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Australia
2026

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Molecular Biology

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Citations
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World Ranking
365
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2021 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - ACM Fellow For his outstanding contributions over many years in inspiring and supporting ACM's volunteers, in serving as ACM's collective conscience and memory, and in uniting the volunteers and the professional staff into a single team working to fulfill ACM's potential.
  • 1992 - Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award For his outstanding contributions over many years in inspiring and supporting ACM's volunteers, in serving as ACM's collective conscience and memory, and in uniting the volunteers and the professional staff into a single team working to fulfill ACM's potential.
  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1986 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

Jerry M. Adams is affiliated with the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, focusing more specifically on Molecular Biology, Hematology, Genetics, Immunology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Cell death mechanisms and regulation, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments.

Recent publications by Jerry M. Adams include:

  • Mis-expression of GATA6 re-programs cell fate during early hematopoiesis, 2024, Cell Reports
  • Acquired mutations in BAX confer resistance to BH3-mimetic therapy in acute myeloid leukemia, 2022, Blood
  • Clonal hematopoiesis, myeloid disorders and BAX-mutated myelopoiesis in patients receiving venetoclax for CLL, 2021, Blood
  • BAX mitochondrial integration is regulated allosterically by its α1−α2 loop, 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Robust autoactivation for apoptosis by BAK but not BAX highlights BAK as an important therapeutic target, 2020, Cell Death and Disease

Frequent publication venues for Jerry M. Adams are:

  • Blood
  • Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Cell Reports

Key co-authors collaborating frequently with Jerry M. Adams include:

  • Michael A. Dengler
  • Leonie Gibson
  • Ella R. Thompson
  • David C.S. Huang
  • Andrew W. Roberts

Throughout their career, Jerry M. Adams has received several distinctions, including:

  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science, 2021
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
  • ACM Fellow, 1994, for contributions in supporting ACM's volunteers and uniting volunteers and professional staff
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1992
  • Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award, 1992, recognizing long-term contributions similar to ACM Fellowship
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1986
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Best Publications

  • The Bcl-2 Protein Family: Arbiters of Cell Survival

    Jerry M. Adams;Suzanne Cory

  • The Bcl2 family: regulators of the cellular life-or-death switch.

    Suzanne Cory;Jerry M. Adams

  • Bcl-2 gene promotes haemopoietic cell survival and cooperates with c-myc to immortalize pre-B cells.

    David L. Vaux;Suzanne Cory;Jerry M. Adams

  • Control of apoptosis by the BCL-2 protein family: implications for physiology and therapy

    Peter E Czabotar;Guillaume Lessene;Andreas Strasser;Jerry M Adams

  • The Bcl-2 apoptotic switch in cancer development and therapy

    J M Adams;S Cory

  • Differential targeting of prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins by their BH3-only ligands allows complementary apoptotic function

    Lin Chen;Simon N. Willis;Andrew Wei;Brian J. Smith

  • The c- myc oncogene driven by immunoglobulin enhancers induces lymphoid malignancy in transgenic mice

    J. M. Adams;A. W. Harris;C. A. Pinkert;L. M. Corcoran

  • The Bcl-2 family: roles in cell survival and oncogenesis.

    Suzanne Cory;David C S Huang;Jerry M Adams

  • Proapoptotic Bcl-2 relative Bim required for certain apoptotic responses, leukocyte homeostasis, and to preclude autoimmunity.

    Philippe Bouillet;Donald Metcalf;David C. S. Huang;David M. Tarlinton

  • p53- and drug-induced apoptotic responses mediated by BH3-only proteins puma and noxa.

    Andreas Villunger;Andreas Villunger;Ewa M. Michalak;Leigh Coultas;Franziska Müllauer

  • Proapoptotic Bak Is Sequestered by Mcl-1 and Bcl-xL, but Not Bcl-2, Until Displaced by BH3-only Proteins

    Simon N. Willis;Lin Chen;Grant Dewson;Andrew Wei

  • Bim: a novel member of the Bcl-2 family that promotes apoptosis

    Liam O'Connor;Andreas Strasser;Lorraine A. O'Reilly;George Hausmann

  • The BH3 mimetic ABT-737 targets selective Bcl-2 proteins and efficiently induces apoptosis via Bak/Bax if Mcl-1 is neutralized.

    Mark F. van Delft;Andrew H. Wei;Kylie D. Mason;Kylie D. Mason;Cassandra J. Vandenberg

  • Apoptosis Initiated When BH3 Ligands Engage Multiple Bcl-2 Homologs, Not Bax or Bak

    Simon N. Willis;Jamie I. Fletcher;Thomas Kaufmann;Mark F. van Delft;Mark F. van Delft

  • Life-or-death decisions by the Bcl-2 protein family

    Jerry M Adams;Suzanne Cory

  • Ways of dying: multiple pathways to apoptosis

    Jerry M. Adams

  • Life in the balance: how BH3-only proteins induce apoptosis

    Simon N Willis;Jerry M Adams

  • Enforced BCL2 expression in B-lymphoid cells prolongs antibody responses and elicits autoimmune disease

    Andreas Strasser;Senga Whittingham;David L. Vaux;Mary L. Bath

  • Tumor Growth Need Not Be Driven by Rare Cancer Stem Cells

    Priscilla N. Kelly;Aleksandar Dakic;Aleksandar Dakic;Jerry M. Adams;Jerry M. Adams;Stephen L. Nutt;Stephen L. Nutt

  • BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes.

    Philippe Bouillet;Jared F. Purton;Dale I. Godfrey;Li-Chen Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne Cory
Suzanne Cory Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Andreas Strasser
Andreas Strasser Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
David C. S. Huang
David C. S. Huang Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Philippe Bouillet
Philippe Bouillet Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Lorraine A. O'Reilly
Lorraine A. O'Reilly Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Peter E. Czabotar
Peter E. Czabotar Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Warren S. Alexander
Warren S. Alexander Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Grant Dewson
Grant Dewson Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Andreas Villunger
Andreas Villunger Innsbruck Medical University
Peter M. Colman
Peter M. Colman Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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