Romain Zufferey

10.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Romain Zufferey is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Romain Zufferey has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Genetics, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Romain Zufferey's work include Virus-based gene therapy research (21 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Romain Zufferey is often cited by papers focused on Virus-based gene therapy research (21 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (12 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers). Romain Zufferey collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Sweden. Romain Zufferey's co-authors include Didier Trono, Luigi Naldini, Ronald J. Mandel, Minh Nguyen, Michael T. Kelly, Dea Nagy, Thomas J. Dull, Antonín Bukovský, Thomas J. Hope and John E. Donello and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Romain Zufferey

30 papers receiving 8.0k citations

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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 Third-Generation Lentivirus Vector with a Conditional Packaging System

1998 2.5k citations Romain Zufferey, Didier Trono et al. Journal of Virology profile →
Multiply attenuated lentiviral vector achieves efficient gene delivery in vivo

1997 1.6k citations Romain Zufferey, Dea Nagy et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Self-Inactivating Lentivirus Vector for Safe and Efficient In Vivo Gene Delivery

1998 1.5k citations Romain Zufferey, Luigi Naldini et al. Journal of Virology profile →
Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element Enhances Expression of Transgenes Delivered by Retroviral Vectors

1999 822 citations Romain Zufferey, Didier Trono et al. Journal of Virology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Romain Zufferey Switzerland	22	5.7k	4.4k	1.2k	1.0k	756	30	8.2k
Ulrike Blömer Germany	20	5.6k 1.0×	4.6k 1.0×	929 0.8×	764 0.8×	853 1.1×	34	8.2k
Hiroyuki Miyoshi Japan	44	6.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	292 0.4×	103	9.1k
Dirk Grimm Germany	49	7.0k 1.2×	4.2k 1.0×	853 0.7×	647 0.6×	868 1.1×	150	9.6k
Cornelia M. Gorman United States	19	4.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	788 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	372 0.5×	26	6.4k
Izumu Saito Japan	47	4.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	869 0.9×	452 0.6×	155	8.9k
Ken‐ichi Yamamura Japan	27	4.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.4×	632 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	495 0.7×	89	7.2k
Rob C. Hoeben Netherlands	48	4.0k 0.7×	3.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	208	7.6k
Luk H. Vandenberghe United States	51	7.1k 1.2×	5.7k 1.3×	953 0.8×	618 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	126	10.1k
Zhiyong Yang United States	36	3.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	724 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	72	6.2k
Michel Perricaudet France	64	7.9k 1.4×	6.7k 1.5×	3.1k 2.7×	1.8k 1.7×	1.5k 2.0×	173	13.4k

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Dusonchet, Julien, Olexiy Kochubey, Klodjan Stafa, et al.. (2011). A Rat Model of Progressive Nigral Neurodegeneration Induced by the Parkinson's Disease-Associated G2019S Mutation in LRRK2. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(3). 907–912. 113 indexed citations

Emborg, Marina E., Jeffrey M. Moirano, Viktoriya Bondarenko, et al.. (2009). Response of aged parkinsonian monkeys to in vivo gene transfer of GDNF. Neurobiology of Disease. 36(2). 303–311. 39 indexed citations

Scott, Sarah, Pam Tyers, Gerard W. O’Keeffe, et al.. (2008). Induction of A9 dopaminergic neurons from neural stem cells improves motor function in an animal model of Parkinson's disease. Brain. 131(3). 630–641. 71 indexed citations

Schneider, Bernard L., Romain Zufferey, & Patrick Aebischer. (2008). Viral vectors, animal models and new therapies for Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 14. S169–S171. 10 indexed citations

Zufferey, Romain, et al.. (2007). Declassification of Rodents Exposed to Third-Generation HIV-Based Vectors into Class 1 Animals. Applied Biosafety. 12(2). 93–99. 1 indexed citations

Capowski, Elizabeth E., Bernard L. Schneider, Allison D. Ebert, et al.. (2007). Lentiviral vector-mediated genetic modification of human neural progenitor cells for ex vivo gene therapy. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 163(2). 338–349. 65 indexed citations

Kloeckener‐Gruissem, Barbara, Romain Zufferey, Jean‐Claude Fauchère, et al.. (2007). Correlation between recent thymic emigrants and CD31⁺ (PECAM‐1) CD4⁺ T cells in normal individuals during aging and in lymphopenic children. European Journal of Immunology. 37(11). 3270–3280. 130 indexed citations

Zufferey, Romain & Patrick Aebischer. (2004). Salivary glands and gene therapy: the mouth waters. Gene Therapy. 11(19). 1425–1426. 18 indexed citations

Escarpe, Paul A., et al.. (2003). Development of a sensitive assay for detection of replication-competent recombinant lentivirus in large-scale HIV-based vector preparations. Molecular Therapy. 8(2). 332–341. 70 indexed citations

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Zufferey, Romain. (2002). Production of Lentiviral Vectors. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 261. 107–121. 30 indexed citations

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Pham, Linh, et al.. (2001). Organ distribution of gene expression after intravenous infusion of targeted and untargeted lentiviral vectors. Gene Therapy. 8(19). 1456–1463. 68 indexed citations

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Déglon, Nicole, Jack Tseng, Anne D. Zurn, et al.. (2000). Self-Inactivating Lentiviral Vectors with Enhanced Transgene Expression as Potential Gene Transfer System in Parkinson's Disease. Human Gene Therapy. 11(1). 179–190. 257 indexed citations

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Klages, Natacha, Romain Zufferey, & Didier Trono. (2000). A Stable System for the High-Titer Production of Multiply Attenuated Lentiviral Vectors. Molecular Therapy. 2(2). 170–176. 174 indexed citations

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Dinauer, Mary C., et al.. (2000). Lentivirus-mediated gene transfer of gp91phox corrects chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) phenotype in human X-CGD cells. The Journal of Gene Medicine. 2(5). 317–325. 17 indexed citations

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Hamaguchi, Isao, Niels‐Bjarne Woods, Ioannis Panagopoulos, et al.. (2000). Lentivirus Vector Gene Expression during ES Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Development In Vitro. Journal of Virology. 74(22). 10778–10784. 93 indexed citations

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Zufferey, Romain & Didier Trono. (2000). Production of High‐Titer Lentiviral Vectors. Current Protocols in Human Genetics. 26(1). 2 indexed citations

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Dupraz, Philippe, Chris Rinsch, W F Pralong, et al.. (1999). Lentivirus-mediated Bcl-2 expression in βTC-tet cells improves resistance to hypoxia and cytokine-induced apoptosis while preserving in vitro and in vivo control of insulin secretion. Gene Therapy. 6(6). 1160–1169. 71 indexed citations

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Han, Jay J., Anand N. Mhatre, Michael J. Wareing, et al.. (1999). Transgene Expression in the Guinea Pig Cochlea Mediated by a Lentivirus-Derived Gene Transfer Vector. Human Gene Therapy. 10(11). 1867–1873. 98 indexed citations

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Zufferey, Romain, et al.. (1997). Multiply attenuated lentiviral vector achieves efficient gene delivery in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 15(9). 871–875. 1576 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zufferey, Romain, Roland Knauer, Patricie Burda, et al.. (1995). STT3, a highly conserved protein required for yeast oligosaccharyl transferase activity in vivo.. The EMBO Journal. 14(20). 4949–4960. 165 indexed citations

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