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112
Citations
38640
World Ranking
751
National Ranking
302

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For a remarkable number of highly original and important developments in solid and liquid state NMR and their application to the study of lipids, membranes, catalysts, superconductors, and protein folding
  • 1984 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 1977 - Meldola Medal and Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Eric Oldfield is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. The scientist has published extensively in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Parasitology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Pharmacology.

They have contributed to a variety of significant research topics, including:

  • Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Eric Oldfield's recent published papers include:

  • "A polymeric approach toward resistance-resistant antimicrobial agent with dual-selective mechanisms of action," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Phosphoantigens glue butyrophilin 3A1 and 2A1 to activate Vγ9Vδ2 T cells," 2023, Nature
  • "SQ109 inhibits proliferation of Leishmania donovani by disruption of intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, collapsing the mitochondrial electrochemical potential (ΔΨm) and affecting acidocalcisomes," 2020, Parasitology Research
  • "COVID-19 and Other Pandemics: How Might They Be Prevented?," 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • "Terpene Cyclases and Prenyltransferases: Structures and Mechanisms of Action," 2020, ACS Catalysis

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Satish R. Malwal
  • Silvia N.J. Moreno
  • Akanksha M. Pandey
  • Melissa A. Sleda
  • Chun-Chi Chen

Eric Oldfield has published in a number of venues, most notably:

  • ACS Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Immunotherapy Advances
  • Science Advances

The scientist has received several awards, such as:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1993, with a citation for highly original developments in solid and liquid state NMR and their applications
  • ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), 1984
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1978
  • Meldola Medal and Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 1977

Best Publications

  • 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift referencing in biomolecular NMR

    D S Wishart;C G Bigam;J Yao;F Abildgaard

  • Dynamics of lipids in membranes: Heterogeneity and the role of cholesterol.

    Eric Oldfield;D. Chapman

  • The chemical nature of hydrogen bonding in proteins via NMR: J-couplings, chemical shifts, and AIM theory

    William D. Arnold and;Eric Oldfield

  • A Cholesterol Biosynthesis Inhibitor Blocks Staphylococcus aureus Virulence

    Chia I. Liu;Chia I. Liu;George Y. Liu;Yongcheng Song;Fenglin Yin

  • Secondary and tertiary structural effects on protein NMR chemical shifts: an ab initio approach

    AC de Dios;JG Pearson;E Oldfield

  • Spectroscopic Studies of Specifically Deuterium Labeled Membrane Systems. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of the Effects of Cholesterol in Model Systems

    Eric Oldfield;Michael Meadows;David Rice;Russell Jacobs

  • Human Platelet Dense Granules Contain Polyphosphate and Are Similar to Acidocalcisomes of Bacteria and Unicellular Eukaryotes

    Felix A. Ruiz;Christopher R. Lea;Eric Oldfield;Roberto Docampo

  • Terpene Biosynthesis: Modularity Rules

    Eric Oldfield;Fu Yang Lin

  • Bisphosphonates inhibit the growth of Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania donovani, Toxoplasma gondii, and Plasmodium falciparum: a potential route to chemotherapy.

    Michael B. Martin;Joshua S. Grimley;Jared C. Lewis;Huel T. Heath

  • An NMR investigation of CO tolerance in a Pt/Ru fuel cell catalyst.

    YuYe Tong;Hee Soo Kim;Panakkattu K. Babu;Piotr Waszczuk

  • High-resolution silicon-29 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of rock-forming silicates

    Karen Ann Smith;R. James Kirkpatrick;Eric Oldfield;Donald M. Henderson

  • Solid-state spin-echo Fourier transform NMR of 39K and 67Zn salts at high field

    A.C Kunwar;Gary L Turner;Eric Oldfield

  • Molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes in the presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol: a comparative study using 2H-, 13C- and 31p-NMR spectroscopy

    Julio A. Urbina;Sara Pekerar;Hong biao Le;Jessica Patterson

  • HIGH-RESOLUTION OXYGEN-17 NMR OF SOLIDS

    S. Schramm;E. Oldfield

  • Effects of cholesterol and cholesterol derivatives on hydrocarbon chain mobility in lipids

    Eric Oldfield;D. Chapman

  • Multitarget Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis and Other Infectious Diseases

    Kai Li;Lici A. Schurig-Briccio;Xinxin Feng;Ashutosh Upadhyay

  • Prediction of silicon-29 nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts using a group electronegativity approach: applications to silicate and aluminosilicate structures

    Nathan Janes;Eric Oldfield

  • Variable‐angle sample‐spinning high resolution NMR of solids

    Subramanian Ganapathy;Suzanne Schramm;Eric Oldfield

  • UHV, Electrochemical NMR, and Electrochemical Studies of Platinum/Ruthenium Fuel Cell Catalysts

    C. Lu;C. Rice;R. I. Masel;P. K. Babu

  • Boron-11 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of borate and borosilicate minerals and a borosilicate glass

    Gary L Turner;Karen Ann Smith;R.James Kirkpatrick;Eric Oldfield

  • Studies of individual carbon sites of proteins in solution by natural abundance carbon 13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Strategies for assignments.

    Eric Oldfield;R. S. Norton;A. Allerhand

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrzej Wieckowski
Andrzej Wieckowski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ke Wang
Ke Wang Tsinghua University
Roberto Docampo
Roberto Docampo University of Georgia
Tzu-Ping Ko
Tzu-Ping Ko Academia Sinica
Andrew H.-J. Wang
Andrew H.-J. Wang Academia Sinica
Adam Allerhand
Adam Allerhand Indiana University
R. James Kirkpatrick
R. James Kirkpatrick Michigan State University
J. Andrew McCammon
J. Andrew McCammon University of California, San Diego
Silvia N. J. Moreno
Silvia N. J. Moreno University of Georgia
Craig T. Morita
Craig T. Morita University of Iowa

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