Sara E. Howden

6.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
43 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Sara E. Howden is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara E. Howden has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sara E. Howden's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers) and Renal and related cancers (18 papers). Sara E. Howden is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers) and Renal and related cancers (18 papers). Sara E. Howden collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Spain. Sara E. Howden's co-authors include James A. Thomson, Zhonggang Hou, Nicholas E. Propson, Melissa H. Little, Yan Zhang, Daniel R. Gulbranson, Li‐Fang Chu, Erik J. Sontheimer, Jessica M. Vanslambrouck and Guokai Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sara E. Howden

41 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Chemically defined conditions for human iPSC derivation and culture

2011 1.1k citations Zhonggang Hou, Sara E. Howden et al. profile →
Efficient genome engineering in human pluripotent stem cells using Cas9 from Neisseria meningitidis

2013 525 citations Zhonggang Hou, Yan Zhang et al. profile →
Cellular extrusion bioprinting improves kidney organoid reproducibility and conformation

2020 310 citations Kynan T. Lawlor, Jessica M. Vanslambrouck et al. Nature Materials profile →
Renal Subcapsular Transplantation of PSC-Derived Kidney Organoids Induces Neo-vasculogenesis and Significant Glomerular and Tubular Maturation In Vivo

2018 309 citations Cathelijne W. van den Berg, Laila Ritsma et al. Stem Cell Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara E. Howden Australia	24	3.9k	931	526	510	505	43	4.4k
Akitsu Hotta Japan	38	4.7k 1.2×	665 0.7×	997 1.9×	531 1.0×	957 1.9×	88	5.7k
Jonathan S. Draper Canada	21	3.8k 1.0×	720 0.8×	824 1.6×	149 0.3×	588 1.2×	31	4.4k
Boris Greber Germany	37	4.2k 1.1×	806 0.9×	812 1.5×	544 1.1×	450 0.9×	78	5.0k
Micha Drukker Germany	28	3.1k 0.8×	489 0.5×	895 1.7×	306 0.6×	491 1.0×	52	4.3k
Chui‐Yee Fong Singapore	31	3.9k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.7k 3.2×	316 0.6×	423 0.8×	64	5.7k
Irina Klimanskaya United States	18	4.0k 1.0×	559 0.6×	638 1.2×	644 1.3×	364 0.7×	25	5.0k
Niels Geijsen Netherlands	30	3.4k 0.9×	416 0.4×	535 1.0×	141 0.3×	766 1.5×	66	4.6k
Tom Burdon United Kingdom	20	3.5k 0.9×	504 0.5×	386 0.7×	306 0.6×	586 1.2×	33	4.1k
Yohei Hayashi Japan	24	3.0k 0.8×	499 0.5×	1.1k 2.2×	299 0.6×	299 0.6×	61	3.6k
Tomo Šarić Germany	35	2.9k 0.8×	467 0.5×	895 1.7×	422 0.8×	331 0.7×	84	4.7k

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Howden, Sara E., et al.. (2025). Generation and characterisation of four human NAD(P)HX epimerase (NAXE) knockout iPSC lines. Stem Cell Research. 87. 103782–103782.

Dorison, Aude, Irene M. Ghobrial, Thomas Forbes, et al.. (2022). Kidney Organoids Generated Using an Allelic Series of NPHS2 Point Variants Reveal Distinct Intracellular Podocin Mistrafficking. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 34(1). 88–109. 12 indexed citations

Vanslambrouck, Jessica M., Sean B. Wilson, Ker Sin Tan, et al.. (2022). Enhanced metanephric specification to functional proximal tubule enables toxicity screening and infectious disease modelling in kidney organoids. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5943–5943. 56 indexed citations

Howden, Sara E., et al.. (2020). Particle-mediated delivery of frataxin plasmid to a human sensory neuronal model of Friedreich's ataxia. Biomaterials Science. 8(9). 2398–2403. 6 indexed citations

Lawlor, Kynan T., Jessica M. Vanslambrouck, J. William Higgins, et al.. (2020). Cellular extrusion bioprinting improves kidney organoid reproducibility and conformation. Nature Materials. 20(2). 260–271. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

