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119
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273
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1974 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jerard Hurwitz was affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research contributed primarily to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional focus on Medicine. Within these areas, Jerard Hurwitz worked on subfields including Epidemiology, Molecular Medicine, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The topics covered in their scientific work included:

  • Urinary Tract Infections Management
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Jerard Hurwitz's publication record featured at least one recent paper published in 2024. This paper, titled "Fosfomycin susceptibility testing and resistance mechanisms in Enterobacterales in South Africa," appeared in the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine.

Frequent collaborators in their research included:

  • Mae Newton-Foot
  • Kristien Nel Van Zyl
  • Pieter Nel

The African Journal of Laboratory Medicine was a recurrent venue for their publications.

Throughout their career, Jerard Hurwitz received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1974
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1968

Jerard Hurwitz passed away, with a legacy rooted in research addressing bacterial resistance mechanisms and clinical biochemistry aspects related to infectious diseases.

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of CDK activation revealed by the structure of a cyclinA-CDK2 complex

    Philip D. Jeffrey;Alicia A. Russo;Kornelia Polyak;Emma Gibbs

  • The formation of 2-keto-3-deoxyheptonic acid in extracts of Escherichia coli B. I. Identification.

    Arthur Weissbach;Arthur Weissbach;Jerard Hurwitz;Jerard Hurwitz

  • Structure of the C-Terminal Region of p21WAF1/CIP1 Complexed with Human PCNA

    Jacqueline M Gulbis;Zvi Kelman;Jerard Hurwitz;Mike O'Donnell;Mike O'Donnell

  • Cell-cycle inhibition by independent CDK and PCNA binding domains in p21Cip1.

    Yan Luo;Jerard Hurwitz;Joan Massagué

  • RNA Helicase A Mediates Association of CBP with RNA Polymerase II

    Toshihiro Nakajima;Chiharu Uchida;Stephen F. Anderson;Chee-Gun Lee

  • Cdk-interacting protein 1 directly binds with proliferating cell nuclear antigen and inhibits DNA replication catalyzed by the DNA polymerase delta holoenzyme

    H. Flores-Rozas;Z. Kelman;F. B. Dean;Zhen-Qiang Pan

  • The role of deoxyribonucleic acid in ribonucleic acid synthesis. III. The inhibition of the enzymatic synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid by actinomycin D and proflavin.

    Jerard Hurwitz;J. J. Furth;M. Malamy;M. Alexander

  • Binding and unwinding—How T antigen engages the SV40 origin of DNA replication

    James A. Borowiec;Frank B. Dean;Peter A. Bullock;Jerard Hurwitz

  • Loading of the human 9-1-1 checkpoint complex onto DNA by the checkpoint clamp loader hRad17-replication factor C complex in vitro

    Vladimir P. Bermudez;Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz;Anthony J. Cesare;Yoshimasa Maniwa

  • Adenovirus DNA replication in vitro: identification of a host factor that stimulates synthesis of the preterminal protein-dCMP complex

    Kyosuke Nagata;Ronald A. Guggenheimer;Takemi Enomoto;Jack H. Lichy

  • Selective Bypass of a Lagging Strand Roadblock by the Eukaryotic Replicative DNA Helicase

    Yu V. Fu;Hasan Yardimci;David T. Long

  • Complete enzymatic synthesis of DNA containing the SV40 origin of replication.

    Y Ishimi;A Claude;P Bullock;J Hurwitz

  • Specific binding of a cellular DNA replication protein to the origin of replication of adenovirus DNA.

    Kyosuke Nagata;Ronald A. Guggenheimer;Jerard Hurwitz

  • Localized Melting and Structural Changes in the SV40 Origin of Replication Induced by T-antigen

    J A Borowiec;J Hurwitz

  • The single minichromosome maintenance protein of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum ΔH contains DNA helicase activity

    Zvi Kelman;Joon-Kyu Lee;Jerard Hurwitz

  • The in vitro replication of DNA containing the SV40 origin.

    Jerard Hurwitz;Frank B. Dean;Ann D. Kwong;Suk Hee Lee

  • Studies on the activator 1 protein complex, an accessory factor for proliferating cell nuclear antigen-dependent DNA polymerase delta.

    Suk-Hee Lee;A. D. Kwong;Zhen-Qiang Pan;J. Hurwitz

  • The role of human single-stranded DNA binding protein and its individual subunits in simian virus 40 DNA replication.

    M K Kenny;U Schlegel;H Furneaux;J Hurwitz

  • Purification and properties of bacteriophage T4-induced RNA ligase.

    Robert Silber;V. G. Malathi;Jerard Hurwitz

  • Clamp loading, unloading and intrinsic stability of the PCNA, beta and gp45 sliding clamps of human, E. coli and T4 replicases.

    Nina Yao;Jennifer Turner;Zvi Kelman;P. Todd Stukenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike O'Donnell
Mike O'Donnell Rockefeller University
Danny Reinberg
Danny Reinberg University of Miami
Kyosuke Nagata
Kyosuke Nagata University of Tsukuba
Sue Wickner
Sue Wickner MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Henry Furneaux
Henry Furneaux University of Connecticut Health Center
Umadas Maitra
Umadas Maitra Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Satya Prakash
Satya Prakash The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Louise Prakash
Louise Prakash The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
David R. Brown
David R. Brown University of Bath

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