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cellular mechanics and interactions

Last updated June 11, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Wenliang Wang
The University of Texas at Austin
99
2
Sangwoo Kim
University of California, Santa Barbara
80
3
Jaewoon Jung
RIKEN
50
4
Yuji Sugita
RIKEN
40
5
Hans Van Oosterwyck
Prometheus Research (United States)
20

Rising Stars Papers

1
Pan‑cancer analysis on the role of KMT2C expression in tumor progression and immunotherapy 
Oncology Letters|2024
6 cit.
2
Osteoarthritic chondrocytes exert higher contractile forces and exhibit enhanced protrusive activity when cultured in 3D degradable hydrogels
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Alexander von der Malsburg
Saarland University
99
2
Jordan A. Whisler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
80
3
Tom McLeish
University of York
70
4
Carla Huerta-López
Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research
60
5
Hernaldo Mendoza Nava
University of Bristol
60
6
Logan C. Carpenter
Carnegie Mellon University
50
7
Andrea Ghisleni
IFOM
30
8
Apeksha Shapeti
KU Leuven
30
9
Manasa Chanduri
Yale University
10
10
Melania Buonocunto
Maastricht University
10

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Structural mechanism of mitochondrial membrane remodelling by human OPA1
Nature|2023
117 cit.
2
Emergent mechanical control of vascular morphogenesis
Science Advances|2023
40 cit.
3
Cellular stiffness sensing through talin 1 in tissue mechanical homeostasis
Science Advances|2024
15 cit.
4
Mechanosensing through talin 1 contributes to tissue mechanical homeostasis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2023
3 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Jason A. Burdick
University of Pennsylvania
99
2
Claudia Tanja Mierke
Leipzig University
90
3
S. Suresh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
90
4
Huiliang Wang
The University of Texas at Austin
90
5
Donald E. Ingber
Boston University
80
6
Otger Campàs
University of California, Santa Barbara
70
7
Sanjay Kumar
University of California, Berkeley
70
8
Christopher S. Chen
Boston University
60
9
Stefano Piccolo
FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
50
10
David Mooney
Harvard University
40

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine
Nature Reviews Genetics|2022
1.4k cit.
2
Genome-wide association between YAP/TAZ/TEAD and AP-1 at enhancers drives oncogenic growth
Nature Cell Biology|2015
1.2k cit.
3
YAP/TAZ upstream signals and downstream responses
Nature Cell Biology|2018
1.1k cit.
4
Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: The force journey of a tumor cell
Cancer and Metastasis Reviews|2009
924 cit.
5
Contributions of microbiome and mechanical deformation to intestinal bacterial overgrowth and inflammation in a human gut-on-a-chip
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2015
894 cit.
6
Development of a primary human Small Intestine-on-a-Chip using biopsy-derived organoids
Scientific Reports|2018
718 cit.
7
Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies
Nature Communications|2019
589 cit.
8
The tensile properties of alginate hydrogels
Biomaterials|2003
562 cit.
9
Moving from static to dynamic complexity in hydrogel design
Nature Communications|2012
540 cit.
10
Distinct Contributions of Astrocytes and Pericytes to Neuroinflammation Identified in a 3D Human Blood-Brain Barrier on a Chip
PLoS ONE|2016
468 cit.

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