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Ronald H. A. Plasterk

Ronald H. A. Plasterk

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Molecular Biology
Netherlands
2026

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Genetics

D-Index
114
Citations
60937
World Ranking
461
National Ranking
15

Molecular Biology

D-Index
114
Citations
60937
World Ranking
315
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2001 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ronald H. A. Plasterk is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on molecular biology, immunology, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, cancer research, and cell biology.

Their major topics of work include immunotherapy and immune responses, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, RNA interference and gene delivery, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, microRNA in disease regulation, and angiogenesis and VEGF in cancer.

Frequent coauthors of Ronald H. A. Plasterk are:

  • Salvador Aguilar-Rosas
  • Katka Franke
  • Mark Pieterse
  • Jamie van Langelaar
  • Bob Löwenberg

Publications have appeared in a range of scientific venues including:

  • Cancer Immunology Research
  • Science
  • Development
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts

Recent papers include:

  • The Neo-Open Reading Frame Peptides That Comprise the Tumor Framome Are a Rich Source of Neoantigens for Cancer Immunotherapy (2024, Cancer Immunology Research)
  • Retraction (2020, Science)
  • The people behind the papers - Tevin Chau and Anne Lagendijk (2022, Development)
  • 1350 Neo-open reading frame peptides as a source of highly immunogenic neoantigens for mRNA therapeutic cancer vaccines (2023, Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts)

Ronald H. A. Plasterk was recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Best Publications

  • The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

    Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

  • Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex

    Ahmet M. Denli;Bastiaan B. J. Tops;Ronald H. A. Plasterk;René F. Ketting

  • Dicer functions in RNA interference and in synthesis of small RNA involved in developmental timing in C. elegans

    René F. Ketting;Sylvia E.J. Fischer;Emily Bernstein;Titia Sijen

  • The Diverse Functions of MicroRNAs in Animal Development and Disease

    Wigard P. Kloosterman;Ronald H.A. Plasterk

  • MicroRNA Expression in Zebrafish Embryonic Development

    Erno Wienholds;Wigard P. Kloosterman;Eric Miska;Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra

  • On the role of RNA amplification in dsRNA-triggered gene silencing.

    Titia Sijen;Jamie Fleenor;Femke Simmer;Karen L. Thijssen

  • Molecular Reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty, a Tc1-like Transposon from Fish, and Its Transposition in Human Cells

    Zoltán Ivics;Perry B Hackett;Ronald H Plasterk;Zsuzsanna Izsvák;Zsuzsanna Izsvák

  • Phylogenetic Shadowing and Computational Identification of Human microRNA Genes

    Eugene Berezikov;Victor Guryev;José van de Belt;Erno Wienholds

  • A Role for Piwi and piRNAs in Germ Cell Maintenance and Transposon Silencing in Zebrafish

    Saskia Houwing;Leonie M. Kamminga;Eugene Berezikov;Daniela Cronembold

  • mut-7 of C. elegans, Required for Transposon Silencing and RNA Interference, Is a Homolog of Werner Syndrome Helicase and RNaseD

    René F Ketting;Thomas H.A Haverkamp;Henri G.A.M van Luenen;Ronald H.A Plasterk

  • MicroRNA function in animal development.

    Erno Wienholds;Ronald H.A. Plasterk

  • Genome-Wide RNAi of C. elegans Using the Hypersensitive rrf-3 Strain Reveals Novel Gene Functions

    Femke Simmer;Celine Moorman;Alexander M van der Linden;Ewart Kuijk

  • Rapid gene mapping in Caenorhabditis elegans using a high density polymorphism map

    Stephen R. Wicks;Raymond T. Yeh;Warren R. Gish;Robert H. Waterston

  • Loss of the putative RNA-directed RNA polymerase RRF-3 makes C. elegans hypersensitive to RNAi.

    Femke Simmer;Marcel Tijsterman;Susan Parrish;Susan Parrish;Sandhya P Koushika

  • In situ detection of miRNAs in animal embryos using LNA-modified oligonucleotide probes

    Wigard P Kloosterman;Erno Wienholds;Ewart de Bruijn;Sakari Kauppinen

  • RNA silencing: the genome's immune system.

    Ronald H. A. Plasterk

  • tp53 mutant zebrafish develop malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

    Stéphane Berghmans;Ryan D. Murphey;Erno Wienholds;Donna Neuberg

  • Diversity of microRNAs in human and chimpanzee brain.

    Eugene Berezikov;Fritz Thuemmler;Linda W van Laake;Ivanela Kondova

  • Approaches to microRNA discovery

    Eugene Berezikov;Edwin Cuppen;Ronald H A Plasterk

  • Micro RNAs in Animal Development

    Ronald H.A. Plasterk

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin Cuppen
Edwin Cuppen Utrecht University
Marcel Tijsterman
Marcel Tijsterman Leiden University Medical Center
René F. Ketting
René F. Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology
Eugene Berezikov
Eugene Berezikov University Medical Center Groningen
Wigard P. Kloosterman
Wigard P. Kloosterman Utrecht University
Zsuzsanna Izsvák
Zsuzsanna Izsvák Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Victor Guryev
Victor Guryev University Medical Center Groningen
Annegien Broeks
Annegien Broeks Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Robert Kaptein
Robert Kaptein Utrecht University
Rolf Boelens
Rolf Boelens Utrecht University

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