Tushar Desai

11.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
36 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Tushar Desai is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Tushar Desai has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Tushar Desai's work include Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers), Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (13 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (3 papers). Tushar Desai is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers), Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (13 papers) and Extracellular vesicles in disease (3 papers). Tushar Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Tushar Desai's co-authors include Douglas Brownfield, Mark A. Krasnow, Pehr B. Harbury, Norma Neff, F. Hernán Espinoza, Gary L. Mantalas, Angela Ruohao Wu, Barbara Treutlein, Stephen R. Quake and Ahmad N. Nabhan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Tushar Desai

35 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Reconstructing lineage hierarchies of the distal lung epi... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2014 2014 2008 2018 2019 250 500 750
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. Reconstructing lineage hierarchies of the distal lung epithelium using single-cell RNA-seq
    2014 934 citations Barbara Treutlein, Douglas Brownfield et al. Nature profile →
  2. Alveolar progenitor and stem cells in lung development, renewal and cancer
    2014 710 citations Tushar Desai, Douglas Brownfield et al. Nature profile →
  3. In Vitro and In Vivo Gene Therapy Vector Evolution via Multispecies Interbreeding and Retargeting of Adeno-Associated Viruses
    2008 537 citations Dirk Grimm, Joyce Lee et al. Journal of Virology profile →
  4. Single-cell Wnt signaling niches maintain stemness of alveolar type 2 cells
    2018 490 citations Ahmad N. Nabhan, Douglas Brownfield et al. Science profile →
  5. An atlas of the aging lung mapped by single cell transcriptomics and deep tissue proteomics
    2019 390 citations Ilias Angelidis, Lukas M. Simon et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Tushar Desai
Changgong Li United States
Xaralabos Varelas United States
Alvin T. Kho United States
Michael H. Roh United States
Neil V. Morgan United Kingdom
Catherine I. Dumur United States
Maarten F. Bijlsma Netherlands
Thomas G. P. Grünewald Germany
Rachel E. Bell United Kingdom
Andrés F. Muro Italy
Changgong Li United States
Tushar Desai
Citations per year, relative to Tushar Desai Tushar Desai (= 1×) peers Changgong Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tushar Desai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tushar Desai

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guo, Jason L., Jung-Ki Yoon, John Lu, et al.. (2025). Histological signatures map anti-fibrotic factors in mouse and human lungs. Nature. 641(8064). 993–1004. 9 indexed citations
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Kong, William, Wan-Jin Lu, Megha Dubey, et al.. (2025). Neuroendocrine cells orchestrate regeneration through Desert hedgehog signaling. Cell. 188(18). 5020–5038.e20. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Tushar, et al.. (2024). Eye Bird View on Natural Plants in the Management of Mucormycosis. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research. 506–516. 1 indexed citations
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Yoon, Jung-Ki, Marina C. Martinez, Maurizio Morri, et al.. (2023). KRAS(G12D) drives lepidic adenocarcinoma through stem-cell reprogramming. Nature. 619(7971). 860–867. 18 indexed citations
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Martin, Thomas R., Rachel L. Zemans, Lorraine B. Ware, et al.. (2022). New Insights into Clinical and Mechanistic Heterogeneity of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Summary of the Aspen Lung Conference 2021. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 67(3). 284–308. 18 indexed citations
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Brownfield, Douglas, et al.. (2022). Alveolar cell fate selection and lifelong maintenance of AT2 cells by FGF signaling. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7137–7137. 29 indexed citations
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Ting, Anthony E., Josée Champagne, Tushar Desai, et al.. (2022). Proceedings of the ISCT scientific signature series symposium, “Advances in cell and gene therapies for lung diseases and critical illnesses”. Cytotherapy. 24(8). 774–788. 3 indexed citations
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Angelidis, Ilias, Lukas M. Simon, Isis E. Fernandez, et al.. (2019). An atlas of the aging lung mapped by single cell transcriptomics and deep tissue proteomics. Nature Communications. 10(1). 963–963. 390 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nabhan, Ahmad N., Douglas Brownfield, Pehr B. Harbury, Mark A. Krasnow, & Tushar Desai. (2018). Single-cell Wnt signaling niches maintain stemness of alveolar type 2 cells. Science. 359(6380). 1118–1123. 490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oak, Prajakta, Anita Windhorst, Oliver Eickelberg, et al.. (2017). Attenuated PDGF signaling drives alveolar and microvascular defects in neonatal chronic lung disease. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 9(11). 1504–1520. 26 indexed citations
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Kuo, Christin S. & Tushar Desai. (2015). Cellular mechanisms of alveolar pathology in childhood interstitial lung diseases. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 27(3). 341–347. 2 indexed citations
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Hettmer, Simone, Michael M. Lin, Alessandra Castiglioni, et al.. (2015). Hedgehog-driven myogenic tumors recapitulate skeletal muscle cellular heterogeneity. Experimental Cell Research. 340(1). 43–52. 2 indexed citations
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Treutlein, Barbara, Douglas Brownfield, Angela Ruohao Wu, et al.. (2014). Reconstructing lineage hierarchies of the distal lung epithelium using single-cell RNA-seq. Nature. 509(7500). 371–375. 934 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grimm, Dirk, Joyce Lee, Tushar Desai, et al.. (2008). In Vitro and In Vivo Gene Therapy Vector Evolution via Multispecies Interbreeding and Retargeting of Adeno-Associated Viruses. Journal of Virology. 82(12). 5887–5911. 537 indexed citations breakdown →
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El‐Bizri, Nesrine, Lingli Wang, Sandra L. Merklinger, et al.. (2007). Smooth Muscle Protein 22α–Mediated Patchy Deletion of Bmpr1a Impairs Cardiac Contractility but Protects Against Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling. Circulation Research. 102(3). 380–388. 40 indexed citations
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Desai, Tushar, Felicia Chen, Jining Lü, et al.. (2006). Distinct roles for retinoic acid receptors alpha and beta in early lung morphogenesis. Developmental Biology. 291(1). 12–24. 72 indexed citations
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Desai, Tushar, et al.. (2004). Retinoic acid selectively regulates Fgf10 expression and maintains cell identity in the prospective lung field of the developing foregut. Developmental Biology. 273(2). 402–415. 97 indexed citations
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Desai, Tushar & Wellington V. Cardoso. (2001). Growth factors in lung development and disease: friends or foe?. Respiratory Research. 3(1). 2–2. 53 indexed citations

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