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2026
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Molecular Biology

D-Index
127
Citations
86575
World Ranking
201
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1943 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Austin Smith is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work includes significant contributions to molecular biology, biomedical engineering, cancer research, biophysics, and surgery.

The scientist's research covers a range of specialized topics including pluripotent stem cells research, CRISPR and genetic engineering, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, renal and related cancers, cancer genomics and diagnostics, 3D printing in biomedical research, as well as cell image analysis techniques.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Human naive epiblast cells possess unrestricted lineage potential, 2021, Cell Stem Cell
  • Naive stem cell blastocyst model captures human embryo lineage segregation, 2021, Cell Stem Cell
  • Capture of Mouse and Human Stem Cells with Features of Formative Pluripotency, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • Clonal fitness inferred from time-series modelling of single-cell cancer genomes, 2021, Nature
  • Single-cell genomic variation induced by mutational processes in cancer, 2022, Nature

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Austin Smith include Jennifer Nichols, Ge Guo, Giuliano Giuseppe Stirparo, Daniel Spindlow, and Anish Dattani.

Research outputs have appeared in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Development, Cell Stem Cell, Stem Cell Reports, and Nature.

Austin Smith has been recognized with several professional honors, including being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2010, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1943.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative expression of Oct-3/4 defines differentiation, dedifferentiation or self-renewal of ES cells.

    Hitoshi Niwa;Jun-ichi Miyazaki;Austin G. Smith

  • Formation of Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Mammalian Embryo Depends on the POU Transcription Factor Oct4

    Jennifer Nichols;Branko Zevnik;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Hitoshi Niwa

  • FUNCTIONAL EXPRESSION CLONING OF NANOG, A PLURIPOTENCY SUSTAINING FACTOR IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS

    Ian Chambers;Douglas Colby;Morag Robertson;Jennifer Nichols

  • The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

    Qi-Long Ying;Jason Wray;Jennifer Nichols;Laura Batlle-Morera

  • BMP Induction of Id Proteins Suppresses Differentiation and Sustains Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Collaboration with STAT3

    Qi Long Ying;Jennifer Nichols;Ian Chambers;Austin Smith

  • Inhibition of pluripotential embryonic stem cell differentiation by purified polypeptides

    Austin G. Smith;John K. Heath;Deborah D. Donaldson;Gordon G. Wong

  • Changing potency by spontaneous fusion

    Qi-Long Ying;Jennifer Nichols;Edward P Evans;Austin G Smith

  • Naive and primed pluripotent states.

    Jennifer Nichols;Austin Smith;Austin Smith

  • Self-renewal of pluripotent embryonic stem cells is mediated via activation of STAT3

    Hitoshi Niwa;Tom Burdon;Ian Chambers;Austin G Smith

  • Embryo-derived stem cells: of mice and men.

    Austin G. Smith

  • Conversion of embryonic stem cells into neuroectodermal precursors in adherent monoculture.

    Qi-Long Ying;Marios Stavridis;Dean Griffiths;Meng Li

  • Nanog safeguards pluripotency and mediates germline development.

    Ian Chambers;Jose Silva;Douglas Colby;Jennifer Nichols;Jennifer Nichols

  • Altered immune responses in mice lacking inducible nitric oxide synthase

    Xiao-Qing Wei;Ian G. Charles;Austin Smith;Jan Ure

  • Nanog is the gateway to the pluripotent ground state.

    Jose Silva;Jose Silva;Jennifer Nichols;Jennifer Nichols;Thorold W. Theunissen;Thorold W. Theunissen;Ge Guo;Ge Guo

  • Glioma stem cell lines expanded in adherent culture have tumor-specific phenotypes and are suitable for chemical and genetic screens.

    Steven M. Pollard;Koichi Yoshikawa;Ian D. Clarke;Davide Danovi

  • Niche-independent symmetrical self-renewal of a mammalian tissue stem cell.

    Luciano Conti;Steven M Pollard;Thorsten Gorba;Erika Reitano

  • Promotion of Reprogramming to Ground State Pluripotency by Signal Inhibition

    José Teodoro Silva;Ornella Barrandon;Ornella Barrandon;Jennifer Nichols;Jennifer Nichols;Jitsutaro Kawaguchi;Jitsutaro Kawaguchi

  • Capture of Authentic Embryonic Stem Cells from Rat Blastocysts

    Mia Buehr;Stephen Meek;Kate Blair;Kate Blair;Jian Yang;Jian Yang

  • Signalling, cell cycle and pluripotency in embryonic stem cells

    Tom Burdon;Austin Smith;Pierre Savatier

  • Resetting Transcription Factor Control Circuitry toward Ground-State Pluripotency in Human

    Yasuhiro Takashima;Ge Guo;Remco Loos;Jennifer Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols University of Cambridge
Ian Chambers
Ian Chambers University of Edinburgh
Paul Bertone
Paul Bertone University of Cambridge
Steven M. Pollard
Steven M. Pollard University of Edinburgh
Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke Radboud University
Luis A. Anchordoqui
Luis A. Anchordoqui City University of New York
H. M. Spinka
H. M. Spinka Argonne National Laboratory
Thomas Rauscher
Thomas Rauscher University of Basel
Maria-Teresa Dova
Maria-Teresa Dova National University of La Plata

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