Koichi Akashi

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages

  Koichi Akashi;Koichi Akashi;David Traver;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Irving L. Weissman

  3456
  Citations

• Identification of Clonogenic Common Lymphoid Progenitors in Mouse Bone Marrow

  Motonari Kondo;Irving L. Weissman;Koichi Akashi

  2972
  Citations

• The aging of hematopoietic stem cells

  Sean J. Morrison;Antoni M. Wandycz;Koichi Akashi;Amiela Globerson

  1222
  Citations

• Chemotherapy-resistant human AML stem cells home to and engraft within the bone-marrow endosteal region.

  Fumihiko Ishikawa;Shuro Yoshida;Yoriko Saito;Atsushi Hijikata

  1182
  Citations

• Development of functional human blood and immune systems in NOD/SCID/IL2 receptor γ chainnull mice

  Fumihiko Ishikawa;Masaki Yasukawa;Bonnie Lyons;Shuro Yoshida

  1136
  Citations

• Bcl-2 Rescues T Lymphopoiesis in Interleukin-7 Receptor–Deficient Mice

  Koichi Akashi;Motonari Kondo;Ursula von Freeden-Jeffry;Richard Murray

  867
  Citations

• MOZ-TIF2, but not BCR-ABL, confers properties of leukemic stem cells to committed murine hematopoietic progenitors

  Brian J.P. Huntly;Hirokazu Shigematsu;Kenji Deguchi;Benjamin H. Lee

  855
  Citations

• Mouse development and cell proliferation in the absence of D-cyclins.

  Katarzyna Kozar;Maria A. Ciemerych;Vivienne I. Rebel;Hirokazu Shigematsu

  794
  Citations

• Prospective isolation of human clonogenic common myeloid progenitors

  Markus G. Manz;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Koichi Akashi;Irving L. Weissman

  756
  Citations

• Obligate role of anti-apoptotic MCL-1 in the survival of hematopoietic stem cells.

  Joseph T. Opferman;Hiromi Iwasaki;Christy C. Ong;Christy C. Ong;Heikyung Suh;Heikyung Suh

  726
  Citations

• AML1/ETO-expressing nonleukemic stem cells in acute myelogenous leukemia with 8;21 chromosomal translocation

  Toshihiro Miyamoto;Irving L. Weissman;Koichi Akashi;Koichi Akashi

  659
  Citations

• Enhancement of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Repopulating Capacity and Self-Renewal in the Absence of the Transcription Factor C/EBPα

  Pu Zhang;Junko Iwasaki-Arai;Hiromi Iwasaki;Maris L. Fenyus

  648
  Citations

• Acute myeloid leukemia induced by graded reduction of a lineage-specific transcription factor, PU.1.

  Frank Rosenbauer;Katharina Wagner;Jeffery L Kutok;Hiromi Iwasaki

  621
  Citations

• Expression of DNA methyltransferases DNMT1, 3A, and 3B in normal hematopoiesis and in acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia.

  Shin Ichi Mizuno;Takahito Chijiwa;Takashi Okamura;Koichi Akashi

  598
  Citations

• Dendritic cell potentials of early lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.

  Markus G. Manz;David Traver;David Traver;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Irving L. Weissman;Irving L. Weissman

  593
  Citations

• Development of CD8α-Positive Dendritic Cells from a Common Myeloid Progenitor

  David Traver;Koichi Akashi;Markus Manz;Miriam Merad

  583
  Citations

• Cell-fate conversion of lymphoid-committed progenitors by instructive actions of cytokines

  Motonari Kondo;David C. Scherer;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Angela G. King

  555
  Citations

• Myeloid or Lymphoid Promiscuity as a Critical Step in Hematopoietic Lineage Commitment

  Toshihiro Miyamoto;Hiromi Iwasaki;Boris Reizis;Min Ye

  546
  Citations

• Distinctive and indispensable roles of PU.1 in maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells and their differentiation.

  Hiromi Iwasaki;Chamorro Somoza;Hirokazu Shigematsu;Estelle A. Duprez

  539
  Citations

• MOZ-TIF2, but Not BCR-ABL, Confers Properties of Leukemic Stem Cells to Committed Murine Hematopoietic Progenitors.

  Brian J.P. Huntly;Hirokazu Shigematzu;Kenji Deguchi;Benjamin Lee

  2
  Citations