2026 Alfred L. George: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	105	6776	6371	3576	3317	456	40486

Overview

Alfred L. George is a researcher affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within the life sciences, with a strong focus on molecular biology, genetics, and medicine.

The scientist's recent research publications cover a variety of topics and venues, including:

"Negligible-Cost and Weekend-Free Chemically Defined Human iPSC Culture" (2020) published in Stem Cell Reports
"Precision medicine for genetic epilepsy on the horizon: Recent advances, present challenges, and suggestions for continued progress" (2022) published in Epilepsia
"A randomized pilot clinical trial of pravastatin versus placebo in pregnant patients at high risk of preeclampsia" (2021) published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Homozygous might be hemizygous: CRISPR/Cas9 editing in iPSCs results in detrimental on-target defects that escape standard quality controls" (2022) published in Stem Cell Reports
"High-throughput evaluation of epilepsy-associated KCNQ2 variants reveals functional and pharmacological heterogeneity" (2022) published in JCI Insight

Their research includes collaboration with several frequent coauthors, notably:

Carlos G. Vanoye
Christopher H. Thompson
Jean-Marc DeKeyser
Charles R. Sanders
Elizabeth M. McNally

Alfred L. George has published extensively in several prominent venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biophysical Journal
eLife
Neurobiology of Disease
Circulation Research

The researcher has contributed to book publications released by Cambridge University Press, with titles such as:

KCNQ2- and KCNQ3-Associated Epilepsy (2022)
How We Got to Where We're Going (2021)

Alfred L. George's main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Their subfields of study cover areas such as:

Molecular Biology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Genetics
Psychiatry and Mental Health

The primary research topics addressed by George include:

Ion channel regulation and function
Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Epilepsy research and treatment

Best Publications

Febrile seizures and generalized epilepsy associated with a mutation in the Na+-channel beta1 subunit gene SCN1B.

Robyn H. Wallace;Dao W. Wang;Rita Singh;Rita Singh;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer

1387
Citations
Mutations in Kir2.1 cause the developmental and episodic electrical phenotypes of Andersen's syndrome

Nikki M. Plaster;Rabi Tawil;Martin Tristani-Firouzi;Sonia Canún

1148
Citations
Molecular mechanism for an inherited cardiac arrhythmia

Paul B. Bennett;Kazuto Yazawa;Naomasa Makita;Alfred L. George

1130
Citations
Primary structure and functional expression of the human cardiac tetrodotoxin-insensitive voltage-dependent sodium channel

Mary E. Gellens;Alfred L. George;Liqiong Chen;Mohamed Chahine

764
Citations
Molecular Basis of Charge Movement in Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Naibo Yang;Alfred L George;Richard Horn

762
Citations
Congenital sick sinus syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A)

D. Woodrow Benson;Dao W. Wang;Macaira Dyment;Timothy K. Knilans

671
Citations
Allelic Variants in Long-QT Disease Genes in Patients With Drug-Associated Torsades de Pointes

Ping Yang;Hideaki Kanki;Benoit Drolet;Tao Yang

660
Citations
Prevalence of Long-QT Syndrome Gene Variants in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Marianne Arnestad;Lia Crotti;Torleiv O. Rognum;Roberto Insolia

634
Citations
A common polymorphism associated with antibiotic-induced cardiac arrhythmia

Federico Sesti;Geoffrey W. Abbott;Jian Wei;Katherine T. Murray

624
Citations
PiggyBac Transposon-Mediated Gene Transfer in Human Cells

Matthew H Wilson;Craig J Coates;Alfred L George

570
Citations
Identification of a mutation in the gene causing hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.

Louis J. Ptáček;Alfred L. George;Robert C. Griggs;Rabi Tawil

481
Citations
Neuronal Sodium-Channel α1-Subunit Mutations in Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus

R.H. Wallace;R.H. Wallace;I.E. Scheffer;S. Barnett;M. Richards

470
Citations
Inherited disorders of voltage-gated sodium channels

Alfred L. George

455
Citations
Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants

Lia Crotti;Christopher N. Johnson;Elisabeth Graf;Gaetano M. De Ferrari

439
Citations
Molecular Basis of an Inherited Epilepsy

Christoph Lossin;Dao W. Wang;Thomas H. Rhodes;Carlos G. Vanoye

423
Citations
Cardiac Ion Channels

Dan M. Roden;Jeffrey R. Balser;Alfred L. George;Mark E. Anderson

417
Citations
Cardiac Sodium Channel (SCN5A) Variants Associated with Atrial Fibrillation

Dawood Darbar;Prince J. Kannankeril;Brian S. Donahue;Gayle Kucera

407
Citations
Sodium Channel Mutations in Paramyotonia Congenita Uncouple Inactivation from Activation

Mohamed Chahine;Alfred L. George;Ming Zhou;Sen Ji

379
Citations
Non-type I cystinuria caused by mutations in SLC7A9, encoding a subunit (bo,+AT) of rBAT.

Lídia Feliubadaló;Mariona Font;Jesús Purroy;Ferran Rousaud

377
Citations
Mutations in Kir2.1 cause the developmental and episodic electrical phenotypes of Andersen's Syndrome

N Plaster;R Tawil;M Tristani-Firouzi;S Canun

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Schwartz Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Dan M. Roden Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Charles R. Sanders Vanderbilt University

Jens Meiler Vanderbilt University

Jennifer A. Kearney Northwestern University

Christoph Fahlke Forschungszentrum Jülich

Walter J. Chazin Vanderbilt University

D. Woodrow Benson Medical College of Wisconsin

Connie R. Bezzina University of Amsterdam

Louis J. Ptáček University of California, San Francisco

External Links

Personal website of Alfred L. George

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