Wei Sun

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
283 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Wei Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Sun has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Cancer Research and 32 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wei Sun's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (22 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (19 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers). Wei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (22 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (19 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers). Wei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Wei Sun's co-authors include Zhiyong Li, Zhengdong Cai, Yingqi Hua, Fengli Zhang, Yuan Huang, Hongsheng Wang, Fei Yin, Hong Chen, Ning Fang and Dongqing Zuo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Wei Sun

271 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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Color‐Tunable, Excitation‐Dependent, and Time‐Dependent Afterglows from Pure Organic Amorphous Polymers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	PD‐L1 on Tumor‐Derived Extracellular Vesicles Induces CD8 ⁺ T Cell Terminal Exhaustion and Mediates Anti‐PD‐1 Resistance in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma 2025 ·Advanced Science ·Ruihua Fang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yongjian Deng, (unknown), Wei Sun, Jinhong Zhang, (unknown), Wenbin Guo, Yi Lv, Shunjing Luo, Zhe‐Sheng Chen, (unknown), Weiping Wen, Wenbin Lei	0
2	STING directly interacts with PAR to promote apoptosis upon acute ionizing radiation-mediated DNA damage 2025 ·Cell Death and Differentiation ·Yirong Sun, Saba R. Aliyari, Michelle S. Parvatiyar, Lulan Wang, Anjie Zhen, Wei Sun, Xiaobo Han, (unknown), Eisuke Kato, Helen Shi, (unknown), William H. McBride, Samuel W. French, Genhong Cheng	10
3	Natural polysaccharides in colloidal drug delivery systems for brain glioma therapy: Mechanisms and advancements 2025 ·Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces ·Chun Li, (unknown), (unknown), Zhipeng Hou, Jing Chen, Liqun Yang, Wei Sun	0
4	Magnetically driven hydrogel microrobots for enhancing the therapeutic effect of anlotinib on osteosarcoma 2024 ·Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology ·Haoyu Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Bing‐Hui Yang, Jiakang Shen, Haoran Mu, Chongren Wang, (unknown), Zhengdong Cai, Mu Li, Wei Sun, Yang Liu, Mengxiong Sun	1
5	Predicting response to PD-1 inhibitors in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas using peripheral blood inflammatory markers 2024 ·Translational Oncology ·Ruihua Fang, Yi Chen, (unknown), Zhangfeng Wang, (unknown), Dawei Liu, Wei Sun, Lin Y. Chen, Minjuan Zhang, (unknown), Wenbin Lei	2
6	Engineering Bimetallic Polyphenol for Mild Photothermal Osteosarcoma Therapy and Immune Microenvironment Remodeling by Activating Pyroptosis and cGAS‐STING Pathway 2024 ·Advanced Healthcare Materials ·Kaiyuan Liu, Pengfei Zan, Zihua Li, Hengli Lu, Peng Liu, Li Zhang, Hongsheng Wang, Xiaojun Ma, Feng Chen, Jing Zhao, Wei Sun	10
7	Use of carbon dioxide fractional laser in the management of lower limb ischemia in patients with diabetes: a case report 2024 ·Journal of International Medical Research ·(unknown), Yuanqiang Zhu, Wei Sun, Xiao Fang, (unknown), Le Qiu, Xu‐Lin Chen	0
8	Computational design of anti-CRISPR proteins with improved inhibition potency 2020 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·(unknown), Zander Harteveld, Carolin Schmelas, Julius Upmeier zu Belzen, Sabine Aschenbrenner, Wei Sun, Mareike D. Hoffmann, (unknown), Andreas Scheck, Sandrine Georgeon, Stéphane Rosset, Yanli Wang, Dirk Grimm, Roland Eils, Bruno E. Correia, Dominik Niopek	15
9	Degradation and Service Life Prediction of Organic Coatings/Carbon Steel in Simulated Atmospheric Environments 2019 ·Corrosion Science and Protetion Technology ·Zhen Pang, Wei Sun, (unknown), Yuming Tang, Xuhui Zhao, Yu Zuo, Bin Liu, Lei Yang, Rui Yang	1
10	Ferrimagnetic Vortex Nanoring-Mediated Mild Magnetic Hyperthermia Imparts Potent Immunological Effect for Treating Cancer Metastasis 2019 ·ACS Nano ·Xiaoli Liu, Jianjun Zheng, Wei Sun, Xiao Zhao, Yao Li, Ningqiang Gong, Yanyun Wang, Xiaowei Ma, Tingbin Zhang, Lingyun Zhao, Yayi Hou, Zhibing Wu, Yang Du, Haiming Fan, Jie Tian, Xing‐Jie Liang	202
11	HMS1 interacts with HMS1I to regulate very‐long‐chain fatty acid biosynthesis and the humidity‐sensitive genic male sterility in rice (Oryza sativa) 2019 ·New Phytologist ·Huiqiong Chen, Zhiguo Zhang, Erdong Ni, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Liya Zhu, Li Deng, (unknown), Qian Luo, Wei Sun, Zhenlan Liu, Chuxiong Zhuang, Yao‐Guang Liu, Hai Zhou	41
12	Application and exploration of mixed reality technology in accurate operation of bone and soft tissue tumors 2019 ·Xiaojun Ma, Yanping Lin, (unknown), Wei Sun, Jiakang Shen, Mengxiong Sun, Zeze Fu, Lei Wang, Zhengdong Cai	1
13	Functional Transcripts Indicate Phylogenetically Diverse Active Ammonia-Scavenging Microbiota in Sympatric Sponges 2018 ·Marine Biotechnology ·Guofang Feng, Wei Sun, Fengli Zhang, Sandi Orlić, Zhiyong Li	10
14	Comparative Genomics Provides Insights Into the Marine Adaptation in Sponge-Derived Kocuriaflava S43 2018 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Wei Sun, Changrong Liu, Fengli Zhang, Mingzhu Zhao, Zhiyong Li	11
15	Surgical Treatment of Sacral Neurogenic Tumor: A 10‐year Experience with 64 Cases 2016 ·Orthopaedic Surgery ·Wei Sun, Xiaojun Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Chongren Wang, Zhengdong Cai	19
16	Diversity and distribution of planktonic anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in the Dongjiang River, China 2014 ·Microbiological Research ·Wei Sun, Chunyu Xia, Meiying Xu, Jun Guo, Aijie Wang, Guoping Sun	22
17	Phylogenetically Diverse Denitrifying and Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Corals Alcyonium gracillimum and Tubastraea coccinea 2013 ·Marine Biotechnology ·(unknown), Wei Sun, Fengli Zhang, Zhiyong Li	39
18	Phylogenetically diverse endozoic fungi in the South China Sea sponges and their potential in synthesizing bioactive natural products suggested by PKS gene and cytotoxic activity analysis 2012 ·Fungal Diversity ·Zhisheng Yu, Baohua Zhang, Wei Sun, Fengli Zhang, Zhiyong Li	26
19	Dose‐dependent pharmacokinetics of 1‐(2‐Deoxy‐β‐D‐ ribofuranosyl)‐2,4‐difluoro‐5‐iodobenzene: A potential mimic of 5‐iodo‐2′‐deoxyuridine 2003 ·Biopharmaceutics & Drug Disposition ·(unknown), (unknown), Wei Sun, Edward E. Knaus, Leonard I. Wiebe	3
20	The China Productivity Project: Results and conclusions 1997 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·A. Theodore Steegmann, (unknown), Sharon Hewner, (unknown), Wei Sun, William R. Leonard, Xiufen Zhang, (unknown)	10

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