2026 Dean P. Edwards: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	84	3390	3119	1704	1528	249	20425

Overview

Dean P. Edwards is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology and genetics as primary subfields of study. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to oncology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cell biology.

The main topics of Edwards's work include:

Estrogen and related hormone effects
Advanced biosensing techniques and applications
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research
Nuclear receptors and signaling
Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes
Gene expression and cancer classification

Edwards has published extensively, with key recent papers as follows:

Systemic distribution of progesterone receptor subtypes in human tissues, 2020, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Reverse-Phase Protein Array: Technology, Application, Data Processing, and Integration, 2021, Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT
International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology CXIII: Nuclear Receptor Superfamily-Update 2023, 2023, Pharmacological Reviews
Molecular mechanisms of TWIST1-regulated transcription in EMT and cancer metastasis, 2023, EMBO Reports
High-throughput profiling of histone post-translational modifications and chromatin modifying proteins by reverse phase protein array, 2022, Journal of Proteomics

Frequent co-authors working alongside Edwards include:

Shixia Huang
Sandra L. Grimm
Cristian Coarfa
Kimal Rajapakshe
Derek W. Cain

Their work has appeared in several publication venues with multiple contributions, including:

IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Pharmacological Reviews
EMBO Reports

Best Publications

Progesterone receptor contains a proline-rich motif that directly interacts with SH3 domains and activates c-Src family tyrosine kinases.

Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Margaret Porter Scott;Vered Ribon;Vered Ribon;Lori Sherman

717
Citations
REGULATION OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS BY ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE

Dean P Edwards

660
Citations
Progesterone Receptor Isoform A But Not B Is Expressed in Endometriosis

George R. Attia;Khaled Zeitoun;Dean Edwards;Alan Johns

627
Citations
The Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 Contains Multiple Receptor Interacting and Activation Domains That Cooperatively Enhance the Activation Function 1 (AF1) and AF2 Domains of Steroid Receptors

Sergio A. Onate;Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Thomas E. Spencer;Sophia Y. Tsai

602
Citations
Hormone and antihormone induce distinct conformational changes which are central to steroid receptor activation.

G. F. Allan;X. Leng;S. Y. Tsai;N. L. Weigel

515
Citations
High-Mobility Group Chromatin Proteins 1 and 2 Functionally Interact with Steroid Hormone Receptors To Enhance Their DNA Binding In Vitro and Transcriptional Activity in Mammalian Cells

Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Vida Melvin;Paul Prendergast;Magda Altmann

474
Citations
The opposing transcriptional activities of the two isoforms of the human progesterone receptor are due to differential cofactor binding.

Paloma H. Giangrande;Erin A. Kimbrel;Dean P. Edwards;Donald P. McDonnell

436
Citations
The progesterone antagonist RU486 acquires agonist activity upon stimulation of cAMP signaling pathways.

Candace A. Beck;Nancy L. Weigel;Marissa L. Moyer;Steven K. Nordeen

289
Citations
Progesterone receptor transcription and non-transcription signaling mechanisms.

Susan A. Leonhardt;Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Dean P. Edwards

274
Citations
The role of extranuclear signaling actions of progesterone receptor in mediating progesterone regulation of gene expression and the cell cycle.

Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Eileen McGowan;Lori Sherman;Michael A. Mancini

267
Citations
The DNA-bending protein HMG-1 enhances progesterone receptor binding to its target DNA sequences.

S A Oñate;P Prendergast;J P Wagner;M Nissen

254
Citations
Immunologic analysis of human breast cancer progesterone receptors. 1. Immunoaffinity purification of transformed receptors and production of monoclonal antibodies.

Patricia A. Estes;Eric J. Suba;Janet Lawler-Heavner;Dorraya El-Ashry-Stowers

226
Citations
Transcriptional signature primes human oral mucosa for rapid wound healing.

Ramiro Iglesias-Bartolome;Akihiko Uchiyama;Alfredo A. Molinolo;Alfredo A. Molinolo;Loreto Abusleme

222
Citations
Reduced expression of progesterone receptor-B in the endometrium of women with endometriosis and in cocultures of endometrial cells exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.

Toshio M. Igarashi;Kaylon L. Bruner-Tran;Grant R. Yeaman;Bruce A. Lessey

217
Citations
The biology of progesterone receptor in the normal mammary gland and in breast cancer.

Alison E. Obr;Dean P. Edwards

216
Citations
Human sperm plasma membrane progesterone receptor(s) and the acrosome reaction.

Khalida Sabeur;Dean P. Edwards;Stanley Meizel

216
Citations
Receptor mechanisms mediating non-genomic actions of sex steroids.

Viroj Boonyaratanakornkit;Dean P. Edwards

212
Citations
The role of coactivators and corepressors in the biology and mechanism of action of steroid hormone receptors.

Dean P. Edwards

210
Citations
Distribution of an Estrogen-induced Protein with a Molecular Weight of 24,000 in Normal and Malignant Human Tissues and Cells

Daniel R. Ciocca;David J. Adams;Dean P. Edwards;Robert J. Bjercke

207
Citations
Hormone-dependent interaction between the amino- and carboxyl-terminal domains of progesterone receptor in vitro and in vivo.

Marc J. Tetel;Paloma H. Giangrande;Susan A. Leonhardt;Donald P. McDonnell

206
Citations