traversa, et al.. (2010). Evidences for insulator activity of the 5′UTR of the Drosophila melanogaster LTR-retrotransposon ZAM. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 283(5). 503–509. 11 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Edward Nwanegbo, Annalisa Rizzo, et al.. (2006). Evidence of the Capability of the CMV Enhancer to Activate in trans Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells. DNA and Cell Biology. 25(3). 171–180. 7 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, et al.. (2004). In vitro and in vivo delivery of intact BAC DNA – comparison of different methods. The Journal of Gene Medicine. 6(2). 195–209. 54 indexed citations

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Gao, Wentao, Azaibi Tamin, Adam C. Soloff, et al.. (2003). Effects of a SARS-associated coronavirus vaccine in monkeys. The Lancet. 362(9399). 1895–1896. 223 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Jose I. de las Heras, Andrew R. S. Ross, Ming Shen, & Howard J. Cooke. (2003). Generation of a Telomere‐Based Episomal Vector. Biotechnology Progress. 19(6). 1775–1780. 2 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, et al.. (1997). Physical relationship between satellite I and II DNA in centromeric regions of sheep chromosomes. Chromosome Research. 5(6). 375–381. 16 indexed citations

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D’Aiuto, Leonardo, Rachele Antonacci, R. Marzella, Nicoletta Archidiacono, & Mariano Rocchi. (1993). Cloning and Comparative Mapping of a Human Chromosome 4-Specific Alpha Satellite DNA Sequence. Genomics. 18(2). 230–235. 21 indexed citations

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Baldini, Antonio, Thomas Ried, Viji Shridhar, et al.. (1993). An alphoid DNA sequence conserved in all human and great ape chromosomes: evidence for ancient centromeric sequences at human chromosomal regions 2q21 and 9q13. Human Genetics. 90(6). 577–83. 50 indexed citations

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