2026 Tony Kouzarides: 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	125	222	202	14	13	223	99856

Tony Kouzarides 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 Tony Kouzarides sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 223 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tony Kouzarides 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 Tony Kouzarides sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Tony Kouzarides is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable emphasis on molecular biology, cancer research, and oncology. Their work spans multiple subfields including computational theory, infectious diseases, and molecular mechanisms related to cancer.

The scientist's major research topics include:

RNA modifications and cancer
Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
RNA research and splicing
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Cancer-related gene regulation
Extracellular vesicles in disease
Computational drug discovery methods

Key recent publications by Tony Kouzarides include:

"Role of RNA modifications in cancer," 2020, published in Nature Reviews. Cancer
"Small-molecule inhibition of METTL3 as a strategy against myeloid leukaemia," 2021, Nature
"RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing," 2021, Nature Communications
"Targeting the m⁶A RNA modification pathway blocks SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV-OC43 replication," 2021, Genes & Development
"Extracellular Vesicles from Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Lead an Intratumor Communication Network (EVNet) to fuel tumour progression," 2022, Gut

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

Andrew J. Bannister
Namshik Han
Isaia Barbieri
Konstantinos Tzelepis
Luca Pandolfini

Publications are often featured in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Molecular Cell
Nature Reviews. Cancer
Nature

Tony Kouzarides has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2012. The scientist is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Chromatin Modifications and Their Function

Tony Kouzarides

12820
Citations
Regulation of chromatin by histone modifications

Andrew J Bannister;Tony Kouzarides

6384
Citations
Selective recognition of methylated lysine 9 on histone H3 by the HP1 chromo domain.

Andrew J. Bannister;Philip Zegerman;Janet F. Partridge;Eric A. Miska

3542
Citations
Cancer epigenetics: from mechanism to therapy.

Mark A. Dawson;Tony Kouzarides

3262
Citations
Active genes are tri-methylated at K4 of histone H3

Helena Santos-Rosa;Robert Schneider;Andrew J. Bannister;Julia Sherriff

2602
Citations
The CBP co-activator is a histone acetyltransferase

Andrew J. Bannister;Tony Kouzarides

2380
Citations
An operational definition of epigenetics

Shelley L. Berger;Tony Kouzarides;Ramin Shiekhattar;Ali Shilatifard

2277
Citations
Analysis of the Protein-Coding Content of the Sequence of Human Cytomegalovirus Strain AD169

M. S. Chee;A. T. Bankier;S. Beck;R. Bohni

1754
Citations
Retinoblastoma protein recruits histone deacetylase to repress transcription

Alexander Brehm;Eric A. Miska;Dennis J. McCance;Dennis J. McCance;Juliet L. Reid

1719
Citations
Inhibition of BET recruitment to chromatin as an effective treatment for MLL-fusion leukaemia

Mark A. Dawson;Rab K. Prinjha;Antje Dittmann;George Giotopoulos

1669
Citations
Acetylation: a regulatory modification to rival phosphorylation?

Tony Kouzarides

1524
Citations
The Methyl-CpG-binding Protein MeCP2 Links DNA Methylation to Histone Methylation

François Fuks;Paul J. Hurd;Daniel Wolf;Xinsheng Nan

1276
Citations
Histone methylation in transcriptional control.

Tony Kouzarides

1202
Citations
DNA methyltransferase Dnmt1 associates with histone deacetylase activity.

François Fuks;Wendy A. Burgers;Alexander Brehm;Luke Hughes-Davies

1184
Citations
Rb targets histone H3 methylation and HP1 to promoters

Soren J. Nielsen;Robert Schneider;Uta-Maria Bauer;Andrew J. Bannister

1145
Citations
New nomenclature for chromatin-modifying enzymes.

C. David Allis;Shelley L. Berger;Jacques Cote;Sharon R Dent

1120
Citations
Human SIR2 deacetylates p53 and antagonizes PML/p53-induced cellular senescence

Emma Langley;Mark Pearson;Mark Pearson;Mario Faretta;Uta Maria Bauer

1120
Citations
Histone deimination antagonizes arginine methylation

Graeme L. Cuthbert;Sylvain Daujat;Andrew W. Snowden;Hediye Erdjument-Bromage

1051
Citations
The role of the leucine zipper in the fos–jun interaction

T. Kouzarides;E. Ziff

1048
Citations
Histone core modifications regulating nucleosome structure and dynamics

Peter Tessarz;Tony Kouzarides

1018
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Bannister University of Cambridge

Mark A. Dawson Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Eric A. Miska University of Cambridge

George S. Vassiliou University of Cambridge

Rab K. Prinjha GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)

Carlos Caldas University of Cambridge

Didier Trouche Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Stephen P. Jackson University of Cambridge

Bart Barrell Wellcome Sanger Institute

Shelley L. Berger University of Pennsylvania

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