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Biomedicine: Cancer Genomics Still Riding High (cont)
Three of Murray’s colleagues, representing the
University of Washington’s Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation, join him on the list:
Alan D. Lopez, an associate professor at
Washington who’s also affiliated with the University
of Melbourne, contributed to 16 reports, as
did Theo Vos. Meanwhile, Mohsen Naghavi
coauthored 15 Hot Papers.
Rounding out the biomedical Hot Authors is
another new name, Feng Zhang of MIT, one of the
pioneer developers of the CRISPR/Cas method
for genome editing. In recent years, this “find
and replace” method for re-splicing genes has
provoked a steep rise in activity—not to mention
publications, with 290 Web of Science-indexed
papers using the term “CRISPR” in 2013, 670
papers in 2014, and more than 1,000 as of late
December 2015. Fourteen of Zhang’s papers on
CRISPR officially rate as hot.
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Although biomedicine accounts for the majority
of the 19 hot scientists, seven names from the
physical sciences also make the grade.
Most prolific in Hot Papers, and a name that is new
to this annual survey, is Henry J. Snaith of Oxford
University, thanks to 24 recent reports, primarily
on perovskite solar cells.
Perovskite solar cells deliver another scientist to
the listing for the first time: Michael Grätzel, of the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, who
contributed to 19 reports. Gratzel’s colleague at the
Swiss institution, Mohammed Nazeeruddin, was
among the coauthors on 16 of these Hot Papers,
exploring methods of using perovskite to improve
the efficiency of solar cells.
With 19 Hot Papers, David (Xiong Wen) Lou of
Singapore’s Nanyang Technical University (NTU),
earns his inaugural appearance on the list. His
efforts center on the development of lithium
batteries, supercapacitors, and other energyrelated
technologies.
Another NTU researcher returns from the previous
roundup: Hua Zhang, who locks in 16 recent
Hot Papers on various aspects of nanomaterials,
including nanosheets, metal-organic frameworks
and monolayers. Zhang has also published
on methods of self-assembly and self-organization
of compounds used in sensing and in
clean-energy applications.
Two US-based researchers complete the list of
materials scientists. Yang Yang of the University of
California, Los Angeles, with 15 recent Hot Papers
on organic photovoltaics, work that also includes
perovsksite solar cells.
And returning to the list from last year is Stanford
University’s Yi Cui, whose 15 Hot Papers cover
various nanotechological areas, including lithiumion
batteries and the development of catalysts for
use in reactions with hydrogen.
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