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Ramin Shiekhattar publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ramin Shiekhattar sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 145 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ramin Shiekhattar D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Ramin Shiekhattar is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and has made significant contributions to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research predominantly focuses on Molecular Biology, with additional work in Hematology, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Immunology.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and DNA Repair Mechanisms.

Ramin Shiekhattar has published across various scientific venues, frequently contributing to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Blood, Molecular Cell, Cell Reports, and Science Advances.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Shiekhattar include:

  • Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells (2021, Nature)
  • NELF Regulates a Promoter-Proximal Step Distinct from RNA Pol II Pause-Release (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • The Human Integrator Complex Facilitates Transcriptional Elongation by Endonucleolytic Cleavage of Nascent Transcripts (2020, Cell Reports)
  • ATAD3A has a scaffolding role regulating mitochondria inner membrane structure and protein assembly (2021, Cell Reports)
  • The Integrator complex at the crossroad of coding and noncoding RNA (2020, Current Opinion in Cell Biology)

Frequent collaborators of Shiekhattar include Felipe Beckedorff, Helena G. Dos Santos, Pradeep Reddy Cingaram, Monica Guiselle Valencia, and Mina M. Tayari.

In recognition of contributions to scientific research, Shiekhattar was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The GENCODE v7 catalog of human long noncoding RNAs: analysis of their gene structure, evolution, and expression.

    Thomas Derrien;Rory Johnson;Giovanni Bussotti;Andrea Tanzer

  • The Microprocessor complex mediates the genesis of microRNAs

    Richard I. Gregory;Kai Ping Yan;Govindasamy Amuthan;Thimmalah Chendrimada

  • TRBP recruits the Dicer complex to Ago2 for microRNA processing and gene silencing.

    Thimmaiah P. Chendrimada;Richard I. Gregory;Easwari Kumaraswamy;Easwari Kumaraswamy;Jessica Norman

  • An operational definition of epigenetics

    Shelley L. Berger;Tony Kouzarides;Ramin Shiekhattar;Ali Shilatifard

  • Human RISC Couples MicroRNA Biogenesis and Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing

    Richard I. Gregory;Thimmaiah P. Chendrimada;Neil Cooch;Ramin Shiekhattar

  • Long Noncoding RNAs with Enhancer-like Function in Human Cells

    Ulf Andersson Ørom;Thomas Derrien;Malte Beringer;Kiranmai Gumireddy

  • New nomenclature for chromatin-modifying enzymes.

    C. David Allis;Shelley L. Berger;Jacques Cote;Sharon R Dent

  • An essential role for CoREST in nucleosomal histone 3 lysine 4 demethylation

    Min Gyu Lee;Christopher Wynder;Neil Cooch;Ramin Shiekhattar

  • Modulation of microRNA processing and expression through RNA editing by ADAR deaminases.

    Weidong Yang;Thimmaiah P Chendrimada;Qingde Wang;Miyoko Higuchi

  • p53 is regulated by the lysine demethylase LSD1

    Jing Huang;Roopsha Sengupta;Alexsandra B. Espejo;Min Gyu Lee

  • Activating RNAs associate with Mediator to enhance chromatin architecture and transcription

    Fan Lai;Ulf A. Orom;Matteo Cesaroni;Malte Beringer

  • Demethylation of H3K27 regulates polycomb recruitment and H2A ubiquitination

    Min Gyu Lee;Raffaella Villa;Raffaella Villa;Patrick Trojer;Patrick Trojer;Jessica Norman;Jessica Norman

  • MicroRNA biogenesis and cancer

    Richard I. Gregory;Ramin Shiekhattar

  • BRCA1 is associated with a human SWI/SNF-related complex: linking chromatin remodeling to breast cancer.

    Daniel A Bochar;Lai Wang;Hideo Beniya;Alexander Kinev

  • MicroRNA silencing through RISC recruitment of eIF6

    Thimmaiah P. Chendrimada;Kenneth J. Finn;Xinjun Ji;David Baillat

  • A core SMRT corepressor complex containing HDAC3 and TBL1, a WD40-repeat protein linked to deafness.

    Matthew G. Guenther;William S. Lane;Wolfgang Fischle;Eric Verdin

  • Integrator, a Multiprotein Mediator of Small Nuclear RNA Processing, Associates with the C-Terminal Repeat of RNA Polymerase II

    David Baillat;Mohamed Ali Hakimi;Anders M. Näär;Ali Shilatifard

  • Phosphorylation of p53 serine 15 increases interaction with CBP

    Paul F. Lambert;Fatah Kashanchi;Michael F. Radonovich;Ramin Shiekhattar

  • Cdk-activating kinase complex is a component of human transcription factor TFIIH

    Ramin Shiekhattar;Fred Mermelstein;Robert P. Fisher;Ronny Drapkin

  • Histone H3 Lysine 4 Demethylation Is a Target of Nonselective Antidepressive Medications

    Min Gyu Lee;Christopher Wynder;Dawn M. Schmidt;Dewey G. McCafferty

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Shilatifard
Ali Shilatifard Northwestern University
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi Grenoble Alpes University
Danny Reinberg
Danny Reinberg University of Miami
Shelley L. Berger
Shelley L. Berger University of Pennsylvania
Richard I. Gregory
Richard I. Gregory Boston Children's Hospital
Luciano Di Croce
Luciano Di Croce Centre for Genomic Regulation
David W. Speicher
David W. Speicher The Wistar Institute
William S. Lane
William S. Lane Harvard University
Ronny Drapkin
Ronny Drapkin University of Pennsylvania
Kazuko Nishikura
Kazuko Nishikura The Wistar Institute

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