Leonora Balaj

25.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
73 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Leonora Balaj is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonora Balaj has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Cancer Research and 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Leonora Balaj's work include Extracellular vesicles in disease (54 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (29 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Leonora Balaj is often cited by papers focused on Extracellular vesicles in disease (54 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (29 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Leonora Balaj collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Leonora Balaj's co-authors include Xandra O. Breakefield, Johan Skog, Bob S. Carter, Charles Pin‐Kuang Lai, Fred H. Hochberg, Mikołaj Piotr Zaborowski, Xandra O. Breakefield, Ralph Weissleder, Hakho Lee and Yoon-Jae Cho and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Leonora Balaj

69 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Tumour microvesicles contain retrotransposon elements and... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2015 2012 2015 2013 250 500 750
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  1. Tumour microvesicles contain retrotransposon elements and amplified oncogene sequences
    2011 965 citations Leonora Balaj, Xandra O. Breakefield et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Extracellular Vesicles: Composition, Biological Relevance, and Methods of Study
    2015 943 citations Leonora Balaj, Xandra O. Breakefield et al. profile →
  3. Protein typing of circulating microvesicles allows real-time monitoring of glioblastoma therapy
    2012 641 citations Leonora Balaj, Alain Charest et al. profile →
  4. Chip-based analysis of exosomal mRNA mediating drug resistance in glioblastoma
    2015 504 citations Leonora Balaj, Bob S. Carter et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Current methods for the isolation of extracellular vesicles
    2013 477 citations Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Leonora Balaj et al. profile →
  6. Coding and noncoding landscape of extracellular RNA released by human glioma stem cells
    2017 394 citations Leonora Balaj, Fred H. Hochberg et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Intraventricular CARv3-TEAM-E T Cells in Recurrent Glioblastoma
    2024 210 citations Leonora Balaj, Bob S. Carter et al. profile →
  8. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals evolution of immune landscape during glioblastoma progression
    2022 153 citations Alan T. Yeo, Shruti Rawal et al. Nature Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonora Balaj United States 37 8.1k 5.0k 1.6k 881 827 73 9.6k
Kenneth W. Witwer United States 45 10.2k 1.3× 6.0k 1.2× 973 0.6× 1.5k 1.7× 351 0.4× 129 11.7k
D. Michiel Pegtel Netherlands 38 8.8k 1.1× 5.5k 1.1× 664 0.4× 1.3k 1.5× 1.3k 1.5× 93 10.9k
Johan Skog United States 36 12.7k 1.6× 8.8k 1.7× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 988 1.2× 88 14.7k
David W. Greening Australia 46 7.8k 1.0× 4.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.7k 1.9× 629 0.8× 136 9.5k
Pieter Vader Netherlands 44 12.7k 1.6× 6.5k 1.3× 2.2k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 336 0.4× 93 14.0k
Cecilia Lässer Sweden 40 8.5k 1.1× 4.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 317 0.4× 60 9.4k
Imre Mäger United Kingdom 33 8.7k 1.1× 4.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 236 0.3× 48 9.6k
Samir EL Andaloussi Sweden 57 16.3k 2.0× 6.9k 1.4× 1.9k 1.2× 1.9k 2.1× 417 0.5× 173 18.0k
Fumitaka Takeshita Japan 44 8.1k 1.0× 5.7k 1.1× 896 0.5× 757 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 125 10.9k
Aled Clayton United Kingdom 38 11.7k 1.4× 6.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 2.8k 3.2× 1.1k 1.3× 83 13.9k

