Michelle E. McClements

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

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Michelle E. McClements is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ophthalmology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle E. McClements has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Ophthalmology. Recurrent topics in Michelle E. McClements's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (55 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (35 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (20 papers). Michelle E. McClements is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (55 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (35 papers) and Virus-based gene therapy research (20 papers). Michelle E. McClements collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Michelle E. McClements's co-authors include Robert E. MacLaren, Ariel Kantor, Alun R. Barnard, Jasmina Cehajic‐Kapetanovic, Mandeep S. Singh, Cristina Martínez-Fernández de la Cámara, Lewis E. Fry, Peter Charbel Issa, Kanmin Xue and Harry O. Orlans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michelle E. McClements

70 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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CRISPR-Cas9 DNA Base-Editing and Prime-Editing

2020 288 citations Ariel Kantor, Michelle E. McClements et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle E. McClements United Kingdom	26	1.7k	490	467	401	194	74	1.9k
Astra Dinculescu United States	20	1.8k 1.0×	606 1.2×	696 1.5×	438 1.1×	216 1.1×	43	1.9k
Renee C. Ryals United States	19	1.4k 0.8×	335 0.7×	549 1.2×	187 0.5×	127 0.7×	36	1.7k
Knut Stieger Germany	25	1.2k 0.7×	546 1.1×	478 1.0×	224 0.6×	433 2.2×	80	1.8k
Scott Robbie United Kingdom	19	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 2.3×	689 1.5×	383 1.0×	372 1.9×	45	2.5k
Suja Hiriyanna United States	19	1.1k 0.7×	375 0.8×	371 0.8×	222 0.6×	179 0.9×	22	1.3k
Christine N. Kay United States	13	871 0.5×	504 1.0×	372 0.8×	131 0.3×	212 1.1×	45	1.2k
Rajendra Kumar‐Singh United States	28	1.7k 1.0×	642 1.3×	597 1.3×	294 0.7×	309 1.6×	68	2.2k
Kamaljit S. Balaggan United Kingdom	18	2.4k 1.4×	939 1.9×	1.1k 2.4×	506 1.3×	440 2.3×	32	2.8k
Meike Visel United States	17	1.5k 0.9×	407 0.8×	608 1.3×	558 1.4×	184 0.9×	25	1.8k
Binoy Appukuttan United States	21	828 0.5×	500 1.0×	209 0.4×	199 0.5×	294 1.5×	61	1.6k

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Fry, Lewis E., Ahmed Salman, Lucy McDermott, et al.. (2025). Comparison of CRISPR-Cas13b RNA base editing approaches for USH2A-associated inherited retinal degeneration. Communications Biology. 8(1). 200–200. 3 indexed citations

Salman, Ahmed, Won Kyung Song, Tina Storm, Michelle E. McClements, & Robert E. MacLaren. (2025). CRISPR targeting of SNPs associated with age-related macular degeneration in ARPE-19 cells: a potential model for manipulating the complement system. Gene Therapy. 32(2). 132–141. 2 indexed citations

Yusuf, Imran H., Thomas Burgoyne, Ahmed Salman, et al.. (2024). Rescue of cone and rod photoreceptor function in a CDHR1-model of age-related retinal degeneration. Molecular Therapy. 32(5). 1445–1460. 1 indexed citations

McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2024). Gene Therapies in Clinical Development to Treat Retinal Disorders. Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy. 28(5). 575–591. 6 indexed citations

McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2023). A Review of CRISPR Tools for Treating Usher Syndrome: Applicability, Safety, Efficiency, and In Vivo Delivery. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(8). 7603–7603. 6 indexed citations

Salman, Ahmed, Ariel Kantor, Michelle E. McClements, et al.. (2022). Non-Viral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas Cargo to the Retina Using Nanoparticles: Current Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations. Pharmaceutics. 14(9). 1842–1842. 25 indexed citations

McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2021). An analysis of the Kozak consensus in retinal genes and its relevance to gene therapy.. PubMed. 27. 233–242. 5 indexed citations

McClements, Michelle E., Alun R. Barnard, Elise Orhan, et al.. (2021). Functional expression of complement factor I following AAV-mediated gene delivery in the retina of mice and human cells. Gene Therapy. 28(5). 265–276. 41 indexed citations

McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2021). AAV Induced Expression of Human Rod and Cone Opsin in Bipolar Cells of a Mouse Model of Retinal Degeneration. BioMed Research International. 2021(1). 1–8. 20 indexed citations

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Kantor, Ariel, et al.. (2020). Genome-Editing Strategies for Treating Human Retinal Degenerations. Human Gene Therapy. 32(5-6). 247–259. 28 indexed citations

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McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2020). Optogenetic Gene Therapy for the Degenerate Retina: Recent Advances. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 14. 570909–570909. 52 indexed citations

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Hassall, Mark, Michelle E. McClements, Alun R. Barnard, et al.. (2020). Analysis of Early Cone Dysfunction in an In Vivo Model of Rod-Cone Dystrophy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(17). 6055–6055. 3 indexed citations

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Singh, Mandeep S., Dominik Fischer, Samantha R. De Silva, et al.. (2020). Repair of Retinal Degeneration following Ex Vivo Minicircle DNA Gene Therapy and Transplantation of Corrected Photoreceptor Progenitors. Molecular Therapy. 28(3). 830–844. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiang-Hui, et al.. (2019). Validation of in vitro gene therapy for Bietti crystalline dystrophy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 3420–3420.

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Orlans, Harry O., et al.. (2019). Mirtron gene therapy for the treatment of rhodopsin-related dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 5195–5195. 1 indexed citations

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McClements, Michelle E., et al.. (2019). Identification of a new Kozak consensus in genes expressed in photoreceptors.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 3399–3399. 1 indexed citations

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Cehajic‐Kapetanovic, Jasmina, Michelle E. McClements, Cristina Martínez-Fernández de la Cámara, & Robert E. MacLaren. (2019). Molecular Strategies for RPGR Gene Therapy. Genes. 10(9). 674–674. 32 indexed citations

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Silva, Samantha R. De, Alun R. Barnard, Steven Hughes, et al.. (2017). Long-term restoration of visual function in end-stage retinal degeneration using subretinal human melanopsin gene therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(42). 11211–11216. 64 indexed citations

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McClements, Michelle E., Mandeep S. Singh, Peter Charbel Issa, & Robert E. MacLaren. (2014). Developing an AAV dual vector ABCA4 gene therapy treatment for Stargardt disease. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 55(13). 3328–3328. 1 indexed citations

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McClements, Michelle E., Maureen Neitz, Anthony T. Moore, & David M. Hunt. (2010). Bornholm Eye Disease Arises From a Specific Combination of Amino Acid Changes Encoded by Exon 3 of the L/M Cone Opsin Gene. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 51(13). 2609–2609. 4 indexed citations

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