Sanjay Kumar

11.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
139 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Sanjay Kumar is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sanjay Kumar has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Cell Biology, 63 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 27 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sanjay Kumar's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (99 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (51 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (15 papers). Sanjay Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (99 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (51 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (15 papers). Sanjay Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and India. Sanjay Kumar's co-authors include Valerie M. Weaver, Theresa A. Ulrich, Amit Pathak, Elena M. De‐Juan‐Pardo, Yushan Kim, Donald E. Ingber, David V. Schaffer, Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan, Tanmay P. Lele and Elena Kassianidou and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sanjay Kumar

132 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Mechanical Rigidity of the Extracellular Matrix Regulates the Structure, Motility, and Proliferation of Glioma Cells

2009 742 citations Theresa A. Ulrich, Elena M. De‐Juan‐Pardo et al. Cancer Research profile →
Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: The force journey of a tumor cell

2009 724 citations Sanjay Kumar et al. profile →
Microtubules can bear enhanced compressive loads in living cells because of lateral reinforcement

2006 531 citations Sanjay Kumar, L. Mahadevan et al. profile →
Viscoelastic Retraction of Single Living Stress Fibers and Its Impact on Cell Shape, Cytoskeletal Organization, and Extracellular Matrix Mechanics

2006 514 citations Sanjay Kumar, Thomas R. Polte et al. profile →
Independent regulation of tumor cell migration by matrix stiffness and confinement

2012 452 citations Amit Pathak, Sanjay Kumar Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sanjay Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sanjay Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sanjay Kumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sanjay Kumar. Sanjay Kumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Innovating carbon-based electrodes for direct neurochemical detection along the brain-immune axis 2025 ·Current Opinion in Electrochemistry ·(unknown), Sanjay Kumar, (unknown), Ashley E. Ross	0
2	An engineered glioblastoma model yields macrophage-secreted drivers of invasion 2025 ·JCI Insight ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Robert C. Osorio, (unknown), Manish K. Aghi, Sanjay Kumar	1
3	Dynamic light-responsive RhoA activity regulates mechanosensitive stem cell fate decision in 3D matrices 2024 ·Biomaterials Advances ·Jieung Baek, Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer	2
4	Substrate stress relaxation regulates neural stem cell fate commitment 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Camille Fulmore, David V. Schaffer, Sanjay Kumar	10
5	Dissecting TGF-β-induced glioblastoma invasion with engineered hyaluronic acid hydrogels 2024 ·APL Bioengineering ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sanjay Kumar	7
6	Multiomic screening of invasive GBM cells reveals targetable transsulfuration pathway alterations 2023 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Joseph H. Garcia, (unknown), Saket Jain, Kayla J. Wolf, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kyounghee Seo, (unknown), William H. Carson, (unknown), (unknown), David R. Raleigh, Sanjay Kumar, Manish K. Aghi	13
7	Caldesmon controls stress fiber force-balance through dynamic cross-linking of myosin II and actin-tropomyosin filaments 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sari Tojkander, Ulrike Engel, Konstantin Kogan, Sanjay Kumar, Pekka Lappalainen	15
8	CRISPR-mediated TGFBR2 knockout renders human ovarian cancer tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes resistant to TGF-β signaling 2022 ·Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer ·Samantha M. Fix, Marie‐Andrée Forget, Donastas Sakellariou-Thompson, Yunfei Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Cara Haymaker, Ana Lucía Dominguez, Rafet Başar, (unknown), Sanjay Kumar, Larissa A. Meyer, Patrick Hwu, Chantale Bernatchez, Amir A. Jazaeri	29
9	Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ben T. Larson, Teresa Ruiz-Herrero, Stacey Lee, Sanjay Kumar, L. Mahadevan, Nicole King	31
10	Clonal ZEB1-Driven Mesenchymal Transition Promotes Targetable Oncologic Antiangiogenic Therapy Resistance 2020 ·Cancer Research ·Ankush Chandra, Arman Jahangiri, William Chen, Alan Nguyen, Garima Yagnik, Matheus P. Pereira, Saket Jain, Joseph H. Garcia, Sumedh S. Shah, Harsh Wadhwa, Rushikesh S. Joshi, (unknown), Kayla J. Wolf, Jung-Ming G. Lin, Sören Müller, Jonathan W. Rick, Aarón Díaz, Luke A. Gilbert, Sanjay Kumar, Manish K. Aghi	43
11	A mode of cell adhesion and migration facilitated by CD44-dependent microtentacles 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kayla J. Wolf, (unknown), (unknown), Stacey Lee, Jason D. Coombes, (unknown), Samuel J. Kenny, Ke Xu, Sanjay Kumar	69
12	Multi-scale cellular engineering: From molecules to organ-on-a-chip 2020 ·APL Bioengineering ·Ngan F. Huang, Ovijit Chaudhuri, Patrick Cahan, Aijun Wang, Adam J. Engler, Yingxiao Wang, Sanjay Kumar, Ali Khademhosseini, Song Li	9
13	Suppression of LIM Kinase 1 and LIM Kinase 2 Limits Glioblastoma Invasion 2019 ·Cancer Research ·Joseph Chen, Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan, (unknown), Kayla J. Wolf, (unknown), (unknown), Sanjay Kumar	23
14	Emergent cellular self-organization and mechanosensation initiate follicle pattern in the avian skin 2017 ·Science ·Amy E. Shyer, Alan R. Rodrigues, (unknown), Elena Kassianidou, Sanjay Kumar, Richard M. Harland	186
15	Constitutive Activation of Myosin-Dependent Contractility Sensitizes Glioma Tumor-Initiating Cells to Mechanical Inputs and Reduces Tissue Invasion 2015 ·Cancer Research ·Sophie Y. Wong, Theresa A. Ulrich, Loic P. Deleyrolle, Joanna L. MacKay, Jung-Ming G. Lin, Regina T. Martuscello, (unknown), Brent A. Reynolds, Sanjay Kumar	73
16	CD44-Mediated Adhesion to Hyaluronic Acid Contributes to Mechanosensing and Invasive Motility 2014 ·Molecular Cancer Research ·Yushan Kim, Sanjay Kumar	179
17	Independent regulation of tumor cell migration by matrix stiffness and confinement breakdown → 2012 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Amit Pathak, Sanjay Kumar	452
18	The Mechanical Rigidity of the Extracellular Matrix Regulates the Structure, Motility, and Proliferation of Glioma Cells breakdown → 2009 ·Cancer Research ·Theresa A. Ulrich, Elena M. De‐Juan‐Pardo, Sanjay Kumar	742
19	High-throughput indentational elasticity measurements of hydrogel extracellular matrix substrates 2009 ·QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) ·(unknown), Elena M. De‐Juan‐Pardo, (unknown), Shamik Sen, Sanjay Kumar	7
20	Tools to Study Cell Mechanics and Mechanotransduction 2007 ·Methods in cell biology ·Tanmay P. Lele, Julia Sero, Benjamin D. Matthews, Sanjay Kumar, (unknown), Martin Montoya‐Zavala, Thomas R. Polte, Darryl R. Overby, Ning Wang, Donald E. Ingber	46

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