Sanjay Kumar

Also affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, National Forensic Sciences University, University of California, San Francisco, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Graduate Theological Union, Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Tata Main Hospital, Bioengineering Center, University of California, Berkeley

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyEngineeringMedicinePhysics and Astronomy

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This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 32 papers. Top paper: “Direct evidence that tumor cells soften when navigating confined spaces”.

Direct evidence that tumor cells soften when navigating confined spaces

Molecular Biology of the Cell(2020)10.1091/mbc.e19-10-0588

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126 citations

Manfred Radmacher, Sanjay Kumar, Carmela Rianna

A mode of cell adhesion and migration facilitated by CD44-dependent microtentacles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.1914294117

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100 citations

Poojan Shukla, Kelsey S. Springer, Stacey Lee, Jason D. Coombes, Carina K Choy +4 more

Clonal ZEB1-Driven Mesenchymal Transition Promotes Targetable Oncologic Antiangiogenic Therapy Resistance

Cancer Research(2020)10.1158/0008-5472.can-19-1305

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61 citations

Arman Jahangiri, William Chen, Alan Nguyen, Garima Yagnik, Matheus P. Pereira +15 more

Cofilin is required for polarization of tension in stress fiber networks during migration

Journal of Cell Science(2020)10.1242/jcs.243873

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21 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Stacey Lee

Incorporating Tumor-Associated Macrophages into Engineered Models of Glioma

iScience(2020)10.1016/j.isci.2020.101770

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39 citations

Manish K. Aghi, Sanjay Kumar, Erin Akins

Getting the big picture of cell-matrix interactions: High-throughput biomaterial platforms and systems-level measurements

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science(2020)10.1016/j.cossms.2020.100871

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4 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Ruoxing Lei

3D Microenvironment-Specific Mechanosensing Regulates Neural Stem Cell Lineage Commitment

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.09.15.460399

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3 citations

Paola A. Lopez, Sangmin Lee, Taek‐Soo Kim, Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer +1 more

Human septins organize as octamer-based filaments and mediate actin-membrane anchoring in cells

The Journal of Cell Biology(2022)10.1083/jcb.202203016

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60 citations

Cyntia Taveneau, Gerard Castro-Linares, Mikhail Baibakov, Nicolas Buzhinsky, Mar Eroles +22 more

Egr1 is a 3D matrix–specific mediator of mechanosensitive stem cell lineage commitment

Science Advances(2022)10.1126/sciadv.abm4646

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49 citations

Paola A. Lopez, Sangmin Lee, Taek‐Soo Kim, Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer +1 more

CRISPR-mediated TGFBR2 knockout renders human ovarian cancer tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes resistant to TGF-β signaling

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2022)10.1136/jitc-2021-003750

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44 citations

Marie‐Andrée Forget, Donastas Sakellariou-Thompson, Yunfei Wang, Tamara Griffiths, Minjung Lee +10 more

Regulation of Tumor Invasion by the Physical Microenvironment: Lessons from Breast and Brain Cancer

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering(2022)10.1146/annurev-bioeng-110220-115419

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37 citations

Kwasi Y. Amofa, Claudia Fischbach, Sanjay Kumar, Garrett F. Beeghly

Caldesmon controls stress fiber force-balance through dynamic cross-linking of myosin II and actin-tropomyosin filaments

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-33688-w

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30 citations

Katarzyna Ciuba, Vivien D. Tran, Reena Kumari, Sari Tojkander, Ulrike Engel +4 more

N-Cadherin adhesive ligation regulates mechanosensitive neural stem cell lineage commitment in 3D matrices

Biomaterials Science(2022)10.1039/d2bm01349e

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11 citations

Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer, Sung Gap Im, Jieung Baek

Human septins in cells organize as octamer-based filaments mediating actin-membrane anchoring

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.02.23.481653

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4 citations

Cyntia Taveneau, Gerard Castro-Linares, Mikhail Baibakov, Nicolas Buzhinsky, Mar Eroles +20 more

Optogenetic Instruction of Cell Fate by Temporal Patterning of Mechanobiological Signals

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.09.14.508003

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Mason Sakamoto, Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer, Rocío Sampayo

Multiomic screening of invasive GBM cells reveals targetable transsulfuration pathway alterations

