2026 Tej K. Pandita: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	73	1270	1132	653	569	244	20693

Tej K. Pandita 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 Tej K. Pandita sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 244 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tej K. Pandita 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 Tej K. Pandita sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 59th percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Tej K. Pandita is affiliated with Houston Methodist in the United States and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Neurology, and Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The main topics of Pandita's work involve DNA Repair Mechanisms, Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Cell death mechanisms and regulation, Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Molecular and Cellular Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), iScience, Oncogene, and Oncotarget.

Notable recent publications by Tej K. Pandita are:

Heat-induced SIRT1-mediated H4K16ac deacetylation impairs resection and SMARCAD1 recruitment to double strand breaks, 2022, iScience
Caspase-2 regulates S-phase cell cycle events to protect from DNA damage accumulation independent of apoptosis, 2021, Oncogene
Esomeprazole enhances the effect of ionizing radiation to improve tumor control, 2021, Oncotarget
Implications of Translesion DNA Synthesis Polymerases on Genomic Stability and Human Health, 2023, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stress Responses as Master Keys to Epigenomic Changes in Transcriptome and Metabolome for Cancer Etiology and Therapeutics, 2021, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Tej K. Pandita has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Raj K. Pandita
Kenneth S. Ramos
Vipin Singh
Krishna Moorthi Bhat
Chandrima Das

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2013.

Best Publications

hSIR2SIRT1 Functions as an NAD-Dependent p53 Deacetylase

Homayoun Vaziri;Scott K. Dessain;Scott K. Dessain;Elinor Ng Eaton;Shin Ichiro Imai

3284
Citations
c-Myc can induce DNA damage, increase reactive oxygen species, and mitigate p53 function: a mechanism for oncogene-induced genetic instability.

Omid Vafa;Mark Wade;Suzanne Kern;Michelle Beeche

1061
Citations
High frequency of hypermethylation at the 14-3-3 σ locus leads to gene silencing in breast cancer

Anne T. Ferguson;Ella Evron;Christopher B. Umbricht;Tej K. Pandita

588
Citations
ATM stabilizes DNA double-strand-break complexes during V(D)J recombination.

Andrea L. Bredemeyer;Girdhar G. Sharma;Ching Yu Huang;Beth A. Helmink

444
Citations
ATM functions at the peroxisome to induce pexophagy in response to ROS

Jiangwei Zhang;Durga Nand Tripathi;Ji Jing;Angela Alexander

421
Citations
Lack of PTEN sequesters CHK1 and initiates genetic instability

Janusz Puc;Megan Keniry;Hong Shen Li;Tej K. Pandita

403
Citations
MOF and Histone H4 Acetylation at Lysine 16 Are Critical for DNA Damage Response and Double-Strand Break Repair

Girdhar G. Sharma;Sairei So;Arun Gupta;Rakesh Kumar;Rakesh Kumar

355
Citations
hTERT associates with human telomeres and enhances genomic stability and DNA repair

Girdhar G Sharma;Girdhar G Sharma;Arun Gupta;Arun Gupta;Huichen Wang;Harry Scherthan

353
Citations
Genomic Instability and Enhanced Radiosensitivity in Hsp70.1- and Hsp70.3-Deficient Mice

Clayton R. Hunt;David J. Dix;Girdhar G. Sharma;Raj K. Pandita

299
Citations
Involvement of human MOF in ATM function

Arun Gupta;Girdhar G. Sharma;Charles S H Young;Manjula Agarwal

286
Citations
Single-stranded DNA-binding protein hSSB1 is critical for genomic stability

Derek J. Richard;Emma Bolderson;Liza Cubeddu;Liza Cubeddu;Ross I. M. Wadsworth

280
Citations
The TIP60 complex regulates bivalent chromatin recognition by 53BP1 through direct H4K20me binding and H2AK15 acetylation

Karine Jacquet;Amélie Fradet-Turcotte;Amélie Fradet-Turcotte;Nikita Avvakumov;Jean-Philippe Lambert

252
Citations
Acetylated hsp70 and KAP1-mediated Vps34 SUMOylation is required for autophagosome creation in autophagy

Yonghua Yang;Warren Fiskus;Bao Yong;Peter Atadja

246
Citations
The Mammalian Ortholog of Drosophila MOF That Acetylates Histone H4 Lysine 16 Is Essential for Embryogenesis and Oncogenesis

Arun Gupta;T. Geraldine Guerin-Peyrou;Girdhar G. Sharma;Changwon Park

244
Citations
Regulation of the hTERT telomerase catalytic subunit by the c-Abl tyrosine kinase.

S. Kharbanda;V. Kumar;S. Dhar;P. Pandey

224
Citations
The catalytic subunit of telomerase is expressed in developing brain neurons and serves a cell survival-promoting function.

Weiming Fu;Michael Killen;Carsten Culmsee;Sonu Dhar

223
Citations
ATM function and telomere stability.

Tej K Pandita

222
Citations
Chromosome end associations, telomeres and telomerase activity in ataxia telangiectasia cells.

Tej K. Pandita;S. Pathak;C. R. Geard

220
Citations
Phosphorylation of Exo1 modulates homologous recombination repair of DNA double-strand breaks.

Emma Bolderson;Nozomi Tomimatsu;Derek J. Richard;Didier Boucher

220
Citations
Fragments of ATM which have dominant-negative or complementing activity.

Susan E. Morgan;Christine Lovly;Tej K. Pandita;Yosef Shiloh

213
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Raj K. Pandita Houston Methodist

Walter N. Hittelman The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Kum Kum Khanna Mater Research

Jerry W. Shay The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Saraswati Sukumar Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Simon N. Powell Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michael B. Kastan Duke University

Thomas Ludwig Columbia University

Eric J. Hall Columbia University

Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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