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Helen H. Hobbs publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen H. Hobbs sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 218 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Helen H. Hobbs D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen H. Hobbs sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 114 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for the discovery of human genetic variants that alter the levels and distribution of cholesterol and other lipids, inspiring new approaches to the prevention of cardiovascular and liver disease.
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Helen H. Hobbs is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine with extensive work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their main subfields of study include epidemiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and oncology. The central topics of their work cover liver disease diagnosis and treatment, lipid metabolism and disorders, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, diet, metabolism and disease, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and cholesterol and lipid metabolism.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Circulation
  • Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Lipid Research

The following papers represent some of Helen H. Hobbs' recent publications:

  • Angiopoietin-like protein 3 governs LDL-cholesterol levels through endothelial lipase-dependent VLDL clearance, 2020, Journal of Lipid Research
  • Hepatic TM6SF2 Is Required for Lipidation of VLDL in a Pre-Golgi Compartment in Mice and Rats, 2021, Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Molecular basis of cholesterol efflux via ABCG subfamily transporters, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ANGPTL8 has both endocrine and autocrine effects on substrate utilization, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Contribution of a genetic risk score to ethnic differences in fatty liver disease, 2022, Liver International

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jonathan C. Cohen
  • Julia Kozlitina
  • Fei Luo
  • Ēriks Šmagris
  • Viktoria Gusarova

Helen H. Hobbs has received various awards throughout their career:

  • Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) for the discovery of human genetic variants that alter the levels and distribution of cholesterol and other lipids, inspiring new approaches to the prevention of cardiovascular and liver disease
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015)
  • Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2013)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007)
  • Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association (2007)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2004)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of hepatic steatosis in an urban population in the United States: Impact of ethnicity

    Jeffrey D. Browning;Lidia S. Szczepaniak;Robert Dobbins;Pamela Nuremberg

  • Sequence Variations in PCSK9, Low LDL, and Protection against Coronary Heart Disease

    Jonathan C. Cohen;Eric Boerwinkle;Thomas H. Mosley;Helen H. Hobbs

  • Identification of Scavenger Receptor SR-BI as a High Density Lipoprotein Receptor

    Susan Acton;Attilio Rigotti;Katherine T. Landschulz;Shangzhe Xu

  • Genetic variation in PNPLA3 confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    Stefano Romeo;Julia Kozlitina;Julia Kozlitina;Chao Xing;Alexander Pertsemlidis

  • Common allele on chromosome 9 associated with coronary heart disease

    Jonathan C. Cohen;Helen H. Hobba

  • Human fatty liver disease: old questions and new insights.

    Jonathan C. Cohen;Jay D. Horton;Helen H. Hobbs

  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure hepatic triglyceride content: prevalence of hepatic steatosis in the general population

    Lidia S. Szczepaniak;Pamela Nurenberg;David Leonard;Jeffrey D Browning

  • Accumulation of Dietary Cholesterol in Sitosterolemia Caused by Mutations in Adjacent ABC Transporters

    Knut E. Berge;Hui Tian;Gregory A. Graf;Liqing Yu

  • Molecular genetics of the LDL receptor gene in familial hypercholesterolemia

    Helen H. Hobbs;Michael S. Brown;Joseph L. Goldstein

  • Low LDL cholesterol in individuals of African descent resulting from frequent nonsense mutations in PCSK9.

    Jonathan Cohen;Alexander Pertsemlidis;Ingrid K Kotowski;Randall Graham

  • Apolipoprotein(a) gene accounts for greater than 90 % of the variation in plasma lipoprotein(a) concentrations

    Eric Boerwinkle;Carla C. Leffert;Jingping Lin;Carolin Lackner

  • Multiple Rare Alleles Contribute to Low Plasma Levels of HDL Cholesterol

    Jonathan C. Cohen;Robert S. Kiss;Alexander Pertsemlidis;Yves L. Marcel

  • Regulation of ATP-binding Cassette Sterol Transporters ABCG5 and ABCG8 by the Liver X Receptors α and β

    Joyce J. Repa;Knut E. Berge;Chris Pomajzl;James A. Richardson

  • Exome-wide association study identifies a TM6SF2 variant that confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Julia Kozlitina;Eriks Smagris;Stefan Stender;Børge G Nordestgaard

  • Binding of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 to Epidermal Growth Factor-like Repeat A of Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor Decreases Receptor Recycling and Increases Degradation

    Da Wei Zhang;Thomas A. Lagace;Rita Garuti;Zhenze Zhao

  • Disruption of Abcg5 and Abcg8 in mice reveals their crucial role in biliary cholesterol secretion

    Liqing Yu;Robert E. Hammer;Jia Li-Hawkins;Klaus von Bergmann

  • The LDL Receptor Locus in Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Mutational Analysis of a Membrane Protein

    Helen H. Hobbs;David W. Russell;Michael S. Brown;Joseph L. Goldstein

  • High-density lipoprotein binding to scavenger receptor-BI activates endothelial nitric oxide synthase

    Ivan S. Yuhanna;Yan Zhu;Blair E. Cox;Lisa D. Hahner

  • Overexpression of ABCG5 and ABCG8 promotes biliary cholesterol secretion and reduces fractional absorption of dietary cholesterol

    Liqing Yu;Jia Li-Hawkins;Robert E. Hammer;Knut E. Berge

  • A common allele on chromosome 9 associated with coronary heart disease

    Ruth McPherson;Alexander Pertsemlidis;Nihan Kavaslar;Alexandre Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Cohen
Jonathan Cohen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jesper Gromada
Jesper Gromada Regeneron (United States)
Robert E. Hammer
Robert E. Hammer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jay D. Horton
Jay D. Horton The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Scott M. Grundy
Scott M. Grundy The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Len A. Pennacchio
Len A. Pennacchio Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen University of Copenhagen
Santica M. Marcovina
Santica M. Marcovina University of Washington
Nick V. Grishin
Nick V. Grishin The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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