William Sun

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

William Sun is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Hematology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Sun has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Hematology. Recurrent topics in William Sun's work include Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments (11 papers). William Sun is often cited by papers focused on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments (11 papers). William Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. William Sun's co-authors include Jeansok J. Kim, Sandra J. Friezner Degen, Srđan Verstovšek, Antonio Ferrer‐Montiel, Richard F. Thompson, Richard F. Thompson, Fred J. Helmstetter, Ruben A. Mesa, Xiu Qin Xu and David P. Witte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Sun

88 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Probiotic neoantigen delivery vectors for precision cancer immunotherapy

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Sun United States	34	1.9k	978	734	688	437	95	3.9k
Klaus Seuwen Switzerland	41	3.9k 2.1×	1.0k 1.1×	225 0.3×	387 0.6×	561 1.3×	97	5.9k
Koichi Kokame Japan	43	2.4k 1.3×	433 0.4×	1.8k 2.5×	818 1.2×	351 0.8×	135	6.5k
Rudolf Kirchmair Austria	43	2.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	313 0.4×	393 0.6×	1.1k 2.4×	114	6.1k
L.M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg United States	43	3.3k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	604 0.8×	1.8k 2.6×	279 0.6×	90	6.1k
Martin Reichel Germany	40	2.8k 1.5×	376 0.4×	363 0.5×	217 0.3×	233 0.5×	93	4.6k
Luc Schoonjans Belgium	24	2.3k 1.2×	346 0.4×	934 1.3×	279 0.4×	426 1.0×	39	5.0k
Nina Wettschureck Germany	37	3.7k 2.0×	708 0.7×	319 0.4×	176 0.3×	597 1.4×	87	6.7k
Anne Vital France	34	1.7k 0.9×	950 1.0×	142 0.2×	829 1.2×	201 0.5×	129	4.7k
Kathryn DeFea United States	31	3.2k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	711 1.0×	425 0.6×	276 0.6×	52	4.8k
Paul Gissen United Kingdom	36	1.9k 1.0×	585 0.6×	289 0.4×	227 0.3×	588 1.3×	146	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by William Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Sun

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Abu‐Remaileh, Muhannad, Laura Stransky, Nitin H. Shirole, et al.. (2025). Targeting of HIF2-driven cachexia in kidney cancer. Nature Medicine. 32(1). 245–257.

Singer, Zakary S., Jonathan Pabón, William Sun, et al.. (2025). Engineered bacteria launch and control an oncolytic virus. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 10(3). 490–500. 2 indexed citations

Sun, William, et al.. (2025). Real-Time Detection of D-Glucose Molecules in Exhaled Aerosols Using a Biochemical Sensor for Breathalyzer Applications. IEEE Sensors Letters. 9(4). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

Ferrarotto, Renata, Paul Swiecicki, Dan P. Zandberg, et al.. (2023). PRT543, a protein arginine methyltransferase 5 inhibitor, in patients with advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma: An open-label, phase I dose-expansion study. Oral Oncology. 149. 106634–106634. 19 indexed citations

Braun, Molly R., Becca A. Flitter, William Sun, & Sean N. Tucker. (2023). An easy pill to swallow: oral recombinant vaccines for the 21st century. Current Opinion in Immunology. 84. 102374–102374. 6 indexed citations

Seow, Wei Yang, et al.. (2019). Thin peptide hydrogel membranes suitable as scaffolds for engineering layered biostructures. Acta Biomaterialia. 88. 293–300. 20 indexed citations

Verstovšek, Srđan, Jason Gotlib, Ruben A. Mesa, et al.. (2017). Long-term survival in patients treated with ruxolitinib for myelofibrosis: COMFORT-I and -II pooled analyses. Journal of Hematology & Oncology. 10(1). 156–156. 193 indexed citations

Wang, Huajing & William Sun. (2016). CRISPR-mediated targeting of HER2 inhibits cell proliferation through a dominant negative mutation. Cancer Letters. 385. 137–143. 58 indexed citations

Toh, Kai Yee, Gary S. L. Peh, Heng-Pei Ang, et al.. (2016). Isolation of a recombinant antibody specific for a surface marker of the corneal endothelium by phage display. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21661–21661. 16 indexed citations

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Mesa, Ruben A., Srđan Verstovšek, Vikas Gupta, et al.. (2014). Effects of Ruxolitinib Treatment on Metabolic and Nutritional Parameters in Patients With Myelofibrosis From COMFORT-I. Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia. 15(4). 214–221.e1. 61 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiu Qin & William Sun. (2012). Perspective from the heart: The potential of human pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 114(1). 39–46. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiu Qin, Robert Zweigerdt, Su Chin Tham, et al.. (2008). Highly enriched cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells. Cytotherapy. 10(4). 376–389. 80 indexed citations

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Benner, Joshua S., Leif Erhardt, Zbigniew Gaciong, et al.. (2007). Rationale, design, and methods for the risk evaluation and communication health outcomes and utilization trial (REACH OUT). Contemporary Clinical Trials. 28(5). 662–673. 10 indexed citations

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Phillips, Blaine, Hannes Hentze, William L. Rust, et al.. (2007). Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into the Pancreatic Endocrine Lineage. Stem Cells and Development. 16(4). 561–578. 110 indexed citations

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Sassa, Takayuki, et al.. (2000). Identification of Variants and Dual Promoters of Murine Serine/Threonine Kinase KKIAMRE. Journal of Neurochemistry. 74(5). 1809–1819. 11 indexed citations

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Kim, Jeansok J., et al.. (1999). Acquisition of fear conditioning in rats requires the synthesis of mRNA in the amygdala.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 113(2). 276–282. 116 indexed citations

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Bailey, David J., Jeansok J. Kim, William Sun, Richard F. Thompson, & Fred J. Helmstetter. (1999). Acquisition of fear conditioning in rats requires the synthesis of mRNA in the amygdala.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 113(2). 276–282. 121 indexed citations

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Sprengel, Rolf, Carla Amico, R. Brusa, et al.. (1998). Importance of the Intracellular Domain of NR2 Subunits for NMDA Receptor Function In Vivo. Cell. 92(2). 279–289. 366 indexed citations

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Ferrer‐Montiel, Antonio, William Sun, & M Montal. (1996). A single tryptophan on M2 of glutamate receptor channels confers high permeability to divalent cations. Biophysical Journal. 71(2). 749–758. 18 indexed citations

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Collins, Colin C., Catherine Duff, Alessandra M.V. Duncan, et al.. (1993). Mapping of the Human NMDA Receptor Subunit (NMDAR1) and the Proposed NMDA Receptor Glutamate-Binding Subunit (NMDARA1) to Chromosomes 9q34.3 and Chromosome 8, Respectively. Genomics. 17(1). 237–239. 15 indexed citations

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