Soham Chanda

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Soham Chanda is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Soham Chanda has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Soham Chanda's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (11 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Soham Chanda is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (11 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (9 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers). Soham Chanda collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Soham Chanda's co-authors include Marius Wernig, Thomas C. Südhof, Henrik Ahlenius, Samuele Marro, Nan Yang, Ernesto Lujan, Cheen Euong Ang, Matthew A. Xu‐Friedman, Tamás Dankó and Jason P. Covy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Soham Chanda

32 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rapid Single-Step Induction of Functional Neurons from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

2013 1.0k citations Yingsha Zhang, Henrik Ahlenius et al. Neuron profile →
Hierarchical Mechanisms for Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts to Neurons

2013 470 citations Orly L. Wapinski, Thomas Vierbuchen et al. Cell profile →
Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to self-renewing, tripotent neural precursor cells

2012 349 citations Soham Chanda, Henrik Ahlenius et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Soham Chanda United States	20	2.6k	1.1k	574	405	327	34	3.3k
Anita Bhattacharyya United States	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	642 1.1×	704 1.7×	330 1.0×	67	3.5k
Diana Yu United States	14	2.0k 0.8×	700 0.7×	460 0.8×	617 1.5×	349 1.1×	23	2.7k
Anca M. Pașca United States	15	2.4k 0.9×	855 0.8×	607 1.1×	331 0.8×	315 1.0×	20	3.3k
Jimena Andersen United States	14	2.1k 0.8×	661 0.6×	788 1.4×	286 0.7×	267 0.8×	16	2.9k
Janice R. Naegele United States	30	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	637 1.1×	435 1.1×	492 1.5×	64	3.0k
Su-Chun Zhang United States	25	2.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	392 1.0×	164 0.5×	31	3.9k
Thomas Portmann United States	10	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	402 0.7×	524 1.3×	666 2.0×	11	2.7k
Christopher D. Makinson United States	14	1.8k 0.7×	914 0.8×	557 1.0×	288 0.7×	322 1.0×	24	2.7k
Cédric Bardy Australia	23	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	688 1.2×	167 0.4×	335 1.0×	40	3.0k
Christopher A. Fasano United States	7	3.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	369 0.9×	136 0.4×	9	4.1k

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Tamkun, Michael M., et al.. (2025). The Shab family potassium channels are highly enriched at the presynaptic terminals of human neurons. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(3). 108235–108235.

Chanda, Soham, et al.. (2024). Infinitely many exotic Lagrangian tori in higher projective spaces. Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications. 26(4).

Passos, Carolina dos Santos, et al.. (2024). Gephyrin promotes autonomous assembly and synaptic localization of GABAergic postsynaptic components without presynaptic GABA release. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(26). e2315100121–e2315100121. 3 indexed citations

Chanda, Soham, et al.. (2023). The autism-associated loss of δ-catenin functions disrupts social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2300773120–e2300773120. 9 indexed citations

Minamide, Laurie S., et al.. (2023). Multiple N-linked glycosylation sites critically modulate the synaptic abundance of neuroligin isoforms. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(12). 105361–105361. 2 indexed citations

Tahtamouni, Lubna H., Thomas B. Kuhn, Laurie S. Minamide, et al.. (2023). Characterization of a Human Neuronal Culture System for the Study of Cofilin–Actin Rod Pathology. Biomedicines. 11(11). 2942–2942. 2 indexed citations

Dankó, Tamás, Soham Chanda, Pedro J. Batista, et al.. (2022). The autism risk factor CHD8 is a chromatin activator in human neurons and functionally dependent on the ERK-MAPK pathway effector ELK1. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22425–22425. 7 indexed citations

Passos, Carolina dos Santos, et al.. (2022). Induction of synapse formation by de novo neurotransmitter synthesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3060–3060. 17 indexed citations

Shaw, Alisa E., et al.. (2020). An Autism-Associated Mutation Impairs Neuroligin-4 Glycosylation and Enhances Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in Human Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(3). 392–407. 36 indexed citations

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Tanabe, Koji, Cheen Euong Ang, Soham Chanda, et al.. (2018). Transdifferentiation of human adult peripheral blood T cells into neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(25). 6470–6475. 72 indexed citations

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Yang, Nan, Soham Chanda, Samuele Marro, et al.. (2017). Generation of pure GABAergic neurons by transcription factor programming. Nature Methods. 14(6). 621–628. 229 indexed citations

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Mall, Moritz, Michael S. Kareta, Soham Chanda, et al.. (2017). Myt1l safeguards neuronal identity by actively repressing many non-neuronal fates. Nature. 544(7649). 245–249. 149 indexed citations

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Chao, Mark P., Andrew J. Gentles, Feng Lan, et al.. (2017). Human AML-iPSCs Reacquire Leukemic Properties after Differentiation and Model Clonal Variation of Disease. Cell stem cell. 20(3). 329–344.e7. 90 indexed citations

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Chanda, Soham, et al.. (2017). Unique versus Redundant Functions of Neuroligin Genes in Shaping Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Properties. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(29). 6816–6836. 76 indexed citations

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Chanda, Soham, Jason Aoto, SJ Lee, Marius Wernig, & T C Südhof. (2015). Pathogenic mechanism of an autism-associated neuroligin mutation involves altered AMPA-receptor trafficking. Molecular Psychiatry. 21(2). 169–177. 54 indexed citations

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Chanda, Soham, Cheen Euong Ang, Jonathan Davila, et al.. (2014). Generation of Induced Neuronal Cells by the Single Reprogramming Factor ASCL1. Stem Cell Reports. 3(2). 282–296. 278 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yingsha, Henrik Ahlenius, Zhenjie Zhang, et al.. (2013). Rapid Single-Step Induction of Functional Neurons from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Neuron. 78(5). 785–798. 1015 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wapinski, Orly L., Thomas Vierbuchen, Kun Qu, et al.. (2013). Hierarchical Mechanisms for Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts to Neurons. Cell. 155(3). 621–635. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chanda, Soham & Matthew A. Xu‐Friedman. (2011). Excitatory Modulation in the Cochlear Nucleus through Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Activation. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(20). 7450–7455. 15 indexed citations

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Strenzke, Nicola, Soham Chanda, Conny Kopp‐Scheinpflug, et al.. (2009). Complexin-I Is Required for High-Fidelity Transmission at the Endbulb of Held Auditory Synapse. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(25). 7991–8004. 88 indexed citations

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