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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1972 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
  • 1969 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Gerald M. Edelman was affiliated with the Neurosciences Institute in the United States. Their research spanned multiple domains within medicine, focusing extensively on immunology and oncology.

Their work contributed to various fields of study including Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. More specifically, they published in subfields such as Oncology, Immunology, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of their scientific output involved Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Lung Cancer Research Studies, interferon and immune responses, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, and Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Gerald M. Edelman co-authored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Laura Stanbery
  • Lance D. Dworkin
  • John Nemunaitis
  • Susan Morand
  • Daniel J. Craig

Their recent publications focused significantly on cancer and immune response topics. Notable papers included:

  • "TMB: a promising immune-response biomarker, and potential spearhead in advancing targeted therapy trials" (2020, Cancer Gene Therapy)
  • "The Abscopal Effect of Radiation Therapy" (2021, Future Oncology)
  • "Current Ovarian Cancer Maintenance Strategies and Promising New Developments" (2020, Journal of Cancer)
  • "Resident Memory T Cells and Their Effect on Cancer" (2020, Vaccines)
  • "FDA efficiency for approval process of COVID-19 therapeutics" (2020, Infectious Agents and Cancer)

Their work was published across a range of scientific journals, including Cancer Gene Therapy, Future Oncology, Journal of Cancer, Vaccines, and Infectious Agents and Cancer.

Throughout their career, Gerald M. Edelman received several recognitions such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1987, winning the Nobel Prize in 1972 for discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies, and becoming a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969.

Best Publications

  • Neural Darwinism: The Theory Of Neuronal Group Selection

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

    Gerald M. Edelman;Giulio Tononi

  • A measure for brain complexity: relating functional segregation and integration in the nervous system

    Giulio Tononi;Olaf Sporns;Gerald M. Edelman

  • Degeneracy and complexity in biological systems.

    Gerald M. Edelman;Joseph A. Gally

  • Neural cell adhesion molecule: structure, immunoglobulin-like domains, cell surface modulation, and alternative RNA splicing.

    Bruce A. Cunningham;John J. Hemperly;Ben A. Murray;Ellen A. Prediger

  • Cell adhesion molecules

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • Surface modulation in cell recognition and cell growth.

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • THE COVALENT STRUCTURE OF AN ENTIRE γG IMMUNOGLOBULIN MOLECULE

    Gerald M. Edelman;Bruce A. Cunningham;W. Einar Gall;Paul D. Gottlieb

  • The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • Large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems

    Eugene M. Izhikevich;Gerald M. Edelman

  • Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • Cell adhesion molecules: implications for a molecular histology

    Gerald M. Edelman;Kathryn L. Crossin

  • Differential phosphorylation of the gap junction protein connexin43 in junctional communication-competent and -deficient cell lines.

    Linda S. Musil;Bruce A. Cunningham;Gerald M. Edelman;Daniel A. Goodenough

  • Theoretical Neuroanatomy: Relating Anatomical and Functional Connectivity in Graphs and Cortical Connection Matrices

    O. Sporns;G. Tononi;G.M. Edelman

  • Kinetics of homophilic binding by embryonic and adult forms of the neural cell adhesion molecule

    Stanley Hoffman;Gerald M. Edelman

  • Cell Adhesion Molecules in the Regulation of Animal Form and Tissue Pattern

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • The NO hypothesis: possible effects of a short-lived, rapidly diffusible signal in the development and function of the nervous system

    J A Gally;P R Montague;G N Reeke;G M Edelman

  • Measures of degeneracy and redundancy in biological networks

    Giulio Tononi;Olaf Sporns;Gerald M. Edelman

  • Neural darwinism : selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function

    Gerald M. Edelman

  • Darwinian Selection in the Brain@@@Neural Darwinism. The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection.

    Richard E. Michod;Gerald M. Edelman

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Cunningham
Bruce A. Cunningham Scripps Research Institute
Kathryn L. Crossin
Kathryn L. Crossin Scripps Research Institute
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns Indiana University
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
John L. Wang
John L. Wang Michigan State University
Urs Rutishauser
Urs Rutishauser Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jeffrey L. Krichmar
Jeffrey L. Krichmar University of California, Irvine
Martin Grumet
Martin Grumet Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery National University of Singapore
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth University of Sussex

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