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Base Editing

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Andreas K. Brödel
Eligo Bioscience (France)
294 cit.
2
Xizhen Lian
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
270 cit.
3
Bartley P. Griffith
University of Maryland, Baltimore
255 cit.
4
Kiran Musunuru
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
250 cit.
5
H. J. Mu
Guangzhou Electronic Technology (China)
246 cit.
6
Peng Liu
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
246 cit.
7
Chang Han
Unknown
238 cit.
8
Frédéric Tremblay
ChromaDex (United States)
234 cit.
9
Lulu Xue
University of Pennsylvania
215 cit.
10
Aamir W. Khan
The University of Western Australia
207 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
In situ targeted base editing of bacteria in the mouse gut
Nature|2024
97 cit.
2
Bone-marrow-homing lipid nanoparticles for genome editing in diseased and malignant haematopoietic stem cells
Nature Nanotechnology|2024
107 cit.
3
Transplantation of a genetically modified porcine heart into a live human
Nature Medicine|2025
84 cit.
4
Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease
New England Journal of Medicine|2025
249 cit.
5
OmicShare tools: A zero‐code interactive online platform for biological data analysis and visualization
iMeta|2024
245 cit.
6
Transposase-assisted target-site integration for efficient plant genome engineering
Nature|2024
81 cit.
7
Majorbio Cloud 2024: Update single‐cell and multiomics workflows
iMeta|2024
237 cit.
8
A potent epigenetic editor targeting human PCSK9 for durable reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels
Nature Medicine|2025
77 cit.
9
Combinatorial design of siloxane-incorporated lipid nanoparticles augments intracellular processing for tissue-specific mRNA therapeutic delivery
Nature Nanotechnology|2024
85 cit.
10
Cicer super-pangenome provides insights into species evolution and agronomic trait loci for crop improvement in chickpea
Nature Genetics|2024
68 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Peer Bork
European Molecular Biology Organization
5.3k cit.
2
Martin Jínek
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
711 cit.
3
David R. Liu
Broad Institute
602 cit.
4
Hamideh Parhiz
University of Pennsylvania
295 cit.
5
Angelo Lombardo
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
257 cit.
6
Michal Irani
Weizmann Institute of Science
227 cit.
7
Caixia Gao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
223 cit.
8
Mona Albadawy
UNSW Sydney
218 cit.
9
Xianmin Diao
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
215 cit.
10
Boback Ziaeian
University of California, Los Angeles
210 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
3.5k cit.
2
Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies
Cell|2024
474 cit.
3
Engineered virus-like particles for transient delivery of prime editor ribonucleoprotein complexes in vivo
Nature Biotechnology|2024
224 cit.
4
In vivo hematopoietic stem cell modification by mRNA delivery
Science|2023
295 cit.
5
Phage-assisted evolution and protein engineering yield compact, efficient prime editors
Cell|2023
266 cit.
6
Durable and efficient gene silencing in vivo by hit-and-run epigenome editing
Nature|2024
171 cit.
7
Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models
Unknown Journal|2023
682 cit.
8
Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clustering
Cell|2023
223 cit.
9
Using artificial intelligence in academic writing and research: An essential productivity tool
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update|2024
436 cit.
10
A graph-based genome and pan-genome variation of the model plant Setaria
Nature Genetics|2023
215 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Sudhir Kumar
Arizona State University
57.6k cit.
2
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Unknown
51.3k cit.
3
David R. Liu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
42.2k cit.
4
Feng Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31.2k cit.
5
Geoffrey J. Barton
Broad Institute
21.6k cit.
6
Marc Joliot
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
16.7k cit.
7
Jennifer A. Doudna
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
12.8k cit.
8
Sunanda J. Ram
Unknown
11.9k cit.
9
Peer Bork
European Molecular Biology Organization
10.5k cit.
10
Phil Green
University of Washington
10k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2007
28.8k cit.
2
A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
Science|2012
17.1k cit.
3
Jalview Version 2—a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench
Bioinformatics|2009
10.8k cit.
4
Selection of Conserved Blocks from Multiple Alignments for Their Use in Phylogenetic Analysis
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2000
10.8k cit.
5
Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain
NeuroImage|2002
16.7k cit.
6
Programmable editing of a target base in genomic DNA without double-stranded DNA cleavage
Nature|2016
5.4k cit.
7
DNA targeting specificity of RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases
Nature Biotechnology|2013
4.9k cit.
8
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
Nature|2019
4.6k cit.
9
CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity
Science|2018
4.3k cit.
10
Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage
Nature|2017
4.2k cit.

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