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Maria E. Figueroa 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 Maria E. Figueroa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 253 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria E. Figueroa 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 Maria E. Figueroa sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria E. Figueroa is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Hematology, Genetics, Oncology, and Immunology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and related cancer research areas. Specific research topics covered include Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms diagnosis and treatment, Immune cells in cancer, Cancer-related gene regulation, and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors.

Recent publications by Maria E. Figueroa include:

  • Cancer-specific CTCF binding facilitates oncogenic transcriptional dysregulation (2020) in Genome Biology
  • Neighborhood Disadvantage and Breast Cancer-Specific Survival (2023) in JAMA Network Open
  • Classification, risk stratification and response assessment in myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS): A state-of-the-art report on behalf of the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS) (2023) in Blood Reviews
  • Transcriptional Silencing of ALDH2 Confers a Dependency on Fanconi Anemia Proteins in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (2021) in Cancer Discovery
  • Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is overproduced through EGR1 in TET2low resting monocytes (2022) in Communications Biology

Maria E. Figueroa has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Blood
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Experimental Hematology
  • Blood Cancer Discovery
  • Blood Reviews

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Maria E. Figueroa include:

  • Aristeidis G. Telonis
  • Emmalee R. Adelman
  • Valeria Santini
  • Stephen D. Nimer
  • Neha Goel

Best Publications

  • Leukemic IDH1 and IDH2 mutations result in a hypermethylation phenotype, disrupt TET2 function, and impair hematopoietic differentiation.

    Maria E. Figueroa;Omar Abdel-Wahab;Chao Lu;Patrick S. Ward

  • Prognostic relevance of integrated genetic profiling in acute myeloid leukemia

    Jay P. Patel;Mithat Gönen;Maria E. Figueroa;Hugo Fernandez

  • IDH mutation impairs histone demethylation and results in a block to cell differentiation

    Chao Lu;Patrick S. Ward;Patrick S. Ward;Gurpreet S. Kapoor;Dan Rohle;Dan Rohle

  • methylKit: a comprehensive R package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles

    Altuna Akalin;Matthias Kormaksson;Sheng Li;Francine E Garrett-Bakelman

  • Tet2 loss leads to increased hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and myeloid transformation.

    Kelly Moran-Crusio;Linsey Reavie;Alan Shih;Omar Abdel-Wahab

  • Cell type of origin influences the molecular and functional properties of mouse induced pluripotent stem cells

    Jose M. Polo;Susanna Liu;Maria Eugenia Figueroa;Warakorn Kulalert

  • DNA Methylation Signatures Identify Biologically Distinct Subtypes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Maria E. Figueroa;Sanne Lugthart;Yushan Li;Claudia Erpelinck-Verschueren

  • A Molecular Roadmap of Reprogramming Somatic Cells into iPS Cells

    Jose M. Polo;Endre Anderssen;Endre Anderssen;Ryan M. Walsh;Benjamin A. Schwarz

  • Recurrent somatic TET2 mutations in normal elderly individuals with clonal hematopoiesis

    Lambert Busque;Jay P Patel;Maria E Figueroa;Aparna Vasanthakumar

  • Autophagy maintains the metabolism and function of young and old stem cells

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  • Restoration of TET2 Function Blocks Aberrant Self-Renewal and Leukemia Progression

    Luisa Cimmino;Igor Dolgalev;Yubao Wang;Akihide Yoshimi

  • IDH1(R132H) mutation increases murine haematopoietic progenitors and alters epigenetics

    Masato Sasaki;Christiane B. Knobbe;Christiane B. Knobbe;Joshua C. Munger;Evan F. Lind

  • DNMT1-interacting RNAs block gene-specific DNA methylation

    Annalisa Di Ruscio;Alexander K. Ebralidze;Touati Benoukraf;Giovanni Amabile

  • Comparative isoschizomer profiling of cytosine methylation: The HELP assay

    Batbayar Khulan;Reid F. Thompson;Kenny Ye;Melissa J. Fazzari

  • MDS and secondary AML display unique patterns and abundance of aberrant DNA methylation

    Maria E. Figueroa;Lucy Skrabanek;Yushan Li;Anchalee Jiemjit

  • Mutant DNMT3A: a marker of poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia

    Ana Flávia Tibúrcio Ribeiro;Ana Flávia Tibúrcio Ribeiro;Marta Pratcorona;Marta Pratcorona;Claudia Erpelinck-Verschueren;Veronika Rockova

  • Base-Pair Resolution DNA Methylation Sequencing Reveals Profoundly Divergent Epigenetic Landscapes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Altuna Akalin;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Matthias Kormaksson;Jennifer Busuttil

  • Prolonged Administration of Azacitidine With or Without Entinostat for Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Myelodysplasia-Related Changes: Results of the US Leukemia Intergroup Trial E1905

    Thomas Prebet;Zhuoxin Sun;Maria E. Figueroa;Rhett Ketterling

  • DNA Hydroxymethylation Profiling Reveals that WT1 Mutations Result in Loss of TET2 Function in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Raajit Rampal;Altuna Alkalin;Altuna Alkalin;Jozef Madzo;Aparna Vasanthakumar

  • HDAC4 Promotes Growth of Colon Cancer Cells via Repression of p21

    Andrew J. Wilson;Do Sun Byun;Shannon Nasser;Lucas B. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Ari Melnick
Ari Melnick Cornell University
Ross L. Levine
Ross L. Levine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Omar Abdel-Wahab
Omar Abdel-Wahab Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Martin S. Tallman
Martin S. Tallman Northwestern University
Ruud Delwel
Ruud Delwel Erasmus MC
Peter J. M. Valk
Peter J. M. Valk Erasmus University Rotterdam
John M. Greally
John M. Greally Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Daniel G. Tenen
Daniel G. Tenen National University of Singapore
Mithat Gonen
Mithat Gonen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lucy A. Godley
Lucy A. Godley University of Chicago

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