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Prime Editing

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Smriti Pandey
Broad Institute
355 cit.
2
H. F. Lou
State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics
315 cit.
3
H. J. Mu
Guangzhou Electronic Technology (China)
246 cit.
4
Alexander A. Sousa
Broad Institute
209 cit.
5
Rafał Hołubowicz
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
168 cit.
6
Nicolas Mathis
University of Zurich
156 cit.
7
Wei Chen
University of Washington
153 cit.
8
Ming Zhu
King Center
138 cit.
9
Mohsen Hosseini
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
126 cit.
10
Gue‐Ho Hwang
Seoul National University Hospital
110 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
Efficient site-specific integration of large genes in mammalian cells via continuously evolved recombinases and prime editing
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
141 cit.
2
Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice
Cell|2024
104 cit.
3
OmicShare tools: A zero‐code interactive online platform for biological data analysis and visualization
iMeta|2024
245 cit.
4
Safer and efficient base editing and prime editing via ribonucleoproteins delivered through optimized lipid-nanoparticle formulations
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
66 cit.
5
Machine learning prediction of prime editing efficiency across diverse chromatin contexts
Nature Biotechnology|2024
51 cit.
6
Symbolic recording of signalling and cis-regulatory element activity to DNA
Nature|2024
50 cit.
7
Tracking-seq reveals the heterogeneity of off-target effects in CRISPR–Cas9-mediated genome editing
Nature Biotechnology|2024
45 cit.
8
Systematic optimization of prime editing for the efficient functional correction of CFTR F508del in human airway epithelial cells
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
50 cit.
9
Metformin reduces the competitive advantage of Dnmt3aR878H HSPCs
Nature|2025
41 cit.
10
Large DNA deletions occur during DNA repair at 20-fold lower frequency for base editors and prime editors than for Cas9 nucleases
Nature Biomedical Engineering|2024
43 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
David R. Liu
Broad Institute
712 cit.
2
Britt Adamson
Princeton University
341 cit.
3
Luigi Naldini
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
209 cit.
4
Mark D. Levin
University of Chicago
186 cit.
5
Caixia Gao
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
123 cit.
6
Yuan Zong
China Agricultural University
105 cit.
7
Changhao Bi
Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center
101 cit.
8
Francisco J. Sánchez‐Rivera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
92 cit.
9
Jay Shendure
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
90 cit.
10
Gerald Schwank
University of Zurich
70 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Engineered virus-like particles for transient delivery of prime editor ribonucleoprotein complexes in vivo
Nature Biotechnology|2024
224 cit.
2
Improving prime editing with an endogenous small RNA-binding protein
Nature|2024
206 cit.
3
Phage-assisted evolution and protein engineering yield compact, efficient prime editors
Cell|2023
266 cit.
4
Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells
Nature Biotechnology|2023
209 cit.
5
Carbon-to-nitrogen single-atom transmutation of azaarenes
Nature|2023
186 cit.
6
Prime editing using CRISPR-Cas12a and circular RNAs in human cells
Nature Biotechnology|2024
82 cit.
7
Continuous evolution of compact protein degradation tags regulated by selective molecular glues
Science|2024
73 cit.
8
Efficient and versatile multiplex prime editing in hexaploid wheat
Genome biology|2023
105 cit.
9
Glycosylase-based base editors for efficient T-to-G and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells
Nature Biotechnology|2024
67 cit.
10
High-throughput evaluation of genetic variants with prime editing sensor libraries
Nature Biotechnology|2024
61 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
David R. Liu
Broad Institute
18.1k cit.
2
Caixia Gao
State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics
4.2k cit.
3
David Liu
Broad Institute
3.8k cit.
4
Martin Jínek
University of Zurich
1.9k cit.
5
Claude Largeau
Unknown
1.2k cit.
6
E. Robert McDonald
Novartis (Switzerland)
1.1k cit.
7
Pooi See Lee
Nanyang Technological University
917 cit.
8
Seokjoong Kim
Yonsei University
834 cit.
9
Qijun Chen
China Agricultural University
789 cit.
10
Li Li
Chongqing University
735 cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
Nature|2019
4.6k cit.
2
Prime genome editing in rice and wheat
Nature Biotechnology|2020
856 cit.
3
Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes
Cell|2021
781 cit.
4
Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency
Nature Biotechnology|2021
694 cit.
5
Structural Basis for Guide RNA Processing and Seed-Dependent DNA Targeting by CRISPR-Cas12a
Molecular Cell|2017
637 cit.
6
Programmable deletion, replacement, integration and inversion of large DNA sequences with twin prime editing
Nature Biotechnology|2021
559 cit.
7
The Centrality of RNA
Cell|2009
476 cit.
8
Kerogen origin, evolution and structure
Organic Geochemistry|2007
1.2k cit.
9
Tumor-derived IFN triggers chronic pathway agonism and sensitivity to ADAR loss
Nature Medicine|2018
362 cit.
10
High-efficiency prime editing with optimized, paired pegRNAs in plants
Nature Biotechnology|2021
316 cit.

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