Will Liao

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Will Liao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Will Liao has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Immunology and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Will Liao's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers) and FOXO transcription factor regulation (4 papers). Will Liao is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers) and FOXO transcription factor regulation (4 papers). Will Liao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Will Liao's co-authors include Ming O. Li, Myoungjoo V. Kim, Ruth A. Franklin, Kang Liu, Eric G. Pamer, Abira Sarkar, Michael Q. Zhang, Weiming Ouyang, Chong Luo and Alexander Y. Rudensky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Will Liao

18 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

The cellular and molecular origin of tumor-associated macrophages

2014 1.1k citations Ruth A. Franklin, Will Liao et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Will Liao United States	13	1.7k	987	686	327	121	18	2.6k
Fernando J. Calero‐Nieto United Kingdom	24	877 0.5×	1.9k 1.9×	187 0.3×	222 0.7×	71 0.6×	44	2.9k
Ferenc Livák United States	26	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	750 1.1×	434 1.3×	30 0.2×	49	2.7k
Yanwen Jiang United States	29	466 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	459 0.7×	402 1.2×	60 0.5×	104	2.5k
Andrea E. Murmann United States	19	558 0.3×	1.9k 1.9×	535 0.8×	1.0k 3.2×	70 0.6×	34	2.5k
Sugiko Watanabe Japan	23	532 0.3×	2.1k 2.1×	366 0.5×	747 2.3×	67 0.6×	29	2.7k
Sachiko Ezoe Japan	23	723 0.4×	874 0.9×	607 0.9×	204 0.6×	24 0.2×	55	2.0k
Kotaro Sasaki United States	25	594 0.3×	1.7k 1.7×	412 0.6×	306 0.9×	63 0.5×	50	2.6k
Jackie Papkoff United States	26	706 0.4×	2.0k 2.0×	856 1.2×	177 0.5×	90 0.7×	34	3.1k
Diana Bellavia Italy	30	850 0.5×	1.9k 1.9×	636 0.9×	564 1.7×	19 0.2×	57	3.0k
Sagar Chhangawala United States	14	710 0.4×	876 0.9×	338 0.5×	381 1.2×	35 0.3×	21	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Will Liao

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18 of 18 papers shown

Khulan, Batbayar, Kenny Ye, Miao Shi, et al.. (2025). Normal bronchial field basal cells show persistent methylome-wide impact of tobacco smoking, including in known cancer genes. Epigenetics. 20(1). 2466382–2466382. 1 indexed citations

Powell, Samuel K., Kayla G. Townsley, Kristina Dobrindt, et al.. (2021). Induction of dopaminergic neurons for neuronal subtype-specific modeling of psychiatric disease risk. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(5). 1970–1982. 13 indexed citations

Bhatt, Dev, Will Liao, Dillon Maloney, et al.. (2020). Toll-like Receptor (TLR)-induced Rasgef1b expression in macrophages is regulated by NF-κB through its proximal promoter. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 127. 105840–105840. 13 indexed citations

Hernandez, Marylens, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Lamin B1-Gene Association During Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Differentiation. Neurochemical Research. 45(3). 606–619. 8 indexed citations

Rajarajan, Prashanth, Tyler Borrman, Will Liao, et al.. (2019). Spatial genome exploration in the context of cognitive and neurological disease. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 59. 112–119. 10 indexed citations

Ng, Charles, Martin Aichinger, Tung H. Nguyen, et al.. (2019). The histone chaperone CAF-1 cooperates with the DNA methyltransferases to maintain Cd4 silencing in cytotoxic T cells. Genes & Development. 33(11-12). 669–683. 25 indexed citations

Suzuki, Masako, Will Liao, Andrew D. Johnston, et al.. (2018). Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing with improved accuracy and cost. Genome Research. 28(9). 1364–1371. 59 indexed citations

Oh, Hyun-Ju, Yenkel Grinberg‐Bleyer, Will Liao, et al.. (2017). An NF-κB Transcription-Factor-Dependent Lineage-Specific Transcriptional Program Promotes Regulatory T Cell Identity and Function. Immunity. 47(3). 450–465.e5. 166 indexed citations

Kovatcheva, Marta, Will Liao, Mary E. Klein, et al.. (2017). ATRX is a regulator of therapy induced senescence in human cells. Nature Communications. 8(1). 386–386. 62 indexed citations

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Luo, Chong, Will Liao, Saïda Dadi, Ahmed Toure, & Ming O. Li. (2016). Graded Foxo1 activity in Treg cells differentiates tumour immunity from spontaneous autoimmunity. Nature. 529(7587). 532–536. 155 indexed citations

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Liao, Will, Weiming Ouyang, Michael Q. Zhang, & Ming O. Li. (2014). Genome wide mapping of Foxo1 binding-sites in murine T lymphocytes. Genomics Data. 2. 280–281. 5 indexed citations

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Franklin, Ruth A., Will Liao, Abira Sarkar, et al.. (2014). The cellular and molecular origin of tumor-associated macrophages. Science. 344(6186). 921–925. 1061 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Myoungjoo V., Weiming Ouyang, Will Liao, Michael Q. Zhang, & Ming O. Li. (2013). The Transcription Factor Foxo1 Controls Central-Memory CD8+ T Cell Responses to Infection. Immunity. 39(2). 286–297. 158 indexed citations

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May, Patrick, Will Liao, Yijin Wu, et al.. (2013). The effects of carbon dioxide and temperature on microRNA expression in Arabidopsis development. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2145–2145. 110 indexed citations

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Samstein, Robert, Aaron Arvey, Steven Z. Josefowicz, et al.. (2012). Foxp3 Exploits a Pre-Existent Enhancer Landscape for Regulatory T Cell Lineage Specification. Cell. 151(1). 153–166. 356 indexed citations

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Xing, Haipeng, Yifan Mo, Will Liao, & Michael Q. Zhang. (2012). Genome-Wide Localization of Protein-DNA Binding and Histone Modification by a Bayesian Change-Point Method with ChIP-seq Data. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(7). e1002613–e1002613. 34 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Weiming, Will Liao, Chong Luo, et al.. (2012). Novel Foxo1-dependent transcriptional programs control Treg cell function. Nature. 491(7425). 554–559. 329 indexed citations

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Hicks, Alexandra, Holly Hilton, Hongli Li, et al.. (2009). Cellular and Molecular Characterization of Ozone-Induced Pulmonary Inflammation in the Cynomolgus Monkey. Inflammation. 33(3). 144–156. 10 indexed citations

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