2026 Mitchell Goldfarb: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	64	1707	1531	862	760	111	22104

Overview

Mitchell Goldfarb is affiliated with Hunter College in the United States and specializes in research within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses a range of interconnected topics including:

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Ion channel regulation and function
Fibroblast Growth Factor Research
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Ion Channels and Receptors
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Goldfarb has published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Epilepsia
Circulation Research
The Journal of Physiology

Notable recent papers include:

"Fibroblast growth factor homologous factors: canonical and non-canonical mechanisms of action" (2024, The Journal of Physiology)
"Missense variants in the N-terminal domain of the A isoform of FHF2/FGF13 cause an X-linked developmental and epileptic encephalopathy" (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
"Early onset epilepsy and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy with cardiac arrhythmia in mice carrying the early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 47 gain-of-function FHF1(FGF12) missense mutation" (2021, Epilepsia)
"Ionic Mechanisms of Impulse Propagation Failure in the FHF2-Deficient Heart" (2020, Circulation Research)
"Enhanced sodium channel inactivation by temperature and FHF2 deficiency blocks heat nociception" (2022, Pain)

Goldfarb collaborates frequently with other researchers in related fields. Notable coauthors include:

Christopher Marra
Akshay Shekhar
David Park
Glenn I. Fishman
Vasilisa Iatckova

Best Publications

Receptor specificity of the fibroblast growth factor family.

David M. Ornitz;Jingsong Xu;Jennifer S. Colvin;Donald G. McEwen

2105
Citations
Ligands for EPH-related receptor tyrosine kinases that require membrane attachment or clustering for activity.

Samuel Davis;Nicholas W. Gale;Thomas H. Aldrich;Peter C. Maisonpierre

950
Citations
Requirement of FGF-4 for postimplantation mouse development

Benjamin Feldman;William Poueymirou;Virginia E. Papaioannou;Thomas M. DeChiara

938
Citations
Initiation of Mammalian Liver Development from Endoderm by Fibroblast Growth Factors

Joonil Jung;Minghua Zheng;Mitchell Goldfarb;Kenneth S. Zaret

920
Citations
The anticoagulation factor protein S and its relative, Gas6, are ligands for the Tyro 3/Axl family of receptor tyrosine kinases

Trevor N Stitt;Greg Conn;Martin Goret;Martin Goret;Cary Lai

884
Citations
Activation of the T24 bladder carcinoma transforming gene is linked to a single amino acid change

Elizabeth Taparowsky;Yolande Suard;Ottavio Fasano;Kenji Shimizu

860
Citations
Passage of phenotypes of chemically transformed cells via transfection of DNA and chromatin.

Chiaho Shih;Ben-Zion Shilo;Mitchell P. Goldfarb;Ann Dannenberg

684
Citations
Isolation and Preliminary Characterization of a Human Transforming Gene from T24 Bladder-Carcinoma Cells

Mitchell Goldfarb;Kenji Shimizu;Manuel Perucho;Michael Wigler

642
Citations
Structure and activation of the human N-ras gene

Elizabeth Taparowsky;Kenji Shimizu;Mitchell Goldfarb;Michael Wigler

635
Citations
An orphan receptor tyrosine kinase family whose members serve as nonintegrin collagen receptors

Ajay Shrivastava;Czeslaw Radziejewski;Ernest Campbell;Lubomir Kovac

624
Citations
Human-tumor-derived cell lines contain common and different transforming genes.

Manuel Perucho;Mitchell Goldfarb;Kenji Shimizu;Concepcion Lama

594
Citations
The Human FGF-5 Oncogene Encodes a Novel Protein Related to Fibroblast Growth Factors

Xi Zhan;B. Bates;Xiaogao Hu;M. Goldfarb

547
Citations
Genes in S. cerevisiae encoding proteins with domains homologous to the mammalian ras proteins.

S. Powers;T. Kataoka;O. Fasano;M. Goldfarb

528
Citations
Three human transforming genes are related to the viral ras oncogenes

Kenji Shimizu;Mitchell Goldfarb;Yolande Suard;Manuel Perucho

526
Citations
Structure of the Ki- ras gene of the human lung carcinoma cell line Calu-1

Kenji Shimizu;Kenji Shimizu;Daniel Birnbaum;Mary Ann Ruley;Ottavio Fasano

442
Citations
Functional homology of mammalian and yeast RAS genes

Tohru Kataoka;Scott Powers;Scott Cameron;Ottavio Fasano

399
Citations
Isolation and preliminary characterization of the transforming gene of a human neuroblastoma cell line

Kenji Shimizu;Mitchell Goldfarb;Manuel Perucho;Michael Wigler

389
Citations
Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) Homologous Factors Share Structural but Not Functional Homology with FGFs

Shaun K. Olsen;Meirav Garbi;Niccolo Zampieri;Anna V. Eliseenkova

379
Citations
The low affinity NGF receptor, p75, can collaborate with each of the Trks to potentiate functional responses to the neurotrophins.

Petros A. Hantzopoulos;Chitra Suri;David J. Glass;Mitchell P. Goldfarb

371
Citations
Isolation of cDNAs encoding four mouse FGF family members and characterization of their expression patterns during embryogenesis.

Jean M. Hébert;Claudio Basilico;Mitchell Goldfarb;Olivia Haub

368
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George D. Yancopoulos Regeneron (United States)

Michael Wigler Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Elizabeth J. Taparowsky Purdue University West Lafayette

Egidio D'Angelo University of Pavia

Manuel Perucho Discovery Institute

Daniel Birnbaum Inserm

Robert A. Weinberg MIT

David M. Ornitz Washington University in St. Louis

David J. Glass Regeneron (United States)

Ming-Ming Zhou Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

External Links

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