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Citations
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460
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John W. Daly was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas within medicine and health professions, with a focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, periodontics, oncology, and surgery.

Their work encompassed several key topics, including:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Dental Health and Care Utilization
  • Oral Microbiology and Periodontitis Research
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Diverticular Disease and Complications

Among the recent papers were:

  • "Anaesthesia and non-obstetric surgery in pregnancy," 2021, published in BJA Education
  • "Prognostic Indices for Advance Care Planning in Primary Care: A Scoping Review," 2020, in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • "Anxiety-Related Issues in Cancer Survivorship," 2020, in Journal of patient-centered research and reviews
  • "Predicting Dental Caries in Young Children in Primary Health Care Settings," 2023, published in Journal of Dental Research
  • "Comparative Performance of Common Fecal Immunochemical Tests," 2024, in Annals of Internal Medicine

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Barcey T. Levy
  • Megan Schmidt
  • Yinghui Xu
  • Peter Kim
  • Seth D. Crockett

The National Institutes of Health researcher frequently published in venues such as:

  • The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
  • Journal of Palliative Care
  • BJA Education
  • Journal of Dental Research

Throughout their career, John W. Daly received several notable recognitions, including:

  • Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2002
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1984

Best Publications

  • Forskolin: unique diterpene activator of adenylate cyclase in membranes and in intact cells.

    Kenneth B. Seamon;William Padgett;John W. Daly

  • Arene oxides: a new aspect of drug metabolism.

    D. M. Jerina;J. W. Daly

  • Adenosine receptors and behavioral actions of methylxanthines

    Solomon H. Snyder;Jefferson J. Katims;Zoltan Annau;Robert F. Bruns

  • Adenosine receptors: targets for future drugs.

    John W. Daly

  • Alkaloids from amphibian skin: a tabulation of over eight-hundred compounds.

    John W. Daly;Thomas F. Spande;H. Martin Garraffo

  • Arene oxides and the NIH shift: the metabolism, toxicity and carcinogenicity of aromatic compounds.

    J. W. Daly;D. M. Jerina;B. Witkop

  • Epibatidine: a novel (chloropyridyl)azabicycloheptane with potent analgesic activity from an ecuadoran poison frog

    Thomas F. Spande;Hugo Martin Garraffo;Michael W. Edwards;Herman J. C. Yeh

  • Adenosine receptors in brain membranes: binding of N6-cyclohexyl[3H]adenosine and 1,3-diethyl-8-[3H]phenylxanthine

    Robert F. Bruns;John W. Daly;Solomon H. Snyder

  • Adenosine receptors in the central nervous system: relationship to the central actions of methylxanthines

    John W. Daly;John W. Daly;Robert F. Bruns;Robert F. Bruns;S.H. Snyder;S.H. Snyder

  • Hydroxylation-Induced Migration: The NIH Shift Recent experiments reveal an unexpected and general result of enzymatic hydroxylation of aromatic compounds

    Gordon Guroff;Jean Renson;Sidney Udenfriend;John W. Daly

  • A radioisotopic method for measuring the formation of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate in incubated slices of brain.

    H. Shimizu;J. W. Daly;C. R. Creveling

  • Subclasses of adenosine receptors in the central nervous system: interaction with caffeine and related methylxanthines.

    John W. Daly;Pamela Butts-Lamb;William Padgett

  • 1,2-naphthalene oxide as an intermediate in the microsomal hydroxylation of naphthalene.

    Donald M. Jerina;John W. Daly;Bernhard Witkop;P. Zaltzman-Nirenberg

  • A radiometric assay for hepatic epoxide hydrase activity with [7-3H] styrene oxide☆

    F. Oesch;D.M. Jerina;J. Daly

  • Further classification of skin alkaloids from neotropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae), with a general survey of toxic/noxious substances in the amphibia

    JW Daly;CW Myers;N Whittaker

  • A Rapid Spectrophotometric Assay of Monoamine Oxidase Based on the Rate of Disappearance of Kynuramine

    Herbert Weissbach;Thomas E. Smith;John W. Daly;Bernhard Witkop

  • Alkylxanthines: inhibition of adenosine-elicited accumulation of cyclic AMP in brain slices and of brain phosphodiesterase activity.

    F.W. Smellie;C.W. Davis;J.W. Daly;J.N. Wells

  • Hepatic epoxide hydrase. Structure-activity relationships for substrates and inhibitors.

    F. Oesch;N. Kaubisch;D. M. Jerina;J. W. Daly

  • Cyclic nucleotides in the nervous system

    John W. Daly

  • Forskolin, cyclic AMP and cellular physiology

    Kenneth B. Seamon;John W. Daly

  • The chemistry of poisons in amphibian skin

    John W. Daly

  • Thirty Years of Discovering Arthropod Alkaloids in Amphibian Skin

    John William Daly

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Witkop
Bernhard Witkop National Institutes of Health
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Kenneth A. Jacobson National Institutes of Health
Donald M. Jerina
Donald M. Jerina National Institutes of Health
Kenneth L. Kirk
Kenneth L. Kirk National Institutes of Health
Edson X. Albuquerque
Edson X. Albuquerque University of Maryland, Baltimore
Phil Skolnick
Phil Skolnick Opiant Pharmaceuticals
Sidney Udenfriend
Sidney Udenfriend Roche Institute of Molecular Biology
Gordon Guroff
Gordon Guroff National Institutes of Health
Isabella L. Karle
Isabella L. Karle United States Naval Research Laboratory
Franz Oesch
Franz Oesch Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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