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25263
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Ali H. Brivanlou publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ali H. Brivanlou sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 154 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Ali H. Brivanlou D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ali H. Brivanlou sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ali H. Brivanlou is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Physiology.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Renal and related cancers, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Biomedical Ethics and Regulation, Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

Ali H. Brivanlou has a notable publication record with frequent contributions to several scientific journals and platforms. The most common publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Stem Cell Reports, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Communications, and Nature Cell Biology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Riccardo De Santis, Fred Etoc, Edwin A. Rosado-Olivieri, Norbert Gleicher, and Eric D. Siggia, each contributing multiple joint works.

Recent publications by Ali H. Brivanlou highlight diverse aspects of stem cell research and embryogenesis. These include:

  • ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation: The 2021 update, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Depletion of aneuploid cells in human embryos and gastruloids, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • Mechanical regulation of early vertebrate embryogenesis, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Human embryo research, stem cell-derived embryo models and in vitro gametogenesis: Considerations leading to the revised ISSCR guidelines, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy - a Castle Built on Sand, 2021, Trends in Molecular Medicine

Best Publications

  • In Vivo Imaging of Quantum Dots Encapsulated in Phospholipid Micelles

    Benoit Dubertret;Paris Skourides;David J. Norris;David J. Norris;Vincent Noireaux

  • Maintenance of pluripotency in human and mouse embryonic stem cells through activation of Wnt signaling by a pharmacological GSK-3-specific inhibitor

    Noboru Sato;Laurent Meijer;Laurent Meijer;Leandros Skaltsounis;Paul Greengard

  • GSK-3-Selective Inhibitors Derived from Tyrian Purple Indirubins

    Laurent Meijer;Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis;Prokopios Magiatis;Panagiotis Polychronopoulos

  • Signal transduction and the control of gene expression.

    Ali H. Brivanlou;James E. Darnell

  • WDR5 Associates with Histone H3 Methylated at K4 and Is Essential for H3 K4 Methylation and Vertebrate Development

    Joanna Wysocka;Tomek Swigut;Thomas A. Milne;Yali Dou

  • Neural induction, the default model and embryonic stem cells

    Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuán;Ali H. Brivanlou

  • Molecular signature of human embryonic stem cells and its comparison with the mouse

    Noboru Sato;Ignacio Munoz Sanjuan;Michael Heke;Makiko Uchida

  • Signaling Pathways in Cancer and Embryonic Stem Cells

    Oliver Dreesen;Ali H. Brivanlou

  • Balancing BMP Signaling through Integrated Inputs into the Smad1 Linker

    Gopal Sapkota;Claudio Alarcón;Francesca M. Spagnoli;Ali H. Brivanlou

  • Setting Standards for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Ali H. Brivanlou;Fred H. Gage;Rudolf Jaenisch;Thomas Jessell

  • The BMP Inhibitor Coco Reactivates Breast Cancer Cells at Lung Metastatic sites

    Hua Gao;Goutam Chakraborty;Ai Ping Lee-Lim;Qianxing Mo

  • FGF-20 and DKK1 are transcriptional targets of β-catenin and FGF-20 is implicated in cancer and development

    Mario N Chamorro;Mario N Chamorro;Donald R Schwartz;Alin Vonica;Ali H Brivanlou

  • The orphan receptor ALK7 and the Activin receptor ALK4 mediate signaling by Nodal proteins during vertebrate development

    Eva Reissmann;Henrik Jörnvall;Andries Blokzijl;Olov Andersson

  • Expression of an engrailed-related protein is induced in the anterior neural ectoderm of early Xenopus embryos

    A.H. Brivanlou;R.M. Harland

  • DRAGON, a Bone Morphogenetic Protein Co-receptor

    Tarek A. Samad;Anuradha Rebbapragada;Esther Bell;Ying Zhang

  • Twisted gastrulation can function as a BMP antagonist.

    Chenbei Chang;Douglas A. Holtzman;Samantha Chau;Troy Chickering

  • APCDD1 is a novel Wnt inhibitor mutated in hereditary hypotrichosis simplex

    Yutaka Shimomura;Dritan Agalliu;Alin Vonica;Victor Luria

  • An Efficient and Reversible Transposable System for Gene Delivery and Lineage-Specific Differentiation in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Arnaud Lacoste;Frada Berenshteyn;Ali H. Brivanlou

  • The miR-430/427/302 Family Controls Mesendodermal Fate Specification via Species-Specific Target Selection

    Alessandro Rosa;Francesca M. Spagnoli;Ali H. Brivanlou

  • EGF-CFC proteins are essential coreceptors for the TGF-β signals Vg1 and GDF1

    Simon K. Cheng;Felix Olale;James T. Bennett;Ali H. Brivanlou

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Meijer
Laurent Meijer Perha Pharmaceuticals
Joan Massagué
Joan Massagué Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas L. Carroll
Thomas L. Carroll Rockefeller University
Charles M. Rice
Charles M. Rice Rockefeller University
Alexander F. Schier
Alexander F. Schier University of Basel
David F. Albertini
David F. Albertini University of Kansas
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Bart J. L. Eggen
Bart J. L. Eggen University Medical Center Groningen
Richard M. Harland
Richard M. Harland University of California, Berkeley
Benoit Dubertret
Benoit Dubertret PSL University

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