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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Gerard I. Evan is affiliated with The Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with significant contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Key subfields include Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Epidemiology, and Surgery.

Their work spans several main topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, RNA modifications and cancer, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, and Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment. Additional areas of study include Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, as well as Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis.

Frequent co-authors in Gerard I. Evan's publications include:

  • Trevor D. Littlewood
  • Charles Swanton
  • Kevin Litchfield
  • Roderik M. Kortlever
  • Thomas B.K. Watkins

They have published in several prominent venues, most notably:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell
  • Nature
  • Cancer Discovery

Among their recent publications are:

  • Embracing cancer complexity: Hallmarks of systemic disease, 2024, Cell
  • Tracking early lung cancer metastatic dissemination in TRACERx using ctDNA, 2023, Nature
  • MYC Instructs and Maintains Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Phenotype, 2020, Cancer Discovery
  • Lipid Remodeling in Hepatocyte Proliferation and Hepatocellular Carcinoma, 2020, Hepatology
  • Reactivation of Myc transcription in the mouse heart unlocks its proliferative capacity, 2020, Nature Communications

Gerard I. Evan has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2004)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis in cancer

    Gerard I. Evan;Karen H. Vousden

  • Induction of apoptosis in fibroblasts by c-myc protein

    Gerard I. Evan;Andrew H. Wyllie;Christopher S. Gilbert;Trevor D. Littlewood

  • Isolation of monoclonal antibodies specific for human c-myc proto-oncogene product.

    G I Evan;G K Lewis;G Ramsay;J M Bishop

  • Induction of c-fos-like protein in spinal cord neurons following sensory stimulation.

    Stephen P. Hunt;Adrian Pini;Gerard Evan

  • A Matter of Life and Cell Death

    Gerard Evan;Trevor Littlewood

  • The combined functions of proapoptotic Bcl-2 family members bak and bax are essential for normal development of multiple tissues.

    Tullia Lindsten;Andrea J. Ross;Ayala King;Wei Xing Zong

  • Intrinsic tumour suppression

    Scott W. Lowe;Enrique Cepero;Gerard Evan

  • Suppression of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by Ras signalling through PI(3)K and PKB

    Andrea Kauffmann-Zeh;Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana;Eugen Ulrich;Christopher Gilbert

  • Apoptosis in development

    Pascal Meier;Andrew Finch;Gerard Evan

  • A matter of life and death

    Douglas R Green;Gerard I Evan

  • Autophagy inhibition enhances therapy-induced apoptosis in a Myc-induced model of lymphoma

    Ravi K. Amaravadi;Duonan Yu;Julian J. Lum;Thi Bui

  • The coordinate release of cytochrome c during apoptosis is rapid, complete and kinetically invariant.

    Joshua C. Goldstein;Joshua C. Goldstein;Nigel J. Waterhouse;Phillipe Juin;Gerard I. Evan

  • Cooperative interaction between c-myc and bcl-2 proto-oncogenes

    Abdallah Fanidi;Elizabeth A. Harrington;Gerard I. Evan

  • A modified oestrogen receptor ligand-binding domain as an improved switch for the regulation of heterologous proteins

    Trevor D. Littlewood;David C. Hancock;Paul S. Danielian;Malcolm G. Parker

  • Induction of apoptosis by the Bcl-2 homologue Bak

    Chittenden T;Harrington Ea;O'Connor R;Flemington C

  • c-Myc-induced apoptosis in fibroblasts is inhibited by specific cytokines.

    E. A. Harrington;M. R. Bennett;Abdallah Fanidi;G. I. Evan

  • Apoptosis of human vascular smooth muscle cells derived from normal vessels and coronary atherosclerotic plaques.

    M R Bennett;G I Evan;S M Schwartz

  • A License to Kill

    Andrew Fraser;Gerard Evan

  • Modeling the Therapeutic Efficacy of p53 Restoration in Tumors

    Carla P. Martins;Lamorna Brown-Swigart;Gerard I. Evan

  • Differential expression of immediate early genes in the hippocampus and spinal cord

    W. Wisden;M.L. Errington;S. Williams;S.B. Dunnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor D. Littlewood
Trevor D. Littlewood University of Cambridge
Andrew G. Fraser
Andrew G. Fraser University of Toronto
Mark J. Arends
Mark J. Arends University of Edinburgh
Martin R. Bennett
Martin R. Bennett University of Cambridge
Julian L. Griffin
Julian L. Griffin University of Aberdeen
John P. Moore
John P. Moore Cornell University
Bruno Amati
Bruno Amati European Institute of Oncology
Hartmut Land
Hartmut Land University of Rochester Medical Center
Douglas Hanahan
Douglas Hanahan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Joan Seoane
Joan Seoane Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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