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Virginijus Siksnys

Highly Cited Researcher 2025

Vilnius University

Virginijus Siksnys is a researcher at Vilnius University in Lithuania. His work focuses on CRISPR-Cas systems, restriction-modification enzymes, and molecular mechanisms of genome editing. He has made notable contributions to understanding how Cas9 nucleases recognize and cleave DNA, work that helped establish CRISPR-Cas9 as a programmable gene-editing tool.

Field
Biology · Molecular Biology
Clarivate categories
Cross-Field
Affiliation
Vilnius University, Lithuania