Pedro Aza‐Blanc

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Pedro Aza‐Blanc is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro Aza‐Blanc has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Pedro Aza‐Blanc's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (5 papers) and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer (4 papers). Pedro Aza‐Blanc is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (5 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (5 papers) and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer (4 papers). Pedro Aza‐Blanc collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Spain. Pedro Aza‐Blanc's co-authors include Thomas B. Kornberg, Serge Batalov, Felipe-Andrés Ramı́rez-Weber, Aarron Willingham, Bo Wen, Esther C. Peters, Anthony P. Orth, Quinn L. Deveraux, Peter G. Schultz and John B. Hogenesch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Pedro Aza‐Blanc

40 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

A Strategy for Probing the Function of Noncoding RNAs Finds a Repressor of NFAT

2005 597 citations Aarron Willingham, Serge Batalov et al. profile →
Proteolysis That Is Inhibited by Hedgehog Targets Cubitus interruptus Protein to the Nucleus and Converts It to a Repressor

1997 560 citations Pedro Aza‐Blanc et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pedro Aza‐Blanc United States	26	3.2k	855	830	463	375	40	3.8k
Claudio Santoro Italy	31	3.1k 1.0×	428 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	263 0.6×	299 0.8×	90	4.1k
Aleyde Van Eynde Belgium	27	3.3k 1.0×	397 0.5×	472 0.6×	511 1.1×	317 0.8×	52	3.9k
Beric R. Henderson Australia	40	4.1k 1.3×	764 0.9×	427 0.5×	699 1.5×	753 2.0×	90	5.1k
Christine Wasylyk France	34	2.9k 0.9×	731 0.9×	630 0.8×	263 0.6×	1.0k 2.7×	52	4.0k
Mark O’Driscoll United Kingdom	32	4.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	836 1.8×	1.5k 3.9×	59	5.3k
Helen C. Hurst United Kingdom	36	3.0k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	459 0.6×	217 0.5×	1.1k 2.9×	72	4.2k
Timothy J. Bos United States	23	3.2k 1.0×	868 1.0×	480 0.6×	388 0.8×	835 2.2×	40	4.3k
Dorre A. Grueneberg United States	18	2.3k 0.7×	354 0.4×	432 0.5×	280 0.6×	533 1.4×	20	3.0k
Ma. Xenia G. Ilagan United States	18	3.2k 1.0×	397 0.5×	477 0.6×	477 1.0×	579 1.5×	27	4.3k
Dominique Leprince France	32	3.2k 1.0×	552 0.6×	508 0.6×	202 0.4×	781 2.1×	81	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pedro Aza‐Blanc

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duong‐Polk, Karen, Pedro Aza‐Blanc, Anagha Deshpande, et al.. (2024). Cell polarity proteins promote macropinocytosis in response to metabolic stress. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10541–10541. 4 indexed citations

Giron, Philippe, et al.. (2022). The EGFR-STYK1-FGF1 axis sustains functional drug tolerance to EGFR inhibitors in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer. Cell Death and Disease. 13(7). 611–611. 7 indexed citations

Woznicki, Jerzy A., Peter F. Flood, Ciaran M. Lee, et al.. (2021). TNF-α synergises with IFN-γ to induce caspase-8-JAK1/2-STAT1-dependent death of intestinal epithelial cells. Cell Death and Disease. 12(10). 864–864. 109 indexed citations

Zhou, Ying, Jason Dang, Kung‐Yen Chang, et al.. (2016). miR-1298 Inhibits Mutant KRAS-Driven Tumor Growth by Repressing FAK and LAMB3. Cancer Research. 76(19). 5777–5787. 46 indexed citations

Kim, Ji Hyun, Je‐Gun Joung, Eric Scott, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide screen identifies novel machineries required for both ciliogenesis and cell cycle arrest upon serum starvation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1863(6). 1307–1318. 25 indexed citations

Srivas, Rohith, John Paul Shen, Su Ming Sun, et al.. (2016). A Network of Conserved Synthetic Lethal Interactions for Exploration of Precision Cancer Therapy. Molecular Cell. 63(3). 514–525. 98 indexed citations

Lladó, Victoria, Yuki Nakanishi, Ángeles Durán, et al.. (2015). Repression of Intestinal Stem Cell Function and Tumorigenesis through Direct Phosphorylation of β-Catenin and Yap by PKCζ. Cell Reports. 10(5). 740–754. 78 indexed citations

Yanagi, Teruki, Ranxin Shi, Pedro Aza‐Blanc, John C. Reed, & Shu‐ichi Matsuzawa. (2015). PCTAIRE1-Knockdown Sensitizes Cancer Cells to TNF Family Cytokines. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119404–e0119404. 19 indexed citations

Linares, Juan F., Ángeles Durán, Miguel Reina‐Campos, et al.. (2015). Amino Acid Activation of mTORC1 by a PB1-Domain-Driven Kinase Complex Cascade. Cell Reports. 12(8). 1339–1352. 95 indexed citations

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Maruyama, Takeshi, Isao Naguro, Pedro Aza‐Blanc, et al.. (2014). Roquin-2 Promotes Ubiquitin-Mediated Degradation of ASK1 to Regulate Stress Responses. Science Signaling. 7(309). ra8–ra8. 61 indexed citations

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Yanagiya, Akiko, Eigo Suyama, Hironori Adachi, et al.. (2012). Translational Homeostasis via the mRNA Cap-Binding Protein, eIF4E. Molecular Cell. 46(6). 847–858. 139 indexed citations

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Ingeniis, Jessica De, Boris I. Ratnikov, Adam Richardson, et al.. (2012). Functional Specialization in Proline Biosynthesis of Melanoma. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45190–e45190. 129 indexed citations

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Kim, Joon, Ji Eun Lee, Susanne Heynen‐Genel, et al.. (2010). Functional genomic screen for modulators of ciliogenesis and cilium length. Nature. 464(7291). 1048–1051. 428 indexed citations

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Wagner, Klaus W., et al.. (2004). Differential Regulation of the TRAIL Death Receptors DR4 and DR5 by the Signal Recognition Particle. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(11). 5064–5074. 92 indexed citations

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Willingham, Aarron, Quinn L. Deveraux, Garret M. Hampton, & Pedro Aza‐Blanc. (2004). RNAi and HTS: exploring cancer by systematic loss-of-function. Oncogene. 23(51). 8392–8400. 48 indexed citations

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Aza‐Blanc, Pedro, Christopher L. Cooper, Klaus W. Wagner, et al.. (2003). Identification of Modulators of TRAIL-Induced Apoptosis via RNAi-Based Phenotypic Screening. Molecular Cell. 12(3). 627–637. 271 indexed citations

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Deveraux, Quinn L., Pedro Aza‐Blanc, Klaus W. Wagner, et al.. (2003). Exposing oncogenic dependencies for cancer drug target discovery and validation using RNAi. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 13(4). 293–300. 15 indexed citations

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Aza‐Blanc, Pedro, et al.. (1999). Ci: a complex transducer of the Hedgehog signal. Trends in Genetics. 15(11). 458–462. 148 indexed citations

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Acebrón, Álvaro, Pedro Aza‐Blanc, Dévora L. Rossi, Luis Lamas, & Pilar Santisteban. (1995). Congenital human thyroglobulin defect due to low expression of the thyroid-specific transcription factor TTF-1.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 96(2). 781–785. 38 indexed citations

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Hum, Dean W., Pedro Aza‐Blanc, & Walter L. Miller. (1995). Characterization of Placental Transcriptional Activation of the Human Gene for P450scc. DNA and Cell Biology. 14(5). 451–463. 34 indexed citations

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