2026 Leona D. Samson: 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	83	898	799	473	413	226	27307

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Leona D. Samson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, cancer research, cell biology, epidemiology, and organic chemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

DNA Repair Mechanisms
Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Leona D. Samson include the following:

Excision of mutagenic replication-blocking lesions suppresses cancer but promotes cytotoxicity and lethality in nitrosamine-exposed mice, 2021, Cell Reports
CometChip analysis of human primary lymphocytes enables quantification of inter-individual differences in the kinetics of repair of oxidative DNA damage, 2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Molecular origins of mutational spectra produced by the environmental carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine and SN1 chemotherapeutic agents, 2023, NAR Cancer
CometChip enables parallel analysis of multiple DNA repair activities, 2021, DNA Repair
A DNA repair-independent role for alkyladenine DNA glycosylase in alkylation-induced unfolded protein response, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Leona D. Samson has frequently published in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
DNA Repair
Cell Reports
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
NAR Cancer

Frequent co-authors include:

Bevin P. Engelward
Jennifer E. Kay
Joshua J. Corrigan
Robert G. Croy
John M. Essigmann

Leona D. Samson was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Philip J Landrigan;Richard Fuller;Nereus J R Acosta;Olusoji Adeyi

4740
Citations
Systematic Discovery of In Vivo Phosphorylation Networks

Rune Linding;Rune Linding;Lars Juhl Jensen;Gerard J. Ostheimer;Marcel A.T.M. van Vugt;Marcel A.T.M. van Vugt

1060
Citations
Balancing repair and tolerance of DNA damage caused by alkylating agents

Dragony Fu;Jennifer A. Calvo;Leona D. Samson

1018
Citations
A new pathway for DNA repair in Escherichia coli.

Leona Samson;John Cairns

949
Citations
DNA damage induced by chronic inflammation contributes to colon carcinogenesis in mice

Lisiane B. Meira;James M. Bugni;Stephanie L. Green;Chung-Wei Lee

669
Citations
Standardizing global gene expression analysis between laboratories and across platforms

Theodore Bammler;Richard P. Beyer;Sanchita Bhattacharya;Gary A. Boorman

600
Citations
The human gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin alkylates DNA

Matthew R. Wilson;Yindi Jiang;Peter W. Villalta;Alessia Stornetta

596
Citations
Global response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkylating agent

Scott A. Jelinsky;Leona D. Samson

545
Citations
ARID1A deficiency promotes mutability and potentiates therapeutic antitumor immunity unleashed by immune checkpoint blockade

Jianfeng Shen;Zhenlin Ju;Wei Zhao;Lulu Wang

461
Citations
Inflammation-induced DNA damage, mutations and cancer.

Jennifer Kay;Elina Thadhani;Leona Samson;Bevin Engelward

445
Citations
Base excision repair in yeast and mammals.

Asli Memisoglu;Leona Samson

427
Citations
Regulatory Networks Revealed by Transcriptional Profiling of Damaged Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cells: Rpn4 Links Base Excision Repair with Proteasomes

Scott A. Jelinsky;Preston Estep;George M. Church;Leona D. Samson

422
Citations
Role of DNA mismatch repair and p53 in signaling induction of apoptosis by alkylating agents.

Mark J. Hickman;Leona D. Samson

401
Citations
A microscale in vitro physiological model of the liver: predictive screens for drug metabolism and enzyme induction.

A. Sivaraman;J. K. Leach;S. Townsend;T. Iida

385
Citations
Crystal structure of a human alkylbase-DNA repair enzyme complexed to DNA: Mechanisms for nucleotide flipping and base excision

Albert Y. Lau;Orlando D. Schärer;Leona Samson;Gregory L. Verdine

350
Citations
A Systems Approach to Mapping DNA Damage Response Pathways

Christopher T. Workman;H. Craig Mak;Scott McCuine;Jean-Bosco Tagne

316
Citations
Base excision repair deficient mice lacking the Aag alkyladenine DNA glycosylase

Bevin P. Engelward;Geert Weeda;Michael D. Wyatt;José L. M. Broekhof

296
Citations
Evidence for an adaptive DNA repair pathway in CHO and human skin fibroblast cell lines.

Leona Samson;Jeffrey L. Schwartz

286
Citations
Activation of Inflammation/NF-κB Signaling in Infants Born to Arsenic-Exposed Mothers

Rebecca C Fry;Panida Navasumrit;Chandni Valiathan;J. Peter Svensson

283
Citations
Molecular basis for discriminating between normal and damaged bases by the human alkyladenine glycosylase, AAG

Albert Y. Lau;Michael D. Wyatt;Michael D. Wyatt;Brian J. Glassner;Brian J. Glassner;Leona D. Samson

280
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick T. Bronson Harvard University

Peter C. Dedon MIT

David J. Hunter Harvard University

John M. Essigmann MIT

Jin Chen Vanderbilt University

Terrance J. Kavanagh University of Washington

Douglas A. Lauffenburger MIT

Jennifer E. Kay University of Colorado Boulder

Wei Xiao University of Saskatchewan

Trey Ideker University of California, San Diego

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