Mako Kamiya

9.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
144 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Mako Kamiya is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mako Kamiya has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 26 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Mako Kamiya's work include Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (43 papers), Cancer Research and Treatments (22 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (19 papers). Mako Kamiya is often cited by papers focused on Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (43 papers), Cancer Research and Treatments (22 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (19 papers). Mako Kamiya collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Mako Kamiya's co-authors include Yasuteru Urano, Tetsuo Nagano, Daisuke Asanuma, Tasuku Ueno, Peter L. Choyke, Hisataka Kobayashi, Keitaro Umezawa, Kenjiro Hanaoka, Masayo Sakabe and Kenzo Hirose and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Mako Kamiya

142 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Selective molecular imaging of viable cancer cells with pH-activatable fluorescence probes

2008 701 citations Yasuteru Urano, Daisuke Asanuma et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Evolution of Fluorescein as a Platform for Finely Tunable Fluorescence Probes

2005 601 citations Yasuteru Urano, Mako Kamiya et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Rational design of reversible fluorescent probes for live-cell imaging and quantification of fast glutathione dynamics

2016 444 citations Mako Kamiya, Yasuteru Urano et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Sensitive β-galactosidase-targeting fluorescence probe for visualizing small peritoneal metastatic tumours in vivo

2015 357 citations Daisuke Asanuma, Mako Kamiya et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mako Kamiya	3.0k	3.0k	2.6k	1.8k	1.2k	144	7.9k
Lu Wang	2.9k 1.0×	3.3k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	646 0.5×	170	8.5k
Takuya Terai	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	3.9k 1.5×	3.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.9×	104	8.2k
Tasuku Ueno	2.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	159	7.3k
Marc Vendrell	2.6k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	142	6.9k
Kenjiro Hanaoka	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	5.1k 1.9×	4.4k 2.4×	1.4k 1.2×	168	11.2k
Mikako Ogawa	2.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	675 0.6×	157	8.7k
Ralph P. Mason	2.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	776 0.4×	606 0.5×	224	8.1k
Jianghong Rao	6.5k 2.2×	7.8k 2.6×	4.8k 1.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.5×	159	15.0k
Amit Sharma	2.4k 0.8×	4.9k 1.6×	3.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	129	9.0k
Xiao‐Peng He	3.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.0×	5.3k 2.0×	3.9k 2.2×	2.1k 1.7×	228	11.5k

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Kojima, Ryosuke, Ryo Tachibana, Reiko Tsuchiya, et al.. (2025). Design of Antigen-Targeting Fluorogenic Probes Utilizing Intramolecular Addition Reaction of Protein-Dye Hybrids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(34). 30684–30693. 1 indexed citations

Fujioka, Hiroyoshi, Ryo Sakamoto, K. Hiramatsu, et al.. (2025). Near-Infrared Coumarin-Hemicyanine Hybrid Dyes Bearing an Intramolecular Nucleophile for Activatable Fluorescence and Raman Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 97(32). 17589–17597. 1 indexed citations

Ohkubo, Kei, K. Matsuura, Taro Udagawa, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic and Chemoselective H/D Exchange at α-Thio C(sp³)-H Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(18). 15499–15509. 5 indexed citations

Mizuno, Tadahaya, Kazuki Hattori, Chitose Oneyama, et al.. (2024). Barcoding of small extracellular vesicles with CRISPR-gRNA enables comprehensive, subpopulation-specific analysis of their biogenesis and release regulators. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9777–9777. 9 indexed citations

Matsuura, K., Takayoshi Ishimoto, Taro Udagawa, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic Multiple Deuteration of Polyethylene Glycol Derivatives Using Deuterium Oxide. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(14). e202404204–e202404204. 1 indexed citations

Sawama, Yoshinari, Hiroyoshi Fujioka, Mako Kamiya, et al.. (2023). Unprecedented Regioselective Deuterium‐Incorporation of Alkyltrimethylammonium Chlorides and Raman Analysis. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. 12(3). 3 indexed citations

Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Takayoshi Ishimoto, Hiroyoshi Fujioka, et al.. (2023). Impact of multiple H/D replacements on the physicochemical properties of flurbiprofen. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 14(12). 2583–2592.

Nanba, Daisuke, Jun‐ichi Sakabe, Fujio Toki, et al.. (2023). Low temperature and mTOR inhibition favor stem cell maintenance in human keratinocyte cultures. EMBO Reports. 24(6). e55439–e55439. 5 indexed citations

Ishizawa, Takeaki, Yoshinori Inagaki, Mariko Tanaka, et al.. (2023). Real-Time Fluorescence Imaging to Identify Cholangiocarcinoma in the Extrahepatic Biliary Tree Using an Enzyme-Activatable Probe. Liver Cancer. 12(6). 590–602. 5 indexed citations

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Kitagawa, Yosuke, Shota Tanaka, Mako Kamiya, et al.. (2021). A Novel Topical Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Glioblastoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(14). 3936–3947. 22 indexed citations

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Kondo, Yohei, et al.. (2021). Near-infrared imaging in fission yeast using a genetically encoded phycocyanobilin biosynthesis system. Journal of Cell Science. 134(24). 13 indexed citations

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Iwatate, Ryu J., Akira Yoshinari, Marek Grzybowski, et al.. (2020). Covalent Self-Labeling of Tagged Proteins with Chemical Fluorescent Dyes in BY-2 Cells and Arabidopsis Seedlings. The Plant Cell. 32(10). 3081–3094. 24 indexed citations

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Ishizawa, Takeaki, Norihiro Kokudo, Yugo Kuriki, et al.. (2020). On‐Site Monitoring of Postoperative Bile Leakage Using Bilirubin‐Inducible Fluorescent Protein. World Journal of Surgery. 44(12). 4245–4253. 2 indexed citations

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Tachibana, Ryo, Mako Kamiya, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, et al.. (2020). Design of spontaneously blinking fluorophores for live-cell super-resolution imaging based on quantum-chemical calculations. Chemical Communications. 56(86). 13173–13176. 34 indexed citations

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Inagaki, Yoshinori, Takashi Kokudo, Mako Kamiya, et al.. (2019). A novel liver-specific fluorescent anti-cancer drug delivery system using indocyanine green. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3044–3044. 11 indexed citations

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Hino, Rumi, Naoko Inoshita, Makiko Ogawa, et al.. (2018). Rapid detection of papillary thyroid carcinoma by fluorescence imaging using a γ-glutamyltranspeptidase-specific probe: a pilot study. Thyroid Research. 11(1). 16–16. 12 indexed citations

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Kamiya, Mako, et al.. (2017). γ-グルタミルトランスペプチダーゼへの標的活性化可能な光増感剤【Powered by NICT】. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 129(35). 10554–10558. 3 indexed citations

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Kamiya, Mako, Toshitada Yoshihara, Ko Sugawara, et al.. (2014). A spontaneously blinking fluorophore based on intramolecular spirocyclization for live-cell super-resolution imaging. Nature Chemistry. 6(8). 681–689. 372 indexed citations

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Fujii, Tomohiko, Mako Kamiya, & Yasuteru Urano. (2014). In Vivo Imaging of Intraperitoneally Disseminated Tumors in Model Mice by Using Activatable Fluorescent Small-Molecular Probes for Activity of Cathepsins. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 25(10). 1838–1846. 50 indexed citations

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Urano, Yasuteru, Daisuke Asanuma, Yukihiro Hama, et al.. (2008). Selective molecular imaging of viable cancer cells with pH-activatable fluorescence probes. Nature Medicine. 15(1). 104–109. 701 indexed citations breakdown →

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