Maike Sander

12.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Maike Sander is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Maike Sander has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Surgery, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 42 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Maike Sander's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (64 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (22 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers). Maike Sander is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (64 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (22 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (13 papers). Maike Sander collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Maike Sander's co-authors include Michael S. German, Hung-Ping Shih, Janel L. Kopp, Philip A. Seymour, Claire L. Dubois, Brandon L. Taylor, Kristine Freude, Fenfen Liu, Ashleigh E. Schaffer and Allen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Maike Sander

87 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Identification of Sox9-Dependent Acinar-to-Ductal Reprogramming as the Principal Mechanism for Initiation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

2012 472 citations Janel L. Kopp, Erin Mayes et al. profile →
Inactivation of specific β cell transcription factors in type 2 diabetes

2013 404 citations Maike Sander et al. profile →
Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

2021 205 citations Joshua Chiou, Ryan J. Geusz et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maike Sander United States	45	4.7k	3.8k	2.8k	1.7k	975	90	7.4k
Jan Jensen United States	44	5.2k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	876 0.9×	87	7.5k
Guoqiang Gu United States	29	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	475 0.5×	56	4.8k
Gérard Gradwohl France	40	4.5k 1.0×	5.6k 1.5×	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	68	9.2k
Palle Serup Denmark	53	6.5k 1.4×	5.2k 1.4×	4.3k 1.5×	2.7k 1.6×	643 0.7×	114	9.6k
Beatriz Sosa‐Pineda United States	28	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	524 0.5×	36	4.5k
Eckhard Lammert Germany	32	2.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	861 0.5×	594 0.6×	71	4.9k
Frédéric P. Lemaigre Belgium	46	4.3k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	781 0.5×	864 0.9×	127	8.0k
Kevin A. D’Amour United States	17	4.3k 0.9×	4.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	234 0.2×	23	7.0k
Juliana Brown United States	13	2.8k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	229 0.2×	19	4.4k
Patricia L. M. Dahia United States	41	3.1k 0.7×	4.1k 1.1×	728 0.3×	3.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	103	8.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maike Sander

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Jun, Yesl, R. Hugh F. Bender, Weijuan Gong, et al.. (2025). Engineered vasculature induces functional maturation of pluripotent stem cell-derived islet organoids. Developmental Cell. 60(18). 2455–2469.e7. 4 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhimin, Maolian Gong, Anca Margineanu, et al.. (2024). Atypical KCNQ1/Kv7 channel function in a neonatal diabetes patient: Hypersecretion preceded the failure of pancreatic β-cells. iScience. 27(7). 110291–110291. 4 indexed citations

Bender, R. Hugh F., Benjamen O’Donnell, Bhupinder Shergill, et al.. (2023). A vascularized 3D model of the human pancreatic islet for ex vivo study of immune cell-islet interaction. Biofabrication. 16(2). 25001–25001. 19 indexed citations

Chiou, Joshua, Chun Zeng, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Single-cell chromatin accessibility identifies pancreatic islet cell type– and state-specific regulatory programs of diabetes risk. Nature Genetics. 53(4). 455–466. 89 indexed citations

Chiou, Joshua, Ryan J. Geusz, Mei-Lin Okino, et al.. (2021). Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics. Nature. 594(7863). 398–402. 205 indexed citations breakdown →

Yan, Jian, Yunjiang Qiu, Yimeng Yin, et al.. (2021). Systematic analysis of binding of transcription factors to noncoding variants. Nature. 591(7848). 147–151. 88 indexed citations

Geusz, Ryan J., Allen Wang, Joshua Chiou, et al.. (2021). Pancreatic progenitor epigenome maps prioritize type 2 diabetes risk genes with roles in development. eLife. 10. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Gaowei & Maike Sander. (2021). A multi-omics roadmap of β-cell failure in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 17(11). 641–642. 4 indexed citations

Gaertner, Bjoern, Sebastiaan van Heesch, Valentin Schneider-Lunitz, et al.. (2020). A human ESC-based screen identifies a role for the translated lncRNA LINC00261 in pancreatic endocrine differentiation. eLife. 9. 26 indexed citations

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Ye, Jie, Haitao Wang, Anni Zhang, et al.. (2020). PRDM3 attenuates pancreatitis and pancreatic tumorigenesis by regulating inflammatory response. Cell Death and Disease. 11(3). 187–187. 15 indexed citations

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Patel, Nisha, Ryan J. Geusz, Allen Wang, et al.. (2020). LSD1-mediated enhancer silencing attenuates retinoic acid signalling during pancreatic endocrine cell development. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2082–2082. 26 indexed citations

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Rosen, Evan D., Klaus H. Kaestner, Rama Natarajan, et al.. (2018). Epigenetics and Epigenomics: Implications for Diabetes and Obesity. Diabetes. 67(10). 1923–1931. 122 indexed citations

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Dubois, Claire L., et al.. (2018). Cell of origin affects tumour development and phenotype in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Gut. 68(3). 487–498. 88 indexed citations

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鷹津, 良樹, Feng Tao, Hung-Ping Shih, et al.. (2013). Colony-forming cells in the adult mouse pancreas are expandable in Matrigel and form endocrine/acinar colonies in laminin hydrogel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(10). 3907–3912. 95 indexed citations

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Shih, Hung-Ping, Janel L. Kopp, Manbir Sandhu, et al.. (2012). A Notch-dependent molecular circuitry initiates pancreatic endocrine and ductal cell differentiation. Development. 139(14). 2488–2499. 173 indexed citations

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Schaffer, Ashleigh E., Kristine Freude, Shelley B. Nelson, & Maike Sander. (2010). Nkx6 Transcription Factors and Ptf1a Function as Antagonistic Lineage Determinants in Multipotent Pancreatic Progenitors. Developmental Cell. 18(6). 1022–1029. 208 indexed citations

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Seymour, Philip A., Kristine Freude, Claire L. Dubois, et al.. (2008). A dosage-dependent requirement for Sox9 in pancreatic endocrine cell formation. Developmental Biology. 323(1). 19–30. 99 indexed citations

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Jonckheere, Nicolas, Erin Mayes, Hung-Ping Shih, et al.. (2008). Analysis of mPygo2 mutant mice suggests a requirement for mesenchymal Wnt signaling in pancreatic growth and differentiation. Developmental Biology. 318(2). 224–235. 19 indexed citations

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Sander, Maike, et al.. (1997). Genetic analysis reveals that PAX6 is required for normal transcription of pancreatic hormone genes and islet development.. Genes & Development. 11(13). 1662–1673. 452 indexed citations

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Bäder, Michael, Maike Sander, J. Bachmann, et al.. (1991). THE TRANSGENIC RATS TGR(MREN2)27 - ROLE OF TISSUE RENIN IN THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HYPERTENSION. Hypertension. 18(3). 375–375. 1 indexed citations

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