2026 Chad A. Cowan: 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	55	2237	2010	1106	980	145	27837

Overview

Chad A. Cowan is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus also on Medicine.

The scientist's subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Oncology, and Cancer Research. Their body of work covers diverse topics such as CAR-T cell therapy research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Biochemical and Molecular Research, RNA modifications and cancer, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Chad A. Cowan has contributed to several recent publications, encompassing various aspects of molecular and cellular biology as well as disease-related research:

Allele-specific open chromatin in human iPSC neurons elucidates functional disease variants, 2020, Science
Identification of a combination of transcription factors that synergistically increases endothelial cell barrier resistance, 2020, Scientific Reports
Inducers of the endothelial cell barrier identified through chemogenomic screening in genome-edited hPSC-endothelial cells, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cell-specific transcriptional control of mitochondrial metabolism by TIF1γ drives erythropoiesis, 2021, Science
Mitoregulin Controls β-Oxidation in Human and Mouse Adipocytes, 2020, Stem Cell Reports

Their frequent co-authors include Curtis R. Warren, Steven A. Carr, Haojie Yu, Mary H.C. Florido, and G. Grant Welstead, each of whom has collaborated in multiple publications with Cowan.

Chad A. Cowan has published frequently in venues such as Science, Cell Stem Cell, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Blood, and Scientific Reports. These journals reflect an emphasis on molecular biology and related biomedical sciences.

Best Publications

Highly efficient reprogramming to pluripotency and directed differentiation of human cells with synthetic modified mRNA

Luigi Warren;Philip D. Manos;Philip D. Manos;Tim Ahfeldt;Tim Ahfeldt;Yuin-Han Loh

3238
Citations
Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

In Hyun Park;Natasha Arora;Hongguang Huo;Nimet Maherali

2736
Citations
Nuclear Reprogramming of Somatic Cells After Fusion with Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Chad A. Cowan;Jocelyn Atienza;Douglas A. Melton;Kevin Eggan

1376
Citations
From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus

Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Alanna Strong;Maria Frank-Kamenetsky;Noemi E. Lee

1293
Citations
Derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from human blastocysts.

Chad A. Cowan;Irinha Klimanskaya;Jill Mcmahon;Jocelyn Atienza

1237
Citations
Genomewide analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 occupancy identifies two classes of bivalent domains

Manching Ku;Richard P. Koche;Richard P. Koche;Richard P. Koche;Esther Rheinbay;Esther Rheinbay;Esther Rheinbay;Eric M. Mendenhall;Eric M. Mendenhall

1183
Citations
Marked differences in differentiation propensity among human embryonic stem cell lines

Kenji Osafune;Kenji Osafune;Leslie Caron;Malgorzata Borowiak;Malgorzata Borowiak;Rita J Martinez;Rita J Martinez

959
Citations
A high-efficiency system for the generation and study of human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Nimet Maherali;Tim Ahfeldt;Tim Ahfeldt;Alessandra Rigamonti;Jochen Utikal

718
Citations
Enhanced Efficiency of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Genome Editing through Replacing TALENs with CRISPRs

Qiurong Ding;Stephanie Nicole Regan;Yulei Xia;Leoníe A. Oostrom

708
Citations
A TALEN Genome-Editing System for Generating Human Stem Cell-Based Disease Models

Qiurong Ding;Youn-Kyoung Lee;Esperance Anne Kreek Schaefer;Derek Tilghman Peters

685
Citations
β-Aminoisobutyric Acid Induces Browning of White Fat and Hepatic β-Oxidation and Is Inversely Correlated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors

Lee D. Roberts;Pontus Boström;Pontus Boström;John F. O’Sullivan;Robert T. Schinzel

603
Citations
Genome-wide Chromatin State Transitions Associated with Developmental and Environmental Cues

Jiang Zhu;Mazhar Adli;James Y. Zou;Griet Verstappen;Griet Verstappen

599
Citations
Low Incidence of Off-Target Mutations in Individual CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Adrian Veres;Bridget S. Gosis;Qiurong Ding;Ryan Collins

596
Citations
Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in > 300,000 individuals

Dajiang J Liu;Gina M Peloso;Gina M Peloso;Haojie Yu;Adam S Butterworth;Adam S Butterworth

591
Citations
Generation of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells from human pluripotent stem cells

Christoph Patsch;Ludivine Challet-Meylan;Eva C. Thoma;Eduard Urich

590
Citations
Efficient ablation of genes in human hematopoietic stem and effector cells using CRISPR/Cas9

Pankaj Kumar Mandal;Pankaj Kumar Mandal;Leonardo Manuel Ramos Ferreira;Ryan Collins;Torsten B Meissner

573
Citations
Permanent Alteration of PCSK9 With In Vivo CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing

Qiurong Ding;Alanna Strong;Kevin M. Patel;Sze-Ling Ng

557
Citations
A comparison of non-integrating reprogramming methods.

Thorsten M. Schlaeger;Laurence Marie Daheron;Thomas R Brickler;Samuel Entwisle

527
Citations
The SH2/SH3 adaptor Grb4 transduces B-ephrin reverse signals

Chad A. Cowan;Mark Henkemeyer

452
Citations
Crystal structure of an Eph receptor-ephrin complex.

Juha-Pekka Himanen;Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar;Martin Lackmann;Chad A. Cowan

445
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiran Musunuru University of Pennsylvania

Alexander Meissner Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Douglas A. Melton Harvard University

Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University

Jubao Duan University of Chicago

Alan R. Sanders NorthShore University HealthSystem

Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem

Robert E. Gerszten Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Mark Henkemeyer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Derrick J. Rossi Harvard University

External Links

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