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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Richard P. Lifton is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant focus on molecular biology and genetics.

The scientist has published extensively in several main areas including fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, genomics and rare diseases, congenital heart defects research, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, congenital heart disease studies, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, and cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus.

Frequent publication venues for Lifton's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Neurosurgery
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

They have collaborated with a consistent group of coauthors, with numerous publications alongside:

  • Sheng Chih Jin
  • Shrikant Mane
  • Carol Nelson-Williams
  • Kristopher T. Kahle
  • Weilai Dong

Some recent notable publications include:

  • "Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19", 2020, Science
  • "Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants", 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "X-linked recessive TLR7 deficiency in ~1% of men under 60 years old with life-threatening COVID-19", 2021, Science Immunology
  • "Mutations disrupting neuritogenesis genes confer risk for cerebral palsy", 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Exome sequencing implicates genetic disruption of prenatal neuro-gliogenesis in sporadic congenital hydrocephalus", 2020, Nature Medicine

Their research fields can be further broken down into subfields such as molecular biology, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, immunology, and surgery.

Richard Lifton has received recognition in the form of fellowships and academy memberships, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001

Best Publications

  • Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19.

    Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Lindsey B. Rosen;Qian Zhang;Eleftherios Michailidis

  • Molecular basis of human hypertension: Role of angiotensinogen

    Xavier Jeunemaitre;Florent Soubrier;Yuri V. Kotelevtsev;Richard P. Lifton;Richard P. Lifton

  • De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;Michael T. Murtha;Abha R. Gupta;John D. Murdoch

  • Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

    Qian Zhang;Paul Bastard;Paul Bastard;Zhiyong Liu;Jérémie Le Pen

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Human Hypertension

    Richard P. Lifton;Ali G. Gharavi;Ali G. Gharavi;David S. Geller

  • High Bone Density Due to a Mutation in LDL-Receptor–Related Protein 5

    Lynn M. Boyden;Junhao Mao;Joseph Belsky;Lyle Mitzner

  • Genetic diagnosis by whole exome capture and massively parallel DNA sequencing

    Murim Choi;Ute I. Scholl;Weizhen Ji;Tiewen Liu

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Human hypertension caused by mutations in WNK kinases

    Frederick H. Wilson;Sandra Disse-Nicodème;Keith A. Choate;Kazuhiko Ishikawa

  • Liddle's syndrome: heritable human hypertension caused by mutations in the β subunit of the epithelial sodium channel

    Richard A. Shimkets;David G. Warnock;Christopher M. Bositis;Carol Nelson-Williams

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • A chimaeric 11 beta-hydroxylase/aldosterone synthase gene causes glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism and human hypertension.

    Richard P. Lifton;Robert G. Dluhy;Michael Powers;Glenn M. Rich

  • Gitelman's variant of Bartter's syndrome, inherited hypokalaemic alkalosis, is caused by mutations in the thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter

    David B. Simon;Carol Nelson-Williams;Margaret Johnson Bia;David Ellison

  • Exome sequencing identifies recurrent somatic RAC1 mutations in melanoma.

    Michael Krauthammer;Yong Lin Kong;Byung Hak Ha;Perry Evans

  • Paracellin-1, a Renal Tight Junction Protein Required for Paracellular Mg2+ Resorption

    David B. Simon;Yin Lu;Yin Lu;Keith A. Choate;Keith A. Choate;Heino Velazquez

  • Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette's syndrome.

    Jesse F. Abelson;Kenneth Y. Kwan;Brian J. O'Roak;Danielle Y. Baek

  • K+ Channel Mutations in Adrenal Aldosterone-Producing Adenomas and Hereditary Hypertension

    Murim Choi;Ute I. Scholl;Peng Yue;Peyman Björklund;Peyman Björklund

  • Bartter's syndrome, hypokalaemic alkalosis with hypercalciuria, is caused by mutations in the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter NKCC2.

    D B Simon;F E Karet;J M Hamdan;A DiPietro

  • Mutations in the chloride channel gene, CLCNKB, cause Bartter's syndrome type III

    DB Simon;RS Bindra;TA Mansfield;C NelsonWilliams

  • De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease

    Samir Zaidi;Murim Choi;Hiroko Wakimoto;Lijiang Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Shrikant Mane
Shrikant Mane Yale University
Murim Choi
Murim Choi Seoul National University
Murat Gunel
Murat Gunel Yale University
Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Kaya Bilguvar
Kaya Bilguvar Yale University
Kristopher T. Kahle
Kristopher T. Kahle Yale University
Christine E. Seidman
Christine E. Seidman Harvard University
Matthew W. State
Matthew W. State University of California, San Francisco
Ali G. Gharavi
Ali G. Gharavi Columbia University
Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger Yale University

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