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375
National Ranking
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Overview

Kurt W. Kohn is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed to research spanning multiple interdisciplinary fields, including medicine, arts and humanities, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research output includes publications in several prominent venues, reflecting a focus on oncology, molecular biology, language and linguistics, literature and literary theory, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

  • Cancer Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cell Reports
  • Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series - Themes in Translation Studies
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Kohn's work covers various topics with notable emphasis on lung cancer research studies and language education in English as a foreign or second language contexts.

  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Multilingual Education and Policy

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kohn include:

  • Note-taking in consecutive interpreting. On the reconstruction of an individualised language, 2021, Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series - Themes in Translation Studies
  • Global Englishes and the pedagogical challenge of developing one's own voice, 2022, Asian Englishes
  • Foreign language teaching from a pedagogical lingua franca perspective, 2020, Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza

Additionally, Kohn has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including Camille Tlemsani, Lőrinc Sándor Pongor, Augustin Luna, Vinodh N. Rajapakse, and Julia Krushkal.

  • Camille Tlemsani
  • Lőrinc Sándor Pongor
  • Augustin Luna
  • Vinodh N. Rajapakse
  • Julia Krushkal

The body of work reflects a balance between biomedical research related to lung cancer and small cell lung cancer genomics and therapeutics, as well as scholarly work in language acquisition and pedagogy. Kohn's contributions appear in contexts ranging from cancer genomics and diagnostics to the challenges of multilingual and English language learning.

Best Publications

  • A gene expression database for the molecular pharmacology of cancer

    Uwe Scherf;Douglas T. Ross;Mark Waltham;Lawrence H. Smith

  • An Information-Intensive Approach to the Molecular Pharmacology of Cancer

    John N. Weinstein;Timothy G. Myers;Patrick M. O'Connor;Stephen H. Friend

  • Characterization of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Pathway in Cell Lines of the National Cancer Institute Anticancer Drug Screen and Correlations with the Growth-Inhibitory Potency of 123 Anticancer Agents

    Patrick M. O'Connor;Joany Jackman;Insoo Bae;Timothy G. Myers

  • Fractionation of DNA from mammalian cells by alkaline elution

    Kurt W. Kohn;Leonard C. Erickson;Regina A. G. Ewig;Charles A. Friedman

  • The Systems Biology Graphical Notation

    Nicolas Le Novere;Michael Hucka;Huaiyu Mi;Stuart Moodie

  • CellMiner: a web-based suite of genomic and pharmacologic tools to explore transcript and drug patterns in the NCI-60 cell line set

    William C. Reinhold;Margot Sunshine;Margot Sunshine;Hongfang Liu;Sudhir Varma

  • X-ray induced DNA double strand break production and repair in mammalian cells as measured by neutral filter elution

    Matthews O. Bradley;Kurt W. Kohn

  • Apoptosis defects and chemotherapy resistance: molecular interaction maps and networks

    Yves Pommier;Olivier Sordet;Smitha Antony;Richard L Hayward

  • Structure-Activity Study of the Actions of Camptothecin Derivatives on Mammalian Topoisomerase I: Evidence for a Specific Receptor Site and a Relation to Antitumor Activity

    Christine Jaxel;Kurt W. Kohn;Mansukh C. Wani;Monroe E. Wall

  • Induction of a common pathway of apoptosis by staurosporine

    Richard Bertrand;Eric Solary;Patrick O'Connor;Kurt W. Kohn

  • Disruption of p53 function sensitizes breast cancer MCF-7 cells to cisplatin and pentoxifylline

    Fan S;Smith Ml;Rivet Dj nd;Duba D

  • The gadd and MyD genes define a novel set of mammalian genes encoding acidic proteins that synergistically suppress cell growth.

    Q Zhan;K A Lord;I Alamo;M C Hollander

  • DNA-protein and DNA interstrand cross-linking by cis- and trans-platinum(II) diamminedichloride in L1210 mouse leukemia cells and relation to cytotoxicity.

    Leonard A. Zwelling;Tom Anderson;Kurt W. Kohn

  • Protein-associated deoxyribonucleic acid strand breaks in L1210 cells treated with the deoxyribonucleic acid intercalating agents 4'-(9-acridinylamino) methanesulfon-m-anisidide and adriamycin.

    Leonard A. Zwelling;Stephen Michaels;Leonard C. Erickson;Richard S. Ungerleider

  • p53 Gene Mutations Are Associated with Decreased Sensitivity of Human Lymphoma Cells to DNA Damaging Agents

    Saijun Fan;Wafik S. El-Deiry;Insoo Bae;Jim Freeman

  • Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 integrase by curcumin

    Abhijit Mazumder;Krishnamachari Raghavan;John Weinstein;Kurt W. Kohn

  • Inhibition of HIV-1 integrase by flavones, caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) and related compounds

    Mark R. Fesen;Yves Pommier;François Leteurtre;Satoshi Hiroguchi

  • DNA sequence- and structure-selective alkylation of guanine N2 in the DNA minor groove by ecteinascidin 743, a potent antitumor compound from the Caribbean tunicate Ecteinascidia turbinata.

    Yves Pommier;Glenda Kohlhagen;Christian Bailly;Michael Waring

  • Role of the p53 tumor suppressor gene in cell cycle arrest and radiosensitivity of Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines

    Patrick M. O'Connor;Joany Jackman;Daniel Jondle;Kishor Bhatia

  • DNA cross-linking and monoadduct repair in nitrosourea-treated human tumour cells

    Leonard C. Erickson;Guy Laurent;Nancy A. Sharkey;Kurt W. Kohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Pommier
Yves Pommier National Institutes of Health
Leonard A. Zwelling
Leonard A. Zwelling The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
William C. Reinhold
William C. Reinhold National Institutes of Health
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Patrick M. O'Connor
Patrick M. O'Connor National Institutes of Health
Mirit I. Aladjem
Mirit I. Aladjem National Institutes of Health
Albert J. Fornace
Albert J. Fornace Georgetown University
Glenda Kohlhagen
Glenda Kohlhagen National Institutes of Health
Giovanni Capranico
Giovanni Capranico University of Bologna
Michael R. Mattern
Michael R. Mattern National Institutes of Health

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