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87
Citations
49210
World Ranking
1188
National Ranking
570

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
  • 1998 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
  • 1994 - Genetics Society of America Medal
  • 1992 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • 1991 - Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
  • 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Leland H. Hartwell is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their recent research includes a publication titled "Correction to: Project honeybee: Clinical applications for wearable biosensors", published in 2020 in the journal Biomedical Microdevices. This work addresses clinical applications of wearable biosensors.

Frequent collaborators in their research work include Heather Ross and Jeffrey T. La Belle.

The primary venue for Hartwell's publications is Biomedical Microdevices.

Hartwell has received several notable awards throughout their career, including the Nobel Prize in 2001 for discoveries related to key regulators of the cell cycle. Other distinctions include the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1998, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1995, the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1994, the Canada Gairdner International Award in 1992, and recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 1992 for genetics and molecular biology. Additionally, they received the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation in 1991 and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Best Publications

  • From molecular to modular cell biology.

    Leland H. Hartwell;John J. Hopfield;Stanislas Leibler;Andrew W. Murray

  • Checkpoints: controls that ensure the order of cell cycle events

    Leland H. Hartwell;Ted A. Weinert

  • Cell cycle control and cancer

    Leland H. Hartwell;Michael B. Kastan

  • The RAD9 Gene Controls the Cell Cycle Response to DNA Damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Ted A. Weinert;Leland H. Hartwell

  • Genetic Control of the Cell Division Cycle in Yeast

    Leland H. Hartwell;Joseph Culotti;John R. Pringle;Brian J. Reid

  • THE CASE FOR EARLY DETECTION

    Ruth Etzioni;Nicole Urban;Scott Ramsey;Martin McIntosh

  • Defects in a cell cycle checkpoint may be responsible for the genomic instability of cancer cells.

    Leland H. Hartwell

  • Mitotic checkpoint genes in budding yeast and the dependence of mitosis on DNA replication and repair.

    Ted A. Weinert;Gretchen L. Kiser;Leland H. Hartwell

  • Coordination of growth with cell division in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    G. C. Johnston;J. R. Pringle;Leland H. Hartwell

  • GENETIC CONTROL OF THE CELL DIVISION CYCLE IN YEAST: V. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF cdc MUTANTS

    Leland H. Hartwell;Robert K. Mortimer;Joseph Culotti;Marilyn Culotti

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle.

    L H Hartwell

  • Macromolecule Synthesis in Temperature-sensitive Mutants of Yeast

    Leland H. Hartwell

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Cycle

    John R. Pringle;Leland H. Hartwell

  • Single-stranded DNA arising at telomeres in cdc13 mutants may constitute a specific signal for the RAD9 checkpoint.

    Barbara Garvik;Michael Carson;Leland Hartwell

  • Drug target validation and identification of secondary drug target effects using DNA microarrays

    Matthew J. Marton;Joseph L. Derisi;Holly A. Bennett;Vishwanath R. Iyer

  • Cell Biology: Principles for the buffering of genetic variation

    J. L. Hartman;B. Garvik;Leland H. Hartwell

  • When Checkpoints Fail

    Amanda G Paulovich;David P Toczyski;Leland H Hartwell;Leland H Hartwell

  • Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast. IV. Genes controlling bud emergence and cytokinesis

    Leland H. Hartwell

  • Unequal division in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its implications for the control of cell division.

    Leland H. Hartwell;Michael W. Unger

  • A checkpoint regulates the rate of progression through S phase in S. cerevisiae in Response to DNA damage

    Amanda G Paulovich;Leland H Hartwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda G. Paulovich
Amanda G. Paulovich Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Douglas Koshland
Douglas Koshland University of California, Berkeley
Stephen H. Friend
Stephen H. Friend Sage Bionetworks
Catherine L. Jackson
Catherine L. Jackson Université Paris Cité
Brian J. Reid
Brian J. Reid Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse The Francis Crick Institute
John R. Pringle
John R. Pringle Stanford University
James B. Konopka
James B. Konopka Stony Brook University
Susan K. Dutcher
Susan K. Dutcher Washington University in St. Louis
Scott D. Ramsey
Scott D. Ramsey Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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