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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
110
Citations
55787
World Ranking
962
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Gordon Keller is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Hematology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, and Liver Physiology and Pathology.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell stem cell
  • Experimental Hematology
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Reports

Among the more recent papers published by Gordon Keller are:

  • Generating ring-shaped engineered heart tissues from ventricular and atrial human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Generation of mature compact ventricular cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Generation of Functional Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem-Cell-Derived Venous Angioblasts, 2020, Cell stem cell
  • Modeling human multi-lineage heart field development with pluripotent stem cells, 2022, Cell stem cell
  • Transplanted microvessels improve pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte engraftment and cardiac function after infarction in rats, 2020, Science Translational Medicine

Gordon Keller has collaborated frequently with multiple coauthors, including:

  • Ian Fernandes
  • Michael A. Laflamme
  • Michael Atkins
  • Milica Radisic
  • Donghe Yang

Best Publications

  • A common precursor for hematopoietic and endothelial cells

    Kyunghee Choi;Marion Kennedy;Alexander Kazarov;John C. Papadimitriou

  • Differentiation of embryonic stem cells to clinically relevant populations: lessons from embryonic development.

    Charles E. Murry;Gordon Keller

  • An early haematopoietic defect in mice lacking the transcription factor GATA-2.

    Fong-Ying Tsai;Fong-Ying Tsai;Gordon Keller;Frank C. Kuo;Mitchell Weiss

  • Embryonic stem cell differentiation: emergence of a new era in biology and medicine

    Gordon Keller

  • Human cardiovascular progenitor cells develop from a KDR + embryonic-stem-cell-derived population

    Lei Yang;Mark H. Soonpaa;Eric D. Adler;Torsten K. Roepke

  • In vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells

    Gordon M Keller

  • Hematopoietic commitment during embryonic stem cell differentiation in culture.

    G Keller;M Kennedy;T Papayannopoulou;M V Wiles

  • Stage-specific optimization of activin/nodal and BMP signaling promotes cardiac differentiation of mouse and human pluripotent stem cell lines.

    Steven J. Kattman;Alec D. Witty;Alec D. Witty;Mark Gagliardi;Nicole C. Dubois

  • Development of erythroid and myeloid progenitors in the yolk sac and embryo proper of the mouse.

    James Palis;Scott Robertson;Marion Kennedy;Charles Wall

  • Single cell RNA sequencing of human liver reveals distinct intrahepatic macrophage populations.

    Sonya A. MacParland;Sonya A. MacParland;Jeff C. Liu;Xue Zhong Ma;Brendan T. Innes

  • Development of definitive endoderm from embryonic stem cells in culture

    Atsushi Kubo;Katsunori Shinozaki;John M. Shannon;Valerie Kouskoff

  • Biowire: a platform for maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

    Sara S Nunes;Jason W Miklas;Jie Liu;Roozbeh Aschar-Sobbi

  • Multipotent Flk-1+ Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells Give Rise to the Cardiomyocyte, Endothelial, and Vascular Smooth Muscle Lineages

    Steven J. Kattman;Tara L. Huber;Gordon M. Keller

  • A common precursor for primitive erythropoiesis and definitive haematopoiesis.

    Marion Kennedy;Marion Kennedy;Meri Firpo;Meri Firpo;Meri Firpo;Kyunghee Choi;Kyunghee Choi;Kyunghee Choi;Charles Wall;Charles Wall

  • Multiple hematopoietic lineages develop from embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture

    M.V. Wiles;G. Keller

  • Haemangioblast commitment is initiated in the primitive streak of the mouse embryo.

    Tara L. Huber;Valerie Kouskoff;Valerie Kouskoff;H. Joerg Fehling;James Palis

  • Expression of a foreign gene in myeloid and lymphoid cells derived from multipotent haematopoietic precursors

    Gordon Keller;Christopher Paige;Eli Gilboa;Erwin F. Wagner

  • Production of de novo cardiomyocytes: human pluripotent stem cell differentiation and direct reprogramming.

    Paul W. Burridge;Gordon Keller;Joseph D. Gold;Joseph C. Wu

  • Novel insights into erythroid development revealed through in vitro differentiation of GATA-1 embryonic stem cells.

    Mitchell J. Weiss;Gordon Keller;Stuart H. Orkin

  • Ductal pancreatic cancer modeling and drug screening using human pluripotent stem cell– and patient-derived tumor organoids

    Ling Huang;Audrey Holtzinger;Ishaan Jagan;Michael Begora

Frequent Co-Authors

Valerie Kouskoff
Valerie Kouskoff University of Manchester
Peter H. Backx
Peter H. Backx York University
Peter W. Zandstra
Peter W. Zandstra University of British Columbia
Milica Radisic
Milica Radisic University of Toronto
Georges Lacaud
Georges Lacaud University of Manchester
George Q. Daley
George Q. Daley Boston Children's Hospital
Erwin F. Wagner
Erwin F. Wagner Medical University of Vienna
Andrew G. Elefanty
Andrew G. Elefanty University of Melbourne
Edouard G. Stanley
Edouard G. Stanley University of Melbourne
Norman N. Iscove
Norman N. Iscove University of Toronto

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