Omar A. Ali

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Omar A. Ali is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Omar A. Ali has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Immunology, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Omar A. Ali's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (12 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (7 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (6 papers). Omar A. Ali is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (12 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (7 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (6 papers). Omar A. Ali collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Omar A. Ali's co-authors include David Mooney, Nathaniel Huebsch, Glenn Dranoff, Sidi A. Bencherif, Dmitry Shvartsman, Angelo S. Mao, José Rivera‐Feliciano, Praveen Arany, Dwaine F. Emerich and Sarah A. Lewin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Omar A. Ali

23 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate

2010 1.3k citations Nathaniel Huebsch, Praveen Arany et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Omar A. Ali United States	17	1.6k	1.2k	939	717	665	23	3.4k
Aileen W. Li United States	24	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	851 1.2×	470 0.7×	28	3.1k
Moonsoo M. Jin United States	36	1.0k 0.6×	390 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	787 1.1×	983 1.5×	85	4.9k
Junsang Doh South Korea	32	1.5k 0.9×	866 0.7×	899 1.0×	620 0.9×	277 0.4×	112	3.2k
Jonathan Lam United States	12	478 0.3×	249 0.2×	1.6k 1.7×	813 1.1×	407 0.6×	15	2.8k
Daniela Loessner Australia	29	1.9k 1.2×	157 0.1×	781 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	751 1.1×	63	3.5k
Lonnie D. Shea United States	39	909 0.6×	340 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	338 0.5×	731 1.1×	70	3.8k
Sarah A. Lewin United States	16	833 0.5×	866 0.7×	586 0.6×	528 0.7×	490 0.7×	18	2.0k
Cyrus M. Ghajar United States	27	1.4k 0.9×	650 0.5×	2.1k 2.2×	2.3k 3.2×	521 0.8×	42	5.2k
Saigopalakrishna S. Yerneni United States	28	1.6k 1.0×	650 0.5×	2.1k 2.2×	464 0.6×	473 0.7×	53	4.1k
Claudia Tanja Mierke Germany	38	1.4k 0.9×	365 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	866 1.2×	295 0.4×	85	4.0k

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Li, Aileen W., Jessica Briones, Jia Lü, et al.. (2024). Engineering potent chimeric antigen receptor T cells by programming signaling during T-cell activation. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 21331–21331. 3 indexed citations

Lazzareschi, Daniel, Ravindra Mehta, Laura M. Dember, et al.. (2023). Overcoming barriers in the design and implementation of clinical trials for acute kidney injury: a report from the 2020 Kidney Disease Clinical Trialists meeting.. PubMed. 38(4). 834–844. 8 indexed citations

Li, Aileen W., Miguel C. Sobral, S Badrinath, et al.. (2018). A facile approach to enhance antigen response for personalized cancer vaccination. Nature Materials. 17(6). 528–534. 340 indexed citations

Thelin, Martin A., Stephan Kissler, Alexander L. Watters, et al.. (2017). In Vivo Enrichment of Diabetogenic T Cells. Diabetes. 66(8). 2220–2229. 20 indexed citations

Ali, Omar A., Sarah A. Lewin, Glenn Dranoff, & David Mooney. (2016). Vaccines Combined with Immune Checkpoint Antibodies Promote Cytotoxic T-cell Activity and Tumor Eradication. Cancer Immunology Research. 4(2). 95–100. 124 indexed citations

Bockus, Andrew T., Lauren C. Smith, Omar A. Ali, et al.. (2016). Cucurbit[7]uril–Tetramethylrhodamine Conjugate for Direct Sensing and Cellular Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(50). 16549–16552. 79 indexed citations

Bencherif, Sidi A., R. Warren Sands, Omar A. Ali, et al.. (2015). Injectable cryogel-based whole-cell cancer vaccines. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7556–7556. 349 indexed citations

Ali, Omar A., Caroline S. Verbeke, Chris Johnson, et al.. (2014). Identification of Immune Factors Regulating Antitumor Immunity Using Polymeric Vaccines with Multiple Adjuvants. Cancer Research. 74(6). 1670–1681. 78 indexed citations

Ali, Omar A., Prakriti Tayalia, Dmitry Shvartsman, Sarah A. Lewin, & David Mooney. (2013). Inflammatory Cytokines Presented from Polymer Matrices Differentially Generate and Activate DCs In Situ. Advanced Functional Materials. 23(36). 4621–4628. 56 indexed citations

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Feldman, Ted & Omar A. Ali. (2012). Transcatheter mitral valve interventions: current status and future perspective. EuroIntervention. 8(Q). Q53–Q59. 10 indexed citations

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Khormaee, Sariah, Omar A. Ali, James Chodosh, & David Mooney. (2012). Optimizing siRNA efficacy through alteration in the target cell‐adhesion substrate interaction. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 100A(10). 2637–2643. 9 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A., et al.. (2011). Biomaterial-Based Vaccine Induces Regression of Established Intracranial Glioma in Rats. Pharmaceutical Research. 28(5). 1074–1080. 32 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A., Edward J. Doherty, William J. Bell, et al.. (2011). The efficacy of intracranial PLG-based vaccines is dependent on direct implantation into brain tissue. Journal of Controlled Release. 154(3). 249–257. 20 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A., Edward J. Doherty, David Mooney, & Dwaine F. Emerich. (2011). Relationship of vaccine efficacy to the kinetics of DC and T-cell responses induced by PLG-based cancer vaccines. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1(1). 66–75. 34 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A. & David Mooney. (2010). Immunologically Active Biomaterials for Cancer Therapy. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 344. 279–297. 8 indexed citations

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Huebsch, Nathaniel, Praveen Arany, Angelo S. Mao, et al.. (2010). Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate. Nature Materials. 9(6). 518–526. 1294 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orive, Gorka, Omar A. Ali, Eduardo Anitua, José Luís Pedraz, & Dwaine F. Emerich. (2010). Biomaterial-based technologies for brain anti-cancer therapeutics and imaging. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1806(1). 96–107. 55 indexed citations

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Emerich, Dwaine F., Eduardo A. Silva, Omar A. Ali, et al.. (2010). Injectable VEGF Hydrogels Produce Near Complete Neurological and Anatomical Protection following Cerebral Ischemia in Rats. Cell Transplantation. 19(9). 1063–1071. 88 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A., Nathaniel Huebsch, Lan Cao, Glenn Dranoff, & David Mooney. (2009). Infection-mimicking materials to program dendritic cells in situ. Nature Materials. 8(2). 151–158. 358 indexed citations

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Ali, Omar A. & David Mooney. (2008). Sustained GM-CSF and PEI condensed pDNA presentation increases the level and duration of gene expression in dendritic cells. Journal of Controlled Release. 132(3). 273–278. 23 indexed citations

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