Yizhou Dong

14.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
110 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Yizhou Dong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yizhou Dong has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Immunology and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yizhou Dong's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (53 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (33 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers). Yizhou Dong is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (53 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (33 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers). Yizhou Dong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Yizhou Dong's co-authors include Xucheng Hou, Róbert Langer, Tal Zaks, Daniel G. Anderson, Bin Li, Yuebao Zhang, Xinfu Zhang, Chang Wang, Weiyu Zhao and Daniel J. Siegwart and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yizhou Dong

102 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery

2021 2.4k citations Xucheng Hou, Róbert Langer et al. profile →
Lipids and Lipid Derivatives for RNA Delivery

2021 461 citations Yuebao Zhang, Chang Wang et al. profile →
Strategies, design, and chemistry in siRNA delivery systems

2019 456 citations Yizhou Dong, Daniel J. Siegwart et al. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews profile →
Intratumoral delivery of IL-12 and IL-27 mRNA using lipid nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy

2022 178 citations Jin-Qing Liu, Chengxiang Zhang et al. profile →
Lipid Nanoparticle–mRNA Formulations for Therapeutic Applications

2021 173 citations Chang Wang, Yuebao Zhang et al. profile →
LNP-RNA-engineered adipose stem cells for accelerated diabetic wound healing

2024 46 citations Yonger Xue, Yuebao Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Kathryn A. Whitehead United States

Dominik Witzigmann Canada

Xun Sun China

Qiang Cheng China

Gaurav Sahay United States

Roy van der Meel Netherlands

Hidetaka Akita Japan

Enrico Mastrobattista Netherlands

Shigeru Kawakami Japan

Jayesh A. Kulkarni Canada

Kathryn A. Whitehead United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yizhou Dong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yizhou Dong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yizhou Dong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yizhou Dong 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 Yizhou Dong. Yizhou Dong 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

Cheng, Ruiqi, Min Jiang, Xinlong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Silver Induced In-Phase Electronic Interaction and Chloride Ion Repelling for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution in Seawater Electrolysis. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(6). 3416–3424. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuebao, Kaiyuan Guo, Shi Du, et al.. (2025). Aminophosphonate-Derived lipid nanoparticles enable circular RNA delivery for functional recovery after spinal cord injury. Materials Today. 91. 148–157.

Markovic, Tamara, et al.. (2025). Chemical strategies for brain delivery of genomic therapy. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 9(12). 841–854.

Cui, Zhifen, Furong Huang, Kun Fang, et al.. (2025). SCORT–Cas13d Nanotherapy Precisely Targets the ‘Undruggable’ Transcription Factor HoxB13 in Metastatic Prostate Cancer In Vivo. Advanced Science. 12(23). e2417605–e2417605. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Chang, Siyu Wang, Yonger Xue, et al.. (2024). Intravenous administration of blood–brain barrier-crossing conjugates facilitate biomacromolecule transport into central nervous system. Nature Biotechnology. 43(11). 1783–1789. 16 indexed citations

Kang, Diana D., Xucheng Hou, Leiming Wang, et al.. (2024). Engineering LNPs with polysarcosine lipids for mRNA delivery. Bioactive Materials. 37. 86–93. 36 indexed citations

Xue, Yonger, Yuebao Zhang, Yichen Zhong, et al.. (2024). LNP-RNA-engineered adipose stem cells for accelerated diabetic wound healing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 739–739. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Kang, Diana D., Haoyuan Li, & Yizhou Dong. (2023). Advancements of in vitro transcribed mRNA (IVT mRNA) to enable translation into the clinics. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 199. 114961–114961. 58 indexed citations

Du, Shi, Wenqing Li, Yuebao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cholesterol‐Amino‐Phosphate (CAP) Derived Lipid Nanoparticles for Delivery of Self‐Amplifying RNA and Restoration of Spermatogenesis in Infertile Mice. Advanced Science. 10(11). e2300188–e2300188. 36 indexed citations

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Chen, Shuying, Xiangang Huang, Yonger Xue, et al.. (2023). Nanotechnology-based mRNA vaccines. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 3(1). 98 indexed citations

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Swanda, Robert V., Quanquan Ji, Jinyue Yan, et al.. (2023). Lysosomal cystine governs ferroptosis sensitivity in cancer via cysteine stress response. Molecular Cell. 83(18). 3347–3359.e9. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuebao, Xucheng Hou, Shi Du, et al.. (2023). Close the cancer–immunity cycle by integrating lipid nanoparticle–mRNA formulations and dendritic cell therapy. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(11). 1364–1374. 66 indexed citations

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Hu, Aiyan, Jianmin Zhu, Chunxi Zeng, et al.. (2022). IL-27 Induces CCL5 Production by T Lymphocytes, Which Contributes to Antitumor Activity. The Journal of Immunology. 208(9). 2239–2245. 10 indexed citations

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Cui, Zhifen, Cong Zeng, Furong Huang, et al.. (2022). Cas13d knockdown of lung protease Ctsl prevents and treats SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(10). 1056–1064. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinfu, Weiyu Zhao, Giang N. Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Functionalized lipid-like nanoparticles for in vivo mRNA delivery and base editing. Science Advances. 6(34). 151 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chengxiang, Xinfu Zhang, Weiyu Zhao, et al.. (2019). Chemotherapy drugs derived nanoparticles encapsulating mRNA encoding tumor suppressor proteins to treat triple-negative breast cancer. Nano Research. 12(4). 855–861. 50 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weiyu, Chengxiang Zhang, Bin Li, et al.. (2018). Lipid Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials for mRNA Delivery. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 11(5). 397–406. 64 indexed citations

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Barnés, Carmen M., Omar F. Khan, Edmond W. Zaia, et al.. (2014). Dendrimer-Inspired Nanomaterials for the in Vivo Delivery of siRNA to Lung Vasculature. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Eltoukhy, Ahmed A., Delai Chen, Omid Veiseh, et al.. (2014). Nucleic acid-mediated intracellular protein delivery by lipid-like nanoparticles. Biomaterials. 35(24). 6454–6461. 38 indexed citations

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Dong, Yizhou, Kyoko Nakagawa‐Goto, Chin-Yu Lai, et al.. (2011). Antitumor agents 287. Substituted 4-amino-2H-pyran-2-one (APO) analogs reveal a new scaffold from neo-tanshinlactone with in vitro anticancer activity. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 21(8). 2341–2344. 31 indexed citations

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