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Molecular Biology

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Christine L. Mummery is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and has a scientific focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research outputs include significant contributions within molecular biology, biomedical engineering, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and genetics.

Their work explores several prominent topics, including pluripotent stem cells research, 3D printing in biomedical research, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, CRISPR and genetic engineering, biomedical ethics and regulation, congenital heart defects research, as well as neuroscience and neural engineering.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christine L. Mummery include:

  • Organs-on-chips: into the next decade, 2020, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Human-iPSC-Derived Cardiac Stromal Cells Enhance Maturation in 3D Cardiac Microtissues and Reveal Non-cardiomyocyte Contributions to Heart Disease, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • Uncoupling DNA damage from chromatin damage to detoxify doxorubicin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human Organs-on-Chips for Virology, 2020, Trends in Microbiology
  • Engineered 3D vessel-on-chip using hiPSC-derived endothelial- and vascular smooth muscle cells, 2021, Stem Cell Reports

Christine L. Mummery has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Stem Cell Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cardiovascular Research
  • Materials Today Bio

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of their research career, with frequent co-authors including Valeria V. Orlova, Richard P. Davis, Milena Bellin, Berend J. van Meer, and Christian Freund.

Their contributions have been recognized through awards such as membership in the Academia Europaea since 2015 and affiliation with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010.

Best Publications

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to cardiomyocytes

    Christine Lindsay Mummery;Petrus Adrianus Frederik Maria Doevendans;Leon Gerardus Joseph Tertoolen

  • Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative

    Oluseun Adewumi;Behrouz Aflatoonian;Lars Ahrlund-Richter;Michal Amit

  • MicroRNAs in the Human Heart A Clue to Fetal Gene Reprogramming in Heart Failure

    Thomas Thum;Paolo Galuppo;Christian Wolf;Jan Fiedler

  • Activin Receptor-like Kinase (ALK)1 Is an Antagonistic Mediator of Lateral TGFβ/ALK5 Signaling

    Marie José Goumans;Gudrun Valdimarsdottir;Susumu Itoh;Franck Lebrin

  • Endoglin promotes endothelial cell proliferation and TGF‐β/ALK1 signal transduction

    Franck Lebrin;Marie-José Goumans;Marie-José Goumans;Leon Jonker;Rita L C Carvalho

  • Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Cardiomyocytes: A Methods Overview

    Christine L Mummery;Jianhua Zhang;Elizabeth Siew Sun Ng;David A Elliott

  • Abnormal angiogenesis but intact hematopoietic potential in TGF-beta type I receptor-deficient mice.

    Jonas Larsson;Marie-José Goumans;Lottie Jansson Sjöstrand;Marga A. van Rooijen

  • Stem-cell-based therapy and lessons from the heart

    Robert Passier;Linda W. van Laake;Christine L. Mummery

  • Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

    Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

  • Autotaxin, a secreted lysophospholipase D, is essential for blood vessel formation during development.

    Laurens A. van Meeteren;Paula Ruurs;Catelijne Stortelers;Peter Bouwman

  • Organs-on-chips: into the next decade

    Lucie A. Low;Christine Mummery;Christine Mummery;Brian R. Berridge;Christopher P. Austin

  • Regulation of human embryonic stem cell differentiation by BMP-2 and its antagonist noggin

    Martin Frederick Pera;Jessica Andrade;Souheir Houssami;Benjamin Reubinoff

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells: the new patient?

    Milena Bellin;Maria C. Marchetto;Fred H. Gage;Christine L. Mummery

  • Recombinant Vitronectin Is a Functionally Defined Substrate That Supports Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self‐Renewal via αVβ5 Integrin

    Stefan R. Braam;Laura Zeinstra;Sandy Litjens;Dorien Ward‐van Oostwaard

  • Screening ethnically diverse human embryonic stem cells identifies a chromosome 20 minimal amplicon conferring growth advantage

    Katherine Amps;Peter W. Andrews;George Anyfantis;Lyle Armstrong

  • Functional analysis of the TGFbeta receptor/Smad pathway through gene ablation in mice.

    Marie-José Goumans;Christine Mummery

  • NKX2-5 eGFP/w hESCs for isolation of human cardiac progenitors and cardiomyocytes

    David A Elliott;Stefan R Braam;Katerina Koutsis;Elizabeth S Ng

  • Human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes survive and mature in the mouse heart and transiently improve function after myocardial infarction.

    Linda W. van Laake;Robert Passier;Jantine Monshouwer-Kloots;Arie J. Verkleij

  • 40 MicroRNAs in the human heart: a clue to fetal gene reprogramming in heart failure

    Thomas Thum;Paolo Galuppo;Christian Wolf;Jan Fiedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Passier
Robert Passier University of Twente
Leon G.J. Tertoolen
Leon G.J. Tertoolen Leiden University Medical Center
Marie-José Goumans
Marie-José Goumans Leiden University Medical Center
Susana Lopes
Susana Lopes Leiden University Medical Center
Pieter A. Doevendans
Pieter A. Doevendans Utrecht University
Chris Denning
Chris Denning University of Nottingham
Martin F. Pera
Martin F. Pera Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Jeroen Krijgsveld
Jeroen Krijgsveld German Cancer Research Center
Hans Clevers
Hans Clevers Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
S. W. De Laat
S. W. De Laat Utrecht University

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