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Angela M. Christiano

Angela M. Christiano

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
96
Citations
32816
World Ranking
869
National Ranking
435

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
34794
World Ranking
8031
National Ranking
4170

Angela M. Christiano publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angela M. Christiano sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 583 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Angela M. Christiano D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angela M. Christiano sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Angela M. Christiano is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. Within these fields, key subfields include immunology, molecular biology, urology, dermatology, and cell biology.

The topics central to Christiano's work cover hair growth and disorders, immune cell function and interaction, skin and cellular biology research, RNA regulation and disease, dermatologic treatments and research, dermatology and skin diseases, as well as IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways.

Christiano has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • A multi-organ chip with matured tissue niches linked by vascular flow (2022) in Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Unmet Medical Needs in Chronic, Non-communicable Inflammatory Skin Diseases (2022) in Frontiers in Medicine
  • Castration-mediated IL-8 promotes myeloid infiltration and prostate cancer progression (2021) in Nature Cancer
  • NIH SenNet Consortium to map senescent cells throughout the human lifespan to understand physiological health (2022) in Nature Aging
  • Selective inhibition of JAK3 signaling is sufficient to reverse alopecia areata (2021) in JCI Insight

Frequent co-authors of Christiano include:

  • J. Jackow
  • Alberto Pappalardo
  • Lindsey A. Bordone
  • Rolando Pérez-Lorenzo
  • Zongyou Guo

Christiano's publications frequently appear in venues such as the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Nature Communications, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, and Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Among their achievements, Christiano was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Alopecia areata is driven by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and is reversed by JAK inhibition

    Luzhou Xing;Zhenpeng Dai;Ali Jabbari;Jane E Cerise

  • Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity

    Lynn Petukhova;Madeleine Duvic;Maria Hordinsky;David Norris

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Revised classification system for inherited epidermolysis bullosa: Report of the second international consensus meeting on diagnosis and classification of epidermolysis bullosa

    Jo David Fine;Robin A J Eady;Eugene A. Bauer;Robert A. Briggaman

  • Pseudoxanthoma elasticum: Mutations in the MRP6 gene encoding a transmembrane ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter

    Franziska Ringpfeil;Mark G. Lebwohl;Angela M. Christiano;Jouni Uitto

  • Integrin β4 mutations associated with junctional epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric atresia

    Frédérique Vidal;Daniel Aberdam;Corinne Miquel;Angela M. Christiano

  • Mutations in the gamma 2 chain gene (LAMC2) of kalinin/laminin 5 in the junctional forms of epidermolysis bullosa.

    Leena Pulkkinen;Angela M. Christiano;Tomi Airenne;Heli Haakana

  • Alopecia Universalis Associated with a Mutation in the Human hairless Gene

    Wasim Ahmad;Muhammad Faiyaz ul Haque;Valeria Brancolini;Hui C. Tsou

  • Desmoglein 4 in Hair Follicle Differentiation and Epidermal Adhesion: Evidence from Inherited Hypotrichosis and Acquired Pemphigus Vulgaris

    Ana Kljuic;Hisham Bazzi;John P Sundberg;Amalia Martinez-Mir

  • Herlitz's junctional epidermolysis bullosa is linked to mutations in the gene (LAMC2) for the gamma 2 subunit of nicein/kalinin (LAMININ-5)

    Aberdam D;Galliano Mf;Vailly J;Pulkkinen L

  • Mutations in the 180–kD bullous pemphigoid antigen (BPAG2), a hemidesmosomal transmembrane collagen (COL17A1), in generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa

    McGrath Ja;Gatalica B;Christiano Am;Li K

  • Loss of plectin causes epidermolysis bullosa with muscular dystrophy: cDNA cloning and genomic organization.

    W. H. I. Mclean;L. Pulkkinen;F. J. D. Smith;E. L. Rugg

  • The dermal-epidermal junction

    Robert E Burgeson;Angela M Christiano

  • Generation of keratinocytes from normal and recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa-induced pluripotent stem cells

    Munenari Itoh;Maija Ht Kiuru;Mitchell S. Cairo;Angela M. Christiano

  • Microenvironmental reprogramming by three-dimensional culture enables dermal papilla cells to induce de novo human hair-follicle growth

    Claire A. Higgins;James C. Chen;Jane E. Cerise;Colin A. B. Jahoda

  • Safety and efficacy of the JAK inhibitor tofacitinib citrate in patients with alopecia areata

    Milène Kennedy Crispin;Justin M. Ko;Brittany G. Craiglow;Shufeng Li

  • A homozygous nonsense mutation in the β3 chain gene of laminin 5 (LAMB3) in Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa

    Leena Pulkkinen;Angela M. Christiano;Donald Gerecke;D.Wolfe Wagman

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis in alopecia areata resolves HLA associations and reveals two new susceptibility loci

    Regina C. Betz;Lynn Petukhova;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Hailiang Huang;Hailiang Huang

  • A molecular defect in loricrin, the major component of the cornified cell envelope, underlies Vohwinkel's syndrome

    Elena Maestrini;Anthony P. Monaco;John A. McGrath;Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto

  • Exposing the human nude phenotype

    Jorge Frank;Claudio Pignata;Andrei A. Panteleyev;David M. Prowse

Frequent Co-Authors

Jouni Uitto
Jouni Uitto Thomas Jefferson University
Raphael Clynes
Raphael Clynes Columbia University
John A. McGrath
John A. McGrath King's College London
Wasim Ahmad
Wasim Ahmad Quaid-i-Azam University
Colin A. B. Jahoda
Colin A. B. Jahoda Durham University
David A. Norris
David A. Norris University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Leena Pulkkinen
Leena Pulkkinen University of Eastern Finland
Madeleine Duvic
Madeleine Duvic The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hans F. Merk
Hans F. Merk RWTH Aachen University
Lawrence Shapiro
Lawrence Shapiro Columbia University

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