2026 Arul M. Chinnaiyan: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	185	504	465	327	296	945	157991
Molecular Biology	188	28	25	19	18	830	161525
Medicine	192	242	219	162	144	931	169037

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2009 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Arul M. Chinnaiyan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions to Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Surgery.

The scientist's main areas of study include Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Cancer-related gene regulation, and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism.

Key recent publications include:

Cancer SLC43A2 alters T cell methionine metabolism and histone methylation (2020, Nature)
The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer (2020, Nature Genetics)
Plasma cells are enriched in localized prostate cancer in Black men and are associated with improved outcomes (2021, Nature Communications)
CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer: Clinical Outcomes With Standard Therapies and Immune Checkpoint Blockade (2020, JCO Precision Oncology)
Integrative multi-omic cancer profiling reveals DNA methylation patterns associated with therapeutic vulnerability and cell-of-origin (2023, Cancer Cell)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Rahul Mannan, Xuhong Cao, Marcin Cieślik, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, and Somnath Mahapatra.

Publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, such as Cancer Research, Nature Communications, Neoplasia, The Journal of Urology, and Cancer Cell.

Awards and honors received by the scientist include membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2020), Fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors (2014), Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2009), membership in the National Academy of Medicine (2009), and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

Recurrent Fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS Transcription Factor Genes in Prostate Cancer

S.A. Tomlins;D.R. Rhodes;S. Perner;S.M. Dhanasekaran

4789
Citations
FLICE, a novel FADD-homologous ICE/CED-3-like protease, is recruited to the CD95 (Fas/APO-1) death--inducing signaling complex.

Marta Muzio;Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Frank C. Kischkel;Karen O'Rourke

3914
Citations
ONCOMINE: A Cancer Microarray Database and Integrated Data-Mining Platform

Daniel R. Rhodes;Jianjun Yu;K. Shanker;Nandan Deshpande

3807
Citations
Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

Dan Robinson;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Yi Mi Wu;Nikolaus Schultz

3629
Citations
FADD, a novel death domain-containing protein, interacts with the death domain of fas and initiates apoptosis

Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Karen O'Rourke;Muneesh Tewari;Vishva M. Dixit

3392
Citations
The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer

Sooryanarayana Varambally;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Ming Zhou;Terrence R. Barrette

3243
Citations
Inactivation of YAP oncoprotein by the Hippo pathway is involved in cell contact inhibition and tissue growth control

Bin Zhao;Xiaomu Wei;Weiquan Li;Ryan S. Udan;Ryan S. Udan

3182
Citations
The mutational landscape of lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer

Catherine S. Grasso;Yi Mi Wu;Dan R. Robinson;Xuhong Cao

2729
Citations
The landscape of long noncoding RNAs in the human transcriptome

Matthew K. Iyer;Yashar S. Niknafs;Rohit Malik;Udit Singhal

2694
Citations
CD8+ T cells regulate tumour ferroptosis during cancer immunotherapy

Weimin Wang;Michael Green;Jae Eun Choi;Miguel Gijón

2620
Citations
TEAD mediates YAP-dependent gene induction and growth control

Bin Zhao;Xin Ye;Jindan Yu;Li Li;Li Li

2505
Citations
Metabolomic profiles delineate potential role for sarcosine in prostate cancer progression

Arun Sreekumar;Laila M. Poisson;Thekkelnaycke M. Rajendiran;Amjad P. Khan

2505
Citations
The receptor for the cytotoxic ligand TRAIL

Guohua Pan;Karen O'Rourke;Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Reiner Gentz

2394
Citations
DNA-Repair Defects and Olaparib in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

Joaquin Mateo;Suzanne Carreira;Shahneen Sandhu;Susana Miranda

2241
Citations
Oncomine 3.0: genes, pathways, and networks in a collection of 18,000 cancer gene expression profiles.

Daniel R. Rhodes;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Vasudeva Mahavisno;Radhika Varambally

2184
Citations
Delineation of prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer

Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Terrence R. Barrette;Debashis Ghosh;Rajal Shah

2162
Citations
EZH2 is a marker of aggressive breast cancer and promotes neoplastic transformation of breast epithelial cells

Celina G. Kleer;Qi Cao;Sooryanarayana Varambally;Ronglai Shen

1976
Citations
The emergence of lncRNAs in cancer biology.

John R. Prensner;Arul M. Chinnaiyan

1892
Citations
Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Colin C. Pritchard;Joaquin Mateo;Michael F. Walsh;Navonil De Sarkar

1555
Citations
Genomic Loss of microRNA-101 Leads to Overexpression of Histone Methyltransferase EZH2 in Cancer

Sooryanarayana Varambally;Qi Cao;Ram Shankar Mani;Sunita Shankar

1349
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuhong Cao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Scott A. Tomlins University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Rohit Mehra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Mark A. Rubin University of Bern

Javed Siddiqui University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Dan R. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Sooryanarayana Varambally University of Alabama at Birmingham

Saravana M. Dhanasekaran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Nallasivam Palanisamy Henry Ford Health System

John T. Wei University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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