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All Works

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Mikolajewicz, Nicholas, Patricia Yee, Alexandra Miller, et al.. (2024). Systematic Review of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Discovery in Neuro-Oncology: A Roadmap to Standardization and Clinical Application. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16). 1961–1974. 13 indexed citations
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Escobedo, A., Tiffaney Hsia, Emil Ekanayake, et al.. (2024). Clinical utility of a blood based assay for the detection of IDH1.R132H-mutant gliomas. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7074–7074. 9 indexed citations
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Yekula, Anudeep, Tiffaney Hsia, Robert R. Kitchen, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal analysis of serum-derived extracellular vesicle RNA to monitor dacomitinib treatment response in EGFR-amplified recurrent glioblastoma patients. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 5(1). vdad104–vdad104. 2 indexed citations
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Hsia, Tiffaney, Julia L. Small, Anudeep Yekula, et al.. (2023). Systematic Review of Photodynamic Therapy in Gliomas. Cancers. 15(15). 3918–3918. 28 indexed citations
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Muralidharan, Koushik, et al.. (2022). Highly Sensitive EGFRvIII Detection in Circulating Extracellular Vesicle RNA of Glioma Patients. Clinical Cancer Research. 28(18). 4070–4082. 26 indexed citations
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Truesdell, Samuel S., Olivier Le Tonquèze, Sooncheol Lee, et al.. (2022). Ribosome changes reprogram translation for chemosurvival in G0 leukemic cells. Science Advances. 8(43). eabo1304–eabo1304. 8 indexed citations
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Yeo, Alan T., Shruti Rawal, Bethany Delcuze, et al.. (2022). Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals evolution of immune landscape during glioblastoma progression. Nature Immunology. 23(6). 971–984. 153 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alexander, Roger P., Robert R. Kitchen, Juan Pablo Tosar, et al.. (2022). Open Problems in Extracellular RNA Data Analysis: Insights From an ERCC Online Workshop. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 778416–778416. 3 indexed citations
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Park, Jongmin, Jun Seok Park, Chen-Han Huang, et al.. (2021). An integrated magneto-electrochemical device for the rapid profiling of tumour extracellular vesicles from blood plasma. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(7). 678–689. 140 indexed citations
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Maas, Sybren L. N., Thomas S. van Solinge, Rosalie Schnoor, et al.. (2020). Orally Administered 5-aminolevulinic Acid for Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Glioblastoma Patients. Cancers. 12(11). 3297–3297. 15 indexed citations
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Muralidharan, Koushik, Anudeep Yekula, Julia L. Small, et al.. (2020). TERT Promoter Mutation Analysis for Blood-Based Diagnosis and Monitoring of Gliomas. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(1). 169–178. 62 indexed citations
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Nilsson, R. Jonas A., Leonora Balaj, Esther Hulleman, et al.. (2019). Supplemental data for Blood platelets contain tumor-derived RNA biomarkers. Pure Amsterdam UMC.
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Balaj, Leonora, Sudeshna Das, Basil T. Darras, et al.. (2018). Analysis of extracellular mRNA in human urine reveals splice variant biomarkers of muscular dystrophies. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3906–3906. 36 indexed citations
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Fathi, Amir T., Darrell R. Borger, Andrew M. Brunner, et al.. (2015). Detection of Dual IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations by Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 17(6). 661–668. 30 indexed citations
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Balaj, Leonora, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Weilin Chen, et al.. (2014). Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models. Pure Amsterdam UMC. 3. 6–6. 1 indexed citations
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Balaj, Leonora, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Weilin Chen, et al.. (2014). Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Bronisz, Agnieszka, Yan Wang, Michal O. Nowicki, et al.. (2013). Extracellular Vesicles Modulate the Glioblastoma Microenvironment via a Tumor Suppression Signaling Network Directed by miR-1. Cancer Research. 74(3). 738–750. 197 indexed citations
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Atai, Nadia A., Leonora Balaj, Henk van Veen, et al.. (2013). Heparin blocks transfer of extracellular vesicles between donor and recipient cells. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 115(3). 343–351. 161 indexed citations
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Balaj, Leonora, John K. Kuster, Xuan Zhang, et al.. (2013). Dopa-Responsive Dystonia: Functional Analysis of Single Nucleotide Substitutions within the 5’ Untranslated GCH1 Region. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76975–e76975. 4 indexed citations
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Momen‐Heravi, Fatemeh, Leonora Balaj, John Tigges, et al.. (2012). Alternative Methods for Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles. Frontiers in Physiology. 3. 354–354. 127 indexed citations

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