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Molecular Biology

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • 1988 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his discovery of methods for propagating and expressing the hereditary information of DNA introduced into living cells, thereby enabling the cloning of individual genes and the study of their structure and function.", Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1986 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of growth factors
  • 1985 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 1982 - Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
  • 1980 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Stanley N. Cohen is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on Medicine and Computer Science. Within these fields, the scientist has contributed particularly to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Health Informatics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including:

  • AI in cancer detection
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

Frequent publication venues for the scientist include:

  • American Journal Of Pathology
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • Chemical Geology
  • Research Notes of the AAS
  • Journal of Pathology Informatics

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Pathology, 2021, American Journal Of Pathology
  • Dealing with Multi-Dimensional Data and the Burden of Annotation, 2021, American Journal Of Pathology
  • Chemical classification of spherules recovered from the Pacific Ocean site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) bolide, 2024, Chemical Geology
  • Recovery and Classification of Spherules from the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014 January 8 (IM1) Bolide, 2024, Research Notes of the AAS
  • Pathology Visions 2020: Through the Prism of Innovation, 2021, Journal of Pathology Informatics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stanley N. Cohen include:

  • Chhavi Chauhan
  • Martha B. Furie
  • Richard N. Mitchell
  • Chris Albanese
  • Steven L. Carroll

The scientist has received several awards throughout their career, among them are:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2017)
  • Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1993)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (1988)
  • US President's National Medal of Science (1988) - for discovery of methods enabling cloning of individual genes and study of their structure and function
  • Nobel Prize (1986) - for discoveries of growth factors
  • Canada Gairdner International Award (1985)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (1982)
  • Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation (1980)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Construction and characterization of amplifiable multicopy DNA cloning vehicles derived from the P15A cryptic miniplasmid.

    Annie C. Y. Chang;Stanley N. Cohen

  • Nonchromosomal Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: Genetic Transformation of Escherichia coli by R-Factor DNA

    Stanley N. Cohen;Annie C. Y. Chang;Leslie Hsu

  • Analysis of gene control signals by DNA fusion and cloning in Escherichia coli

    Malcolm J. Casadaban;Stanley N. Cohen

  • The PREMIER study: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind clinical trial of combination therapy with adalimumab plus methotrexate versus methotrexate alone or adalimumab alone in patients with early, aggressive rheumatoid arthritis who had not had previous methotrexate treatment

    Ferdinand C Breedveld;Michael H Weisman;Arthur F Kavanaugh;Stanley B Cohen

  • Rituximab for rheumatoid arthritis refractory to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy : Results of a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III trial evaluating primary efficacy and safety at twenty-four weeks

    Stanley B Cohen;Paul Emery;Maria W Greenwald;Maxime Dougados

  • Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids In Vitro

    Stanley N. Cohen;Annie C. Y. Chang;Herbert W. Boyer;Robert B. Helling

  • Nucleotide sequence of cloned cDNA for bovine corticotropin-beta-lipotropin precursor.

    Shigetada Nakanishi;Akira Inoue;Toru Kita;Masahiro Nakamura

  • Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with a recombinant human tumor necrosis factor receptor (p75)-Fc fusion protein.

    Larry W. Moreland;Scott W. Baumgartner;Michael H. Schiff;Elizabeth A. Tindall

  • 125I-labeled human epidermal growth factor. Binding, internalization, and degradation in human fibroblasts.

    Graham Carpenter;Stanley Cohen

  • High frequency transformation of Bacillus subtilis protoplasts by plasmid DNA.

    Shing Chang;Stanley N. Cohen

  • Lactose genes fused to exogenous promoters in one step using a Mu-lac bacteriophage: in vivo probe for transcriptional control sequences

    Malcolm J. Casadaban;Stanley N. Cohen

  • Transformation of Salmonella typhimurium by Plasmid Deoxyribonucleic Acid

    Esther M. Lederberg;Stanley N. Cohen

  • Tofacitinib or adalimumab versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis

    Ronald F. van Vollenhoven;Roy Fleischmann;Stanley Cohen;Eun Bong Lee

  • Induction and Maintenance Infliximab Therapy for the Treatment of Moderate-to-Severe Crohn’s Disease in Children

    Jeffrey Hyams;Wallace Crandall;Subra Kugathasan;Anne Griffiths

  • Treatment of Active Rheumatoid Arthritis With Leflunomide Compared With Placebo and Methotrexate

    Vibeke Strand;Stanley Cohen;Michael Schiff;Arthur Weaver

  • Global analysis of mRNA decay and abundance in Escherichia coli at single-gene resolution using two-color fluorescent DNA microarrays

    Jonathan A. Bernstein;Arkady B. Khodursky;Pei Hsun Lin;Sue Lin-Chao

  • Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with anakinra, a recombinant human interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, in combination with methotrexate: results of a twenty-four-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Stanley Cohen;Eric Hurd;John Cush;Michael Schiff

  • Uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids: a proposal.

    Novick Rp;Clowes Rc;Cohen Sn;Curtiss R rd

  • Visualization by fluorescence of the binding and internalization of epidermal growth factor in human carcinoma cells A-431.

    Harry Haigler;J. F. Ash;S. J. Singer;Stanley Cohen

  • Denosumab treatment effects on structural damage, bone mineral density, and bone turnover in rheumatoid arthritis: a twelve-month, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II clinical trial.

    Stanley B. Cohen;Robin K. Dore;Nancy E. Lane;Peter A. Ory

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey S. Hyams
Jeffrey S. Hyams University of Connecticut
Subra Kugathasan
Subra Kugathasan Emory University
Robert N. Baldassano
Robert N. Baldassano Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Graham Carpenter
Graham Carpenter Vanderbilt University
Anne M. Griffiths
Anne M. Griffiths University of Toronto
Channing R. Robertson
Channing R. Robertson Stanford University
Hanne Ingmer
Hanne Ingmer University of Copenhagen
Mark C. Genovese
Mark C. Genovese Stanford University
David R. Mack
David R. Mack University of Ottawa
Mervyn J. Bibb
Mervyn J. Bibb John Innes Centre

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