1. Miguel. A. Esteban, Mazid M. Abdul, Li Wenjuan, Luo Zhiwei, Carl Ward, Li Yunpan, Lai Yiwei. Media and Methods for Establishing and Maintaining Early Embryo-Like Cells. Patent application country: International patent. Application number: PCT/CN2020/128091. Patent application date: 2020.11.11. Position: 2/7 (under review).
2. Miguel. A. Esteban, Mazid M. Abdul, Li Wenjuan, Luo Zhiwei, Carl Ward, Li Yunpan, Lai Yiwei. Media and methods for establishing and maintaining early embryo-like cells. Patent application country: China. Application Number: 202011256758.3. Patent application date: 2020.11.11. Position: 2/7 (under review).
3. Miguel. A. Esteban, Wenjuan Li, Mazid M. Abdul, Yu Jiang, Yiwei Lai, Zhiwei Luo, Jinxiu Li. Media and Methods for Producing Human Cells and Tissues from Teratoma, Organoids and Embryoid Bodies. Patent application country: International patent. Application number: PCT/CN2022/081499. Patent application date: 2022.10.26. Position: 3/7 (under review).
4. Miguel. A. Esteban, Wenjuan Li, Mazid M. Abdul, Yu Jiang, Yiwei Lai, Zhiwei Luo, Jinxiu Li. Media and methods for generating human cells and tissues from teratomas, organoids, and embryoid bodies. Patent application country: China. Application Number: 202211317527.8. Patent application date: 2022.10.26. Position: 3/7 (under review).
1. National Foreign Expert Individual Project (Class H), 2024-2025
2. Huangpu District High-Level Talent Award, 2022
3. Foreign Young Talents Award, 2022
4. CAS-PIFI Special Foreign Expert, 2021
5. Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) Outstanding Students Award, 2018-2019
6. CAS-TWAS President's PhD Fellowship, 2014
1. Yueli Yang#, Wenqi Jia#, Zhiwei Luo, Yunpan Li, Hao Liu, Lixin Fu, Jinxiu Li, Yu Jiang, Junjian Lai, Haiwei Li, Babangida Jabir Saeed, Yi Zou, Yuan Lv, Liang Wu, Ting Zhou, Yongli Shan, Chuanyu Liu, Yiwei Lai, Longqi Liu, Andrew P. Hutchins, Miguel A. Esteban*, Md. Abdul Mazid*, Wenjuan Li* (2024). VGLL1 cooperates with TEAD4 to control human trophectoderm lineage specification. Nature Communications 15, 583. (Impact Factor = 14.70). #First author, *Corresponding author.
2. Jing Cao#, Wenjuan Li#, Jie Li#, Md. Abdul Mazid#, Chunyang Li#, Yu Jiang#, Wenqi Jia#, Zhaodi Liao, Shiyu Sun, Jiqiang Fu, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, Yuting Xu, Yanhong Nie, Xinyan Bian, Changshan Gao, Xiaotong Zhang, Liansheng Zhang, Yunpan Li, Lixin Fu, Hao Liu, Junjian Lai, Yang Wang, Yue Yuan, Yiwei Lai, Longqi Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Qiang Sun*, Miguel A. Esteban*, Zhen Liu* (2023). Live Birth of Chimeric Macaque Monkey with High Contribution from Homologous Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell 186, 4996–5014. (Impact Factor = 45.50). #First author, *Corresponding author.
3. Md. Abdul Mazid#*, Carl Ward#, Zhiwei Luo#, Chuanyu Liu#, Yunpan Li, Yiwei Lai, Liang Wu, Jinxiu Li, Wenqi Jia, Yu Jiang, Hao Liu, Lixin Fu, Yueli Yang, David P. Ibañez, Junjian Lai, Xiaoyu Wei, Juan An, Pengcheng Guo, Yue Yuan, Qiuting Deng, Yang Wang, Ying Liu, Fei Gao, Junwen Wang, Shahriar Zaman, Baoming Qin, Guangming Wu, Patrick H. Maxwell, Xun Xu, Longqi Liu*, Wenjuan Li*, Miguel A. Esteban* (2022). Rolling back of human pluripotent stem cells to an 8-cell embryo-like stage. Nature 605, 315-324. (Impact Factor = 50.50). #First author, *Corresponding author.
4. Mazid Md. Abdul#, David P. Ibañez, Ping Zhao, Hao Liu, Xiaofen Zhong, Yingying Li, Meng Zhang, Wenjuan Li, Yunpan Li, Carl Ward, Shuhan Chen, Dongye Wang, Baoming Qin, Miguel A. Esteban, Xiwei Wang*, Wenxia Fan*, Zhiwei Luo (2019). Generation of an induced pluripotent stem cell line (GIBHi003-A) from a Parkinson's disease patient with mutant PINK1 (p. I368N). Stem Cell Research, 41. (Impact Factor = 0.8). #First author, *Corresponding author.
