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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
31856
World Ranking
14131
National Ranking
5957

Sumit K. Chanda publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sumit K. Chanda sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 143 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sumit K. Chanda 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 Sumit K. Chanda sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 56 D-Index — 28th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sumit K. Chanda is affiliated with the Discovery Institute in the United States and focuses on research primarily within the fields of medicine, immunology and microbiology, and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Their work spans several key subfields including infectious diseases, immunology, molecular biology, epidemiology, and virology.

The scientist's research topics include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, interferon and immune responses, HIV research and treatment, COVID-19 clinical research studies, influenza virus research studies, long-term effects of COVID-19, and computational drug discovery methods.

Recent publications by Sumit K. Chanda include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 Infection Depends on Cellular Heparan Sulfate and ACE2, 2020, Cell
  • Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drugs through large-scale compound repurposing, 2020, Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 hijacks Nup98 to block STAT nuclear import and antagonize interferon signaling, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • MDA5 Governs the Innate Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Lung Epithelial Cells, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Functional landscape of SARS-CoV-2 cellular restriction, 2021, Molecular Cell

Sumit K. Chanda frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Xin Yin, Laura Martin-Sancho, Lars Pache, Adolfo García-Sastre, and Laura Riva.

The primary venues for their publications include:

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

Best Publications

  • Metascape provides a biologist-oriented resource for the analysis of systems-level datasets.

    Yingyao Zhou;Bin Zhou;Lars Pache;Max Chang

  • Global analysis of host-pathogen interactions that regulate early stage HIV-1 replication

    Renate König;Yingyao Zhou;Daniel Elleder;Tracy L. Diamond

  • SARS-CoV-2 Infection Depends on Cellular Heparan Sulfate and ACE2.

    Thomas Mandel Clausen;Thomas Mandel Clausen;Thomas Mandel Clausen;Daniel R. Sandoval;Charlotte B. Spliid;Charlotte B. Spliid;Charlotte B. Spliid;Jessica Pihl;Jessica Pihl;Jessica Pihl

  • Human host factors required for influenza virus replication

    Renate König;Silke Stertz;Yingyao Zhou;Atsushi Inoue

  • Meta- and Orthogonal Integration of Influenza “OMICs” Data Defines a Role for UBR4 in Virus Budding

    Shashank Tripathi;Marie O. Pohl;Yingyao Zhou;Ariel Rodriguez-Frandsen

  • Genome-Wide and Functional Annotation of Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Identifies MULAN, a Mitochondrial E3 that Regulates the Organelle's Dynamics and Signaling

    Wei Li;Mario H. Bengtson;Axel Ulbrich;Akio Matsuda

  • Global landscape of HIV-human protein complexes

    Stefanie Jäger;Peter Cimermancic;Peter Cimermancic;Natali Gulbahce;Natali Gulbahce;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson

  • Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drugs through large-scale compound repurposing.

    Laura Riva;Shuofeng Yuan;Xin Yin;Laura Martin-Sancho

  • Minimizing the risk of reporting false positives in large-scale RNAi screens

    Christophe J Echeverri;Philip A Beachy;Buzz Baum;Michael Boutros

  • Host Cell Factors in HIV Replication: Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Studies

    Frederic D. Bushman;Nirav Malani;Jason Fernandes;Jason Fernandes;Iván D'Orso;Iván D'Orso

  • SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 hijacks Nup98 to block STAT nuclear import and antagonize interferon signaling.

    Lisa Miorin;Thomas Kehrer;Maria Teresa Sanchez-Aparicio;Ke Zhang

  • Hoxa9 and Meis1 are key targets for MLL-ENL-mediated cellular immortalization.

    Bernd B. Zeisig;Tom Milne;María Paz García-Cuéllar;Silke Schreiner

  • A probability-based approach for the analysis of large-scale RNAi screens.

    Renate König;Chih-yuan Chiang;Buu P Tu;S Frank Yan

  • Requirement for Pbx1 in skeletal patterning and programming chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation

    Licia Selleri;Michael J. Depew;Yakop Jacobs;Sumit K. Chanda

  • MDA5 Governs the Innate Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Lung Epithelial Cells.

    Xin Yin;Xin Yin;Laura Riva;Yuan Pu;Laura Martin-Sancho

  • HIV Integration Targeting: A Pathway Involving Transportin-3 and the Nuclear Pore Protein RanBP2

    Karen E. Ocwieja;Troy L. Brady;Keshet Ronen;Alyssa Huegel

  • Telomere-independent Rap1 is an IKK adaptor and regulates NF-kappaB-dependent gene expression.

    Hsiangling Teo;Sourav Ghosh;Hendrik Luesch;Hendrik Luesch;Arkasubhra Ghosh

  • Human Cep192 Is Required for Mitotic Centrosome and Spindle Assembly

    Maria Ana Gomez-Ferreria;Uttama Rath;Daniel W. Buster;Sumit K. Chanda

  • A human MAP kinase interactome

    Sourav Bandyopadhyay;Chih-yuan Chiang;Jyoti Srivastava;Merril Gersten

  • PQBP1 is a Proximal Sensor of the cGAS-dependent Innate Response to HIV-1

    Sunnie M. Yoh;Monika Schneider;Janna Seifried;Stephen Soonthornvacharin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Adolfo García-Sastre
Adolfo García-Sastre Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Ren Sun
Ren Sun University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Benner
Christopher Benner University of California, San Diego
Trey Ideker
Trey Ideker University of California, San Diego
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic D. Bushman University of Pennsylvania
Randy A. Albrecht
Randy A. Albrecht Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Serge Batalov
Serge Batalov Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

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Alan Engelman

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Zeger Debyser

Zeger Debyser

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Yoshihiro Kawaoka

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Norbert Perrimon

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Ren Sun

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Frank Kirchhoff

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