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David Gurwitz

David Gurwitz

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12852
World Ranking
13743
National Ranking
135

Overview

David Gurwitz is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has a research portfolio primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, infectious diseases, genetics, neurology, and biological psychiatry.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, with a particular emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, covering clinical research studies, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, tryptophan and brain disorders, long-term effects of COVID-19, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Several recent publications contribute to the understanding of COVID-19 and related biomedical topics. Notable papers include:

  • Angiotensin receptor blockers as tentative SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics, 2020, Drug Development Research
  • Effects of age and sex on recovery from COVID-19: Analysis of 5769 Israeli patients, 2020, Journal of Infection
  • Introducing ADNP and SIRT1 as new partners regulating microtubules and histone methylation, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Ethnic differences in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency allele frequencies may partially explain national differences in COVID-19 fatality rates, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • Smoking and COVID-19: Similar bronchial ACE2 and TMPRSS2 expression and higher TMPRSS4 expression in current versus never smokers, 2020, Drug Development Research

David Gurwitz frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Noam Shomron, Irena Voinsky, Guy Shapira, Ifat Israel-Elgali, and Alessio Squassina.

The scientist's publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Drug Development Research
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • A Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel

    Howard M. Cann;Claudia De Toma;Lucien Cazes;Marie Fernande Legrand

  • Angiotensin receptor blockers as tentative SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics.

    David Gurwitz

  • The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

    Doron M. Behar;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Mait Metspalu;Ene Metspalu

  • Thrombin modulates and reverses neuroblastoma neurite outgrowth

    David Gurwitz;Dennis D. Cunningham

  • Refined Geographic Distribution of the Oriental ALDH2 ∗ 504Lys (nee 487Lys) Variant

    Hui Li;Hui Li;Svetlana Borinskaya;Kimio Yoshimura;Nina Kal'ina

  • Activation of m1 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Regulates τ Phosphorylation in Transfected PC12 Cells

    Einat Sadot;David Gurwitz;Jacob Barg;Leah Behar

  • Reciprocal modulation of astrocyte stellation by thrombin and protease nexin-1.

    Kathleen P. Cavanaugh;David Gurwitz;Dennis D. Cunningham;Ralph A. Bradshaw

  • The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event

    Doron M. Behar;Ene Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Alessandro Achilli

  • Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3β by bivalent zinc ions : insight into the insulin-mimetic action of zinc

    Ronit Ilouz;Oksana Kaidanovich;David Gurwitz;Hagit Eldar-Finkelman

  • The EU-ADR corpus

    Erik M. van Mulligen;Annie Fourrier-Reglat;David Gurwitz;Mariam Molokhia

  • Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora.

    Doron M. Behar;Ene Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Toomas Kivisild;Saharon Rosset

  • Discrete activation of transduction pathways associated with acetylcholine m1 receptor by several muscarinic ligands

    David Gurwitz;Rachel Haring;Eliahu Heldman;Claire M. Fraser

  • Protease nexin-1, an antithrombin with neurite outgrowth activity, is reduced in Alzheimer disease.

    Steven L. Wagner;James W. Geddes;Carl W. Cotman;Alice L. Lau

  • Cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomics in clinical practice: A case study of thiopurine methyltransferase genotyping in acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Europe

    M Elske van den Akker-van Marle;David Gurwitz;Symone B Detmar;Christine M Enzing

  • A global view of the OCA2-HERC2 region and pigmentation

    Michael P. Donnelly;Peristera Paschou;Elena Grigorenko;David Gurwitz

  • From pharmacogenetics to personalized medicine: a vital need for educating health professionals and the community.

    Felix W Frueh;David Gurwitz

  • Effects of age and sex on recovery from COVID-19: Analysis of 5769 Israeli patients.

    Irena Voinsky;Gabriele Baristaite;David Gurwitz

  • MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

    Doron M Behar;Michael F Hammer;Daniel Garrigan;Richard Villems

  • Pharmacogenomics education: International Society of Pharmacogenomics recommendations for medical, pharmaceutical, and health schools deans of education.

    D Gurwitz;J E Lunshof;G Dedoussis;C S Flordellis

  • Ethnicity-Related Polymorphisms and Haplotypes in the Human ABCB1 Gene

    Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty;Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty;Andrew H. Marple;Shiri Shinar;Avraham M. Kimchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Abraham Fisher
Abraham Fisher Israel Institute for Biological Research
Abraham Weizman
Abraham Weizman Tel Aviv University
Mordechai Sokolovsky
Mordechai Sokolovsky Tel Aviv University
Noam Shomron
Noam Shomron Tel Aviv University
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Yoel Kloog
Yoel Kloog Tel Aviv University
Joab Chapman
Joab Chapman Tel Aviv University
Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
Judith R. Kidd
Judith R. Kidd Yale University
Karl Skorecki
Karl Skorecki Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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