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mRNA

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Zachary Sethna
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
666 cit.
2
Shidong Cui
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
516 cit.
3
Yehui Sun
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
465 cit.
4
Kexin Su
Zhejiang University
414 cit.
5
Fanchong Jian
Peking University
396 cit.
6
Jacob Witten
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
339 cit.
7
Danh-Tai Hoang
Australian National University
315 cit.
8
Zhou Yang
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
306 cit.
9
Yue Xu
University of Toronto
294 cit.
10
Kelsey L. Swingle
University of Pennsylvania
291 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer
Nature|2025
221 cit.
2
miRTarBase 2025: updates to the collection of experimentally validated microRNA–target interactions
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
171 cit.
3
In vivo editing of lung stem cells for durable gene correction in mice
Science|2024
154 cit.
4
Reformulating lipid nanoparticles for organ-targeted mRNA accumulation and translation
Nature Communications|2024
206 cit.
5
Evolving antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 antigenic shift from XBB to JN.1
Nature|2024
131 cit.
6
Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy
Nature Biotechnology|2024
112 cit.
7
A deep-learning framework to predict cancer treatment response from histopathology images through imputed transcriptomics
Nature Cancer|2024
125 cit.
8
Hypoxia inducible factor-1α drives cancer resistance to cuproptosis
Cancer Cell|2025
101 cit.
9
AGILE platform: a deep learning powered approach to accelerate LNP development for mRNA delivery
Nature Communications|2024
146 cit.
10
Placenta-tropic VEGF mRNA lipid nanoparticles ameliorate murine pre-eclampsia
Nature|2024
96 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Tal Zaks
Moderna Therapeutics (United States)
1k cit.
2
Daniel G. Anderson
Boston Children's Hospital
475 cit.
3
Yi Xing
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
298 cit.
4
Hamideh Parhiz
University of Pennsylvania
295 cit.
5
Ke Cheng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
291 cit.
6
Maura L. Gillison
National Cancer Institute
273 cit.
7
Martin A. Maier
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (United States)
270 cit.
8
Angelo Lombardo
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
257 cit.
9
Michael J. Mitchell
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
254 cit.
10
Mitchell Guttman
California Institute of Technology
222 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Individualised neoantigen therapy mRNA-4157 (V940) plus pembrolizumab versus pembrolizumab monotherapy in resected melanoma (KEYNOTE-942): a randomised, phase 2b study
The Lancet|2024
696 cit.
2
Endosomal escape: A bottleneck for LNP-mediated therapeutics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
445 cit.
3
rMATS-turbo: an efficient and flexible computational tool for alternative splicing analysis of large-scale RNA-seq data
Nature Protocols|2024
238 cit.
4
In vivo hematopoietic stem cell modification by mRNA delivery
Science|2023
295 cit.
5
Inhalable extracellular vesicle delivery of IL-12 mRNA to treat lung cancer and promote systemic immunity
Nature Nanotechnology|2024
233 cit.
6
Human Papillomavirus and Rising Oropharyngeal Cancer Incidence in the United States
Journal of Clinical Oncology|2023
273 cit.
7
RNA interference in the era of nucleic acid therapeutics
Nature Biotechnology|2024
180 cit.
8
Lactylation of METTL16 promotes cuproptosis via m6A-modification on FDX1 mRNA in gastric cancer
Nature Communications|2023
395 cit.
9
Durable and efficient gene silencing in vivo by hit-and-run epigenome editing
Nature|2024
171 cit.
10
Accelerating ionizable lipid discovery for mRNA delivery using machine learning and combinatorial chemistry
Nature Materials|2024
180 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Lior Pachter
University of California, Berkeley
81.4k cit.
2
Craig C. Mello
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
45.7k cit.
3
David P. Bartel
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
40.9k cit.
4
Victor Ambros
Harvard University
38.4k cit.
5
Jan Lötvall
University of Gothenburg
38.3k cit.
6
A Haussler
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
32.8k cit.
7
Christopher B. Burge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31.5k cit.
8
Larry Gold
University of Colorado Boulder
31k cit.
9
Ian G. Young
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
28.9k cit.
10
Steven A. McCarroll
Broad Institute
23.3k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
A new mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR
Nucleic Acids Research|2001
34.7k cit.
2
Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
Nature Biotechnology|2010
16.4k cit.
3
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nature|1998
15.2k cit.
4
The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14
Cell|1993
12.8k cit.
5
Exosome-mediated transfer of mRNAs and microRNAs is a novel mechanism of genetic exchange between cells
Nature Cell Biology|2007
12.8k cit.
6
Minimap2: pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences
Bioinformatics|2018
16.5k cit.
7
The Human Genome Browser at UCSC
Genome Research|2002
10.9k cit.
8
Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks
Nature Protocols|2012
12.9k cit.
9
Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment: RNA Ligands to Bacteriophage T4 DNA Polymerase
Science|1990
10.3k cit.
10
Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome
Nature|1981
9.6k cit.

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