Sunny Himansu

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Sunny Himansu is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunny Himansu has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Infectious Diseases, 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Sunny Himansu's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (6 papers). Sunny Himansu is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (7 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (6 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (6 papers). Sunny Himansu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Russia. Sunny Himansu's co-authors include Giuseppe Ciaramella, Theodore C. Pierson, Michael Diamond, Julie M. Fox, Kimberly A. Dowd, Justin M. Richner, William W. Tang, Sujan Shresta, Scott L. Butler and Vanessa Salazar and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Sunny Himansu

13 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Modified mRNA Vaccines Protect against Zika Virus Infection

2017 731 citations Justin M. Richner, Sunny Himansu et al. Cell profile →
Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticles for Intramuscular Administration of mRNA Vaccines

2019 601 citations Kimberly J. Hassett, Kerry E. Benenato et al. Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunny Himansu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sunny Himansu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sunny Himansu 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 Sunny Himansu. Sunny Himansu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Marburg virus glycoprotein mRNA vaccine is more protective than a virus-like particle-forming mRNA vaccine 2025 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Chandru Subramani, Michelle Meyer, (unknown), (unknown), Haiping Hao, James E. Crowe, Vsevolod L. Popov, Harshwardhan M. Thaker, Sunny Himansu, Andrea Carfı́, Alexander Bukreyev	0
2	Divergent antibody recognition profiles are generated by protective mRNA vaccines against Marburg and Ravn viruses 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Michelle Meyer, Bronwyn M. Gunn, Colette Pietzsch, Chandru Subramani, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Erica Ollmann Saphire, James E. Crowe, Galit Alter, Sunny Himansu, Andrea Carfı́, Alexander Bukreyev	1
3	A Lassa virus mRNA vaccine confers protection but does not require neutralizing antibody in a guinea pig model of infection 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Adam J. Ronk, (unknown), Min Zhang, Caroline Atyeo, Hailee R. Perrett, Chad E. Mire, Kathryn M. Hastie, Rogier W. Sanders, Philip J. M. Brouwer, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Andrew B. Ward, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Juan Carlos Alvarez Moreno, Harshwardhan M. Thaker, Galit Alter, Sunny Himansu, Andrea Carfı́, Alexander Bukreyev	20
4	Increased neutralization potency and breadth elicited by a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine forming virus-like particles 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Peng Zhang, Samantha Falcone, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, (unknown), (unknown), Huiyi Miao, Yuna Seo, (unknown), Isabella Renzi, Yen‐Ting Lai, Elisabeth Narayanan, Guillaume B. E. Stewart-Jones, Sunny Himansu, Andrea Carfı́, Anthony S. Fauci, Paolo Lusso	7
5	Rational Design and In Vivo Characterization of mRNA-Encoded Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Combinations against HIV-1 2022 ·Antibodies ·Elisabeth Narayanan, Samantha Falcone, Sayda M. Elbashir, Husain Attarwala, Kimberly J. Hassett, Michael S. Seaman, Andrea Carfı́, Sunny Himansu	10
6	Broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies protect against multiple tick-borne flaviviruses 2021 ·The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Laura A. VanBlargan, John M. Errico, Natasha M. Kafai, Katherine E. Burgomaster, (unknown), Rebecca M. Broeckel, Kimberly Meade‐White, Christopher A. Nelson, Sunny Himansu, David Wang, Scott A. Handley, Michael L. Gross, Sonja M. Best, Theodore C. Pierson, Daved H. Fremont, Michael S. Diamond	21
7	A phase 1 trial of lipid-encapsulated mRNA encoding a monoclonal antibody with neutralizing activity against Chikungunya virus 2021 ·Nature Medicine ·Allison August, Husain Attarwala, Sunny Himansu, (unknown), (unknown), Rolando Pajón, Shu Han, Jean‐Michel Lecerf, Joanne E. Tomassini, Marjie Hard, Leon M. Ptaszek, James E. Crowe, Tal Zaks	118
8	Chimeric Fusion (F) and Attachment (G) Glycoprotein Antigen Delivery by mRNA as a Candidate Nipah Vaccine 2021 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·Rebecca J. Loomis, Anthony DiPiazza, Samantha Falcone, Tracy J. Ruckwardt, Kaitlyn M. Morabito, Olubukola M. Abiona, Lauren A. Chang, (unknown), Vladimir Presnyak, Elisabeth Narayanan, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, (unknown), Geoffrey B. Hutchinson, Guillaume B. E. Stewart-Jones, Lisa A. Kueltzo, Sunny Himansu, John R. Mascola, Andrea Carfı́, Barney S. Graham	43
9	Tetravalent Immunogen Assembled from Conserved Regions of HIV-1 and Delivered as mRNA Demonstrates Potent Preclinical T-Cell Immunogenicity and Breadth 2020 ·Vaccines ·Nathifa Moyo, Edmund G. Wee, Bette Korber, Kapil Bahl, Samantha Falcone, Sunny Himansu, Adrianne L. Wong, Antu Dey, Mark B. Feinberg, Tomáš Hanke	18
10	A lipid-encapsulated mRNA encoding a potently neutralizing human monoclonal antibody protects against chikungunya infection 2019 ·Science Immunology ·Nurgun Kose, Julie M. Fox, Gopal Sapparapu, Robin Bombardi, Rashika N. Tennekoon, Aruna Dharshan De Silva, Sayda M. Elbashir, Matthew Theisen, Elisabeth Narayanan, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Sunny Himansu, Michael Diamond, James E. Crowe	155
11	Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticles for Intramuscular Administration of mRNA Vaccines breakdown → 2019 ·Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids ·Kimberly J. Hassett, Kerry E. Benenato, Eric Jacquinet, (unknown), Angela Woods, Olga Yuzhakov, Sunny Himansu, (unknown), Benjamin Geilich, Tatiana Ketova, Cosmin Mihai, (unknown), Iain J. McFadyen, Melissa J. Moore, Joseph J. Senn, (unknown), Örn Almarsson, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Luis A. Brito	601
12	2904. Protective Efficacy of Nucleic Acid Vaccines Against Transmission of Zika Virus During Pregnancy in Mice 2019 ·Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Brett W. Jagger, Kimberly A. Dowd, (unknown), Pritesh Desai, Sunny Himansu, Barney S. Graham, Theodore C. Pierson, Michael Diamond	0
13	Protective Efficacy of Nucleic Acid Vaccines Against Transmission of Zika Virus During Pregnancy in Mice 2019 ·The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Brett W. Jagger, Kimberly A. Dowd, Rita E. Chen, Pritesh Desai, Bryant M. Foreman, Katherine E. Burgomaster, Sunny Himansu, Wing-Pui Kong, Barney S. Graham, Theodore C. Pierson, Michael Diamond	39
14	An mRNA Vaccine Protects Mice against Multiple Tick-Transmitted Flavivirus Infections 2018 ·Cell Reports ·Laura A. VanBlargan, Sunny Himansu, Bryant M. Foreman, Gregory D. Ebel, Theodore C. Pierson, Michael S. Diamond	90
15	Modified mRNA Vaccines Protect against Zika Virus Infection breakdown → 2017 ·Cell ·Justin M. Richner, Sunny Himansu, Kimberly A. Dowd, Scott L. Butler, Vanessa Salazar, Julie M. Fox, Justin G. Julander, William W. Tang, Sujan Shresta, Theodore C. Pierson, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Michael Diamond	731

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