2026 Marek Michalak: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	89	2545	2334	77	71	316	30058

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Marek Michalak is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has a research focus that spans several interrelated scientific areas. Their main fields of study include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 81 publications, and Medicine with 53 publications.

Their work concentrates on specific subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Epidemiology, Physiology, and Sensory Systems. The primary topics covered in their research include:

Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Ion Channels and Receptors
Cancer-related gene regulation
Ion channel regulation and function
RNA modifications and cancer
Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism

Marek Michalak has published extensively in scientific journals with the most frequent venues being:

Cells
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
Scientific Reports
Cell Calcium
Biology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Michalak are:

LncRNA PVT1 promotes gemcitabine resistance of pancreatic cancer via activating Wnt/β-catenin and autophagy pathway through modulating the miR-619-5p/Pygo2 and miR-619-5p/ATG14 axes, 2020, Molecular Cancer
Calcium signaling and endoplasmic reticulum stress, 2021, International review of cell and molecular biology
TSPAN1 promotes autophagy flux and mediates cooperation between WNT-CTNNB1 signaling and autophagy via the MIR454-FAM83A-TSPAN1 axis in pancreatic cancer, 2020, Autophagy
Calnexin, More Than Just a Molecular Chaperone, 2023, Cells
Calsequestrin. Structure, function, and evolution, 2020, Cell Calcium

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

Jingfeng Tang (26 publications)
Xing-Zhen Chen (23 publications)
Declan W. Ali (21 publications)
Cefan Zhou (20 publications)
Luis B. Agellon (14 publications)

Michalak is also an author of book publications, notably:

Cellular Biology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021

Their academic recognition includes the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

Cell-Surface Calreticulin Initiates Clearance of Viable or Apoptotic Cells through trans-Activation of LRP on the Phagocyte

Shyra J. Gardai;Kathleen A. McPhillips;S. Courtney Frasch;William J. Janssen

1739
Citations
IRE1-mediated unconventional mRNA splicing and S2P-mediated ATF6 cleavage merge to regulate XBP1 in signaling the unfolded protein response

Kyungho Lee;Witoon Tirasophon;Xiaohua Shen;Marek Michalak

1276
Citations
Calreticulin: one protein, one gene, many functions.

Marek Michalak;Elaine F. Corbett;Nasrin Mesaeli;Kimitoshi Nakamura

963
Citations
Calreticulin, a multi-process calcium-buffering chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum

Marek Michalak;Jody Groenendyk;Eva Szabo;Leslie I. Gold

803
Citations
Calreticulin Is Essential for Cardiac Development

Nasrin Mesaeli;Kimitoshi Nakamura;Elena Zvaritch;Peter Dickie

652
Citations
Ca2+ homeostasis and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress: An integrated view of calcium signaling.

Joachim Krebs;Luis B. Agellon;Marek Michalak

576
Citations
Ca2+ signaling and calcium binding chaperones of the endoplasmic reticulum

M Michalak;J.M Robert Parker;M Opas

573
Citations
Molecular cloning of the high affinity calcium-binding protein (calreticulin) of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.

L. Fliegel;K. Burns;D. H. Maclennan;R. A. F. Reithmeier

534
Citations
Modulation of gene expression by calreticulin binding to the glucocorticoid receptor

K Burns;B Duggan;E A Atkinson;K S Famulski

509
Citations
Calreticulin: non-endoplasmic reticulum functions in physiology and disease

Leslie I. Gold;Paul Eggleton;Mariya T. Sweetwyne;Lauren B. Van Duyn

488
Citations
Changes in Endoplasmic Reticulum Luminal Environment Affect Cell Sensitivity to Apoptosis

Kimitoshi Nakamura;Kimitoshi Nakamura;Ella Bossy-Wetzel;Kimberly Burns;Kimberly Burns;Marc P. Fadel

443
Citations
Expression of calreticulin in Escherichia coli and identification of its Ca2+ binding domains.

S Baksh;M Michalak

438
Citations
Enhanced Catalysis of Ribonuclease B Folding by the Interaction of Calnexin or Calreticulin with ERp57

André Zapun;André Zapun;Nigel J. Darby;Daniel C. Tessier;Marek Michalak

428
Citations
The ins and outs of calreticulin: from the ER lumen to the extracellular space.

Steven Johnson;Marek Michalak;Michal Opas;Paul Eggleton

427
Citations
Functional specialization of calreticulin domains.

Kimitoshi Nakamura;Anna Zuppini;Serge Arnaudeau;Jeffery Lynch

362
Citations
Biology of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in the Heart

Jody Groenendyk;Pradeep Kumar Sreenivasaiah;Do Han Kim;Luis B. Agellon

360
Citations
Aberrant retention of tyrosinase in the endoplasmic reticulum mediates accelerated degradation of the enzyme and contributes to the dedifferentiated phenotype of amelanotic melanoma cells

Ruth Halaban;Elaine Cheng;Yuhua Zhang;Gisela Moellmann

357
Citations
Calreticulin, a Ca2+-binding chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Pascal Gelebart;Michal Opas;Marek Michalak

346
Citations
Oligosaccharide binding characteristics of the molecular chaperones calnexin and calreticulin

Aikaterini Vassilakos;Marek Michalak;Mark A. Lehrman;David B. Williams

339
Citations
Quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum

Marek Michalak

12
Citations