Mauro Giacca

32.6k citations

410 papers · 22.7k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 80

Impact in

Virology top 0.1%
- HIV Research and Treatment
Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Congenital heart defects research
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Papers in

Virology 66
- HIV Research and Treatment 66
Molecular Biology 254
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery 48
- Congenital heart defects research 38
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 37
- RNA Research and Splicing 33

Co-authors: Lorena Zentilin Serena Zacchigna Gianfranco Sinagra Arturo Falaschi Mudit Tyagi María Inés Gutiérrez Marco Rusnati Marco Presta
Journals: Cardiovascular Research (15 papers)Journal of Virology (12 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (11 papers)Molecular Therapy (10 papers)Circulation Research (8 papers)
Partner nations: Italy United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Mauro Giacca

402 papers receiving 22.3k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

The furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is required for transmission in ferrets 2021 · 464 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Microbiology
2021 Nature
2019 Nature
2017 Circulation
2017 Nature Communications
2017 PubMed
2012 Nature
2007 Cell
2001 Journal of Biological Chemistry

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1	Prediabetes remission and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: post-hoc analyses from the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome study and the DaQing Diabetes Prevention Outcome study The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology ·Eduardo Wilczek, Qiuhong Gong, Robert L. Hanson, Jinping Wang, Taseer Din, Siyao He, Qiangyuan Zhang, Yanfang Yun, Mauro Giacca, Stefan R. Bornstein, Andreas Fritsche, Norbert Stefan, Hubert Preißl, Edward W. Gregg, Nikolaus Marx, Reiner Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, 于甄, Andreas L. Birkenfeld	2025	1
2	NOTCH localizes to mitochondria through the TBC1D15-FIS1 interaction and is stabilized via blockade of E3 ligase and CDK8 recruitment to reprogram tumor-initiating cells Experimental & Molecular Medicine ·Hye Yeon Choi, AOM Wagner, Xuyao Zhao, Lea Zografidou, Endah Rochmawati, Jae Jin Lee, Yi Kou, Aida Nuriy Zumzumi, Mauro Giacca, Giannino Del Sal, Ratna B. Ray, Hyungjin Eoh, Stanley M. Tahara, Lin Chen, Hidekazu Tsukamoto, Keigo Machida	2024	4
3	Persistent SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in patients seemingly recovered from COVID‐19 The Journal of Pathology ·Rossana Bussani, Lorena Zentilin, Ricardo Correa, Andrea Colliva, Furio Silvestri, Serena Zacchigna, Chiara Collesi, Mauro Giacca	2023	35
4	SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein activates TMEM16F-mediated platelet procoagulant activity Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine ·R. G. Holmes, Harriet E. Allan, Marilena Crescente, Edoardo Schneider, Rossana Bussani, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, Simone Vodret, Roberto Simeone, L Mascaretti, Serena Zacchigna, Timothy D. Warner, Mauro Giacca	2023	9
5	Haemorrhage of human foetal cortex associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection Brain ·T Venkatarami Reddy, Sunita Das, Peter Kohrt, Chiara Collesi, R. Holloway, Berta Crespo, Lorena Zentilin, Anna Williams, Véronique E. Miron, Mauro Giacca, Katherine R. Long	2023	20
6	Nrf2 attenuates the innate immune response after experimental myocardial infarction Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Daniel I. Bromage, Silvia Cellone Trevelin, T. Karaderi, 雄高向井, Chengbo Huang, 陶毅明, Greta J. Sawyer, Xiaohong Zhang, Célio X.C. Santos, Niloufar Safinia, Ioannis Smyrnias, Mauro Giacca, Aleksandar Ívetic, Ajay M. Shah	2022	6
7	Drugs that inhibit TMEM16 proteins block SARS-CoV-2 spike-induced syncytia Nature ·Luca Braga, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, Elena Chiavacci, Guilherme Neves, Daniel H. Goldhill, Rebecca Penn, Jose M. Jiménez-Guardeño, Ana Maria Ortega‐Prieto, Rossana Bussani, Antonio Cannatà, Hilda Sharifzadeh, Chiara Collesi, Edoardo Schneider, Daniele Arosio, Ajay M. Shah, William Barclay, Michael H. Malim, Juan Burrone, Mauro Giacca Hit paper breakdown →	2021	281
8	Non-coding RNA therapeutics for cardiac regeneration Cardiovascular Research ·Luca Braga, Hashim Ali, Ilaria Secco, Mauro Giacca	2020	68
9	Persistence of viral RNA, pneumocyte syncytia and thrombosis are hallmarks of advanced COVID-19 pathology EBioMedicine ·Rossana Bussani, Edoardo Schneider, Lorena Zentilin, Chiara Collesi, Hashim Ali, Luca Braga, Maria Concetta Volpe, Andrea Colliva, Fabrizio Zanconati, Giorgio Berlot, Furio Silvestri, Serena Zacchigna, Mauro Giacca	2020	233
10	Intracoronary Gene Delivery of the Cytoprotective Factor Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-B167 in Canine Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Short-Term Feasibility Study Veterinary Sciences ·Paola Paradies, Lucia Carlucci, Felix Woitek, Francesco Staffieri, Luca Lacitignola, Luigi Ceci, Andrea Grunau, Mariateresa Sasanelli, Lorena Zentilin, Mauro Giacca, Stefano Salvadori, Antonio Crovace, Fabio A. Recchia	2019	6
