Timothy K. Lu

22.2k total citations · 11 hit papers
166 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Timothy K. Lu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy K. Lu has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Microbiology and 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Timothy K. Lu's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (54 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (30 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (26 papers). Timothy K. Lu is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (54 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (30 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (26 papers). Timothy K. Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Timothy K. Lu's co-authors include James J. Collins, Mark Mimee, César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Robert J. Citorik, Charles H. Chen, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Fahim Farzadfard, Chao Zhong, Allen A. Cheng and Tzu‐Chieh Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Timothy K. Lu

161 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2014 2020 2012 2018 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. Dispersing biofilms with engineered enzymatic bacteriophage
    2007 643 citations Timothy K. Lu, James J. Collins Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Sequence-specific antimicrobials using efficiently delivered RNA-guided nucleases
    2014 554 citations Robert J. Citorik, Mark Mimee et al. profile →
  3. Development and Challenges of Antimicrobial Peptides for Therapeutic Applications
    2020 457 citations Timothy K. Lu et al. profile →
  4. Surface Charge-Switching Polymeric Nanoparticles for Bacterial Cell Wall-Targeted Delivery of Antibiotics
    2012 438 citations Aleksandar F. Radovic‐Moreno, Timothy K. Lu et al. ACS Nano profile →
  5. An ingestible bacterial-electronic system to monitor gastrointestinal health
    2018 433 citations Mark Mimee, Phillip Nadeau et al. Science profile →
  6. Peptide Design Principles for Antimicrobial Applications
    2019 337 citations Marcelo D. T. Torres, Timothy K. Lu et al. profile →
  7. 3D Printing of Living Responsive Materials and Devices
    2017 333 citations Tzu‐Chieh Tang, César de la Fuente‐Núñez et al. profile →
  8. Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis
    2019 289 citations Sébastien Lemire, Mark Mimee et al. profile →
  9. Materials design by synthetic biology
    2020 268 citations Tzu‐Chieh Tang, Timothy K. Lu et al. profile →
  10. Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures
    2021 222 citations Charlie Gilbert, Tzu‐Chieh Tang et al. Nature Materials profile →
  11. Engineering living therapeutics with synthetic biology
    2021 207 citations James J. Collins, Timothy K. Lu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Timothy K. Lu United States 66 10.4k 3.3k 2.8k 2.3k 1.7k 166 15.9k
William E. Bentley United States 65 9.3k 0.9× 4.9k 1.5× 1.1k 0.4× 418 0.2× 2.5k 1.5× 445 16.9k
Jianjun Li China 57 4.5k 0.4× 1.7k 0.5× 926 0.3× 1.1k 0.5× 613 0.4× 503 12.1k
Antonio Villaverde Spain 54 7.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 476 0.2× 1.9k 1.1× 348 10.5k
César de la Fuente‐Núñez United States 54 6.9k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 1.0k 0.4× 5.2k 2.2× 572 0.3× 179 11.2k
Liang Yang Singapore 56 6.9k 0.7× 966 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 217 10.1k
Wenyuan Shi United States 63 6.4k 0.6× 991 0.3× 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 248 12.9k
Lianhui Wang China 97 12.5k 1.2× 10.0k 3.0× 701 0.3× 427 0.2× 724 0.4× 585 31.1k
Klaus Winzer Germany 50 5.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 739 0.3× 528 0.2× 1.9k 1.1× 218 9.9k
Fangfang Xia China 37 4.5k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 449 0.2× 349 0.2× 108 9.8k
Jonas Korlach United States 47 8.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 463 0.2× 1.6k 0.9× 102 12.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Xiaolin, Yaoping Liu, Michael E. Birnbaum, et al.. (2025). Rapid Universal Detection of High‐Risk and Low‐Abundance Microbial Contaminations in CAR‐T Cell Therapy. Small Methods. 9(8). e2500253–e2500253.
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Kim, Tackhoon, Donghwa Kim, Sang Kook Lee, et al.. (2024). Combinatorial CRISPR screen reveals FYN and KDM4 as targets for synergistic drug combination for treating triple negative breast cancer. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiaolin, Cheryl Chan, Stacy L. Springs, et al.. (2022). A warm-start digital CRISPR/Cas-based method for the quantitative detection of nucleic acids. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1196. 339494–339494. 31 indexed citations
