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Sarah-Maria Fendt

Sarah-Maria Fendt

D-Index & Metrics

Molecular Biology

D-Index
65
Citations
19152
World Ranking
1655
National Ranking
21

Sarah-Maria Fendt publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sarah-Maria Fendt sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 136 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Sarah-Maria Fendt D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sarah-Maria Fendt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sarah-Maria Fendt is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive research portfolio primarily centered on cancer metabolism and molecular biology. Their work spans several intersecting fields including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

The main fields of study for Sarah-Maria Fendt include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

In terms of subfields, their research covers:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Immunology
  • Physiology

Themes frequently addressed in their research encompass:

  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

The most frequent publication venues for Sarah-Maria Fendt's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cell Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature

Leading collaborators who have co-authored multiple papers with them include:

  • Mélanie Planque
  • Juan Fernández-García
  • Patricia Altea-Manzano
  • Dorien Broekaert
  • Anke Vandekeere

Selected recent publications by Sarah-Maria Fendt are:

  • "Targeting Metabolic Plasticity and Flexibility Dynamics for Cancer Therapy," 2020, Cancer Discovery
  • "The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis," 2021, Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • "Lipid metabolism in cancer: New perspectives and emerging mechanisms," 2021, Developmental Cell
  • "CD36-mediated metabolic adaptation supports regulatory T cell survival and function in tumors," 2020, Nature Immunology
  • "Endothelial Lactate Controls Muscle Regeneration from Ischemia by Inducing M2-like Macrophage Polarization," 2020, Cell Metabolism

Best Publications

  • α-ketoglutarate orchestrates macrophage activation through metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming

    Pu-Ste Liu;Haiping Wang;Xiaoyun Li;Tung Chao

  • Navigating metabolic pathways to enhance antitumour immunity and immunotherapy

    Xiaoyun Li;Mathias Wenes;Pedro Romero;Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang

  • A roadmap for interpreting 13 C metabolite labeling patterns from cells

    Joerg M. Buescher;Maciek R. Antoniewicz;Laszlo G. Boros;Shawn C Burgess

  • The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis.

    Gabriele Bergers;Sarah-Maria Fendt

  • 13 C-based metabolic flux analysis

    Nicola Zamboni;Sarah-Maria Fendt;Martin Rühl;Uwe Sauer

  • The mTORC1 Pathway Stimulates Glutamine Metabolism and Cell Proliferation by Repressing SIRT4

    Alfred Csibi;Sarah-Maria Fendt;Chenggang Li;George Poulogiannis

  • Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

    Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska;Kari Alitalo;Elizabeth Allen;Andrey Anisimov

  • CD36-mediated metabolic adaptation supports regulatory T cell survival and function in tumors

    Haiping Wang;Fabien Franco;Yao Chen Tsui;Xin Xie

  • Fatty acid carbon is essential for dNTP synthesis in endothelial cells

    Sandra Schoors;Ulrike Bruning;Rindert Missiaen;Karla C S Queiroz

  • Evidence for an alternative fatty acid desaturation pathway increasing cancer plasticity

    Kim Vriens;Stefan Christen;Sweta Parik;Dorien Broekaert

  • Reductive glutamine metabolism is a function of the α-ketoglutarate to citrate ratio in cells

    Sarah Maria Fendt;Eric L. Bell;Mark A. Keibler;Benjamin A. Olenchock;Benjamin A. Olenchock;Benjamin A. Olenchock

  • Lipid metabolism in cancer: New perspectives and emerging mechanisms.

    Lindsay A. Broadfield;Antonino Alejandro Pane;Ali Talebi;Johannes V. Swinnen

  • Proline metabolism supports metastasis formation and could be inhibited to selectively target metastasizing cancer cells

    Ilaria Elia;Dorien Broekaert;Stefan Christen;Ruben Boon

  • The role of fatty acid β-oxidation in lymphangiogenesis

    Brian W. Wong;Xingwu Wang;Annalisa Zecchin;Bernard Thienpont

  • Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase to target serine biosynthesis in cancers

    Edouard Mullarky;Edouard Mullarky;Natasha C. Lucki;Reza Beheshti Zavareh;Justin L. Anglin

  • Macrophage Metabolism As Therapeutic Target for Cancer, Atherosclerosis, and Obesity

    Xenia Geeraerts;Evangelia Bolli;Sarah-Maria Fendt;Jo A. Van Ginderachter

  • Endothelial Lactate Controls Muscle Regeneration from Ischemia by Inducing M2-like Macrophage Polarization

    Jing Zhang;Jonathan Muri;Gillian Fitzgerald;Tatiane Gorski

  • The mTORC1/S6K1 Pathway Regulates Glutamine Metabolism through the eIF4B-Dependent Control of c-Myc Translation

    Alfredo Csibi;Gina Lee;Sang-Oh Yoon;Haoxuan Tong

  • Pyruvate Kinase Isoform Expression Alters Nucleotide Synthesis to Impact Cell Proliferation

    Sophia Y. Lunt;Sophia Y. Lunt;Vinayak Muralidhar;Vinayak Muralidhar;Aaron Marc Hosios;William J. Israelsen

  • Breast cancer cells rely on environmental pyruvate to shape the metastatic niche

    Ilaria Elia;Matteo Rossi;Steve Stegen;Dorien Broekaert

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