5. Jiaowei Wang#, Wenguang Xie#, Nan Li#, Wenjuan Li#, Zhishuai Zhang#, Nana Fan, Zhen Ouyang, Yu Zhao, Chengdan Lai, Hao Li, Mengqi Chen, Longquan Quan, Yunpan Li, Yu Jiang, Wenqi Jia, Lixin Fu, Md. Abdul Mazid, Yanling Zhu, Patrick H. Maxwell, Guangjin Pan*, Miguel A. Esteban*, Zhen Dai*, and Liangxue Lai* (2023). Generation of a Humanized Mesonephros in Pigs from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells via Embryo Complementation. Cell Stem Cell 30(9), 1235-1245. (Impact Factor = 19.80).
6. Isaac A. Babarinde, Gang Ma, Yuhao Li, Boping Deng, Zhiwei Luo, Hao Liu, Mazid Md. Abdul, Carl Ward, Minchun Chen, Xiuling Fu, Liyang Shi, Martha Duttlinger, Jiangping He, Li Sun, Wenjuan Li, Qiang Zhuang, Guoqing Tong, Jon Frampton, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Jiekai Chen, Ralf Jauch, Miguel A. Esteban and Andrew P. Hutchins (2021). Transposable element sequence fragments incorporated into coding and noncoding transcripts modulate the transcriptome of human pluripotent stem cells. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(16). (Impact Factor = 16.60).
7. Li Chen, Qiaoqiao Tong, Xiaowen Chen, Penglei Jiang, Hua Yu, Qianbing Zhao, Lingang Sun, Chao Liu, Bin Gu, Yuping Zheng, Lijiang Fei, Xiao Jiang, Wenjuan Li, Giacomo Volpe, Mazid MD. Abdul, Guoji Guo, Jin Zhang, Pengxu Qian, Qiming Sun, Dante Neculai, Miguel A. Esteban, Chen Li, Feiqiu Wen and Junfeng Ji (2021). PHC1 maintains pluripotency by organizing genome-wide chromatin interactions of the Nanog locus. Nature Communications, 12(1). (Impact Factor = 14.70).
8. Zhang M, Lai Y, Krupalnik V, Zhou J, Guo P, Xu Y, Yu Z, Guo X, Liu L, Li W, Abdul M M, Ma G, Li N, Fu X, Lv Y, Wang L, Tariq M, Luo Z, Zhang H, Huang Y, Qin X, Chen S, Wang D, Ward C, Zhang X, He M, Ibañez DP, Liu H, Li Y, Kanwal S, Zhou J, Feng Y, Di Vicino U, Bao X, Wu G, Schambach A, Wang H, Gao F, Qin B, Hutchins AP, Hartmann C, Cosma MP, Yan Q, Chen R, Volpe G, Hanna JH, and Esteban MA (2020). β-Catenin safeguards the ground state of mouse pluripotency by strengthening the robustness of the transcriptional apparatus. Science Advances, 6(29). (Impact Factor = 11.70).
9. He, J, Fu, X, Zhang, M, He, F, Li, W, Abdul, M. M, Zhou, J, Sun, L, Chang, C, Li, Y, Liu, H, Wu, K, Babarinde, I. A, Zhuang, Q, Loh, Y. H, Chen, J, Esteban, M. A, … Hutchins, A. P. (2019). Transposable elements are regulated by context-specific patterns of chromatin marks in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature Communications, 10(1), 34. (Impact Factor = 14.70).
10. Zhuang Qiang, Li Wenjuan, Benda Christina, Huang Zhijian, Ahmed Tanveer, Liu Ping, Guo Xiangpeng, Ibañez David P, Luo Zhiwei, Zhang Meng, Abdul Mazid Md, Yang Zhongzhou, Yang Jiayin, Huang Yinghua, Zhang Hui, Huang Dehao, Zhou Jianguo, Zhong Xiaofen, Zhu Xihua, Fu Xiuling, Fan Wenxia, Liu Yulin, Xu Yan, Ward Carl, Khan Muhammad Jadoon, Kanwal Shahzina, Mirza Bushra, Tortorella Micky D, Tse Hung-Fat, Chen Jiayu, Qin Baoming, Bao Xichen, Gao Shaorong, Hutchins Andrew P, Esteban Miguel A, (2018). NCoR/SMRT co-repressors cooperate with c-MYC to create an epigenetic barrier to somatic cell reprogramming. Nature Cell Biology, 20, 400-412. (Impact Factor = 17.30).