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D-Index
73
Citations
19576
World Ranking
2135
National Ranking
1038

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Leonard Chess was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States during their academic career. Their research primarily spanned the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences, with notable focus on subfields such as Emergency Medical Services and Sociology and Political Science.

Chess contributed to the study of Disaster Response and Management as well as Disaster Management and Resilience, topics which featured prominently throughout their work.

Their publication record includes at least one paper titled 585 Waterfall Schedule and Modified Physician-in-Triage to Reduce Left-Without-Being-Seen Rates, published in 2025 in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Throughout their research career, Leonard Chess frequently collaborated with coauthors including Olivia Xu, M. Elman, and B. Burns.

  • 585 Waterfall Schedule and Modified Physician-in-Triage to Reduce Left-Without-Being-Seen Rates (2025; Annals of Emergency Medicine)

  • Olivia Xu
  • M. Elman
  • B. Burns

  • Annals of Emergency Medicine (1 publication)

  • Health Professions (1 publication)
  • Social Sciences (1 publication)

  • Emergency Medical Services (1 publication)
  • Sociology and Political Science (1 publication)

  • Disaster Response and Management (2 publications)
  • Disaster Management and Resilience (2 publications)

Leonard Chess was recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians, an acknowledgment of participation in the professional community.

Best Publications

  • Tumor necrosis factor/cachectin interacts with endothelial cell receptors to induce release of interleukin 1.

    P P Nawroth;I Bank;D Handley;J Cassimeris

  • The isolation and nucleotide sequence of a cDNA encoding the T cell surface protein T4: a new member of the immunoglobulin gene family

    Paul Jay Maddon;Dan R. Littman;Maurice Godfrey;Douglas E. Maddon

  • Content and organization of the human Ig VH locus: definition of three new VH families and linkage to the Ig CH locus.

    J. E. Berman;S. J. Mellis;R. Pollock;C. L. Smith

  • A functional T3 molecule associated with a novel heterodimer on the surface of immature human thymocytes.

    Ilan Bank;Ronald A. DePinho;Michael B. Brenner;Judy Cassimeris

  • Functional interaction between human T-cell protein CD4 and the major histocompatibility complex HLA-DR antigen

    Paul Maddon;Rafick Sekaly;Mary Anne Talle

  • Identification of a novel surface protein on activated CD4+ T cells that induces contact-dependent B cell differentiation (help).

    Seth Lederman;Michael J. Yellin;Alexander Krichevsky;John Belko

  • The isolation and sequence of the gene encoding T8: A molecule defining functional classes of T lymphocytes

    Dan R. Littman;Yolène Thomas;Paul J. Maddon;Leonard Chess

  • Perturbation of the T4 molecule transmits a negative signal to T cells.

    I Bank;L Chess

  • HUMAN ERYTHROID BURST-FORMING UNIT: T-CELL REQUIREMENT FOR PROLIFERATION IN VITRO*

    D G Nathan;L Chess;D G Hillman;B Clarke

  • Distribution of Ia-like molecules on the surface of normal and leukemic human cells.

    Stuart F. Schlossman;Leonard Chess;Robert E. Humphreys;Jack L. Strominger

  • Functional interactions of T cells with endothelial cells: the role of CD40L-CD40-mediated signals.

    M J Yellin;J Brett;D Baum;A Matsushima

  • Immunologic Functions of Isolated Human Lymphocyte Subpopulations: I. Quantitative Isolation of Human T and B Cells and Response to Mitogens

    Leonard Chess;Richard P. MacDermott;Stuart F. Schlossman

  • Regulation of immune responses by T cells.

    Hong Jiang;Leonard Chess

  • An integrated view of suppressor T cell subsets in immunoregulation

    Hong Jiang;Leonard Chess

  • Plasma-cell dyscrasia and peripheral neuropathy with a monoclonal antibody to peripheral-nerve myelin.

    Norman Latov;William H. Sherman;Raffaello Nemni;Giuliana Galassi

  • Functional analysis of human T cell subsets defined by monoclonal antibodies. I. Collaborative T-T interactions in the immunoregulation of B cell differentiation.

    Y Thomas;J Sosman;O Irigoyen;S M Friedman

  • A single amino acid substitution in a common African allele of the CD4 molecule ablates binding of the monoclonal antibody, OKT4.

    Seth Lederman;Julie A. DeMartino;Bruce L. Daugherty;Ivan Foeldvari

  • 2 å crystal structure of an extracellular fragment of human CD40 ligand

    Michael Karpusas;Yen-Ming Hsu;Jia-huai Wang;Jeff Thompson

  • Functional analysis of human T cell subsets defined by monoclonal antibodies. IV. Induction of suppressor cells within the OKT4+ population.

    Y Thomas;L Rogozinski;O H Irigoyen;S M Friedman

  • Studies on mediator production by highly purified human T and B lymphocytes.

    Ross E. Rocklin;Richard P. MacDermott;Leonard Chess;Stuart F. Schlossman

  • Isolation and immunologic characterization of a human. B-lymphocyte-specific, cell surface antigen.

    R E Humphreys;J M McCune;L Chess;H C Herrman

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart F. Schlossman
Stuart F. Schlossman Harvard University
Richard Axel
Richard Axel Columbia University
Paul J. Maddon
Paul J. Maddon Columbia University
Gideon Goldstein
Gideon Goldstein Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jack L. Strominger
Jack L. Strominger Harvard University
Richard P. MacDermott
Richard P. MacDermott Albany Medical Center Hospital
Dan R. Littman
Dan R. Littman New York University
Daniel M. Knowles
Daniel M. Knowles Cornell University
Frederick W. Alt
Frederick W. Alt Boston Children's Hospital
Giorgio Inghirami
Giorgio Inghirami Cornell University

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