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RNA Interference and Gene Delivery

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Daniel J. Klionsky
University of Michigan
2
Sean A. Dilliard
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
3
Mathilde Mathieu
Åbo Akademi University
4
Swarup Dey
Arizona State University
5
Sonia Ndeupen
University of Pennsylvania
6
Kexin Su
Zhejiang Pharmaceutical College
7
Letao Xu
The University of Adelaide
8
Marco Herrera‐Barrera
Stanford University
9
Emily L. Han
University of Pennsylvania
10
Thi My Hue Huynh
National Central University

Papers

1
Reformulating lipid nanoparticles for organ-targeted mRNA accumulation and translation
Nature Communications|2024
223 cit.
2
Publication in Nano Letters (2024) [116 citations, W4405493794]
Nano Letters|2024
116 cit.
3
Publication in Nano Letters (2024) [70 citations, W4391135116]
Nano Letters|2024
70 cit.
4
Publication in Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (2025) [10 citations, W4416763200]
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B|2025
10 cit.
5
Publication in Nature Materials (2025) [6 citations, W4408770733]
Nature Materials|2025
6 cit.
6
DNA Barcoding‐Enabled Tracking of Lipid Nanoparticles: Drug‐Loading‐Dependent Biodistribution and Tumor Microenvironment Targeting
Advanced Healthcare Materials|2025
3 cit.
7
Tob Regulates the Timing of Sleep Onset at Night in<i>Drosophila</i>
Journal of Neuroscience|2024
1 cit.
8
Leupaxin inhibits the durotaxis and mechanosensitivity of metastatic breast cancer cells
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
0 cit.
9
Nanoprecipitation-induced formation of nanoparticles for drug delivery
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Gaurav Sahay
Oregon Health & Science University
2
Chun-Kit Tong
Hong Kong Baptist University
3
Markita P. Landry
QB3
4
Veikko Linko
University of Tartu
5
Wenhu Zhou
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Luis A. Brito
Moderna Therapeutics (United States)
7
Ronnie H. Fang
University of California San Diego
8
Yitao Liu
Donghua University
9
Ling Zhang
City University of Macau
10
Norbert Pardi
University of Pennsylvania

Papers

1
Lyophilization provides long-term stability for a lipid nanoparticle-formulated, nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine
Molecular Therapy|2022
310 cit.
2
Engineering Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Intracellular Delivery of mRNA through Inhalation
ACS Nano|2022
248 cit.
3
Peptide-guided lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA to the neural retina of rodents and nonhuman primates
Science Advances|2023
229 cit.
4
Intrinsic Radical Species Scavenging Activities of Tea Polyphenols Nanoparticles Block Pyroptosis in Endotoxin-Induced Sepsis
ACS Nano|2022
175 cit.
5
Metabolic reprogramming of proinflammatory macrophages by target delivered roburic acid effectively ameliorates rheumatoid arthritis symptoms
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy|2023
140 cit.
6
Strategies for non-viral vectors targeting organs beyond the liver
Nature Nanotechnology|2023
134 cit.
7
Live Macrophage-Delivered Doxorubicin-Loaded Liposomes Effectively Treat Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
ACS Nano|2022
122 cit.
8
Copper carbonate nanoparticles as an effective biomineralized carrier to load macromolecular drugs for multimodal therapy
Chinese Chemical Letters|2023
119 cit.
9
Lipid nanoparticles with PEG-variant surface modifications mediate genome editing in the mouse retina
Nature Communications|2023
111 cit.
10
The emerging role of nanotechnology in plant genetic engineering
Nature Reviews Bioengineering|2023
104 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
David P. Bartel
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2
Weihong Tan
Petronas (Malaysia)
3
Thomas Tuschl
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4
Jennifer A. Doudna
QB3
5
Leaf Huang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6
Feng Zhang
Broad Institute
7
Kazunori Kataoka
Innovation Center of NanoMedicine
8
Gregory J. Hannon
University of Cambridge
9
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10
Daniel G. Anderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Papers

1
A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
Science|2012
17.3k cit.
2
Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
Science|2013
15.7k cit.
3
Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Nature Protocols|2013
11.7k cit.
4
Duplexes of 21-nucleotide RNAs mediate RNA interference in cultured mammalian cells
Nature|2001
9.4k cit.
5
Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs
Genome Research|2008
8.6k cit.
6
Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs
eLife|2015
7.7k cit.
7
Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screening in Human Cells
Science|2013
5.5k cit.
8
Identification of Novel Genes Coding for Small Expressed RNAs
Science|2001
4.9k cit.
9
DNA targeting specificity of RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases
Nature Biotechnology|2013
4.9k cit.
10
Role for a bidentate ribonuclease in the initiation step of RNA interference
Nature|2001
4.9k cit.

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