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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
10667
World Ranking
15629
National Ranking
1230

Pedro Piccardo publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 173 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Pedro Piccardo D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Pedro Piccardo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their work spans several fields of biomedical science, with a focus on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Through their published research, Piccardo has contributed to the understanding of complex proteinopathies, prion diseases, and infectious diseases.

Piccardo's recent research output includes papers published across a variety of scientific journals and platforms. Notable publications include:

  • Characterization of the therapeutic effect of antibodies targeting the Ebola glycoprotein using a novel BSL2-compliant rVSVΔG-EBOV-GP infection model (2021) in Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Experimental Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Squirrel Monkeys: The Same Complex Proteinopathy Appearing after Very Different Incubation Times (2022) in Pathogens
  • Therapeutic window for treatment of prion disease defined by timed depletion of Prion protein (2024) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • TREM2 supports neuronal protection and microglial reactivity without an effect on misfolded protein deposition in chronic neurodegenerative prion disease (2025) in Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Piccardo include Barry Bradford, Jean Manson, Hana Lee, Ian L. McWilliams, and Aaron P. Lewkowicz.

Their publications typically appear in venues such as:

  • Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Pathogens
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Piccardo's research topics focus primarily on:

  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism

They are actively engaged in subfields including neurology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and biochemistry. This disciplinary range aligns with their focus on complex neurological and infectious conditions involving protein misfolding and neurodegeneration.

Best Publications

  • Classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease based on molecular and phenotypic analysis of 300 subjects

    Piero Parchi;Armin Giese;Sabina Capellari;Paul Brown

  • Lack of apolipoprotein E dramatically reduces amyloid beta-peptide deposition.

    Kelly R. Bales;Tatyana Verina;Richard C. Dodel;Richard C. Dodel;Yansheng Du

  • Apolipoprotein E is essential for amyloid deposition in the APP(V717F) transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Kelly R. Bales;Tatyana Verina;David J. Cummins;Yansheng Du

  • NEUROLOGICAL ILLNESS IN TRANSGENIC MICE EXPRESSING A PRION PROTEIN WITH AN INSERTIONAL MUTATION

    R. Chiesa;P. Piccardo;B. Ghetti;D. A. Harris

  • Vascular variant of prion protein cerebral amyloidosis with tau-positive neurofibrillary tangles: the phenotype of the stop codon 145 mutation in PRNP.

    Bernardino Ghetti;Pedro Piccardo;Maria Grazia Spillantini;Yousuke Ichimiya

  • Phenotypic variability of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease is associated with prion protein heterogeneity

    Pedro Piccardo;Stephen R. Dlouhy;Patricia M.J. Lievens;Katherine Young

  • Codeposition of Cystatin C with Amyloid-β Protein in the Brain of Alzheimer Disease Patients

    Efrat Levy;Magdalena Sastre;Asok Kumar;Gloria Gallo

  • Accumulation of prion protein in the brain that is not associated with transmissible disease.

    Pedro Piccardo;Jean C. Manson;Declan King;Bernardino Ghetti

  • Prion Protein Amyloidosis

    Bernardino Ghetti;Pedro Piccardo;Bias Frangione;Orso Bugiani

  • Endogenous proteolytic cleavage of normal and disease-associated isoforms of the human prion protein in neural and non-neural tissues.

    Adolfo Jiménez-Huete;Patricia M.J. Lievens;Rubén Vidal;Pedro Piccardo

  • Accumulation of protease-resistant prion protein (PrP) and apoptosis of cerebellar granule cells in transgenic mice expressing a PrP insertional mutation

    Roberto Chiesa;Bettina Drisaldi;Elena Quaglio;Antonio Migheli

  • Association between conformational mutations in neuroserpin and onset and severity of dementia

    Richard L Davis;Antony E Shrimpton;Robin W Carrell;David A Lomas

  • Molecular distinction between pathogenic and infectious properties of the prion protein.

    Roberto Chiesa;Pedro Piccardo;Elena Quaglio;Elena Quaglio;Bettina Drisaldi

  • INHERITED PRION DISEASES

    Q Kong;Wk Surewicz;Rb Petersen;W Zou

  • Proteasomal inhibition induced by manganese ethylene-bis-dithiocarbamate: relevance to Parkinson's disease

    Y Zhou;F-S Shie;Pedro Piccardo;T J Montine

  • A 7-kDa prion protein (PrP) fragment, an integral component of the PrP region required for infectivity, is the major amyloid protein in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease A117V.

    Fabrizio Tagliavini;Patricia M.J. Lievens;Christine Tranchant;Jean Marie Warter

  • Host PrP glycosylation: a major factor determining the outcome of prion infection

    Nadia L Tuzi;Enrico Cancellotti;Herbert Baybutt;Lorraine Blackford

  • Prion Proteins with Different Conformations Accumulate in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease Caused by A117V and F198S Mutations

    Pedro Piccardo;Juris J. Liepnieks;Albert William;Stephen R. Dlouhy

  • Lysine-directed post-translational modifications of tau protein in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies

    Christiana Kontaxi;Pedro Piccardo;Andrew C. Gill

  • Vascular variant of prion protein cerebral amyloidosis with tau-positive neurofibrillary tangles

    B Ghetti;Pedro Piccardo;M G Spillantini;Y Ichimiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernardino Ghetti
Bernardino Ghetti Indiana University
Jean Manson
Jean Manson University of Edinburgh
Fabrizio Tagliavini
Fabrizio Tagliavini Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
David A. Harris
David A. Harris Boston University
Martin R. Farlow
Martin R. Farlow Indiana University
Frances Prelli
Frances Prelli New York University
D. C. Gajdusek
D. C. Gajdusek National Institutes of Health
James W. Ironside
James W. Ironside University of Edinburgh
Pierluigi Gambetti
Pierluigi Gambetti Case Western Reserve University
Blas Frangione
Blas Frangione New York University

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Gabor G. Kovacs

Gabor G. Kovacs

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Herbert Budka

Herbert Budka

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Mark Head

Mark Head

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Publications: 59

John Collinge

John Collinge

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Adriano Aguzzi

Adriano Aguzzi

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