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Overview

Martin A. Nowak is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, with a particular focus on evolutionary dynamics, game theory, genetics, and molecular biology.

Nowak has authored a significant number of publications across principal fields of study such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Social Sciences. Their work digs deeply into subfields including Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Infectious Diseases.

Their main research topics encompass Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Notable recent papers by Nowak include the following:

  • Increased stem cell proliferation in atherosclerosis accelerates clonal hematopoiesis (2021, Cell)
  • A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • The Evolutionary Origins of Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer (2020, Cancer Discovery)
  • Evolution of delayed resistance to immunotherapy in a melanoma responder (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)

Nowak frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Christian Hilbe (13 co-authored papers)
  • Krishnendu Chatterjee (11 co-authored papers)
  • Gabriela Lobinska (10 co-authored papers)
  • Josef Tkadlec (9 co-authored papers)
  • Yitzhak Pilpel (9 co-authored papers)

Their work is often published in leading scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications
  • PLoS Computational Biology with 8 publications
  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 7 publications
  • Nature Communications with 6 publications
  • Nature Human Behaviour with 4 publications

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary games and spatial chaos

    Michael A. Nowak;Robert M. May

  • Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

    Xiping Wei;Sajal K. Ghosh;Maria E. Taylor;Victoria A. Johnson

  • Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life

    Martin A. Nowak

  • Evolution of indirect reciprocity.

    Martin A. Nowak;Karl Sigmund;Karl Sigmund

  • Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring

    Martin A. Nowak;Martin A. Nowak;Karl Sigmund

  • Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1

    Xiping Wei;Julie M. Decker;Shuyi Wang;Huxiong Hui

  • Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer

    Shinichi Yachida;Siân Jones;Ivana Bozic;Tibor Antal;Tibor Antal

  • A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks

    Hisashi Ohtsuki;Christoph Hauert;Erez Lieberman;Martin A. Nowak

  • Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy

    Tae-Wook Chun;Lieven Stuyver;Stephanie B. Mizell;Linda A. Ehler

  • The molecular evolution of acquired resistance to targeted EGFR blockade in colorectal cancers

    Luis A. Diaz;Luis A. Diaz;Richard T. Williams;Jian Wu;Jian Wu;Isaac Kinde

  • The evolution of eusociality

    Martin A. Nowak;Corina E. Tarnita;Edward O. Wilson

  • Quantitation of HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and plasma load of viral RNA.

    G. S. Ogg;Xia Jin;S. Bonhoeffer;P. R. Dunbar

  • Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populations

    Martin A. Nowak;Akira Sasaki;Christine Taylor;Christine Taylor;Drew Fudenberg

  • Evolutionary dynamics on graphs

    Erez Lieberman;Erez Lieberman;Christoph Hauert;Christoph Hauert;Martin A. Nowak

  • Population dynamics of immune responses to persistent viruses.

    Martin A. Nowak;Charles R. M. Bangham

  • Late escape from an immunodominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response associated with progression to AIDS.

    P. J. R. Goulder;R. E. Phillips;R. A. Colbert;S. Mcadam

  • Virus dynamics: Mathematical principles of immunology and virology

    Martin A. Nowak;Robert M. May

  • POTENT SUPPRESSION OF HIV-1 REPLICATION IN HUMANS BY T-20, A PEPTIDE INHIBITOR OF GP41-MEDIATED VIRUS ENTRY

    J M Kilby;S Hopkins;T M Venetta;B DiMassimo

  • Tit for tat in heterogeneous populations

    Martin A. Nowak;Karl Sigmund

  • Viral dynamics in hepatitis B virus infection

    Martin A. Nowak;Sebastian Bonhoeffer;Andrew M. Hill;Richard Boehme

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin L. Allen
Benjamin L. Allen University of Southern Queensland
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Karl Sigmund
Karl Sigmund University of Vienna
Krishnendu Chatterjee
Krishnendu Chatterjee Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford
Dominik Wodarz
Dominik Wodarz University of California, Irvine
Yoh Iwasa
Yoh Iwasa Kwansei Gakuin University
Arne Traulsen
Arne Traulsen Max Planck Society
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University

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