Michael Luciano

856 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 654 citations indexed

About

Michael Luciano is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Luciano has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 654 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 10 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Luciano's work include Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (8 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (7 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (7 papers). Michael Luciano is often cited by papers focused on Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (8 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (7 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (7 papers). Michael Luciano collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Michael Luciano's co-authors include Christian Brückner, Martin J. Schnermann, Joseph D. Kalen, Nimit L. Patel, Joshua Akhigbe, Roger R. Nani, Christina M. Robinson, Simone Difilippantonio, Matthias Zeller and Syed Muhammad Usama and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Luciano

26 papers receiving 649 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.

Targeted multicolor in vivo imaging over 1,000 nm enabled by nonamethine cyanines

2022 139 citations Venugopal Bandi, Michael Luciano et al. Nature Methods profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Luciano United States	13	310	288	176	145	95	27	654
Martyna Krzykawska-Serda Poland	12	254 0.8×	161 0.6×	92 0.5×	151 1.0×	51 0.5×	30	512
Ryu J. Iwatate Japan	9	195 0.6×	153 0.5×	215 1.2×	38 0.3×	71 0.7×	13	480
Le Tu China	14	509 1.6×	318 1.1×	165 0.9×	115 0.8×	105 1.1×	27	763
Guillaume Bort France	10	285 0.9×	329 1.1×	142 0.8×	48 0.3×	89 0.9×	16	679
James E. Whitaker United States	11	245 0.8×	246 0.9×	303 1.7×	230 1.6×	69 0.7×	12	872
Shixuan Wei China	11	533 1.7×	313 1.1×	296 1.7×	101 0.7×	101 1.1×	14	833
Mark T. Jarvi Canada	11	890 2.9×	351 1.2×	224 1.3×	625 4.3×	45 0.5×	14	1.1k
Ana Jiménez-Banzo Spain	8	434 1.4×	367 1.3×	196 1.1×	358 2.5×	52 0.5×	10	771
Angelika Rück Germany	18	336 1.1×	253 0.9×	176 1.0×	394 2.7×	27 0.3×	41	724
Kazuhito Tanabe Japan	17	170 0.5×	181 0.6×	380 2.2×	54 0.4×	234 2.5×	52	749

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Debie, Pieterjan, Michael Luciano, Dong‐Hao Li, et al.. (2025). A Comparative Study on the Effect of Near-Infrared Fluorescent Dyes on the Pharmacokinetic Behavior of Nanobody-Based Tracers for In Vivo Imaging. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(21). 23472–23484.

Ghosh, Sukhen C., Michael Luciano, Po Hien Ear, et al.. (2022). High-Contrast Detection of Somatostatin Receptor Subtype-2 for Fluorescence-Guided Surgery. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 19(11). 4241–4253. 12 indexed citations

Luciano, Michael, Rupak Timilsina, Martin J. Schnermann, & Alexandra J. Dickinson. (2022). Imaging retinaldehyde-protein binding in plants using a merocyanine reporter. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 671. 421–433. 1 indexed citations

Usama, Syed Muhammad, Donald R. Caldwell, Michael Luciano, et al.. (2022). Modified norcyanines enable ratiometric pH imaging beyond 1000 nm. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 217. 114610–114610. 11 indexed citations

Bandi, Venugopal, Michael Luciano, Mara Saccomano, et al.. (2022). Targeted multicolor in vivo imaging over 1,000 nm enabled by nonamethine cyanines. Nature Methods. 19(3). 353–358. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

Dickinson, Alexandra J., Jingyuan Zhang, Michael Luciano, et al.. (2021). A plant lipocalin promotes retinal-mediated oscillatory lateral root initiation. Science. 373(6562). 1532–1536. 36 indexed citations

Nam, So Hyun, et al.. (2021). Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a swine model using a novel near‐infrared fluorescent IV dye (BL‐760). Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 54(2). 305–310. 2 indexed citations

Usama, Syed Muhammad, Ek Raj Thapaliya, Michael Luciano, & Martin J. Schnermann. (2021). Not so innocent: Impact of fluorophore chemistry on the in vivo properties of bioconjugates. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 63. 38–45. 41 indexed citations

Matikonda, Siddharth S., Lennart Grabenhorst, Dominic A. Helmerich, et al.. (2021). Targetable Conformationally Restricted Cyanines Enable Photon‐Count‐Limited Applications**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(51). 26685–26693. 34 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, et al.. (2020). Pyrrole-Modified Porphyrins Containing Eight-Membered Heterocycles Using a Reversal of the “Breaking and Mending” Strategy. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(23). 15273–15286. 2 indexed citations

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Schlegel, Jan, Ralph Götz, Michael Luciano, et al.. (2020). Whole-cell imaging of plasma membrane receptors by 3D lattice light-sheet dSTORM. Nature Communications. 11(1). 887–887. 50 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, Alexander P. Gorka, Roger R. Nani, et al.. (2020). A near-infrared light-mediated cleavable linker strategy using the heptamethine cyanine chromophore. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 641. 245–275. 12 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, Stephen N. Crooke, Roger R. Nani, et al.. (2019). A Nonaggregating Heptamethine Cyanine for Building Brighter Labeled Biomolecules. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(5). 934–940. 67 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, et al.. (2019). Ureter Identification In an Inflammatory Pig Model Using a Novel Near‐Infrared Fluorescent Dye. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 52(6). 537–542. 7 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, Jung‐Man Namgoong, Roger R. Nani, et al.. (2019). A Biliary Tract-Specific Near-Infrared Fluorescent Dye for Image-Guided Hepatobiliary Surgery. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 16(7). 3253–3260. 13 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, et al.. (2018). An Alternate Route of Transforming meso-Tetraarylporphyrins to Porpholactams, and Their Conversion to Amine-Functionalized Imidazoloporphyrins. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(17). 9619–9630. 7 indexed citations

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Cha, Jaepyeong, Roger R. Nani, Michael Luciano, et al.. (2018). A chemically stable fluorescent marker of the ureter. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 28(16). 2741–2745. 48 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael & Christian Brückner. (2017). Modifications of Porphyrins and Hydroporphyrins for Their Solubilization in Aqueous Media. Molecules. 22(6). 980–980. 71 indexed citations

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Luciano, Michael, et al.. (2016). Supersizing pyrrole-modified porphyrins by reversal of the ‘breaking and mending’ strategy. Chemical Communications. 52(66). 10133–10136. 8 indexed citations

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Akhigbe, Joshua, Michael Luciano, Matthias Zeller, & Christian Brückner. (2014). Mono- and Bisquinoline-Annulated Porphyrins from Porphyrin β,β′-Dione Oximes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 80(1). 499–511. 35 indexed citations

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