2026 Maurizio Del Poeta: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	52	4238	3897	1639	1466	170	8561

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Microbiology

4238

3897

1639

1466

170

8561

Research.com Recognitions

Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

Ergosterol Biosynthesis Inhibitors Become Fungicidal when Combined with Calcineurin Inhibitors against Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, and Candida krusei

Chiatogu Onyewu;Jill R. Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta;Joseph Heitman

360
Citations
Structure-In Vitro Activity Relationships of Pentamidine Analogues and Dication-Substituted Bis-Benzimidazoles as New Antifungal Agents

Maurizio Del Poeta;Wiley A. Schell;Christine C. Dykstra;Susan Jones

301
Citations
Synergistic Antifungal Activities of Bafilomycin A1, Fluconazole, and the Pneumocandin MK-0991/Caspofungin Acetate (L-743,873) with Calcineurin Inhibitors FK506 and L-685,818 against Cryptococcus neoformans

M Del Poeta;M C Cruz;M E Cardenas;J R Perfect

255
Citations
Role of Sphingolipids in Microbial Pathogenesis

Unknown

246
Citations
In vitro antifungal activity of pneumocandin L-743,872 against a variety of clinically important molds.

M Del Poeta;W A Schell;J R Perfect

223
Citations
Immunosuppressive and Nonimmunosuppressive Cyclosporine Analogs Are Toxic to the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans via Cyclophilin-Dependent Inhibition of Calcineurin

M. C. Cruz;M. Del Poeta;Ping Wang;R. Wenger

185
Citations
Rapamycin and less immunosuppressive analogs are toxic to Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans via FKBP12-dependent inhibition of TOR.

M. Cristina Cruz;Alan L. Goldstein;Jill Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta

180
Citations
The immunosuppressant FK506 and its nonimmunosuppressive analog L-685,818 are toxic to Cryptococcus neoformans by inhibition of a common target protein.

A Odom;M Del Poeta;J Perfect;J Heitman

180
Citations
Roles for inositol-phosphoryl ceramide synthase 1 (IPC1) in pathogenesis of C. neoformans

Chiara Luberto;Dena L. Toffaletti;Elizabeth A. Wills;Stephanie C. Tucker

180
Citations
Identification of App1 as a regulator of phagocytosis and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Chiara Luberto;Beatriz Martinez-Mariño;Daniel Taraskiewicz;Benjamin Bolaños

174
Citations
Role of phagocytosis in the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans.

Unknown

163
Citations
Depletion of alveolar macrophages decreases the dissemination of a glucosylceramide-deficient mutant of Cryptococcus neoformans in immunodeficient mice.

Unknown

157
Citations
Antifungal Activities of Antineoplastic Agents:Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model System To Study Drug Action

Maria E. Cardenas;M. Cristina Cruz;Maurizio Del Poeta;Namjin Chung

154
Citations
The Cryptococcal Enzyme Inositol Phosphosphingolipid-Phospholipase C Confers Resistance to the Antifungal Effects of Macrophages and Promotes Fungal Dissemination to the Central Nervous System

Unknown

154
Citations
Plasma membrane lipids and their role in fungal virulence

Unknown

148
Citations
Identification of a New Class of Antifungals Targeting the Synthesis of Fungal Sphingolipids

Visesato Mor;Antonella Rella;Amir M. Farnoud;Ashutosh Singh

143
Citations
Potential Roles of Fungal Extracellular Vesicles during Infection.

Luna S. Joffe;Luna S. Joffe;Leonardo Nimrichter;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Maurizio Del Poeta;Maurizio Del Poeta

142
Citations
Sphingomyelin synthases regulate production of diacylglycerol at the Golgi.

Unknown

126
Citations
In Vitro Antifungal Activities of a Series of Dication-Substituted Carbazoles, Furans, and Benzimidazoles

Maurizio Del Poeta;Wiley A. Schell;Christine C. Dykstra;Susan K. Jones

125
Citations
Synthesis and Biological Properties of Fungal Glucosylceramide

Maurizio Del Poeta;Leonardo Nimrichter;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Chiara Luberto

123
Citations