Thomas C. Ferrante

7.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
26 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Ferrante is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Ferrante has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Ferrante's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (4 papers). Thomas C. Ferrante is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (12 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (4 papers). Thomas C. Ferrante collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Portugal. Thomas C. Ferrante's co-authors include Donald E. Ingber, Sandeep T. Koshy, George M. Church, Kambez H. Benam, Anthony Bahinski, James J. Collins, Evan R Daugharthy, Joyce Yang, Reza Kalhor and Brian M. Turczyk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Ferrante

26 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Highly Multiplexed Subcellular RNA Sequencing in Situ 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2019 2015 2015 2017 200 400 600
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.

  1. Highly Multiplexed Subcellular RNA Sequencing in Situ
    2014 693 citations Je Hyuk Lee, Evan R Daugharthy et al. Science profile →
  2. Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro
    2019 670 citations Kimberly A. Homan, Navin Gupta et al. Nature Methods profile →
  3. Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation and drug responses in vitro
    2015 585 citations Kambez H. Benam, Rémi Villenave et al. Nature Methods profile →
  4. Bactericidal Antibiotics Induce Toxic Metabolic Perturbations that Lead to Cellular Damage
    2015 393 citations Peter Belenky, Caroline Porter et al. Cell Reports profile →
  5. Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip
    2017 379 citations Thomas C. Ferrante, Tadanori Mammoto et al. profile →
  6. Minimally instrumented SHERLOCK (miSHERLOCK) for CRISPR-based point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants
    2021 236 citations Helena de Puig, Rose Lee et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas C. Ferrante United States 20 2.7k 2.3k 570 499 467 26 5.1k
Ivo Que Netherlands 34 1.5k 0.6× 954 0.4× 807 1.4× 261 0.5× 507 1.1× 85 4.0k
Airong Qian China 38 2.6k 1.0× 797 0.3× 534 0.9× 334 0.7× 269 0.6× 178 5.1k
Ying Zheng United States 38 1.5k 0.6× 2.3k 1.0× 500 0.9× 1.1k 2.2× 327 0.7× 132 4.9k
Sébastien Monette United States 32 1.2k 0.4× 793 0.3× 579 1.0× 428 0.9× 677 1.4× 129 3.7k
Yuan Xiong China 41 2.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 837 1.5× 842 1.7× 197 0.4× 185 6.6k
Lewis H. Romer United States 42 2.8k 1.0× 956 0.4× 550 1.0× 460 0.9× 385 0.8× 79 6.6k
Steffen Emmert Germany 44 2.3k 0.9× 582 0.3× 1.1k 1.9× 267 0.5× 273 0.6× 228 6.2k
Jazli Aziz Malaysia 6 1.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 2.0× 559 1.1× 505 1.1× 10 5.7k
Jung‐Joon Min South Korea 41 1.3k 0.5× 2.6k 1.1× 824 1.4× 336 0.7× 661 1.4× 193 5.9k
Yi Cui China 28 2.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 167 0.3× 198 0.4× 151 0.3× 100 4.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Izadifar, Zohreh, Kanoelani Pilobello, Susan Marquez, et al.. (2024). Organ chips with integrated multifunctional sensors enable continuous metabolic monitoring at controlled oxygen levels. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 265. 116683–116683. 15 indexed citations
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Lobritz, Michael A., Ian W. Andrews, Dana Braff, et al.. (2022). Increased energy demand from anabolic-catabolic processes drives β-lactam antibiotic lethality. Cell chemical biology. 29(2). 276–286.e4. 34 indexed citations
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Puig, Helena de, Rose Lee, Devora Najjar, et al.. (2021). Minimally instrumented SHERLOCK (miSHERLOCK) for CRISPR-based point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants. Science Advances. 7(32). 236 indexed citations breakdown →
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Valastyan, Julie S., Christina M. Kraml, István Pelczer, Thomas C. Ferrante, & Bonnie L. Bassler. (2021). Saccharomyces cerevisiae Requires CFF1 To Produce 4-Hydroxy-5-Methylfuran-3(2H)-One, a Mimic of the Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Autoinducer AI-2. mBio. 12(2). 12 indexed citations
