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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen M. Feinstone is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, with subfields including Epidemiology and Hepatology. The main topics covered by their work include Hepatitis C virus research, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, and Hepatitis B Virus Studies.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • The 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus: A Triumph of Curiosity and Persistence, 2021, Hepatology
  • The Discovery of Hepatitis C - The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephen M. Feinstone include:

  • Jay H. Hoofnagle
  • Marc G. Ghany
  • Anna S. Lok
  • Jules L. Dienstag
  • T. Jake Liang

The scientist's publications are frequently featured in the venues:

  • Hepatology
  • New England Journal of Medicine

In 2002, Stephen M. Feinstone was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Consensus proposals for a unified system of nomenclature of hepatitis C virus genotypes.

    Peter Simmonds;Jens Bukh;Christophe Combet;Gilbert Deléage

  • Expression and identification of hepatitis C virus polyprotein cleavage products.

    Arash Grakoui;C. Wychowski;C. Lin;S. M. Feinstone

  • Hepatitis A: Detection by Immune Electron Microscopy of a Viruslike Antigen Associated with Acute Illness

    Stephen M. Feinstone;Albert Z. Kapikian;Robert H. Purcell

  • Characterization of the hepatitis C virus-encoded serine proteinase: determination of proteinase-dependent polyprotein cleavage sites.

    A Grakoui;D W McCourt;C Wychowski;S M Feinstone

  • Transmission of Hepatitis C by Intrahepatic Inoculation with Transcribed RNA

    Alexander A. Kolykhalov;Eugene V. Agapov;Eugene V. Agapov;Keril J. Blight;Keril J. Blight;Kathleen Mihalik;Kathleen Mihalik

  • Inactivation of the coronavirus that induces severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS-CoV

    Miriam E.R. Darnell;Kanta Subbarao;Stephen M. Feinstone;Deborah R. Taylor

  • Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis Not Due to Viral Hepatitis Type A or B

    Stephen M. Feinstone;Albert Z. Kapikian;Robert H. Purcell;Harvey J. Alter

  • Hepatitis C Virus-Encoded Enzymatic Activities and Conserved RNA Elements in the 3′ Nontranslated Region Are Essential for Virus Replication In Vivo

    Alexander A. Kolykhalov;Kathy Mihalik;Stephen M. Feinstone;Charles M. Rice

  • A second hepatitis C virus-encoded proteinase.

    Arash Grakoui;David W. McCourt;Czeslaw Wychowski;Stephen M. Feinstone

  • Identification of a highly conserved sequence element at the 3' terminus of hepatitis C virus genome RNA.

    A A Kolykhalov;S M Feinstone;C M Rice

  • Cell culture-grown hepatitis C virus is infectious in vivo and can be recultured in vitro

    Brett D. Lindenbach;Philip Meuleman;Alexander Ploss;Thomas Vanwolleghem

  • Decrease in serum hepatitis C viral RNA during alpha-interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C

    M. Shindo;A. M. Di Bisceglie;Ling Cheung;J. W.-K. Shih

  • Neutralizing antibody response during acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection

    Carine Logvinoff;M E Major;D Oldach;S Heyward

  • CLINICAL AND SEROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSFUSION-ASSOCIATED HEPATITIS

    HarveyJ. Alter;PaulV. Holland;AndrewG. Morrow;RobertH. Purcell

  • Posttransfusion hepatitis after exclusion of commercial and hepatitis-B antigen-positive donors.

    Harvey J. Alter;Paul V. Holland;Robert H. Purcell;Jerrold J. Lander

  • Detection of serum hepatitis B virus DNA in patients with chronic hepatitis using the polymerase chain reaction assay

    Shuichi Kaneko;Roger H. Miller;Stephen M. Feinstone;Masashi Unoura

  • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference panel statement: Management of hepatitis C

    D. W. Powell;B. Z. Abramson;J. A. Balint;S. Belle

  • Non-A, non-B hepatitis: ultrastructural evidence for two agents in experimentally infected chimpanzees.

    Yohko K. Shimizu;Stephen M. Feinstone;Robert H. Purcell;Harvey J. Alter

  • Identification of a surface glycoprotein on African green monkey kidney cells as a receptor for hepatitis A virus.

    G. Kaplan;A. Totsuka;P. Thompson;T. Akatsuka

  • Patients with chronic hepatitis C have circulating cytotoxic T cells which recognize hepatitis C virus-encoded peptides binding to HLA-A2.1 molecules.

    M Battegay;J Fikes;A M Di Bisceglie;P A Wentworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Purcell
Robert H. Purcell National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Ian D. Gust
Ian D. Gust University of Melbourne
Charles M. Rice
Charles M. Rice Rockefeller University
Jay H. Hoofnagle
Jay H. Hoofnagle National Institutes of Health
Harry B. Greenberg
Harry B. Greenberg Stanford University
Jay A. Berzofsky
Jay A. Berzofsky National Institutes of Health
Barbara Rehermann
Barbara Rehermann National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter National Institutes of Health
T. Jake Liang
T. Jake Liang National Institutes of Health
Vincent R. Racaniello
Vincent R. Racaniello Columbia University

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