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Maarten Fornerod publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maarten Fornerod sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 92 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Maarten Fornerod D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maarten Fornerod sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maarten Fornerod is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed to research mainly in the domains of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their academic work spans molecular biology, hematology, cancer research, genetics, and immunology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on acute myeloid leukemia, cancer genomics and diagnostics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, immune cells in cancer, nuclear structure and function, cellular transport and secretion, as well as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Fornerod has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to Blood, Nature Cancer, Cells, Blood Cancer Discovery, and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

  • Blood
  • Nature Cancer
  • Cells
  • Blood Cancer Discovery
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Notable recent papers include:

  • Integrative Genomic Analysis of Pediatric Myeloid-Related Acute Leukemias Identifies Novel Subtypes and Prognostic Indicators, 2021, Blood Cancer Discovery
  • An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia, 2022, Nature Cancer
  • Training for a (half-)marathon: Training volume and longest endurance run related to performance and running injuries, 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Generating Membrane Curvature at the Nuclear Pore: A Lipid Point of View, 2022, Cells
  • Analysis of rare driving events in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia, 2022, Haematologica

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Fornerod include Deedra Nicolet, Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, Tanja A. Grüber, Christopher J. Walker, and Richard M. Stone.

Best Publications

  • CRM1 Is an Export Receptor for Leucine-Rich Nuclear Export Signals

    Maarten Fornerod;Mutsuhito Ohno;Minoru Yoshida;Iain W. Mattaj

  • Characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster genome at the nuclear lamina

    Helen Pickersgill;Bernike Kalverda;Elzo de Wit;Wendy Talhout

  • The human homologue of yeast CRM1 is in a dynamic subcomplex with CAN/Nup214 and a novel nuclear pore component Nup88.

    Maarten Fornerod;Jan van Deursen;Sjozef van Baal;Albert Reynolds

  • Nucleoporins Directly Stimulate Expression of Developmental and Cell-Cycle Genes Inside the Nucleoplasm

    Bernike Kalverda;Helen Pickersgill;Victor V. Shloma;Maarten Fornerod

  • Nucleocytoplasmic Transport: The Last 200 Nanometers

    Mutsuhito Ohno;Maarten Fornerod;Iain W Mattaj

  • Import of adenovirus DNA involves the nuclear pore complex receptor CAN/Nup214 and histone H1.

    Lloyd C. Trotman;Nicole Mosberger;Maarten Fornerod;Robert P. Stidwill

  • Identification of a nuclear export receptor for tRNA

    Gert-Jan Arts;Maarten Fornerod;lain W. Mattaj

  • Characterization of human lysosomal neuraminidase defines the molecular basis of the metabolic storage disorder sialidosis.

    E Bonten;A van der Spoel;M Fornerod;G Grosveld

  • Bicaudal D2, Dynein, and Kinesin-1 Associate with Nuclear Pore Complexes and Regulate Centrosome and Nuclear Positioning during Mitotic Entry

    Daniël Splinter;Marvin E. Tanenbaum;Arne Lindqvist;Dick Jaarsma

  • RAE1 Is a Shuttling mRNA Export Factor That Binds to a GLEBS-like NUP98 Motif at the Nuclear Pore Complex through Multiple Domains

    Colin E.J. Pritchard;Maarten Fornerod;Lawryn H. Kasper;Jan M.A. van Deursen

  • RanGTP-regulated interactions of CRM1 with nucleoporins and a shuttling DEAD-box helicase.

    Peter Askjaer;Angela Bachi;Matthias Wilm;F. Ralf Bischoff

  • The nucleoporin Nup153 is required for nuclear pore basket formation, nuclear pore complex anchoring and import of a subset of nuclear proteins.

    Tobias C Walther;Maarten Fornerod;Helen Pickersgill;Martin W Goldberg

  • The recurrent SET-NUP214 fusion as a new HOXA activation mechanism in pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Pieter Van Vlierberghe;Martine van Grotel;Joëlle Tchinda;Charles Lee

  • The cytoplasmic filaments of the nuclear pore complex are dispensable for selective nuclear protein import

    Tobias C. Walther;Helen S. Pickersgill;Volker C. Cordes;Martin W. Goldberg

  • Relocation of the carboxyterminal part of CAN from the nuclear envelope to the nucleus as a result of leukemia-specific chromosome rearrangements.

    M. Fornerod;J. Boer;S. van Baal;M. Jaeglé

  • Cre-mediated site-specific translocation between nonhomologous mouse chromosomes

    J Van Deursen;M Fornerod;B Van Rees;G Grosveld

  • The inner nuclear envelope as a transcription factor resting place.

    Stijn Heessen;Maarten Fornerod

  • Nonprocessive methylation by Dot1 leads to functional redundancy of histone H3K79 methylation states

    Floor Frederiks;Manuel Tzouros;Gideon Oudgenoeg;Tibor van Welsem

  • Nup358/RanBP2 attaches to the nuclear pore complex via association with Nup88 and Nup214/CAN and plays a supporting role in CRM1-mediated nuclear protein export

    Rafael Bernad;Hella van der Velde;Maarten Fornerod;Helen Pickersgill

  • Pediatric non-Down syndrome acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is characterized by distinct genomic subsets with varying outcomes

    Jasmijn D.E. De Rooij;Cristyn Branstetter;Jing Ma;Yongjin Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Grosveld
Gerard Grosveld St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Iain W. Mattaj
Iain W. Mattaj Human Technopole
Jan Cools
Jan Cools KU Leuven
Peter Marynen
Peter Marynen KU Leuven
Grazia M.S. Mancini
Grazia M.S. Mancini Erasmus University Rotterdam
William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota
Peter J. van der Spek
Peter J. van der Spek Erasmus University Rotterdam
Urs F. Greber
Urs F. Greber University of Zurich
Dirk Görlich
Dirk Görlich Max Planck Society

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