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Benam, Kambez H., Richard Novák, Thomas C. Ferrante, Youngjae Choe, & Donald E. Ingber. (2020). Biomimetic smoking robot for in vitro inhalation exposure compatible with microfluidic organ chips. Nature Protocols. 15(2). 183–206. 35 indexed citations
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Sontheimer-Phelps, Alexandra, David B. Chou, Alessio Tovaglieri, et al.. (2019). Human Colon-on-a-Chip Enables Continuous In Vitro Analysis of Colon Mucus Layer Accumulation and Physiology. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 9(3). 507–526. 183 indexed citations
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Homan, Kimberly A., Navin Gupta, Katharina T. Kroll, et al.. (2019). Flow-enhanced vascularization and maturation of kidney organoids in vitro. Nature Methods. 16(3). 255–262. 670 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jalili‐Firoozinezhad, Sasan, Rachelle Prantil‐Baun, Amanda Jiang, et al.. (2018). Modeling radiation injury-induced cell death and countermeasure drug responses in a human Gut-on-a-Chip. Cell Death and Disease. 9(2). 223–223. 157 indexed citations
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Mammoto, Tadanori, James C. Weaver, Thomas C. Ferrante, et al.. (2017). Mechanical induction of dentin-like differentiation by adult mouse bone marrow stromal cells using compressive scaffolds. Stem Cell Research. 24. 55–60. 12 indexed citations
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Benam, Kambez H., et al.. (2017). Human Lung Small Airway-on-a-Chip Protocol. Methods in molecular biology. 1612. 345–365. 53 indexed citations
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Villenave, Rémi, Samantha Q. Wales, Tiama Hamkins-Indik, et al.. (2017). Human Gut-On-A-Chip Supports Polarized Infection of Coxsackie B1 Virus In Vitro. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0169412–e0169412. 156 indexed citations
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Sutton, Amy, Tanya Shirman, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, et al.. (2017). Photothermally triggered actuation of hybrid materials as a new platform for in vitro cell manipulation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14700–14700. 102 indexed citations
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Benam, Kambez H., Richard Novák, Janna Nawroth, et al.. (2016). Matched-Comparative Modeling of Normal and Diseased Human Airway Responses Using a Microengineered Breathing Lung Chip. Cell Systems. 3(5). 456–466.e4. 227 indexed citations
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Benam, Kambez H., Rémi Villenave, Carolina Lucchesi, et al.. (2015). Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation and drug responses in vitro. Nature Methods. 13(2). 151–157. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Belenky, Peter, Caroline Porter, Nadia Cohen, et al.. (2015). Bactericidal Antibiotics Induce Toxic Metabolic Perturbations that Lead to Cellular Damage. Cell Reports. 13(5). 968–980. 393 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Je Hyuk, Evan R Daugharthy, Jonathan Scheiman, et al.. (2015). Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) of RNA for gene expression profiling in intact cells and tissues. Nature Protocols. 10(3). 442–458. 387 indexed citations
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Lee, Je Hyuk, Evan R Daugharthy, Jonathan Scheiman, et al.. (2014). Highly Multiplexed Subcellular RNA Sequencing in Situ. Science. 343(6177). 1360–1363. 693 indexed citations breakdown →
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Koshy, Sandeep T., Thomas C. Ferrante, Sarah A. Lewin, & David Mooney. (2013). Injectable, porous, and cell-responsive gelatin cryogels. Biomaterials. 35(8). 2477–2487. 274 indexed citations
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Ferrante, Thomas C., et al.. (2012). Reactive Oxygen Species Stimulate Insulin Secretion in Rat Pancreatic Islets: Studies Using Mono-Oleoyl-Glycerol. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e30200–e30200. 55 indexed citations
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Ferrante, Thomas C.. (2008). E-Leetspeak: All New! The Most Challenging Puzzles Since Sudoku!. 2 indexed citations

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