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Overview

Ivor J. Benjamin is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as a core subfield.

The scientist's research portfolio includes work in molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, and oncology. Their studies engage with a range of topics, notably COVID-19 clinical research, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and its mitigation, heat shock proteins research, RNA research and splicing, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, blood pressure and hypertension studies, and diversity and career development in medicine.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Redox Biology
  • Antioxidants

Their recent publications demonstrate involvement in contemporary health crises and cardiovascular topics. Notable papers include:

  • "The Role of the American Heart Association in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic," 2020, Circulation
  • "Protecting Medical Trainees on the COVID-19 Frontlines Saves Us All," 2020, Circulation
  • "Opioid Use and Its Relationship to Cardiovascular Disease and Brain Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association," 2021, Circulation
  • "Advancing Healthcare Reform: The American Heart Association's 2020 Statement of Principles for Adequate, Accessible, and Affordable Health Care: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association," 2020, Circulation
  • "2020 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Consensus Conference on Professionalism and Ethics: A Consensus Conference Report," 2021, Circulation

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Shuping Lai, Qiang Dai, Nnamdi Uche, Andrii Puzyrenko, and Paula E. North. These partnerships reflect a network of research activity across multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Diabetes and cardiovascular disease : A statement for healthcare professionals from the American heart association

    Scott M. Grundy;Ivor J. Benjamin;Gregory L. Burke;Alan Chait

  • Stress (Heat Shock) Proteins: Molecular Chaperones in Cardiovascular Biology and Disease

    Ivor J. Benjamin;D. Randy McMillan

  • HSF1 is required for extra-embryonic development, postnatal growth and protection during inflammatory responses in mice

    XianZhong Xiao;XiaoXia Zuo;Alberta A. Davis;D.Randy McMillan

  • Targeted Disruption of Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 Abolishes Thermotolerance and Protection against Heat-inducible Apoptosis

    D. Randy McMillan;Xianzhong Xiao;Lei Shao;Kathy Graves

  • Isoproterenol-induced myocardial fibrosis in relation to myocyte necrosis.

    I J Benjamin;J E Jalil;L B Tan;K Cho

  • Human αB-Crystallin Mutation Causes Oxido-Reductive Stress and Protein Aggregation Cardiomyopathy in Mice

    Namakkal S. Rajasekaran;Patrice Connell;Elisabeth S. Christians;Liang Jun Yan

  • Maternal effect of Hsf1 on reproductive success

    E. Christians;A. A. Davis;A. A. Davis;S. D. Thomas;I. J J. Benjamin

  • Cardioprotective effects of 70-kDa heat shock protein in transgenic mice

    N. B. Radford;M. Fina;I. J. Benjamin;R. W. Moreadith

  • Induction of a heat shock factor 1-dependent stress response alters the cytotoxic activity of hsp90-binding agents.

    Rochelle Bagatell;Gillian D. Paine-Murrieta;Charles W. Taylor;Elizabeth J. Pulcini

  • Heat shock factor 1 and heat shock proteins: critical partners in protection against acute cell injury.

    Elisabeth S. Christians;Liang Jun Yan;Ivor J. Benjamin

  • Mouse heat shock transcription factor 1 deficiency alters cardiac redox homeostasis and increases mitochondrial oxidative damage

    Liang Jun Yan;Elisabeth S. Christians;Li Liu;XianZhong Xiao

  • Small heat shock proteins : a new classification scheme in mammals

    Ryan P Taylor;Ivor J Benjamin

  • Autophagy is an adaptive response in desmin-related cardiomyopathy

    Paul Tannous;Hongxin Zhu;Janet L. Johnstone;John M. Shelton

  • Differential display of DNA-binding proteins reveals heat-shock factor 1 as a circadian transcription factor

    Hans Reinke;Camille Saini;Fabienne Fleury-Olela;Charna Dibner

  • Activation of the heat shock transcription factor by hypoxia in mammalian cells

    I J Benjamin;B Kröger;R S Williams

  • Human heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) protects murine cells from injury during metabolic stress

    R S Williams;J A Thomas;M Fina;Z German

  • Glutathione-dependent reductive stress triggers mitochondrial oxidation and cytotoxicity.

    Huali Zhang;Pattraranee Limphong;Joel Pieper;Qiang Liu

  • Localized recruitment of a chromatin-remodeling activity by an activator in vivo drives transcriptional elongation

    Laura L. Corey;Christine S. Weirich;Christine S. Weirich;Ivor J. Benjamin;Robert E. Kingston

  • Bimoclomol, a heat shock protein co-inducer, acts by the prolonged activation of heat shock factor-1.

    Judit Hargitai;Hannah Lewis;Imre Boros;Tı́mea Rácz

  • Protective responses in the ischemic myocardium

    R. Sanders Williams;R. Sanders Williams;Ivor J. Benjamin

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Shelton
John M. Shelton The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Liang-Jun Yan
Liang-Jun Yan University of North Texas Health Science Center
Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova
Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova University of Dundee
James A. Richardson
James A. Richardson The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jeffrey D. Hasday
Jeffrey D. Hasday University of Maryland, Baltimore
Michael Riedel
Michael Riedel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Robert A. Harrington
Robert A. Harrington Cornell University
Joseph A. Hill
Joseph A. Hill The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Aron M. Geurts
Aron M. Geurts Medical College of Wisconsin
Jay L. Zweier
Jay L. Zweier The Ohio State University

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