11	miR-378a influences vascularization in skeletal muscles Cardiovascular Research ·Bart Krist, Paulina Podkalicka, Olga Mucha, Mateusz Mendel, D. R. Ollerup, M. Lacroix, Ewelina Józefczuk, Karolina Bukowska-Straková, Anna Grochot‐Przeczek, İskender Peker, Damian Klóska, Mauro Giacca, Paweł Maga, Rafał Niżankowski, Alicja Józkowicz, Agnieszka Łoboda, Józef Dulak, Urszula Florczyk	2019	26
12	miR-200 family members reduce senescence and restore idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis type II alveolar epithelial cell transdifferentiation ERJ Open Research ·Silvia Moimas, Francesco Salton, Beata Kośmider, Nadja Ring, Maria Concetta Volpe, Karim Bahmed, Luca Braga, Michael Rehman, Simone Vodret, Jeanne He, Marla R. Wolfson, Nathaniel Marchetti, Thomas J. Rogers, Mauro Giacca, Gerard J. Criner, Serena Zacchigna, Marco Confalonieri	2019	46
13	TBL1Y: a new gene involved in syndromic hearing loss European Journal of Human Genetics ·Mariateresa Di Stazio, Chiara Collesi, Diego Vozzi, Wei Liu, I. Mauritzson, Anna Morgan, Pio D’Adamo, Giorgia Girotto, 山田朋来, Mauro Giacca, Paolo Gasparini	2018	15
14	A rationally designed NRP1-independent superagonist SEMA3A mutant is an effective anticancer agent Science Translational Medicine ·C. Koscielniak, Federica Maione, Chiara Camillo, Michela Ghitti, Donatella Valdembri, Noemi Morello, Gopala Krishna Reddy A, Lorena Zentilin, Gabriella Cagnoni, Yaqi Qiu, Mauro Giacca, Maurizio Giustetto, Michel Pâques, Ilaria Cascone, Giovanna Musco, Luca Tamagnone, Enrico Giraudo, Guido Serini	2018	42
15	In Vivo Functional Selection Identifies Cardiotrophin-1 as a Cardiac Engraftment Factor for Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Circulation ·Francesca Bortolotti, Giulia Ruozi, Fábio Wollenhaupt Cardoso, Katsuya Deguchi, Matteo Dal Ferro, Pierluigi Lesizza, Lorena Zentilin, Lawrence Banks, Serena Zacchigna, Mauro Giacca	2017	24
16	Postnatal Cardiac Gene Editing Using CRISPR/Cas9 With AAV9-Mediated Delivery of Short Guide RNAs Results in Mosaic Gene Disruption Circulation Research ·Anne Katrine Johansen, Bas Molenaar, Daniëlle Versteeg, Ana Rita Leitoguinho, Meigen Zhou, Bastiaan Spanjaard, Hesther de Ruiter, Farhad Akbari Moqadam, Lieneke Kooijman, Lorena Zentilin, Mauro Giacca, Eva van Rooij	2017	50
17	A mouse model for adult cardiac-specific gene deletion with CRISPR/Cas9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kelli J. Carroll, Catherine A. Makarewich, John McAnally, Douglas M. Anderson, Lorena Zentilin, Ning Liu, Mauro Giacca, Rhonda Bassel‐Duby, Eric N. Olson	2015	130
18	AAV-mediated in vivo functional selection of tissue-protective factors against ischaemia Nature Communications ·Giulia Ruozi, Francesca Bortolotti, Fábio Wollenhaupt Cardoso, Matteo Dal Ferro, Rajasekhar Rekapalli, Yawen Hudson, Lorena Zentilin, Nicoletta Filigheddu, G. Gortan Cappellari, Giovanna Baldini, Marina Zweyer, Rocco Barazzoni, Andrea Graziani, Serena Zacchigna, Mauro Giacca	2015	52
19	Neuropilin-1 Identifies a Subset of Bone Marrow Gr1− Monocytes That Can Induce Tumor Vessel Normalization and Inhibit Tumor Growth Cancer Research ·Alessandro Carrer, Silvia Moimas, Serena Zacchigna, Lucia Pattarini, Lorena Zentilin, Giulia Ruozi, Miguel Mano, Milena Sinigaglia, Federica Maione, Guido Serini, Enrico Giraudo, Federico Bussolino, Mauro Giacca	2012	43
20	Purging of chronic myelogenous leukemia cells by retrovirally expressed anti–bcr-abl ribozymes with specific cellular compartmentalization Cancer Gene Therapy ·Ramiro Mendoza-Maldonado, Lorena Zentilin, Renato Fanin, Mauro Giacca	2002	13

About Mauro Giacca

Mauro Giacca is a scholar working on Virology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics and Infectious Diseases, having authored 410 papers that have together received 22.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include HIV Research and Treatment (66 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (59 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (48 papers), Congenital heart defects research (38 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (37 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (33 papers), Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (29 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Virology (2.6k citations), Molecular Biology (13.7k citations), Cancer Research (2.3k citations), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (3.2k citations) and Infectious Diseases (2.5k citations). Mauro Giacca has collaborated with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Lorena Zentilin, Serena Zacchigna, Gianfranco Sinagra, Arturo Falaschi, Mudit Tyagi, María Inés Gutiérrez, Marco Rusnati, Marco Presta, Miguel Mano and Antonio Fittipaldi. Their work appears in journals such as Cardiovascular Research, Journal of Virology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Therapy and Circulation Research.

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