Stephen G. Waxman

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Best Publications

• International Union of Pharmacology. XLVIII. Nomenclature and Structure-Function Relationships of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels

  William A. Catterall;Alan L. Goldin;Stephen G. Waxman

  2244
  Citations

• Nomenclature of voltage-gated sodium channels.

  Alan L. Goldin;Robert L. Barchi;John H. Caldwell;Franz Hofmann

  1451
  Citations

• Activated Microglia Contribute to the Maintenance of Chronic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury

  Bryan C. Hains;Stephen G. Waxman

  849
  Citations

• Ionic mechanisms of anoxic injury in mammalian CNS white matter: role of Na+ channels and Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger

  Peter K. Stys;Stephen G. Waxman;Bruce R. Ransom

  834
  Citations

• Determinants of conduction velocity in myelinated nerve fibers.

  Stephen G. Waxman

  823
  Citations

• Type III sodium channel mRNA is expressed in embryonic but not adult spinal sensory neurons, and is reexpressed following axotomy.

  Stephen G. Waxman;Jeffery D. Kocsis;Joel A. Black

  794
  Citations

• NaN, a novel voltage-gated Na channel, is expressed preferentially in peripheral sensory neurons and down-regulated after axotomy

  S. D. Dib-Hajj;L. Tyrrell;J. A. Black;S. G. Waxman

  769
  Citations

• DOWNREGULATION OF TETRODOTOXIN-RESISTANT SODIUM CURRENTS AND UPREGULATION OF A RAPIDLY REPRIMING TETRODOTOXIN-SENSITIVE SODIUM CURRENT IN SMALL SPINAL SENSORY NEURONS AFTER NERVE INJURY

  Theodore R. Cummins;Stephen G. Waxman

  747
  Citations

• Sodium Channels in Normal and Pathological Pain

  Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Theodore R. Cummins;Joel A. Black;Stephen G. Waxman

  691
  Citations

• Contribution of Nav1.8 Sodium Channels to Action Potential Electrogenesis in DRG Neurons

  Muthukrishnan Renganathan;Theodore R. Cummins;Stephen G. Waxman

  642
  Citations

• The Role of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in Pain Signaling

  David L. Bennett;Alex J. Clark;Jianying Huang;Stephen G. Waxman

  640
  Citations

• The Na(V)1.7 sodium channel: from molecule to man.

  Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Joel A. Black;Joel A. Black;Stephen G. Waxman;Stephen G. Waxman

  634
  Citations

• Intravenous administration of auto serum-expanded autologous mesenchymal stem cells in stroke

  Osamu Honmou;Kiyohiro Houkin;Takuya Matsunaga;Yoshiro Niitsu

  628
  Citations

• Molecular changes in neurons in multiple sclerosis: altered axonal expression of Nav1.2 and Nav1.6 sodium channels and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger.

  Matthew J. Craner;Jia Newcombe;Joel A. Black;Caroline Hartle

  626
  Citations

• The interictal behavior syndrome of temporal lobe epilepsy.

  Stephen G. Waxman;Norman Geschwind

  597
  Citations

• Gain of function NaV1.7 mutations in idiopathic small fiber neuropathy

  Catharina G. Faber;Janneke G.J. Hoeijmakers;Hye Sook Ahn;Hye Sook Ahn;Xiaoyang Cheng;Xiaoyang Cheng

  577
  Citations

• The roles of sodium channels in nociception: Implications for mechanisms of pain

  Theodore R. Cummins;Patrick L. Sheets;Stephen G. Waxman;Stephen G. Waxman

  568
  Citations

• Spinal sensory neurons express multiple sodium channel α-subunit mRNAs

  J.A Black;S Dib-Hajj;S Dib-Hajj;K McNabola;K McNabola;S Jeste;S Jeste

  531
  Citations

• Axonal conduction and injury in multiple sclerosis: the role of sodium channels

  Stephen G. Waxman;Stephen G. Waxman

  525
  Citations

• Gain-of-function mutation in Nav1.7 in familial erythromelalgia induces bursting of sensory neurons

  Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Anthony M. Rush;Anthony M. Rush;Theodore Cummins;F. M. Hisama

  521
  Citations