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Schubert, Max G., Daniel B. Goodman, Timothy M. Wannier, et al.. (2021). High-throughput functional variant screens via in vivo production of single-stranded DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(18). 71 indexed citations
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Gilbert, Charlie, Tzu‐Chieh Tang, Wolfgang Ott, et al.. (2021). Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures. Nature Materials. 20(5). 691–700. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Tackhoon, Benjamin H. Weinberg, Wilson W. Wong, & Timothy K. Lu. (2021). Scalable recombinase-based gene expression cascades. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2711–2711. 16 indexed citations
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Torres, Marcelo D. T., Sahag Voskian, Paul Brown, et al.. (2021). Coatable and Resistance-Proof Ionic Liquid for Pathogen Eradication. ACS Nano. 15(1). 966–978. 39 indexed citations
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Łątka, Agnieszka, Sébastien Lemire, Dennis Grimon, et al.. (2021). Engineering the Modular Receptor-Binding Proteins ofKlebsiellaPhages Switches Their Capsule Serotype Specificity. mBio. 12(3). 61 indexed citations
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Wu, Xiaolin, Joshua K. Tay, Cheryl Chan, et al.. (2021). Digital CRISPR-based method for the rapid detection and absolute quantification of nucleic acids. Biomaterials. 274. 120876–120876. 87 indexed citations
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Wang, Jin, Bing Liang Alvin Chew, Yong Lai, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the RNA cap epitranscriptome reveals novel caps in cellular and viral RNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(20). e130–e130. 132 indexed citations
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Oshiro, Karen G. N., Elizabete de Souza Cândido, Lai Yue Chan, et al.. (2019). Computer-Aided Design of Mastoparan-like Peptides Enables the Generation of Nontoxic Variants with Extended Antibacterial Properties. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 62(17). 8140–8151. 25 indexed citations
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Higashikuni, Yasutomi & Timothy K. Lu. (2019). Advancing CRISPR-Based Programmable Platforms beyond Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells. ACS Synthetic Biology. 8(12). 2607–2619. 4 indexed citations
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Cândido, Elizabete de Souza, Marlon H. Cardoso, Lai Yue Chan, et al.. (2019). Short Cationic Peptide Derived from Archaea with Dual Antibacterial Properties and Anti-Infective Potential. ACS Infectious Diseases. 5(7). 1081–1086. 39 indexed citations
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Mimee, Mark, Phillip Nadeau, Alison Hayward, et al.. (2018). An ingestible bacterial-electronic system to monitor gastrointestinal health. Science. 360(6391). 915–918. 433 indexed citations breakdown →
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Verderosa, Anthony D., César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Sarah Mansour, et al.. (2017). Ciprofloxacin-nitroxide hybrids with potential for biofilm control. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 138. 590–601. 38 indexed citations
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Perli, Samuel D., Cheryl H. Cui, & Timothy K. Lu. (2016). Continuous genetic recording with self-targeting CRISPR-Cas in human cells. Science. 353(6304). 167 indexed citations
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Silva, Osmar Nascimento, César de la Fuente‐Núñez, Evan F. Haney, et al.. (2016). An anti-infective synthetic peptide with dual antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities. Nature. 18 indexed citations
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Radovic‐Moreno, Aleksandar F., et al.. (2012). Surface Charge-Switching Polymeric Nanoparticles for Bacterial Cell Wall-Targeted Delivery of Antibiotics. ACS Nano. 6(5). 4279–4287. 438 indexed citations breakdown →
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Friedland, Ari E., Timothy K. Lu, Xiao Wang, et al.. (2009). Synthetic Gene Networks That Count. Science. 324(5931). 1199–1202. 429 indexed citations
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Lu, Timothy K. & James J. Collins. (2009). Engineered bacteriophage targeting gene networks as adjuvants for antibiotic therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(12). 4629–4634. 387 indexed citations

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