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Nanobodies

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Kyle Swanson
Stanford University
258 cit.
2
Jonathan Benn
UK Dementia Research Institute
189 cit.
3
Mart Reimund
National Institutes of Health
144 cit.
4
Sergei Pourmal
Unknown
141 cit.
5
Nicholas A. Kalogriopoulos
Stanford University
129 cit.
6
Yufei Xiang
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
120 cit.
7
Blaise R. Kimmel
Vanderbilt University
110 cit.
8
Longliang Qiao
Tongji University
103 cit.
9
Yingchao Chen
Dalian University of Technology
102 cit.
10
Sven M. Lange
Harvard University
95 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies
Nature|2025
85 cit.
2
Aggregate-selective removal of pathological tau by clustering-activated degraders
Science|2024
62 cit.
3
Structure of apolipoprotein B100 bound to the low-density lipoprotein receptor
Nature|2024
47 cit.
4
Autoinhibition of dimeric NINJ1 prevents plasma membrane rupture
Nature|2024
46 cit.
5
Synthetic GPCRs for programmable sensing and control of cell behaviour
Nature|2024
42 cit.
6
Adaptive multi-epitope targeting and avidity-enhanced nanobody platform for ultrapotent, durable antiviral therapy
Cell|2024
39 cit.
7
Potentiating cancer immunotherapies with modular albumin-hitchhiking nanobody–STING agonist conjugates
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2025
43 cit.
8
Engineered bacteria for near-infrared light-inducible expression of cancer therapeutics
Nature Cancer|2025
40 cit.
9
Self-reporting photodynamic nanobody conjugate for precise and sustainable large-volume tumor treatment
Nature Communications|2024
50 cit.
10
VCP/p97-associated proteins are binders and debranching enzymes of K48–K63-branched ubiquitin chains
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology|2024
37 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Feng Shao
Cornerstone University
327 cit.
2
Tal Danino
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
156 cit.
3
Gabriel Núñez
Michigan Medicine
125 cit.
4
Ali Ertürk
Helmholtz Zentrum München
115 cit.
5
Olivier Schwartz
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
111 cit.
6
Jamshid Hadjati
Aja University of Medical Sciences
103 cit.
7
Charlotte M. Deane
University of Oxford
100 cit.
8
Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge
89 cit.
9
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
86 cit.
10
Yuan Wan
Binghamton University
80 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory BBB breakdown
Nature|2024
218 cit.
2
Engineering tumor-colonizing E. coli Nissle 1917 for detection and treatment of colorectal neoplasia
Nature Communications|2024
156 cit.
3
Microbiota-dependent activation of CD4 <sup>+</sup> T cells induces CTLA-4 blockade–associated colitis via Fcγ receptors
Science|2024
83 cit.
4
Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies
Nature Biotechnology|2023
115 cit.
5
TMPRSS2 is a functional receptor for human coronavirus HKU1
Nature|2023
111 cit.
6
Anti-CTLA-4 nanobody as a promising approach in cancer immunotherapy
Cell Death and Disease|2024
82 cit.
7
ImmuneBuilder: Deep-Learning models for predicting the structures of immune proteins
Communications Biology|2023
299 cit.
8
Assessing antibody and nanobody nativeness for hit selection and humanization with AbNatiV
Nature Machine Intelligence|2024
71 cit.
9
Design of a mucin-selective protease for targeted degradation of cancer-associated mucins
Nature Biotechnology|2023
86 cit.
10
Chimeric nanobody-decorated liposomes by self-assembly
Nature Nanotechnology|2024
64 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Brian K. Kobilka
Stanford University
9k cit.
2
Tal Danino
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2.5k cit.
3
Mark von Zastrow
University of California, San Francisco
2.5k cit.
4
Heinrich Leonhardt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2.2k cit.
5
Jan Steyaert
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2k cit.
6
Lanying Du
New York Blood Center
1.9k cit.
7
Helge Ewers
ETH Zurich
1.7k cit.
8
Michael P. Rout
Rockefeller University
1.6k cit.
9
Ulrich Rothbauer
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich
1.6k cit.
10
Andrew C. Kruse
Harvard University
1.4k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Structure of a nanobody-stabilized active state of the β2 adrenoceptor
Nature|2011
1.7k cit.
2
Conformational biosensors reveal GPCR signalling from endosomes
Nature|2013
838 cit.
3
The Dynamic Process of β2-Adrenergic Receptor Activation
Cell|2013
806 cit.
4
Targeting and tracing antigens in live cells with fluorescent nanobodies
Nature Methods|2006
723 cit.
5
A general protocol for the generation of Nanobodies for structural biology
Nature Protocols|2014
804 cit.
6
Programmable bacteria induce durable tumor regression and systemic antitumor immunity
Nature Medicine|2019
653 cit.
7
Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and Other Human Coronaviruses
Trends in Immunology|2020
935 cit.
8
A simple, versatile method for GFP-based super-resolution microscopy via nanobodies
Nature Methods|2012
582 cit.
9
A robust pipeline for rapid production of versatile nanobody repertoires
Nature Methods|2014
529 cit.
10
Modulation of protein properties in living cells using nanobodies
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology|2009
634 cit.

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