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2023)10.1172/jci170397

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34 citations

Erin Akins, Saket Jain, Kayla J. Wolf, Jason Zhang, Nikita Choudhary +12 more

A Balance between Inter‐ and Intra‐Microgel Mechanics Governs Stem Cell Viability in Injectable Dynamic Granular Hydrogels

Advanced Materials(2023)10.1002/adma.202304212

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33 citations

Erika A. Ding, Emily M. Carvalho, Sanjay Kumar, Cameron D. Morley

Glioma Cells Secrete Collagen VI to Facilitate Invasion

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.12.12.571198

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6 citations

Erika A. Ding, Emily M. Carvalho, Annabelle Fowler, Manish K. Aghi, Sanjay Kumar +1 more

Effects of Ionic Strength on the Morphology, Scattering, and Mechanical Response of Neurofilament-Derived Protein Brushes

arXiv (Cornell University)(2023)10.48550/arxiv.2310.02463

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Chao Duan, Erika A. Ding, Sanjay Kumar, Rui Wang, Takashi J. Yokokura

Substrate stress relaxation regulates neural stem cell fate commitment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2024)10.1073/pnas.2317711121

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29 citations

Camille Fulmore, David V. Schaffer, Sanjay Kumar, Eric Qiao

Collagen VI deposition primes the glioblastoma microenvironment for invasion through mechanostimulation of β-catenin signaling

PNAS Nexus(2024)10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae355

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21 citations

Erika A. Ding, Emily M. Carvalho, Annabelle Fowler, Manish K. Aghi, Sanjay Kumar +1 more

Viscoelastic High‐Molecular‐Weight Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Support Rapid Glioblastoma Cell Invasion with Leader–Follower Dynamics

Advanced Materials(2024)10.1002/adma.202404885

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21 citations

Erika A. Ding, Atul Saha, Diana Cruz Garcia, Anna Weldy, Peter‐James H. Zushin +4 more

Neurofilament Biophysics: From Structure to Biomechanics

Molecular Biology of the Cell(2024)10.1091/mbc.e23-11-0438

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18 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Erika A. Ding

Dissecting TGF-β-induced glioblastoma invasion with engineered hyaluronic acid hydrogels

APL Bioengineering(2024)10.1063/5.0203213

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12 citations

K. Patterson, Jessica Ortiz, Sanjay Kumar, Kwasi Y. Amofa

Dissecting neurofilament tail sequence-phosphorylation-structure relationships with multicomponent reconstituted protein brushes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2024)10.1073/pnas.2410109121

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3 citations

Takashi J. Yokokura, Rui Wang, Sanjay Kumar, Erika A. Ding

Dynamic light-responsive RhoA activity regulates mechanosensitive stem cell fate decision in 3D matrices

Biomaterials Advances(2024)10.1016/j.bioadv.2024.213836

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2 citations

Sanjay Kumar, David V. Schaffer, Jieung Baek

Viscoelastic high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid hydrogels support rapid glioblastoma cell invasion with leader-follower dynamics

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.04.04.588167

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3 citations

Erika A. Ding, Atul Saha, Anna Weldy, Peter‐James H. Zushin, Andreas Stahl +3 more

Hyaluronic acid-based models of the brain microenvironment: Challenges and advances

Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering(2025)10.1016/j.cobme.2025.100613

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6 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Anna Weldy

An engineered glioblastoma model yields macrophage-secreted drivers of invasion

JCI Insight(2025)10.1172/jci.insight.181903

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4 citations

Dana E. Wilkins, Zaki Abou-Mrad, Kelsey Hopland, Robert C. Osorio, Kenny K.H. Yu +3 more

Frequency-dependent cellular microrheology with pyramidal atomic force microscopy probes

Biophysical Journal(2025)10.1016/j.bpj.2025.10.037

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1 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Erika A. Ding

Frequency-dependent cellular microrheology with pyramidal atomic force microscopy probes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.30.662321

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1 citations

Sanjay Kumar, Erika A. Ding

Bioenergetic responses to β-adrenergic stimulation in beige adipocyte depend on actomyosin driven forces

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.11.26.690550

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Ling Lu, Garrett Dempsey, Nayiri Kalindjian, Z. Verghese, E H Chen +6 more