Paul H. Lerou

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Paul H. Lerou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul H. Lerou has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Paul H. Lerou's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (17 papers), Renal and related cancers (11 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Paul H. Lerou is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (17 papers), Renal and related cancers (11 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Paul H. Lerou collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Paul H. Lerou's co-authors include George Q. Daley, Rui Zhao, Hongguang Huo, Akiko Yabuuchi, Jason A. West, Tan A. Ince, M. William Lensch, In-Hyun Park, In‐Hyun Park and Ryuji Morizane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul H. Lerou

39 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors

2007 2.2k citations Rui Zhao, Jason A. West et al. profile →
Modelling kidney disease with CRISPR-mutant kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent epiblast spheroids

2015 567 citations Benjamin Freedman, Craig R. Brooks et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul H. Lerou United States	17	3.9k	758	603	517	471	41	4.7k
Paul J. Tesar United States	32	5.3k 1.3×	626 0.8×	577 1.0×	269 0.5×	668 1.4×	65	6.2k
Takumi Era Japan	35	3.0k 0.8×	829 1.1×	330 0.5×	337 0.7×	482 1.0×	91	4.4k
Kenji Osafune Japan	29	4.6k 1.2×	1.6k 2.1×	930 1.5×	393 0.8×	677 1.4×	81	5.7k
Amir Eden Israel	25	4.7k 1.2×	762 1.0×	518 0.9×	237 0.5×	881 1.9×	42	5.5k
Paul Gadue United States	34	3.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	297 0.5×	307 0.6×	560 1.2×	89	4.9k
Kaomei Guan Germany	39	3.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	701 1.2×	341 0.7×	498 1.1×	91	5.2k
An Zwijsen Belgium	35	3.4k 0.9×	539 0.7×	103 0.2×	477 0.9×	454 1.0×	87	4.7k
Yee Sook Cho South Korea	29	1.9k 0.5×	577 0.8×	250 0.4×	198 0.4×	215 0.5×	66	3.1k
Wayne Balkan United States	35	1.7k 0.4×	864 1.1×	183 0.3×	223 0.4×	465 1.0×	77	3.1k
Elisabetta Gazzerro Italy	28	2.4k 0.6×	287 0.4×	224 0.4×	298 0.6×	418 0.9×	52	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul H. Lerou

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Alcala, Glasiele, John H. Nichols, Paul H. Lerou, et al.. (2025). Identifying optimal positive end-expiratory pressure with electrical impedance tomography guidance in severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Journal of Perinatology. 46(2). 216–223.

Chou, Joseph, et al.. (2024). Prevention of NICU Admission Hypothermia in Moderate- and Late-Preterm Infants. PEDIATRICS. 154(3). 1 indexed citations

Miyake, Yuichiro, Brian M. Varisco, Mario Marotta, et al.. (2024). Fetal Tracheal Occlusion Correlates with Normalized YAP Expression and Alveolar Epithelial Differentiation in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 72(6). 688–697. 4 indexed citations

Erdei, Carmina, Lauren Fiechtner, Cassandra M. Kelleher, et al.. (2024). Multi-institutional quality improvement algorithm for home nasogastric tube care for neonates. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 185. 112083–112083.

Chou, Joseph, Paul H. Lerou, Mishka Terplan, et al.. (2023). Limited Utility of Toxicology Testing at Delivery for Perinatal Cannabis Use. Hospital Pediatrics. 13(4). 317–325. 7 indexed citations

Wagner, Richard, et al.. (2022). Primary culture of tracheal aspirate-derived human airway basal stem cells. STAR Protocols. 3(2). 101390–101390. 8 indexed citations

Lerou, Paul H., et al.. (2021). Improving Timeliness of Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose Administration. Hospital Pediatrics. 11(5). 446–453. 5 indexed citations

Matute, Juan D., David Pépin, Xingbin Ai, et al.. (2021). Single-cell immunophenotyping of the fetal immune response to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection in late gestation. Pediatric Research. 91(5). 1090–1098. 18 indexed citations

Lu, Junjie, Xiaobo Zhu, Jessica E. Shui, et al.. (2020). Rho/SMAD/mTOR triple inhibition enables long-term expansion of human neonatal tracheal aspirate-derived airway basal cell-like cells. Pediatric Research. 89(3). 502–509. 13 indexed citations

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Lu, Junjie, Anna Baccei, Edroaldo Lummertz da Rocha, et al.. (2018). Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals metallothionein heterogeneity during hESC differentiation to definitive endoderm. Stem Cell Research. 28. 48–55. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenzhang, Luwen Wang, Junjie Lu, et al.. (2016). The inhibition of TDP-43 mitochondrial localization blocks its neuronal toxicity. Nature Medicine. 22(8). 869–878. 308 indexed citations

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Lu, Junjie, Hu Li, Anna Baccei, et al.. (2016). Influence of ATM -Mediated DNA Damage Response on Genomic Variation in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 25(9). 740–747. 7 indexed citations

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Freedman, Benjamin, Craig R. Brooks, Albert Q. Lam, et al.. (2015). Modelling kidney disease with CRISPR-mutant kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent epiblast spheroids. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8715–8715. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Julia, Jeremy Ryan, Charles Mock, et al.. (2013). High Mitochondrial Priming Sensitizes hESCs to DNA-Damage-Induced Apoptosis. Cell stem cell. 13(4). 483–491. 124 indexed citations

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Lam, Albert Q., Benjamin Freedman, Ryuji Morizane, et al.. (2013). Rapid and Efficient Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Intermediate Mesoderm That Forms Tubules Expressing Kidney Proximal Tubular Markers. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 25(6). 1211–1225. 224 indexed citations

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Ballabeni, Andrea, In‐Hyun Park, Rui Zhao, et al.. (2011). Cell cycle adaptations of embryonic stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(48). 19252–19257. 79 indexed citations

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Park, In‐Hyun, Paul H. Lerou, Rui Zhao, Hongguang Huo, & George Q. Daley. (2008). Generation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature Protocols. 3(7). 1180–1186. 311 indexed citations

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Kim, Kitai, Paul H. Lerou, Akiko Yabuuchi, et al.. (2006). Histocompatible Embryonic Stem Cells by Parthenogenesis. Science. 315(5811). 482–486. 152 indexed citations

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Lerou, Paul H., et al.. (2005). Therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells. Blood Reviews. 19(6). 321–331. 163 indexed citations

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Megonigal, Maureen D., Eric Rappaport, Douglas H. Jones, et al.. (1998). t(11;22)(q23;q11.2) in acute myeloid leukemia of infant twins fuses MLL with hCDC rel , a cell division cycle gene in the genomic region of deletion in DiGeorge and velocardiofacial syndromes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95(11). 6413–6418. 135 indexed citations

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