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Antibody Discovery

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Susana Vázquez Torres
University of Washington
366 cit.
2
Chen Zhao
Beijing Institute of Technology
244 cit.
3
Namit Chaudhary
Carnegie Mellon University
223 cit.
4
Bo Cao
Chinese PLA General Hospital
136 cit.
5
Nicholas A. Kalogriopoulos
Stanford University
129 cit.
6
Birgit Wilding
Boehringer Ingelheim (Austria)
126 cit.
7
Djenet Bousbaine
Stanford University
120 cit.
8
Katrin Fischer
University of Cambridge
87 cit.
9
Rohit Singh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
81 cit.
10
Shihao Feng
Peking University
80 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins
Nature|2025
121 cit.
2
Multifaceted Carbonized Metal–Organic Frameworks Synergize with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Precision and Augmented Cuproptosis Cancer Therapy
ACS Nano|2024
121 cit.
3
Amine headgroups in ionizable lipids drive immune responses to lipid nanoparticles by binding to the receptors TLR4 and CD1d
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
88 cit.
4
Pathology of pain and its implications for therapeutic interventions
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy|2024
135 cit.
5
Synthetic GPCRs for programmable sensing and control of cell behaviour
Nature|2024
42 cit.
6
Zongertinib (BI 1810631), an Irreversible HER2 TKI, Spares EGFR Signaling and Improves Therapeutic Response in Preclinical Models and Patients with HER2-Driven Cancers
Cancer Discovery|2024
41 cit.
7
Discovery and engineering of the antibody response to a prominent skin commensal
Nature|2024
39 cit.
8
Rapid discovery of monoclonal antibodies by microfluidics-enabled FACS of single pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells
Nature Biotechnology|2024
28 cit.
9
Learning the language of antibody hypervariability
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
26 cit.
10
Integrated structure prediction of protein–protein docking with experimental restraints using ColabDock
Nature Machine Intelligence|2024
31 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Robert T. Manguso
Broad Institute
166 cit.
2
Daniel G. Anderson
Boston Children's Hospital
143 cit.
3
Michael J. Mitchell
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
116 cit.
4
Jeffrey J. Gray
Johns Hopkins University
97 cit.
5
Carol Prives
Columbia University
95 cit.
6
Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge
89 cit.
7
Hendrik Dietz
Technical University of Munich
83 cit.
8
Jie Xu
Fudan University
78 cit.
9
Feng Zhu
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
67 cit.
10
Simon Fredriksson
Henriksson Salix (Sweden)
63 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The PTPN2/PTPN1 inhibitor ABBV-CLS-484 unleashes potent anti-tumour immunity
Nature|2023
166 cit.
2
Recent advances in nanoparticulate RNA delivery systems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
95 cit.
3
Throughput-scalable manufacturing of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2023
116 cit.
4
IgLM: Infilling language modeling for antibody sequence design
Cell Systems|2023
116 cit.
5
p53: A tale of complexity and context
Cell|2024
63 cit.
6
Assessing antibody and nanobody nativeness for hit selection and humanization with AbNatiV
Nature Machine Intelligence|2024
71 cit.
7
Programmable multispecific DNA-origami-based T-cell engagers
Nature Nanotechnology|2023
99 cit.
8
ITPRIPL1 binds CD3ε to impede T cell activation and enable tumor immune evasion
Cell|2024
52 cit.
9
ADCdb: the database of antibody–drug conjugates
Nucleic Acids Research|2023
67 cit.
10
Molecular pixelation: spatial proteomics of single cells by sequencing
Nature Methods|2024
42 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Rafi Ahmed
Emory University
11.8k cit.
2
Mehmet Toner
Shriners Hospitals for Children - Erie
10.6k cit.
3
David Baltimore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9k cit.
4
Francis S. Collins
National Human Genome Research Institute
6.6k cit.
5
Mark A. Knepper
National Institutes of Health
6.5k cit.
6
Davide Corti
Vir Biotechnology (Switzerland)
6.4k cit.
7
George P. Smith
University of Missouri
6.3k cit.
8
David C. Duffy
Quanterix (United States)
6.2k cit.
9
Dennis R. Burton
Scripps Research Institute
5.2k cit.
10
Brian K. Kobilka
Stanford University
5.1k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection
Nature|2005
3.9k cit.
2
Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology
Nature|2007
3.5k cit.
3
NF-κB: Ten Years After
Cell|1996
3k cit.
4
Drug Discovery: A Historical Perspective
Science|2000
2.7k cit.
5
Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome
Nature|2003
2.2k cit.
6
Identification and proteomic profiling of exosomes in human urine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2004
2.2k cit.
7
Cross-neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by a human monoclonal SARS-CoV antibody
Nature|2020
2.1k cit.
8
Searching for Peptide Ligands with an Epitope Library
Science|1990
2.1k cit.
9
Single-molecule enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay detects serum proteins at subfemtomolar concentrations
Nature Biotechnology|2010
2.1k cit.
10
Broad and Potent Neutralizing Antibodies from an African Donor Reveal a New HIV-1 Vaccine Target
Science|2009
1.7k cit.

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