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SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Bo Meng
University of Cambridge
2
Rita E. Chen
Washington University in St. Louis
3
Dhiraj Mannar
University of British Columbia
4
Wanwisa Dejnirattisai
University of Oxford
5
Matan Levine-Tiefenbrun
Tel Aviv University
6
Jobie Budd
London Centre for Nanotechnology
7
Olha Puhach
Institute of Virology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
8
Xiawan Zheng
University of Hong Kong
9
Abdul Raziq
Tallinn University of Technology
10
Daichi Yamasoba
National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Papers

1
Publication in Water Research (2024) [25 citations, W4393132344]
Water Research|2024
25 cit.
2
Altered receptor binding, antibody evasion and retention of T cell recognition by the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 spike protein
Nature Communications|2024
20 cit.
3
Publication in Engineering (2024) [14 citations, W4392858888]
Engineering|2024
14 cit.
4
Hypoxia drives HIF2-dependent reversible macrophage cell cycle entry
Cell Reports|2024
5 cit.
5
A large-scale and PCR-referenced vocal audio dataset for COVID-19
Scientific Data|2024
4 cit.
6
Publication in Environmental Science & Technology (2026) [1 citation, W7134118288]
Environmental Science & Technology|2026
1 cit.
7
AH971 and AV865 antibodies label the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein in focus-forming assay
Antibody Reports|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Kwok-Yung Yuen
Hong Kong Baptist University
2
Timothée Bruel
Institut Pasteur
3
Zhi-Jie Li
Institute of Modern Physics
4
Nathan D. Grubaugh
Yale University
5
Peng Zhou
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute
6
Edmond Changkyun Park
Korea Basic Science Institute
7
Kenneth S. Plante
World Health Organization - Pakistan
8
Davide Corti
Vir Biotechnology (Switzerland)
9
Feixiong Cheng
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
10
Ashley Vanderbeck
University of Pennsylvania

Papers

1
Serum neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages BA.1 and BA.2 in patients receiving monoclonal antibodies
Nature Medicine|2022
309 cit.
2
Accurate prediction of molecular properties and drug targets using a self-supervised image representation learning framework
Nature Machine Intelligence|2022
268 cit.
3
Comparative transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants Delta and Alpha in New England, USA
Cell Reports Medicine|2022
199 cit.
4
Deep learning for drug repurposing: Methods, databases, and applications
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science|2022
175 cit.
5
ACE2-independent infection of T lymphocytes by SARS-CoV-2
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy|2022
175 cit.
6
Artificial intelligence framework identifies candidate targets for drug repurposing in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer s Research & Therapy|2022
120 cit.
7
Accelerated SARS-CoV-2 intrahost evolution leading to distinct genotypes during chronic infection
Cell Reports Medicine|2023
107 cit.
8
Interpretable deep learning translation of GWAS and multi-omics findings to identify pathobiology and drug repurposing in Alzheimer’s disease
Cell Reports|2022
104 cit.
9
A Foundation Model Identifies Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Peptides against Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infection
Nature Communications|2024
101 cit.
10
A bat MERS-like coronavirus circulates in pangolins and utilizes human DPP4 and host proteases for cell entry
Cell|2023
100 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jason S. McLellan
The University of Texas at Austin
2
Christian Drosten
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
3
Wenjie Tan
Sinopec (China)
4
George M. Whitesides
Harvard University
5
Pei‐Yong Shi
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
6
Olivier Schwartz
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7
David C. Montefiori
Duke University
8
Meiyun Wang
Henan Provincial People's Hospital
9
GM Leung
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
10
Fang Li
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Papers

1
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
New England Journal of Medicine|2020
30.4k cit.
2
Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding
The Lancet|2020
12.6k cit.
3
Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation
Science|2020
9.8k cit.
4
Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR
Eurosurveillance|2020
8.2k cit.
5
Self-Assembly at All Scales
Science|2002
7.4k cit.
6
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens
JAMA|2020
5.3k cit.
7
Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Systems in Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
Analytical Chemistry|1998
5.3k cit.
8
Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a modelling study
The Lancet|2020
4.9k cit.
9
Presumed Asymptomatic Carrier Transmission of COVID-19
JAMA|2020
4.9k cit.
10
Identification of a Novel Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
New England Journal of Medicine|2003
4.8k cit.

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