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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
20606
World Ranking
3833
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Ron M. A. Heeren is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine, with a strong focus on Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, Computational Mechanics, Cancer Research, and Rheumatology.

The scientist's primary areas of work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications, Ion-surface interactions and analysis, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, and Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ron M. A. Heeren are:

  • Shane R. Ellis
  • Berta Cillero-Pastor
  • Benjamin Balluff
  • Eva Cuypers
  • Britt S. R. Claes

The scientist has published extensively in several journals, with the most frequent publication venues including:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Scientific Reports

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Ron M. A. Heeren include:

  • "Auto-aggressive CXCR6+ CD8 T cells cause liver immune pathology in NASH," published in Nature, 2021
  • "Sphingolipids control dermal fibroblast heterogeneity," published in Science, 2022
  • "Ultra-High Mass Resolving Power, Mass Accuracy, and Dynamic Range MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging by 21-T FT-ICR MS," published in Analytical Chemistry, 2020
  • "On-tissue chemical derivatization in mass spectrometry imaging," published in Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 2021
  • "Spatial differentiation of metabolism in prostate cancer tissue by MALDI-TOF MSI," published in Cancer & Metabolism, 2021

Best Publications

  • Imaging mass spectrometry

    Liam A. McDonnell;Ron M.A. Heeren

  • Mass spectrometric imaging for biomedical tissue analysis.

    Kamila Chughtai;Ron M. A. Heeren

  • A concise review of mass spectrometry imaging

    Erika R. Amstalden van Hove;Donald F. Smith;Ron M.A. Heeren

  • Auto-aggressive CXCR6 + CD8 T cells cause liver immune pathology in NASH

    Michael Dudek;Dominik Pfister;Sainitin Donakonda;Pamela Filpe

  • imzML--a common data format for the flexible exchange and processing of mass spectrometry imaging data.

    Thorsten Schramm;Alfons Hester;Ivo Klinkert;Jean-Pierre Both

  • Gold-Enhanced Biomolecular Surface Imaging of Cells and Tissue by SIMS and MALDI Mass Spectrometry

    A. F. Maarten Altelaar;Ivo Klinkert;Kees Jalink;Robert P. J. de Lange

  • High-spatial resolution mass spectrometric imaging of peptide and protein distributions on a surface.

    Stefan L. Luxembourg;Todd H. Mize;Liam A. Mcdonnell;Ron M. A. Heeren

  • On-Tissue Protein Identification and Imaging by MALDI-Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

    Jonathan Stauber;Luke MacAleese;Julien Franck;Emmanuelle Claude

  • Sample preparation issues for tissue imaging by imaging MS.

    Başak Kükrer Kaletaş;Ingrid M. van der Wiel;Jonathan Stauber;Lennard J. Dekker

  • Sphingolipids control dermal fibroblast heterogeneity

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  • Direct molecular imaging of Lymnaea stagnalis nervous tissue at subcellular spatial resolution by mass spectrometry.

    A F Maarten Altelaar;Jan van Minnen;Connie R Jiménez;Ron M A Heeren

  • Automated, parallel mass spectrometry imaging and structural identification of lipids

    Shane R. Ellis;Martin R. L. Paine;Gert B. Eijkel;Josch K. Pauling;Josch K. Pauling

  • Mass spectrometry imaging for clinical research – latest developments, applications, and current limitations

    Pierre-Maxence Vaysse;Ron M. A. Heeren;Tiffany Porta;Benjamin Balluff

  • Hypertension is associated with marked alterations in sphingolipid biology: a potential role for ceramide

    Léon J. A. Spijkers;Rob F. P. van den Akker;Ben J. A. Janssen;Jacques J. Debets

  • Subcellular imaging mass spectrometry of brain tissue

    Liam A. McDonnell;Sander R. Piersma;A. F. Maarten Altelaar;Todd H. Mize

  • Quantitative MALDI tandem mass spectrometric imaging of cocaine from brain tissue with a deuterated internal standard.

    David A. Pirman;Richard F. Reich;András Kiss;Ron M. A. Heeren

  • Mass spectrometry imaging with isomeric resolution enabled by ozone-induced dissociation

    Martin R. L. Paine;Berwyck L. J. Poad;Gert B. Eijkel;David L. Marshall

  • A critical evaluation of the current state-of-the-art in quantitative imaging mass spectrometry.

    Shane R. Ellis;Anne L. Bruinen;Ron M. A. Heeren

  • Imaging of peptides in the rat brain using MALDI-FTICR mass spectrometry.

    Ioana M. Taban;A. F. Maarten Altelaar;Yuri E. M. van der Burgt;Liam A. McDonnell

  • Understanding Detrimental and Beneficial Grain Boundary Effects in Halide Perovskites

    Gede W. P. Adhyaksa;Sarah Brittman;Haralds Āboliņš;Andries Lof

  • Mass spectrometry images acylcarnitines, phosphatidylcholines, and sphingomyelin in MDA-MB-231 breast tumor models

    Kamila Chughtai;Lu Jiang;Tiffany R. Greenwood;Kristine Glunde

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap J. Boon
Jaap J. Boon Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Francisco J. Blanco
Francisco J. Blanco University of A Coruña
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick
Aart W. Kleyn
Aart W. Kleyn Leiden University
Bernhard Spengler
Bernhard Spengler University of Giessen
Ljiljana Paša-Tolić
Ljiljana Paša-Tolić Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Jan Tytgat
Jan Tytgat KU Leuven
Sander R. Piersma
Sander R. Piersma VU University Medical Center
Marcel Karperien
Marcel Karperien University of Twente
Axel Walch
Axel Walch Technical University of Munich

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