Nicholas J. Leeper

10.4k citations

131 papers · 6.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Immunology top 1%
- Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
- Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Immune cells in cancer
Cancer Research top 2%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation

Papers in

Internal Medicine 8
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 41
- Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases 8

Co-authors: Yoko Kojima John P. Cooke Lars Mäegdefessel Thomas Quertermous Kevin T. Nead Irving L. Weissman Nigam H. Shah Philip S. Tsao
Journals: Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (11 papers)Circulation (8 papers)Journal of the American College of Cardiology (7 papers)Vascular Medicine (6 papers)Circulation Research (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Sweden Canada

In The Last Decade

Nicholas J. Leeper

123 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Plozasiran for Managing Persistent Chylomicronemia and Pancreatitis Risk 2024 · 66 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.

2024 New England Journal of Medicine
2024 Nature Reviews Cardiology
2016 Nature

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All Works

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1	The atherosclerosis–cancer axis: the shared immunotherapeutic potential of CBL inhibition European Heart Journal ·Kai-Uwe Jarr, Lingfeng Luo, Nicholas J. Leeper	2025	0
2	Smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis: essential but overlooked translational perspectives European Heart Journal ·Pascal Azar, Kai-Uwe Jarr, Delphine Gomez, Helle F. Jørgensen, Nicholas J. Leeper, Marie‐Luce Bochaton‐Piallat	2025	4
3	The antipsychotic drug thiothixene stimulates macrophages to clear pathogenic cells by inducing arginase 1 and continual efferocytosis Science Signaling ·Yoko Kojima, Zhongde Ye, Fudi Wang, Mozhgan Lotfi, Caitlin Bell, Shaunak Adkar, Lingfeng Luo, Changhao Fu, Nicholas J. Leeper	2025	1
4	Genetic modelling of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein/remnant lowering mimics APOC3 silencing and predicts clinically relevant coronary heart disease event reductions European Journal of Preventive Cardiology ·Elias Björnson, Chris J. Packard, Martin Adiels, Nicholas J. Leeper, Jennifer Hellawell, Anders Gummesson, Steven E. Nissen, Jan Borén	2025	2
5	DEVELOPMENT OF BRB-002, A NOVEL NEXT-GENERATION ANTI-CD47 MOLECULE, FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·B. Alexander Yi, Pierre Signore, Kevin J. Paavola, Ann M. Marseilles, Sharline Chen, Rui Yun, Andrew Morrison, Leyland J. Adams, Brittany Winner, Nicholas J. Leeper, V. L. Bhargava, Sharon Crugnale, Pavan Cheruvu, Craig T. Basson	2025	1
6	Peripheral Artery Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Novel Therapies Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Anand Athavale, Eri Fukaya, Nicholas J. Leeper	2024	10
7	Multiplex Imaging for Cell Phenotyping of Early Human Atherosclerosis Journal of the American Heart Association ·Maria Elishaev, Boaz Li, A. Ning Zhou, Kevin Salim, Nicholas J. Leeper, Gordon A. Francis, Chi Lai, Ying Wang	2024	2
8	Cancer Incidence After Diagnosis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm—Brief Report Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Lingfeng Luo, Allen Haas, Caitlin Bell, Richard A. Baylis, Shaunak Adkar, Changhao Fu, Ivan Angelov, Sharon H. Giordano, Derek Klarin, Nicholas J. Leeper, Kevin T. Nead	2024	1
9	Risk of Cancer After Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease JACC CardioOncology ·Caitlin Bell, Xiudong Lei, Allen Haas, Richard A. Baylis, Hua Gao, Lingfeng Luo, Sharon H. Giordano, Mackenzie R. Wehner, Kevin T. Nead, Nicholas J. Leeper	2023	64
10	Combined near infrared photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound detects vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque Biomaterials ·Martin Schneider, James Wang, Aris J. Kare, Shaunak Adkar, Darren Salmi, Caitlin Bell, Tom Alsaigh, Dhananjay Wagh, John A. Coller, Aaron T. Mayer, Sarah J. Snyder, Alexander D. Borowsky, Steven Long, Maarten G. Lansberg, Gary K. Steinberg, Jeremy J. Heit, Nicholas J. Leeper, Katherine W. Ferrara	2023	11
11	Generation of induced pluripotent stem cell line from a patient suffering from arterial calcification due to deficiency of CD73 (ACDC) Stem Cell Research ·Dipti Tripathi, Amit Manhas, Chikage Noishiki, David Wu, Shaunak Adkar, Karim Sallam, Eri Fukaya, Nicholas J. Leeper, Nazish Sayed	2023	2
