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

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Tumour microvesicles contain retrotransposon elements and amplified oncogene sequences

2011 965 citations Leonora Balaj, Xandra O. Breakefield et al. Nature Communications profile →
Extracellular Vesicles: Composition, Biological Relevance, and Methods of Study

2015 943 citations Leonora Balaj, Xandra O. Breakefield et al. profile →
Protein typing of circulating microvesicles allows real-time monitoring of glioblastoma therapy

2012 641 citations Leonora Balaj, Alain Charest et al. profile →
Chip-based analysis of exosomal mRNA mediating drug resistance in glioblastoma

2015 504 citations Leonora Balaj, Bob S. Carter et al. Nature Communications profile →
Current methods for the isolation of extracellular vesicles

2013 477 citations Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Leonora Balaj et al. profile →
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 →
Intraventricular CARv3-TEAM-E T Cells in Recurrent Glioblastoma

2024 210 citations Leonora Balaj, Bob S. Carter et al. profile →
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 →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	Systematic Review of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Discovery in Neuro-Oncology: A Roadmap to Standardization and Clinical Application	Journal of Clinical Oncology	Nicholas Mikolajewicz, Patricia Yee et al.	13
2	Clinical utility of a blood based assay for the detection of IDH1.R132H-mutant gliomas	Nature Communications	A. Escobedo, Tiffaney Hsia et al.	9
3	Longitudinal analysis of serum-derived extracellular vesicle RNA to monitor dacomitinib treatment response in EGFR-amplified recurrent glioblastoma patients	Neuro-Oncology Advances	Anudeep Yekula, Tiffaney Hsia et al.	2
4	Systematic Review of Photodynamic Therapy in Gliomas	Cancers	Tiffaney Hsia, Julia L. Small et al.	28
5	Highly Sensitive EGFRvIII Detection in Circulating Extracellular Vesicle RNA of Glioma Patients	Clinical Cancer Research	Koushik Muralidharan, Tiffaney Hsia et al.	26
6	Ribosome changes reprogram translation for chemosurvival in G0 leukemic cells	Science Advances	Samuel S. Truesdell, Olivier Le Tonquèze et al.	8
7	Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals evolution of immune landscape during glioblastoma progression breakdown →	Nature Immunology	Alan T. Yeo, Shruti Rawal et al.	153
8	Open Problems in Extracellular RNA Data Analysis: Insights From an ERCC Online Workshop	Frontiers in Genetics	Roger P. Alexander, Robert R. Kitchen et al.	3
9	An integrated magneto-electrochemical device for the rapid profiling of tumour extracellular vesicles from blood plasma	Nature Biomedical Engineering	Jongmin Park, Jun Seok Park et al.	140
10	Orally Administered 5-aminolevulinic Acid for Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Glioblastoma Patients	Cancers	Sybren L. N. Maas, Thomas S. van Solinge et al.	15
11	TERT Promoter Mutation Analysis for Blood-Based Diagnosis and Monitoring of Gliomas	Clinical Cancer Research	Koushik Muralidharan, Anudeep Yekula et al.	62
12	Supplemental data for Blood platelets contain tumor-derived RNA biomarkers	Pure Amsterdam UMC	R. Jonas A. Nilsson, Leonora Balaj et al.	0
13	Analysis of extracellular mRNA in human urine reveals splice variant biomarkers of muscular dystrophies	Nature Communications	Leonora Balaj, Sudeshna Das et al.	36
14	Detection of Dual IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations by Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes	Journal of Molecular Diagnostics	Amir T. Fathi, Darrell R. Borger et al.	30
15	Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models	Pure Amsterdam UMC	Leonora Balaj, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi et al.	1
16	Detection of Human c-Myc and EGFR Amplifications in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Mouse Tumour Models		Leonora Balaj, Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi et al.	1
17	Extracellular Vesicles Modulate the Glioblastoma Microenvironment via a Tumor Suppression Signaling Network Directed by miR-1	Cancer Research	Agnieszka Bronisz, Yan Wang et al.	197
18	Heparin blocks transfer of extracellular vesicles between donor and recipient cells	Journal of Neuro-Oncology	Nadia A. Atai, Leonora Balaj et al.	161
19	Dopa-Responsive Dystonia: Functional Analysis of Single Nucleotide Substitutions within the 5’ Untranslated GCH1 Region	PLoS ONE	Leonora Balaj, John K. Kuster et al.	4
20	Alternative Methods for Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles	Frontiers in Physiology	Fatemeh Momen‐Heravi, Leonora Balaj et al.	127

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