Ryuji Morizane

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Ryuji Morizane is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryuji Morizane has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Ryuji Morizane's work include Renal and related cancers (39 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (22 papers) and Renal cell carcinoma treatment (18 papers). Ryuji Morizane is often cited by papers focused on Renal and related cancers (39 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (22 papers) and Renal cell carcinoma treatment (18 papers). Ryuji Morizane collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Ryuji Morizane's co-authors include Joseph V. Bonventre, M. Todd Valerius, Albert Q. Lam, Benjamin Freedman, Navin Gupta, Seiji Kishi, Tomoya Miyoshi, Jennifer A. Lewis, Katharina T. Kroll and Thomas C. Ferrante and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ryuji Morizane

49 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro

2019 670 citations Kimberly A. Homan, Navin Gupta et al. Nature Methods profile →
Nephron organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells model kidney development and injury

2015 646 citations Ryuji Morizane, Albert Q. Lam 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 →

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Minoru Takasato Japan

Pei Xuan Er Australia

Matthias S. Roost Netherlands

Valeria V. Orlova Netherlands

R. Grant Rowe United States

Su‐Li Cheng United States

Purushothama Rao Tata United States

Markus Rojewski Germany

Shingo Maeda Japan

Megumu K. Saito Japan

Minoru Takasato Japan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morizane, Ryuji & Mart M. Lamers. (2025). Organoids in disease modeling and regenerative medicine. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 82(1). 169–169. 2 indexed citations

Tabibzadeh, Nahid & Ryuji Morizane. (2024). Advancements in therapeutic development: kidney organoids and organs on a chip. Kidney International. 105(4). 702–708. 10 indexed citations

Borges, Thiago J., Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Ivy A. Rosales, et al.. (2024). Exploring immune response toward transplanted human kidney tissues assembled from organoid building blocks. iScience. 27(10). 110957–110957. 4 indexed citations

Susa, Koichiro, Kenichi Kobayashi, Pierre Galichon, et al.. (2023). ATP/ADP biosensor organoids for drug nephrotoxicity assessment. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1138504–1138504. 31 indexed citations

Morizane, Ryuji, et al.. (2023). Strategies for Improving Vascularization in Kidney Organoids: A Review of Current Trends. Biology. 12(4). 503–503. 12 indexed citations

Ruiz‐Babot, Gerard, Fernando Abollo‐Jiménez, Diana L. Carlone, et al.. (2023). Generation of glucocorticoid-producing cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells. Cell Reports Methods. 3(11). 100627–100627. 8 indexed citations

Tekgüç, Murat, Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Navin Gupta, et al.. (2022). Kidney organoids: a pioneering model for kidney diseases. Translational research. 250. 1–17. 29 indexed citations

Gupta, Navin, Ken Hiratsuka, Kenichi Kobayashi, et al.. (2022). Live functional assays reveal longitudinal maturation of transepithelial transport in kidney organoids. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 978888–978888. 19 indexed citations

Morizane, Ryuji, et al.. (2021). Bioengineered Kidney Models: Methods and Functional Assessments. Function. 2(4). zqab026–zqab026. 12 indexed citations

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Gupta, Navin & Ryuji Morizane. (2021). Kidney development to kidney organoids and back again. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 127. 68–76. 11 indexed citations

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Jung, Youngsook L., Tomoya Miyoshi, Dhawal Jain, et al.. (2020). Epigenetic transcriptional reprogramming by WT1 mediates a repair response during podocyte injury. Science Advances. 6(30). eabb5460–eabb5460. 25 indexed citations

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Gupta, Navin, et al.. (2020). 3D kidney organoids for bench-to-bedside translation. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 99(4). 477–487. 21 indexed citations

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Kishi, Seiji, Craig R. Brooks, Kensei Taguchi, et al.. (2019). Proximal tubule ATR regulates DNA repair to prevent maladaptive renal injury responses. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 129(11). 4797–4816. 88 indexed citations

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Homan, Kimberly A., Navin Gupta, Katharina T. Kroll, et al.. (2019). Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro. Nature Methods. 16(3). 255–262. 670 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morizane, Ryuji. (2019). Modelling diabetic vasculopathy with human vessel organoids. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 15(5). 258–260. 8 indexed citations

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Gupta, Navin, Koichiro Susa, & Ryuji Morizane. (2017). Regenerative Medicine, Disease Modelling, and Drug Discovery in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Tissue. 57–67. 2 indexed citations

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Morizane, Ryuji, Shizuka Fujii, Toshiaki Monkawa, et al.. (2015). miR-363 induces transdifferentiation of human kidney tubular cells to mesenchymal phenotype. Clinical and Experimental Nephrology. 20(3). 394–401. 9 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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Yamaguchi, Shintaro, Kenichi Yamahara, Koichiro Homma, et al.. (2011). The role of microRNA-145 in human embryonic stem cell differentiation into vascular cells. Atherosclerosis. 219(2). 468–474. 53 indexed citations

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Morizane, Ryuji, Hiroyuki Sasamura, Hitoshi Minakuchi, et al.. (2008). A case of atypical POEMS syndrome without polyneuropathy. European Journal Of Haematology. 80(5). 452–455. 11 indexed citations

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