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2026

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D-Index
141
Citations
75229
World Ranking
197
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2019 - Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.
  • 2017 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lewis E. Kay is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their career includes a series of recognitions highlighting contributions to their field over several decades.

The following awards and honors have been received by this scientist:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
  • Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society, 2019
  • Canada Gairdner International Award, 2017
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2010
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2006 (Academy of Science)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

This list indicates recognition by several prestigious scientific institutions spanning national and international communities. The honors reflect sustained engagement with scientific research and contributions extending over multiple decades.

Best Publications

  • Backbone Dynamics of a Free and a Phosphopeptide-Complexed Src Homology 2 Domain Studied by 15N NMR Relaxation

    Neil A. Farrow;Ranjith Muhandiram;Alex U. Singer;Steven M. Pascal

  • Backbone dynamics of proteins as studied by 15N inverse detected heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy: application to staphylococcal nuclease.

    Lewis E. Kay;Dennis A. Torchia;Ad Bax

  • Three-dimensional triple-resonance NMR Spectroscopy of isotopically enriched proteins

    Lewis E Kay;Mitsuhiko Ikura;Rolf Tschudin;Ad Bax

  • Intrinsic dynamics of an enzyme underlies catalysis

    Elan Z. Eisenmesser;Oscar Millet;Wladimir Labeikovsky;Dmitry M. Korzhnev

  • Deviations from the simple two-parameter model-free approach to the interpretation of nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic relaxation of proteins

    G. Marius Clore;Attila Szabo;Ad Bax;Lewis E. Kay

  • Overcoming the overlap problem in the assignment of 1H NMR spectra of larger proteins by use of three-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-15N Hartmann-Hahn-multiple quantum coherence and nuclear Overhauser-multiple quantum coherence spectroscopy: application to interleukin 1 beta

    Dominique Marion;Paul C. Driscoll;Lewis E. Kay;Paul T. Wingfield

  • A novel approach for sequential assignment of proton, carbon-13, and nitrogen-15 spectra of larger proteins: heteronuclear triple-resonance three-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. Application to calmodulin

    Mitsuhiko Ikura;Lewis E. Kay;Ad Bax

  • Backbone dynamics of calmodulin studied by 15N relaxation using inverse detected two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy: the central helix is flexible.

    Gaetano Barbato;Mitsuhiko Ikura;Lewis E. Kay;Richard W. Pastor

  • Gradient-Enhanced Triple-Resonance Three-Dimensional NMR Experiments with Improved Sensitivity

    D.R. Muhandiram;L.E. Kay

  • New Tools Provide New Insights in NMR Studies of Protein Dynamics

    Anthony Mittermaier;Lewis E. Kay

  • α Helix-RNA Major Groove Recognition in an HIV-1 Rev Peptide-RRE RNA Complex

    John L. Battiste;Hongyuan Mao;N. Sambasiva Rao;Ruoying Tan

  • The use of 2H, 13C, 15N multidimensional NMR to study the structure and dynamics of proteins

    Kevin H. Gardner;Lewis E. Kay

  • A Gradient-Enhanced HCCH-TOCSY Experiment for Recording Side-Chain 1H and 13C Correlations in H2O Samples of Proteins

    L. E. Kay;Guang-Yi Xu;A. U. Singer;D. R. Muhandiram

  • Comparison of different modes of two-dimensional reverse-correlation NMR for the study of proteins

    Ad Bax;Mitsuhiko Ikura;Lewis E Kay;Dennis A Torchia

  • Cross-Correlated Relaxation Enhanced 1H−13C NMR Spectroscopy of Methyl Groups in Very High Molecular Weight Proteins and Protein Complexes

    Vitali Tugarinov;Peter M Hwang;Jason E Ollerenshaw;Lewis E Kay

  • Three-dimensional heteronuclear NMR of nitrogen-15 labeled proteins

    Dominique Marion;Lewis E. Kay;Steven W. Sparks;Dennis A. Torchia

  • Spectral density function mapping using 15N relaxation data exclusively

    Neil A. Farrow;Ouwen Zhang;Attila Szabo;Dennis A. Torchia

  • Quantitative dynamics and binding studies of the 20S proteasome by NMR

    Remco Sprangers;Lewis E Kay

  • Pulse sequences for removal of the effects of cross correlation between dipolar and chemical-shift anisotropy relaxation mechanisms on the measurement of heteronuclear T1 and T2 values in proteins

    Lewis E Kay;Linda K Nicholson;F Delaglio;A Bax

  • Methods for Measurement of Intermolecular NOEs by Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy: Application to a Bacteriophage λ N-Peptide/boxB RNA Complex

    Catherine Zwahlen;Pascale Legault;Sébastien J. F. Vincent;Jack Greenblatt

  • A Suite of Triple Resonance NMR Experiments for the Backbone Assignment of 15N, 13C, 2H Labeled Proteins with High Sensitivity

    Toshio Yamazaki;Weontae Lee;Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;D. R. Muhandiram

  • A Novel Approach for Sequential Assignment of 1H, 13C, and 15N Spectra of Larger Proteins: Heteronuclear Triple-Resonance Three-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy. Application to Calmodulin

    Mitsuhiko Ikura;Lewis E. Kay;Ad Bax

Frequent Co-Authors

Julie D. Forman-Kay
Julie D. Forman-Kay University of Toronto
Ad Bax
Ad Bax National Institutes of Health
John L. Rubinstein
John L. Rubinstein University of Toronto
Mitsuhiko Ikura
Mitsuhiko Ikura Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Tony Pawson
Tony Pawson University of Toronto
Kevin H. Gardner
Kevin H. Gardner City University of New York
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith Structural Genomics Consortium
Andrew J. Baldwin
Andrew J. Baldwin University of Oxford
Dennis A. Torchia
Dennis A. Torchia National Institutes of Health
Michele Vendruscolo
Michele Vendruscolo University of Cambridge

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