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2025
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Biology and Biochemistry
USA
2025

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Best Scientists

D-Index
216
Citations
193885
World Ranking
157
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation

    George D. Yancopoulos;Samuel Davis;Nicholas W. Gale;John S. Rudge

  • Requisite Role of Angiopoietin-1, a Ligand for the TIE2 Receptor, during Embryonic Angiogenesis

    Chitra Suri;Pamela F Jones;Sybill Patan;Sona Bartunkova

  • Identification of Ubiquitin Ligases Required for Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

    Sue C. Bodine;Esther Latres;Susanne Baumhueter;Venus K.-M. Lai

  • Vessel Cooption, Regression, and Growth in Tumors Mediated by Angiopoietins and VEGF

    J. Holash;P. C. Maisonpierre;D. Compton;P. Boland

  • Akt/mTOR pathway is a crucial regulator of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and can prevent muscle atrophy in vivo.

    Sue C. Bodine;Trevor N. Stitt;Michael Gonzalez;William O. Kline

  • Intravitreal aflibercept (VEGF trap-eye) in wet age-related macular degeneration.

    Jeffrey S. Heier;David M. Brown;Victor Chong;Jean Francois Korobelnik

  • Isolation of Angiopoietin-1, a Ligand for the TIE2 Receptor, by Secretion-Trap Expression Cloning

    Samuel Davis;Thomas H Aldrich;Pamela F Jones;Ann Acheson

  • ERKs: A family of protein-serine/threonine kinases that are activated and tyrosine phosphorylated in response to insulin and NGF

    Teri G. Boulton;Steven H. Nye;David J. Robbins;Nancy Y. Ip

  • VEGF-Trap: A VEGF blocker with potent antitumor effects

    Jocelyn Holash;Sam Davis;Nick Papadopoulos;Susan D. Croll

  • Two Phase 3 Trials of Dupilumab versus Placebo in Atopic Dermatitis

    Eric L. Simpson;Thomas Bieber;Emma Guttman-Yassky;Lisa A. Beck

  • Dupilumab Efficacy and Safety in Moderate-to-Severe Uncontrolled Asthma

    Mario Castro;Jonathan Corren;Ian D. Pavord;Jorge Maspero

  • Mediation of IGF-1-induced skeletal myotube hypertrophy by PI(3)K/Akt/mTOR and PI(3)K/Akt/GSK3 pathways

    Christian Rommel;Sue C. Bodine;Brian A. Clarke;Roni Rossman

  • Genomic Instability and Aging-like Phenotype in the Absence of Mammalian SIRT6

    Raul Mostoslavsky;Katrin F. Chua;Katrin F. Chua;David B. Lombard;Wendy W. Pang

  • Regulation of the Germinal Center Response by MicroRNA-155

    To-Ha Thai;Dinis Pedro Calado;Stefano Casola;K. Mark Ansel

  • Leakage-resistant blood vessels in mice transgenically overexpressing angiopoietin-1.

    G. Thurston;C. Suri;K. Smith;J. McClain

  • Neurotrophin-3: a neurotrophic factor related to NGF and BDNF

    Peter C. Maisonpierre;Leonardo Belluscio;Stephen Squinto;Nancy Y. Ip

  • Angiopoietin-1 protects the adult vasculature against plasma leakage.

    Gavin Thurston;John S. Rudge;Ella Ioffe;Hao Zhou

  • NT-3, BDNF, and NGF in the developing rat nervous system: parallel as well as reciprocal patterns of expression.

    Peter C. Maisonpierre;Leonardo Belluscio;Beth Friedman;Ralph F. Alderson

  • REGN-COV2, a Neutralizing Antibody Cocktail, in Outpatients with Covid-19.

    David M Weinreich;Sumathi Sivapalasingam;Thomas Norton;Shazia Ali

  • Dupilumab in persistent asthma with elevated eosinophil levels.

    Sally Wenzel;Linda Ford;David Pearlman;Sheldon Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick W. Alt
Frederick W. Alt Boston Children's Hospital
Nancy Y. Ip
Nancy Y. Ip Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Andrew J. Murphy
Andrew J. Murphy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
David M. Valenzuela
David M. Valenzuela Regeneron (United States)
Nicholas W. Gale
Nicholas W. Gale Regeneron (United States)
T. Keith Blackwell
T. Keith Blackwell Harvard University
Stanley J. Wiegand
Stanley J. Wiegand Regeneron (United States)
David J. Glass
David J. Glass Regeneron (United States)
Donald M. McDonald
Donald M. McDonald University of California, San Francisco
Ronald M. Lindsay
Ronald M. Lindsay Zebra Biologics (United States)

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