Researchers’ Journal Article Amongst Top 10 Cited in 2023
By Dirk Hoffman
Published June 28, 2024
A paper by a team of faculty members from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been selected amongst the “Top 10 Cited Papers” of the journal Microorganisms in 2023.
Satish Sharma, MD
The authors of the manuscript titled “Microbial Biofilm: A Review on Formation, Infection, Antibiotic Resistance, Control Measures, and Innovative Treatment,” are from four different departments at the Jacobs School and one has a joint appointment at Roswell Park.
The paper summarizes the complexities of biofilms, their health consequences, and theories behind biofilm composition, development, drug-resistant diseases, and innovative treatment approaches.
Satish Sharma, MD, associate professor of urology at the Jacobs School, is first author on the paper published June 19, 2023.
In a little more than a year, the article has been widely appreciated and as of June 24, 2024, had 20,301 views, over 3,255 downloads, and more than 75 citations.
Co-authors are:
- Ravikumar Aalinkeel, PhD, research associate professor of medicine and urology
- Liana Bruggemann, a fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Supriya D. Mahajan, PhD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
- James Mohler, MD, professor of oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of urology at the Jacobs School
- Stanley A. Schwartz, MD, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor of medicine and pediatrics and chief of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology