2026 Ashish Lal: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	53	2368	2133	1171	1043	121	13983

Overview

Ashish Lal is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology and cancer research. Their work also touches upon surgery, oncology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of study revolve around RNA research and splicing, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, and RNA modifications in cancer. Additional interests include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, circular RNAs in diseases, pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects, and microRNA in disease regulation.

Frequent collaborators in Ashish Lal's research include Ioannis Grammatikakis, Xiao Ling Li, Bruna Rodrigues Muys, Lőrinc Sándor Pongor, and Mirit I. Aladjem. These co-authors have contributed to numerous joint publications.

Their publications appear most frequently in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology, along with multiple appearances in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other venues include eLife, Mammalian Genome, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Recent papers by Ashish Lal showcase various aspects of RNA biology and cancer:

When Long Noncoding Becomes Protein Coding, 2020, Molecular and Cellular Biology
A small protein encoded by a putative lncRNA regulates apoptosis and tumorigenicity in human colorectal cancer cells, 2020, eLife
Significance of lncRNA abundance to function, 2021, Mammalian Genome
AUF1 ligand circPCNX reduces cell proliferation by competing with p21 mRNA to increase p21 production, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
The p53-induced RNA-binding protein ZMAT3 is a splicing regulator that inhibits the splicing of oncogenic CD44 variants in colorectal carcinoma, 2020, Genes & Development

Best Publications

Inhibiting glycolytic metabolism enhances CD8+ T cell memory and antitumor function

Madhusudhanan Sukumar;Jie Liu;Yun Ji;Murugan Subramanian

989
Citations
Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 controls cell cycle progression by regulating the expression of oncogenic transcription factor B-MYB.

Vidisha Tripathi;Zhen Shen;Arindam Chakraborty;Sumanprava Giri

805
Citations
miR-24 Inhibits Cell Proliferation by Targeting E2F2, MYC, and Other Cell-Cycle Genes via Binding to “Seedless” 3′UTR MicroRNA Recognition Elements

Ashish Lal;Francisco Navarro;Christopher A. Maher;Laura E. Maliszewski

704
Citations
Phosphorylation of HuR by Chk2 regulates SIRT1 expression

Kotb Abdelmohsen;Rudolf Pullmann;Ashish Lal;Hyeon Ho Kim

651
Citations
Identification of a target RNA motif for RNA-binding protein HuR

Isabel López de Silanes;Ming Zhan;Ashish Lal;Xiaoling Yang

636
Citations
Desperately seeking microRNA targets.

Marshall Thomas;Judy Lieberman;Ashish Lal;Ashish Lal

630
Citations
Concurrent versus individual binding of HuR and AUF1 to common labile target mRNAs

Ashish Lal;Krystyna Mazan-Mamczarz;Tomoko Kawai;Xiaoling Yang

585
Citations
MicroRNAs and their target gene networks in breast cancer.

Elizabeth O'Day;Ashish Lal

574
Citations
miR-200 Enhances Mouse Breast Cancer Cell Colonization to Form Distant Metastases

Derek M. Dykxhoorn;Yichao Wu;Huangming Xie;Fengyan Yu;Fengyan Yu

402
Citations
RNA-Binding Proteins HuR and PTB Promote the Translation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1α

Stefanie Galbán;Yuki Kuwano;Rudolf Pullmann;Jennifer L. Martindale

354
Citations
p16INK4a Translation Suppressed by miR-24

Ashish Lal;Ashish Lal;Hyeon-Ho Kim;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Yuki Kuwano

344
Citations
miR-24-mediated downregulation of H2AX suppresses DNA repair in terminally differentiated blood cells.

Ashish Lal;Yunfeng Pan;Francisco Navarro;Derek M Dykxhoorn

339
Citations
Capture of MicroRNA–Bound mRNAs Identifies the Tumor Suppressor miR-34a as a Regulator of Growth Factor Signaling

Ashish Lal;Marshall P. Thomas;Marshall P. Thomas;Gabriel Altschuler;Francisco Navarro;Francisco Navarro

278
Citations
Posttranscriptional orchestration of an anti-apoptotic program by HuR.

Kotb Abdelmohsen;Ashish Lal;Hyeon Ho Kim;Myriam Gorospe

278
Citations
HuR: post-transcriptional paths to malignancy.

Isabel López de Silanes;Ashish Lal;Myriam Gorospe

271
Citations
Evidence for miR-181 involvement in neuroinflammatory responses of astrocytes

Emmette R. Hutchison;Emmette R. Hutchison;Elisa M. Kawamoto;Dennis D. Taub;Ashish Lal

269
Citations
RNA binding activity of the recessive parkinsonism protein DJ-1 supports involvement in multiple cellular pathways

Marcel P. Van Der Brug;Jeff Blackinton;Jeff Blackinton;Jayanth Chandran;Ling Yang Hao

256
Citations
Molecular basis for antagonism between PDGF and the TGFβ family of signalling pathways by control of miR-24 expression

Mun Chun Chan;Aaron C Hilyard;Connie Wu;Brandi N Davis

250
Citations
Analysis of turnover and translation regulatory RNA-binding protein expression through binding to cognate mRNAs.

Rudolf Pullmann;Hyeon Ho Kim;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Ashish Lal

248
Citations
Nuclear HuR accumulation through phosphorylation by Cdk1

Hyeon Ho Kim;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Ashish Lal;Rudolf Pullmann

240
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Myriam Gorospe National Institutes of Health

Judy Lieberman Boston Children's Hospital

Kannanganattu V. Prasanth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kotb Abdelmohsen National Institutes of Health

Xiaoling Yang National Institutes of Health

Jennifer L. Martindale National Institutes of Health

Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health

Sven Diederichs German Cancer Research Center

Akiko Hata University of California, San Francisco

Bing Lim Thymmune Therapeutics

External Links

Personal website of Ashish Lal

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