Ryan S. Stowers

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Ryan S. Stowers is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan S. Stowers has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cell Biology, 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ryan S. Stowers's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (14 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers). Ryan S. Stowers is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (14 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (4 papers). Ryan S. Stowers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Ryan S. Stowers's co-authors include Ovijit Chaudhuri, Thomas L. Schwarz, Sungmin Nam, Yan Xia, Junzhe Lou, Elizabeth E Glater, Laura J. Suggs, Jolanta Górska‐Andrzejak, Ian A. Meinertzhagen and Shane C. Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Ryan S. Stowers

20 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Axonal transport of mitochondria requires milton to recruit kinesin heavy chain and is light chain independent

2006 501 citations Ryan S. Stowers, Thomas L. Schwarz et al. profile →
Stress relaxing hyaluronic acid-collagen hydrogels promote cell spreading, fiber remodeling, and focal adhesion formation in 3D cell culture

2017 426 citations Junzhe Lou, Ryan S. Stowers et al. Biomaterials profile →
Maintenance of neural progenitor cell stemness in 3D hydrogels requires matrix remodelling

2017 338 citations Christopher M. Madl, Bauer L. LeSavage et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan S. Stowers United States	17	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	534	469	24	3.0k
Xiang Yao China	29	1.7k 1.5×	746 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	837 1.6×	485 1.0×	71	4.0k
Bo Ri Seo United States	24	580 0.5×	536 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	629 1.2×	216 0.5×	30	3.5k
Dmitry Shvartsman United States	17	979 0.8×	768 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	667 1.2×	125 0.3×	21	2.8k
Adrian Ranga Belgium	23	1.1k 0.9×	550 0.5×	1.6k 1.6×	379 0.7×	231 0.5×	48	2.9k
Roland Kaunas United States	26	721 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	2.5k 2.4×	659 1.2×	145 0.3×	47	3.9k
Stephanie K. Seidlits United States	27	548 0.5×	388 0.3×	941 0.9×	570 1.1×	790 1.7×	52	2.5k
Richard G. LeBaron United States	29	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	507 0.5×	510 1.0×	196 0.4×	53	3.2k
Christopher M. Madl United States	21	539 0.5×	522 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	732 1.4×	234 0.5×	31	2.4k
Anna Urciuolo Italy	16	1.4k 1.2×	529 0.5×	797 0.8×	445 0.8×	204 0.4×	35	2.8k
Nicolas Broguière Switzerland	23	821 0.7×	375 0.3×	1.4k 1.3×	313 0.6×	184 0.4×	34	2.5k

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Moore, Jill E., et al.. (2025). Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity Regulates Mammary Branching Morphogenesis. Advanced Science. 13(3). e12873–e12873.

Fong, Sylvia, et al.. (2025). Sp1 mechanotransduction regulates breast cancer cell invasion in engineered viscoelastic extracellular matrices. Biomaterials. 327. 123755–123755.

Stowers, Ryan S., et al.. (2024). Viscoelastic and phototunable GelMA-alginate hydrogels for 3D cell culture. MRS Advances. 9(8). 505–511. 11 indexed citations

Pitenis, Angela A., et al.. (2024). Stress relaxation rates of myocardium from failing and non-failing hearts. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 24(1). 265–280. 1 indexed citations

Gionet‐Gonzales, Marissa, et al.. (2023). Engineering viscoelastic alginate hydrogels for hiPSC cardiomyocyte culture. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 454a–454a.

Stowers, Ryan S.. (2021). Advances in Extracellular Matrix-Mimetic Hydrogels to Guide Stem Cell Fate. Cells Tissues Organs. 211(6). 703–720. 26 indexed citations

Stowers, Ryan S., et al.. (2021). Engineering hydrogels for personalized disease modeling and regenerative medicine. Acta Biomaterialia. 132. 4–22. 48 indexed citations

Nam, Sungmin, Ryan S. Stowers, Junzhe Lou, Yan Xia, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2019). Varying PEG density to control stress relaxation in alginate-PEG hydrogels for 3D cell culture studies. Biomaterials. 200. 15–24. 229 indexed citations

Stowers, Ryan S., Anna Shcherbina, Johnny Israeli, et al.. (2019). Matrix stiffness induces a tumorigenic phenotype in mammary epithelium through changes in chromatin accessibility. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 3(12). 1009–1019. 165 indexed citations

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Lee, Hong-Pyo, Ryan S. Stowers, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2019). Volume expansion and TRPV4 activation regulate stem cell fate in three-dimensional microenvironments. Nature Communications. 10(1). 529–529. 190 indexed citations

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Lee, Joanna Y., Antonia A. Dominguez, Sungmin Nam, et al.. (2019). Identification of cell context-dependent YAP-associated proteins reveals β1 and β4 integrin mediate YAP translocation independently of cell spreading. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17188–17188. 16 indexed citations

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Lou, Junzhe, Ryan S. Stowers, Sungmin Nam, Yan Xia, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2017). Stress relaxing hyaluronic acid-collagen hydrogels promote cell spreading, fiber remodeling, and focal adhesion formation in 3D cell culture. Biomaterials. 154. 213–222. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Madl, Christopher M., Bauer L. LeSavage, Ruby E. Dewi, et al.. (2017). Maintenance of neural progenitor cell stemness in 3D hydrogels requires matrix remodelling. Nature Materials. 16(12). 1233–1242. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stowers, Ryan S., Shane C. Allen, Karla Sanchez, et al.. (2016). Extracellular Matrix Stiffening Induces a Malignant Phenotypic Transition in Breast Epithelial Cells. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 10(1). 114–123. 50 indexed citations

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Stowers, Ryan S., Shane C. Allen, & Laura J. Suggs. (2015). Dynamic phototuning of 3D hydrogel stiffness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(7). 1953–1958. 267 indexed citations

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Chung, Eunna, Laura M. Ricles, Ryan S. Stowers, et al.. (2012). Multifunctional nanoscale strategies for enhancing and monitoring blood vessel regeneration. Nano Today. 7(6). 514–531. 16 indexed citations

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Shanmuganathan, S, Shanmugasundaram Natesan, Ryan S. Stowers, et al.. (2011). A PEGylated fibrin-based wound dressing with antimicrobial and angiogenic activity. Acta Biomaterialia. 7(7). 2787–2796. 49 indexed citations

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Stowers, Ryan S. & Ehud Y. Isacoff. (2007). DrosophilaHuntingtin-Interacting Protein 14 Is a Presynaptic Protein Required for Photoreceptor Synaptic Transmission and Expression of the Palmitoylated Proteins Synaptosome-Associated Protein 25 and Cysteine String Protein. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(47). 12874–12883. 50 indexed citations

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Busygina, Valeria, et al.. (2004). Hypermutability in a Drosophila model for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. Human Molecular Genetics. 13(20). 2399–2408. 46 indexed citations

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Stowers, Ryan S., et al.. (2002). Axonal Transport of Mitochondria to Synapses Depends on Milton, a Novel Drosophila Protein. Neuron. 36(6). 1063–1077. 498 indexed citations

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