Samira Musah

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Samira Musah is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Samira Musah has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Samira Musah's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (15 papers), Renal and related cancers (13 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers). Samira Musah is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (15 papers), Renal and related cancers (13 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers). Samira Musah collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Bulgaria. Samira Musah's co-authors include Donald E. Ingber, Laura L. Kiessling, George M. Church, Paul J. Wrighton, Nikolaos Dimitrakakis, Akiko Mammoto, Thomas C. Ferrante, James C. Weaver, Sandeep T. Koshy and Diogo M. Camacho and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Samira Musah

25 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Engineered In Vitro Disease Models

2015 414 citations Samira Musah, Donald E. Ingber et al. profile →
Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip

2017 379 citations Samira Musah, Akiko Mammoto et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samira Musah United States	13	943	672	306	219	150	28	1.5k
Bojun Li China	15	811 0.9×	410 0.6×	274 0.9×	732 3.3×	122 0.8×	67	1.9k
Sarah B. Peters United States	11	340 0.4×	375 0.6×	322 1.1×	244 1.1×	143 1.0×	22	1.2k
Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard United States	9	1.6k 1.7×	919 1.4×	684 2.2×	124 0.6×	223 1.5×	14	2.4k
Elena Serena Italy	19	626 0.7×	497 0.7×	314 1.0×	94 0.4×	27 0.2×	25	1.0k
Amanda Jiang United States	18	505 0.5×	385 0.6×	148 0.5×	118 0.5×	192 1.3×	24	1.2k
Cécile M. Perrault United Kingdom	17	529 0.6×	279 0.4×	189 0.6×	215 1.0×	117 0.8×	41	1.1k
Jhon Cores United States	20	529 0.6×	1.4k 2.1×	596 1.9×	92 0.4×	121 0.8×	27	2.4k
Pei Xuan Er Australia	11	1.0k 1.1×	2.3k 3.4×	604 2.0×	88 0.4×	415 2.8×	13	2.9k
Bryan Hassell United States	6	1.2k 1.2×	295 0.4×	155 0.5×	137 0.6×	496 3.3×	9	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samira Musah

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Bhattacharya, Rohan, et al.. (2025). Engineered human induced pluripotent stem cell models reveal altered podocytogenesis in congenital heart disease-associated SMAD2 mutations. Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Musah, Samira. (2025). Decoding cell fate: human models reveal how SMAD2 variants shape development. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(9). 586–586. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yize, et al.. (2024). Epigenetics of Hypertensive Nephropathy. Biomedicines. 12(11). 2622–2622. 6 indexed citations

Musah, Samira & Hamidreza Arzaghi. (2024). Unleashing the power of biomaterials to enhance organoid differentiation and function. Nature Methods. 21(9). 1575–1577. 3 indexed citations

Musah, Samira, et al.. (2024). Fenestrated Endothelial Cells across Organs: Insights into Kidney Function and Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(16). 9107–9107. 3 indexed citations

Musah, Samira, et al.. (2024). An ultrathin membrane mediates tissue-specific morphogenesis and barrier function in a human kidney chip. Science Advances. 10(23). eadn2689–eadn2689. 25 indexed citations

Musah, Samira, et al.. (2024). A human stem cell-derived model reveals pathologic extracellular matrix remodeling in diabetic podocyte injury. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24. 100164–100164.

Zhang, Yize & Samira Musah. (2024). Mechanosensitive Differentiation of Human iPS Cell-Derived Podocytes. Bioengineering. 11(10). 1038–1038.

Gudapati, Hemanth, et al.. (2022). Microfluidic systems for modeling human development. Development. 149(3). 14 indexed citations

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Bhattacharya, Rohan, et al.. (2022). A Biomimetic Electrospun Membrane Supports the Differentiation and Maturation of Kidney Epithelium from Human Stem Cells. Bioengineering. 9(5). 188–188. 12 indexed citations

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Musah, Samira, et al.. (2022). Isogenic Kidney Glomerulus Chip Engineered from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Bhattacharya, Rohan, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 Employ BSG/CD147 and ACE2 Receptors to Directly Infect Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Podocytes. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 855340–855340. 28 indexed citations

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Bhattacharya, Rohan, et al.. (2021). A Personalized Glomerulus Chip Engineered from Stem Cell-Derived Epithelium and Vascular Endothelium. Micromachines. 12(8). 967–967. 45 indexed citations

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Musah, Samira. (2021). Uncovering SARS-CoV-2 kidney tropism. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 22(8). 509–509. 4 indexed citations

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Burt, Morgan A., et al.. (2020). Guided Differentiation of Mature Kidney Podocytes from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Under Chemically Defined Conditions. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Musah, Samira, Nikolaos Dimitrakakis, Diogo M. Camacho, George M. Church, & Donald E. Ingber. (2018). Directed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature kidney podocytes and establishment of a Glomerulus Chip. Nature Protocols. 13(7). 1662–1685. 125 indexed citations

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Musah, Samira, Akiko Mammoto, Thomas C. Ferrante, et al.. (2017). Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1(5). 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Musah, Samira, Paul J. Wrighton, Yefim Zaltsman, et al.. (2014). Substratum-induced differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells reveals the coactivator YAP is a potent regulator of neuronal specification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(38). 13805–13810. 145 indexed citations

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Musah, Samira, Stephen A. Morin, Paul J. Wrighton, et al.. (2012). Glycosaminoglycan-Binding Hydrogels Enable Mechanical Control of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Self-Renewal. ACS Nano. 6(11). 10168–10177. 134 indexed citations

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Derda, Ratmir, Samira Musah, Brendan P. Orner, et al.. (2010). High-Throughput Discovery of Synthetic Surfaces That Support Proliferation of Pluripotent Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(4). 1289–1295. 104 indexed citations

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