1) Maurizi G*, Narendra Verma*, Gadi A, Mansukhani A, Basilico C. Sox2 is required for tumor development and cancer cell proliferation in osteosarcoma. Oncogene. 2018 May 10. doi: 10.1038/s41388-018-0292-2 (Impact factor – 8.75) *equal first author

2) Narendra Verma, Gadi A, Maurizi G, Roy UB, Mansukhani A, Basilico C. Myeloid Zinc Finger 1 and GA Binding Protein Co-operate with Sox2 in Regulating the Expression of Yes-Associated Protein 1 in Cancer Cells. September 2017 STEM CELLS. 2017 Sep 14. doi: 10.1002/stem.2705 first author (Impact factor –6.22)

3) Camilla Bean*, Narendra Verma*, Daniel Ludwig Yamamoto, Francesco Chemello, Vittoria Cenni, Maria Carmela Filomena, Ju Chen, Marie-Louise Bang and Gerolamo Lanfranchi. Ankrd2 is a modulator of NF-kB mediated inflammatory responses in muscle. Cell Death and Disease (NPG) January
2014. doi: 10.1038/cddis.2013.52 (Impact factor – 9.68) *equal first author

4) Rajeev Mishra, Takayoshi Watanabe, Makoto T. Kimura, Maki Ikeda, Shota Uekusa, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Xiaofei Wang, Jun Igarashi, Miki Ohira, Narendra Verma, Carla Grandori, Christopher J. Kemp, Yujin Kobayashi, Jin Takeuchi,Tsugumichi Koshinaga,Norimichi Nemoto, Noboru Fukuda,
Masayoshi, Soma,Takeshi, Kusafuka, Kyoko Fujiwara and Hiroki Nagase Identification of a novel E-box binding PI polyamide inhibiting MYC-driven cell-proliferation Cancer Science, January 2015. doi: 10.1111/cas.12610. 52 (Impact factor – 6.72)

5) Thangaraj K, Nandan A, Sharma V, Sharma VK, Eaaswarkhanth M, Patra PK, SinghS, Rekha S, Dua M, Narendra Verma, Reddy AG, Singh L (2009) Deep rooting in-situ expansion of mtDNA haplogroup R8 in
South Asia. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006545 52 (Impact factor – 2.76)

6) Upal Basu-Roy, Eugenia Han, Kirk Rattanakorn, Abhilash Gadi, Narendra Verma, Giulia Maurizi, Preethi H. Gunaratne, Cristian Coarfa, Oran D. Kennedy, Claudio. Basilico, Michael J. Garabedian and Alka Mansukhani (August; 2016) PPARγ agonists promote differentiation of cancer stem cells by restraining YAP transcriptional activity. Oncotarget (Impact factor – 5.16)

7) Lingyan Xu, Xinran Ma, Narendra Kumar Verma, Dongmei Wang1,2, Oksana Gavrilova4, Richard L. Proia1, Toren Finkel5 , Elisabetta Mueller1,3 Ablation of PPARγ in subcutaneous fat exacerbates age- associated obesity and metabolic decline. Aging cells Second author (Impact factor – 11.00)

8) Wang W, Marinis J M, Beal A M, Savadkar S, Wu Y, Taunk P S, Wu J, Wu N, Ahsan A, Kurz E, Chen T, Yaboh I, Khan M, Li F, Gutierrez J, Diskin B, Hundeyin M, Reilly M, Lich J, Harris P A, Mahajan M, Thorpe J H, Nassau P, Mosley J E, Leinwand J, Kochen Rossi J A, Mishra A, Aykut B, Glocken M, Ochi A, Kim J I, Vasudevaraja V, Adeegbe D, Su W, Verma N, Almonte C, Bagdatlioglu E, Cohen D, Wong K, Bertin J, Miller G.
RIP1 Kinase Drives Macrophage Mediated Adaptive Immune Tolerance in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2018.
(Impact factor – 38.58)

9) Berk Aykut, Smruti Pushalkar, Ruonan Chen, Qianhao Li, Raquel Abengozar, Jacqueline I. Kim, Sorin A. Shadaloey, Dongling Wu, Narendra Verma, Yuqi Guo, Anjana Saxena, Brian Diskin, Wei Wang, Joshua Leinwand, Emma Kurz, Juan A. Kochen Rossi, Mautin Hundeyin, Constantinos Zambrinis, Xin Li, Deepak Saxena, George Miller The Fungal Mycobiome Promotes Pancreatic Oncogenesis via MBL Activation Nature (Impact factor – 69.5)

10) Luce Perie*, Narendra Verma*, Lingyan Xu, Xinran Ma, Elisabetta Mueller
Transcriptional regulation of ZNF638 in thermogenic cells by cAMP response binding element protein in
male mice. Journal of Endocrinology Society *equal first author (2019)

11) Narendra Verma, Luce Perie, Elisabetta Mueller
The mRNA levels of heat shock factor 1 are regulated by thermogenic signals via the cAMPdependent transcription factor ATF3 Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) 2020 (Impact factor – 5.4)

12) Lingyan Xu1,4*, Xinran Ma1,4*, Narendra Verma2

, Luce Perie2, Jay Pendse2,9, Sama Shamloo2, Anne Marie Josephson3 , Dongmei Wang4 , Jin Qiu4 , Mingwei Guo4, Xiaodan Ping4, Michele Allen5, AudreyNoguchi5, Danielle Springer5, Fei Shen6, Caizhi Liu4,7, Shiwei Zhang4, Lingyu Li7, Jin Li8, Junjie Xiao8, Jian Lu6, Zhenyu Du7, Jian Luo4, Jose O. Aleman2,9, Philipp Leucht3
, Elisabetta Mueller1,2#
PPARγ agonists delay age‐associated metabolic disease and extend longevity Aging Cells 2020 (Impact factor – 11.00)

13) Milessa Silva Afonso1,2, Narendra Verma3, Monika Sharma1,2, Coen van Solingen1,2, Luce Perie3, Emma M. Corr1,2, Martin Schlegel1,2, Lianne C. Shanley1,2, Daniel Peled1,2, Jenny Yoo1,2, Elisabetta Mueller3 and Kathryn J Moore1,2
MicroRNA-33 regulates brown fat functionality and adaptive thermogenesis ATVB
2020 (Impact factor - 10.51)

14) Narendra Verma , Luce Perie, Carmen Corciulo, Philipp Leucht, Bhama Ramkhelawon4, Bruce N. Cronstein and Elisabetta Mueller
Browning of adipose tissue and increased thermogenesis induced by Methotrexate FASEB Bioadvances 2021

15) Luce Perie*,Narendra Verma* & Elisabetta Mueller*. Equal first author Journal of Lipid Research
The Forkhead Box Transcription Factor FoxP4 Regulates Thermogenic Programs in Adipocytes
*equal first author (Impact factor=5.92) 2021