Sam H. Au

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sam H. Au is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Oncology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam H. Au has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sam H. Au's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (10 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (8 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers). Sam H. Au is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (10 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (8 papers) and Cancer Cells and Metastasis (7 papers). Sam H. Au collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Sam H. Au's co-authors include Aaron R. Wheeler, Irena Barbulovic-Nad, Mehmet Toner, Shannon L. Stott, Shyamala Maheswaran, Daniel A. Haber, Steve C. C. Shih, Michael V. Sefton, M. Dean Chamberlain and A. Fatih Sarioglu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Langmuir and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sam H. Au

24 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Clusters of circulating tumor cells traverse capillary-sized vessels

2016 366 citations Sam H. Au, Daniel A. Haber et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam H. Au United Kingdom	13	893	450	334	232	228	25	1.3k
Nikola Kojić United States	17	734 0.8×	312 0.7×	120 0.4×	268 1.2×	162 0.7×	30	1.5k
Joseph M. Martel United States	10	1.5k 1.6×	391 0.9×	352 1.1×	193 0.8×	192 0.8×	13	1.8k
Fabio Fachin United States	12	934 1.0×	514 1.1×	240 0.7×	227 1.0×	291 1.3×	20	1.3k
Guofeng Guan Singapore	15	1.2k 1.4×	326 0.7×	356 1.1×	230 1.0×	184 0.8×	20	1.6k
Amy Y. Hsiao United States	11	1.8k 2.0×	846 1.9×	81 0.2×	472 2.0×	119 0.5×	15	2.4k
Keith H.K. Wong United States	17	1.0k 1.2×	455 1.0×	109 0.3×	438 1.9×	196 0.9×	40	1.6k
M. Dean Chamberlain Canada	26	1.3k 1.5×	129 0.3×	487 1.5×	633 2.7×	64 0.3×	38	2.1k
Malini Mukherjee United States	17	523 0.6×	1.0k 2.3×	196 0.6×	554 2.4×	65 0.3×	41	1.6k
Yuji Nashimoto Japan	20	1.0k 1.2×	257 0.6×	157 0.5×	451 1.9×	39 0.2×	66	1.5k
Fabian Spill United Kingdom	15	380 0.4×	368 0.8×	43 0.1×	381 1.6×	173 0.8×	33	1.2k

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Bazban‐Shotorbani, Salime, Brian C. Cunningham, Mathew Carter, et al.. (2025). Circulating Tumor Cells Shed Shearosome Extracellular Vesicles in Capillary Bifurcations That Activate Endothelial and Immune Cells. Advanced Science. 12(31). e06339–e06339.

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Au, Sam H., et al.. (2024). Nuclear rupture induced by capillary constriction forces promotes differential effects on metastatic and normal breast cells. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14793–14793. 6 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Brian C., et al.. (2023). Capillary‐Scale Hydrogel Microchannel Networks by Wire Templating. Small. 19(42). e2301163–e2301163. 12 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H.. (2023). Circulating Tumor Cell Cluster Sorting by Size and Asymmetry. Methods in molecular biology. 2679. 15–23. 1 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Brian C., et al.. (2023). Capillary‐Scale Hydrogel Microchannel Networks by Wire Templating (Small 42/2023). Small. 19(42). 1 indexed citations

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Bakal, Chris, et al.. (2021). Arresting metastasis within the microcirculation. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. 38(4). 337–342. 12 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., et al.. (2020). Squeezing through the microcirculation: survival adaptations of circulating tumour cells to seed metastasis. British Journal of Cancer. 124(1). 58–65. 55 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., et al.. (2020). Hybrid 3D printed-paper microfluidics. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18379–18379. 37 indexed citations

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Tessier, Shannon N., Lindong Weng, Sam H. Au, et al.. (2018). Effect of Ice Nucleation and Cryoprotectants during High Subzero-Preservation in Endothelialized Microchannels. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 4(8). 3006–3015. 22 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H.. (2018). Dissolving microneedle vaccination—No magic needled. Science Translational Medicine. 10(460). 6 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., Jon Edd, Amy E. Stoddard, et al.. (2017). Microfluidic Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters by Size and Asymmetry. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2433–2433. 177 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., Jon Edd, Daniel A. Haber, et al.. (2017). Clusters of circulating tumor cells: A biophysical and technological perspective. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 3. 13–19. 33 indexed citations

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Goral, Vasiliy N., Sam H. Au, Ronald A. Faris, & Po Ki Yuen. (2014). Methods for advanced hepatocyte cell culture in microwells utilizing air bubbles. Lab on a Chip. 15(4). 1032–1037. 10 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., et al.. (2014). Hepatic organoids for microfluidic drug screening. Lab on a Chip. 14(17). 3290–3290. 131 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., Ryan Fobel, Salil P. Desai, Joel Voldman, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2013). Cellular bias on the microscale: probing the effects of digital microfluidic actuation on mammalian cell health, fitness and phenotype. Integrative Biology. 5(8). 1014–1014. 25 indexed citations

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Fiddes, Lindsey K., Vivienne N. Luk, Sam H. Au, et al.. (2012). Hydrogel discs for digital microfluidics. Biomicrofluidics. 6(1). 14112–1411211. 37 indexed citations

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McHugh, David, José E. Abdenur, Mahera Abdulrahman, et al.. (2011). Genetics in Medicine : Official Journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 23 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., et al.. (2011). A New Angle on Pluronic Additives: Advancing Droplets and Understanding in Digital Microfluidics. Langmuir. 27(13). 8586–8594. 93 indexed citations

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Au, Sam H., Steve C. C. Shih, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2010). Integrated microbioreactor for culture and analysis of bacteria, algae and yeast. Biomedical Microdevices. 13(1). 41–50. 92 indexed citations

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Barbulovic-Nad, Irena, Sam H. Au, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2010). A microfluidic platform for complete mammalian cell culture. Lab on a Chip. 10(12). 1536–1536. 185 indexed citations

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