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Vania Broccoli 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 Vania Broccoli sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 174 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Vania Broccoli 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 Vania Broccoli sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Vania Broccoli is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Medicine. The scientist's work incorporates several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas with a focus on Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, RNA regulation and disease, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease.

Vania Broccoli has frequently published in the following venues:

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

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Angelo Iannielli, Serena Giannelli, Mirko Luoni, Luca Massimino, and Alessandro Sessa.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Vania Broccoli are:

  • Microglia-specific overexpression of α-synuclein leads to severe dopaminergic neurodegeneration by phagocytic exhaustion and oxidative toxicity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • In vivo CRISPRa decreases seizures and rescues cognitive deficits in a rodent model of epilepsy, 2020, Brain
  • Administration of aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 to K18-hACE2 mice uncouples respiratory infection from fatal neuroinvasion, 2022, Science Immunology
  • Frataxin gene editing rescues Friedreich's ataxia pathology in dorsal root ganglia organoid-derived sensory neurons, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Scn1a gene reactivation after symptom onset rescues pathological phenotypes in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Neurons derived from reprogrammed fibroblasts functionally integrate into the fetal brain and improve symptoms of rats with Parkinson's disease

    Marius Wernig;Jian Ping Zhao;Jan Pruszak;Eva Hedlund

  • Direct generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from mouse and human fibroblasts

    Massimiliano Caiazzo;Maria Teresa Dell’Anno;Elena Dvoretskova;Dejan Lazarevic;Dejan Lazarevic

  • Mapping Wnt/β-catenin signaling during mouse development and in colorectal tumors

    Silvia Maretto;Michelangelo Cordenonsi;Sirio Dupont;Paola Braghetta

  • The meso-angioblast: A multipotent, self-renewing cell that originates from the dorsal aorta and differentiates into most mesodermal tissues

    Maria G. Minasi;Mara Riminucci;Luciana De Angelis;Ugo Borello

  • FOXG1 Is Responsible for the Congenital Variant of Rett Syndrome

    Francesca Ariani;Giuseppe Hayek;Dalila Rondinella;Rosangela Artuso

  • Tbr2 Directs Conversion of Radial Glia into Basal Precursors and Guides Neuronal Amplification by Indirect Neurogenesis in the Developing Neocortex

    Alessandro Sessa;Chai an Mao;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis;William H. Klein

  • Site-specific integration and tailoring of cassette design for sustainable gene transfer.

    Angelo Lombardo;Daniela Cesana;Pietro Genovese;Bruno Di Stefano

  • CDKL5 belongs to the same molecular pathway of MeCP2 and it is responsible for the early-onset seizure variant of Rett syndrome

    Francesca Mari;Sara Azimonti;Ilaria Bertani;Fabrizio Bolognese

  • The caudal limit of Otx2 expression positions the isthmic organizer

    Vania Broccoli;Edoardo Boncinelli;Wolfgang Wurst

  • Axonal degeneration in paraplegin-deficient mice is associated with abnormal mitochondria and impairment of axonal transport

    Fatima Ferreirinha;Angelo Quattrini;Marinella Pirozzi;Valentina Valsecchi

  • Transplantation of genetically corrected human iPSC-derived progenitors in mice with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

    Francesco Saverio Tedesco;Francesco Saverio Tedesco;Mattia F. M. Gerli;Laura Perani;Sara Benedetti

  • Defective neurogenesis in citron kinase knockout mice by altered cytokinesis and massive apoptosis.

    Ferdinando Di Cunto;Sara Imarisio;Emilio Hirsch;Vania Broccoli

  • CDKL5 ensures excitatory synapse stability by reinforcing NGL-1–PSD95 interaction in the postsynaptic compartment and is impaired in patient iPSC-derived neurons

    Sara Ricciardi;Federica Ungaro;Melanie Hambrock;Nils Rademacher

  • The simultaneous loss of Arx and Pax4 genes promotes a somatostatin-producing cell fate specification at the expense of the alpha- and beta-cell lineages in the mouse endocrine pancreas.

    Patrick Collombat;Jacob Hecksher-Sørensen;Vania Broccoli;Jens Krull

  • Emx1 and Emx2 Show Different Patterns of Expression During Proliferation and Differentiation of the Developing Cerebral Cortex in the Mouse

    Massimo Gulisano;Vania Broccoli;Celia Pardini;Edoardo Boncinelli

  • Reduced AKT/mTOR signaling and protein synthesis dysregulation in a Rett syndrome animal model

    Sara Ricciardi;Elena M. Boggio;Stefano Grosso;Giuseppina Lonetti

  • Importance of Shank3 Protein in Regulating Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 (mGluR5) Expression and Signaling at Synapses

    Chiara Verpelli;Elena Dvoretskova;Cinzia Vicidomini;Francesca Rossi

  • c-otx2 is expressed in two different phases of gastrulation and is sensitive to retinoic acid treatment in chick embryo.

    Laure Bally-Cuif;Massimo Gulisano;Vania Broccoli;Edoardo Boncinelli

  • Direct Conversion of Fibroblasts into Functional Astrocytes by Defined Transcription Factors

    Massimiliano Caiazzo;Serena Giannelli;Pierluigi Valente;Gabriele Lignani

  • CDKL5 Expression Is Modulated during Neuronal Development and Its Subcellular Distribution Is Tightly Regulated by the C-terminal Tail

    Laura Rusconi;Lisa Salvatoni;Laura Giudici;Ilaria Bertani

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Cossu
Giulio Cossu University of Manchester
Edoardo Boncinelli
Edoardo Boncinelli Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Fabio Benfenati
Fabio Benfenati Italian Institute of Technology
Stephanie Schorge
Stephanie Schorge University College London
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine
Ahmed Mansouri
Ahmed Mansouri Max Planck Society
Raul R. Gainetdinov
Raul R. Gainetdinov Saint Petersburg State University
Alexander Dityatev
Alexander Dityatev German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dimitri M. Kullmann
Dimitri M. Kullmann University College London

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