Vanslambrouck, Jessica M., Sean B. Wilson, Ker Sin Tan, et al.. (2019). A Toolbox to Characterize Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Kidney Cell Types and Organoids. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 30(10). 1811–1823. 41 indexed citations

Vanslambrouck, Jessica M., Lauren E. Woodard, Sara E. Howden, et al.. (2019). Direct reprogramming to human nephron progenitor-like cells using inducible piggyBac transposon expression of SNAI2-EYA1-SIX1. Kidney International. 95(5). 1153–1166. 20 indexed citations

Hou, Zhonggang, Yibei Xiao, Sara E. Howden, et al.. (2019). Introducing a Spectrum of Long-Range Genomic Deletions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Type I CRISPR-Cas. Molecular Cell. 74(5). 936–950.e5. 120 indexed citations

Howden, Sara E., Ali Motazedian, Andrew G. Elefanty, et al.. (2019). The use of simultaneous reprogramming and gene correction to generate an osteogenesis imperfecta patient COL1A1 c. 3936 G>T iPSC line and an isogenic control iPSC line. Stem Cell Research. 38. 101453–101453. 12 indexed citations

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Capowski, Elizabeth E., Kayvan Samimi, Steven J. Mayerl, et al.. (2018). Reproducibility and staging of 3D human retinal organoids across multiple pluripotent stem cell lines. Development. 146(1). 224 indexed citations

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Forbes, Thomas, Sara E. Howden, Kynan T. Lawlor, et al.. (2018). Patient-iPSC-Derived Kidney Organoids Show Functional Validation of a Ciliopathic Renal Phenotype and Reveal Underlying Pathogenetic Mechanisms. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 102(5). 816–831. 155 indexed citations

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Hale, Lorna J., Sara E. Howden, Belinda Phipson, et al.. (2018). 3D organoid-derived human glomeruli for personalised podocyte disease modelling and drug screening. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5167–5167. 169 indexed citations

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Berg, Cathelijne W. van den, Laila Ritsma, M. Cristina Avramut, et al.. (2018). Renal Subcapsular Transplantation of PSC-Derived Kidney Organoids Induces Neo-vasculogenesis and Significant Glomerular and Tubular Maturation In Vivo. Stem Cell Reports. 10(3). 751–765. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

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Phillips, M. Joseph, Peng Jiang, Sara E. Howden, et al.. (2017). A Novel Approach to Single Cell RNA-Sequence Analysis Facilitates In Silico Gene Reporting of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Cell Types. Stem Cells. 36(3). 313–324. 46 indexed citations

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Vermilyea, Scott, Michaël Meyer, Kim Smuga-Otto, et al.. (2017). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons from Adult Common Marmoset Fibroblasts. Stem Cells and Development. 26(17). 1225–1235. 25 indexed citations

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Howden, Sara E., Bradley McColl, Jim Vadolas, et al.. (2016). A Cas9 Variant for Efficient Generation of Indel-Free Knockin or Gene-Corrected Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 7(3). 508–517. 80 indexed citations

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Phelan, Dean, David J. Anderson, Sara E. Howden, et al.. (2016). ALPK3-deficient cardiomyocytes generated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells and mutant human embryonic stem cells display abnormal calcium handling and establish that ALPK3 deficiency underlies familial cardiomyopathy. European Heart Journal. 37(33). 2586–2590. 38 indexed citations

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Howden, Sara E. & James A. Thomson. (2014). Gene Targeting of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Homologous Recombination. Methods in molecular biology. 1114. 37–55. 6 indexed citations

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Vadolas, Jim, et al.. (2009). Integration of functional bacterial artificial chromosomes into human cord blood-derived multipotent stem cells. Gene Therapy. 16(3). 404–414. 8 indexed citations

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Howden, Sara E., Lucille Voullaire, & Jim Vadolas. (2007). The transient expression of mRNA coding for Rep protein from AAV facilitates targeted plasmid integration. The Journal of Gene Medicine. 10(1). 42–50. 12 indexed citations

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