12	Prevention of arterial and venous thrombotic events in symptomatic peripheral arterial disease patients after lower extremity revascularization in the VOYAGER PAD trial: Dual anticoagulant/antiplatelet regimen vs antiplatelet therapy alone Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis ·Scott D. Berkowitz, Rupert Bauersachs, Michael Szarek, Mark R. Nehler, E. Sebastian Debus, Manesh R. Patel, Sonia S. Anand, Warren H. Capell, Connie N. Hess, Judith Hsia, Nicholas J. Leeper, David Brasil, Lajos Mátyás, Rafael Díaz, Marianne Brodmann, Eva Muehlhofer, Lloyd Haskell, Marc P. Bonaca	2022	7
13	Unsupervised Learning for Automated Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Subgroups Journal of the American Heart Association ·Alyssa M. Flores, Alejandro Schuler, Anne V. Eberhard, Jeffrey W. Olin, John P. Cooke, Nicholas J. Leeper, Nigam H. Shah, Elsie Ross	2021	33
14	Bioimpedance and New‐Onset Heart Failure: A Longitudinal Study of >500 000 Individuals From the General Population Journal of the American Heart Association ·Daniel Lindholm, Eri Fukaya, Nicholas J. Leeper, Erik Ingelsson	2018	37
15	Clinical and genetic determinants of varicose veins : a prospective, community-based prospective study of similar to 500,000 individuals Vascular Medicine ·Eri Fukaya, A Espinosa Flores, Daniel Lindholm, Stefan Gustafsson, Erik Ingelsson, Nicholas J. Leeper	2018	2
16	A CD47-associated super-enhancer links pro-inflammatory signalling to CD47 upregulation in breast cancer Nature ·Paola Betancur, Brian J. Abraham, Ying Ying Yiu, Stephen B. Willingham, Farnaz Khameneh, Mark A. Zarnegar, Angera H. Kuo, Kelly M. McKenna, Yoko Kojima, Nicholas J. Leeper, Po Y. Ho, Phung Gip, Tomek Swigut, Richard I. Sherwood, Michael F. Clarke, George Somlo, Richard A. Young, Irving L. Weissman	2017	1
17	Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Risk of Dementia International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·Kevin T. Nead, Gregory L. Gaskin, C. Susan Chester, Samuel Swisher‐McClure, Nicholas J. Leeper, Nigam H. Shah	2016	1
18	Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2B regulates efferocytosis and atherosclerosis Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Yoko Kojima, Kelly Downing, Ramendra Kundu, Clint L. Miller, Frederick E. Dewey, Hope Lancero, Uwe Raaz, Ljubica Perisic, Ulf Hedin, Eric E. Schadt, Lars Mäegdefessel, Thomas Quertermous, Nicholas J. Leeper	2014	116
19	Disease-Related Growth Factor and Embryonic Signaling Pathways Modulate an Enhancer of TCF21 Expression at the 6q23.2 Coronary Heart Disease Locus PLoS Genetics ·Clint L. Miller, Denise Anderson, Ramendra K. Kundu, Azad Raiesdana, Sylvia Nürnberg, Roxanne Diaz, Karen Cheng, Nicholas J. Leeper, Chung‐Hsing Chen, I–Shou Chang, Eric E. Schadt, Chao A. Hsiung, Themistocles L. Assimes, Thomas Quertermous	2013	51
20	Clinical Significance of High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Patients With Low Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Emil M. deGoma, Nicholas J. Leeper, Paul A. Heidenreich	2008	98

About Nicholas J. Leeper

Nicholas J. Leeper is a scholar working on Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Immunology and Cancer Research, having authored 131 papers that have together received 6.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Peripheral Artery Disease Management (35 papers), Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation (15 papers), Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (12 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (11 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (11 papers), Aortic aneurysm repair treatments (9 papers), Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (9 papers) and Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (1.7k citations), Cancer Research (957 citations), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (1.3k citations), Surgery (2.2k citations) and Health Informatics (58 citations). Nicholas J. Leeper has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Yoko Kojima, John P. Cooke, Lars Mäegdefessel, Thomas Quertermous, Kevin T. Nead, Irving L. Weissman, Nigam H. Shah, Philip S. Tsao, Ramendra K. Kundu and Alyssa M. Flores. Their work appears in journals such as Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine and Circulation Research.

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