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Citations
30003
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977
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534

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1971 - Oswald Avery Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Jonathan W. Uhr was affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the field of microbiology and infectious diseases, as evidenced by several prestigious awards received over multiple decades.

Their recognitions included the Oswald Avery Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1971 and induction as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1984. They were also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1990 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. Later, in 1999, they received the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology.

Details regarding specific research topics, publications, co-authors, or frequent publication venues were not documented in the source data. However, the awards indicate significant contributions to microbiology and infectious diseases, reflecting a career centered on advancing scientific understanding in these areas.

Best Publications

  • Tumor cells circulate in the peripheral blood of all major carcinomas but not in healthy subjects or patients with nonmalignant diseases.

    W. Jeffrey Allard;Jeri Matera;M. Craig Miller;Madeline Repollet

  • Circulating tumor cells in patients with breast cancer dormancy

    Songdong Meng;Debasish Tripathy;Eugene P. Frenkel;Sanjay Shete

  • Detection and characterization of carcinoma cells in the blood

    Emilian Racila;David Euhus;Arthur J. Weiss;Chandra Rao

  • HER-2 gene amplification can be acquired as breast cancer progresses.

    Songdong Meng;Debasish Tripathy;Sanjay Shete;Raheela Ashfaq

  • Increased expression of Ia antigens on resting B cells: an additional role for B-cell growth factor.

    Randolph Noelle;Peter H. Krammer;Junichi Ohara;Jonathan W. Uhr

  • Redesigning nature's poisons to create anti-tumor reagents.

    ES Vitetta;RJ Fulton;RD May;M Till

  • Methods and reagents for the rapid and efficient isolation of circulating cancer cells

    Leon W. M. M. Terstappen;Galla Chandra Rao;Jonathan W. Uhr;Emilian V. Racila

  • Microchip-based immunomagnetic detection of circulating tumor cells

    Kazunori Hoshino;Yu Yen Huang;Nancy Lane;Michael Huebschman

  • Cell surface immunoglobulin. II. Isolation and characterization of immunoglobulin from mouse splenic lymphocytes

    Ellen S. Vitetta;Sonia Baur;Jonathan W. Uhr

  • Immunoglobulin-receptors revisited.

    Ellen S. Vitetta;Jonathan W. Uhr

  • Phase I immunotoxin trial in patients with B-cell lymphoma.

    Ellen S. Vitetta;Marvin Stone;Peter Amlot;Joseph Fay

  • Cytogenetic evidence that circulating epithelial cells in patients with carcinoma are malignant.

    Tanja Fehm;Arthur I Sagalowsky;Edward Clifford;Peter Beitsch

  • Immunotoxins: A new approach to cancer therapy

    Ellen S. Vitetta;Keith A. Krolick;Muneo Miyama-Inaba;William Cushley

  • Controversies in clinical cancer dormancy

    Jonathan W. Uhr;Klaus Pantel

  • Immunotoxins: magic bullets or misguided missiles?

    Ellen S. Vitetta;Philip E. Thorpe;Jonathan W. Uhr

  • Targeting Multiple Her-2 Epitopes with Monoclonal Antibodies Results in Improved Antigrowth Activity of a Human Breast Cancer Cell Line in Vitro and in Vivo

    Camelia I. Spiridon;Maria Ana Ghetie;Jonathan Uhr;Radu Marches

  • ANTIBODY FORMATION

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  • Annexin V staining due to loss of membrane asymmetry can be reversible and precede commitment to apoptotic death.

    Adrienne K. Hammill;Jonathan W. Uhr;Richard H. Scheuermann

  • Cancer dormancy: opportunities for new therapeutic approaches.

    Jonathan W. Uhr;Richard H. Scheuermann;Nancy E. Street;Ellen S. Vitetta

  • Determination of HER2 status using both serum HER2 levels and circulating tumor cells in patients with recurrent breast cancer whose primary tumor was HER2 negative or of unknown HER2 status

    Tanja Fehm;Sven Becker;Silke Duerr-Stoerzer;Karl Sotlar

  • Monitoring expression of HER-2 on circulating epithelial cells in patients with advanced breast cancer.

    D. F. Hayes;T. M. Walker;B. Singh;E. S. Vitetta

  • FETAL RESPONSE TO ANTIGENIC STIMULUS

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen S. Vitetta
Ellen S. Vitetta The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Richard H. Scheuermann
Richard H. Scheuermann J. Craig Venter Institute
Victor Ghetie
Victor Ghetie The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John C. Cambier
John C. Cambier University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Richard G. Cook
Richard G. Cook Baylor College of Medicine
Philip E. Thorpe
Philip E. Thorpe The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Louis J. Picker
Louis J. Picker Oregon Health & Science University
Peter H. Krammer
Peter H. Krammer German Cancer Research Center
Leon W.M.M. Terstappen
Leon W.M.M. Terstappen University of Twente
James A. Richardson
James A. Richardson The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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