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2026
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Molecular Biology

D-Index
139
Citations
88891
World Ranking
132
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Israel Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Yosef Yarden is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with notable contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The main subfields of their work include oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, cancer research, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientific topics covered by Yosef Yarden's research span a range of areas, including:

  • Lung cancer treatments and mutations
  • HER2/EGFR in cancer research
  • Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Pancreatic and hepatic oncology research
  • Colorectal cancer treatments and studies
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Yarden's publication record includes contributions to multiple scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Cancer Research
  • Cancers
  • Cell
  • Molecular Systems Biology
  • Advances in Cancer Research

Their recent papers include:

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers, 2020, Cell
  • Proteomic patterns associated with response to breast cancer neoadjuvant treatment, 2020, Molecular Systems Biology
  • Targeting HER3, a Catalytically Defective Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, Prevents Resistance of Lung Cancer to a Third-Generation EGFR Kinase Inhibitor, 2020, Cancers
  • Roles for receptor tyrosine kinases in tumor progression and implications for cancer treatment, 2020, Advances in Cancer Research
  • Upfront admixing antibodies and EGFR inhibitors preempts sequential treatments in lung cancer models, 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine

They have collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Nishanth Belugali Nataraj, Ilaria Marrocco, Moshit Lindzen, Diana Drago-García, and Moshe Oren.

Yosef Yarden has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Untangling the ErbB signalling network

    Yosef Yarden;Mark X. Sliwkowski

  • Human epidermal growth factor receptor cDNA sequence and aberrant expression of the amplified gene in A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells

    A Ullrich;L Coussens;J S Hayflick;T J Dull

  • Close similarity of epidermal growth factor receptor and v- erb-B oncogene protein sequences

    J. Downward;Y. Yarden;E. Mayes;G. Scrace

  • EGF–ERBB signalling: towards the systems level

    Ami Citri;Yosef Yarden

  • Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

    Yosef Yarden;Axel Ullrich

  • The EGFR family and its ligands in human cancer. signalling mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.

    Y Yarden

  • Human proto-oncogene c-kit: a new cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase for an unidentified ligand.

    Y. Yarden;W. J. Kuang;T. Yang-Feng;L. Coussens

  • Structure of the receptor for platelet-derived growth factor helps define a family of closely related growth factor receptors

    Y. Yarden;J. A. Escobedo;W. J. Kuang;T. L. Yang-Feng

  • A hierarchical network of interreceptor interactions determines signal transduction by Neu differentiation factor/neuregulin and epidermal growth factor.

    E Tzahar;H Waterman;X Chen;G Levkowitz

  • Ubiquitin ligase activity and tyrosine phosphorylation underlie suppression of growth factor signaling by c-Cbl/Sli-1.

    Gil Levkowitz;Hadassa Waterman;Seth A Ettenberg;Menachem Katz

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers

    Ayuko Hoshino;Ayuko Hoshino;Han Sang Kim;Han Sang Kim;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Kofi Ennu Gyan

  • c-Cbl/Sli-1 regulates endocytic sorting and ubiquitination of the epidermal growth factor receptor

    Gil Levkowitz;Hadassa Waterman;Eli Zamir;Zvi Kam

  • The ErbB signaling network in embryogenesis and oncogenesis: signal diversification through combinatorial ligand‐receptor interactions

    Iris Alroy;Yosef Yarden

  • Diversification of Neu differentiation factor and epidermal growth factor signaling by combinatorial receptor interactions.

    R Pinkas-Kramarski;L Soussan;H Waterman;G Levkowitz

  • Biology of HER2 and Its Importance in Breast Cancer

    Yosef Yarden

  • The ERBB network: at last, cancer therapy meets systems biology.

    Yosef Yarden;Gur Pines

  • ErbB-2 is a common auxiliary subunit of NDF and EGF receptors: implications for breast cancer

    D Karunagaran;E Tzahar;R R Beerli;X Chen

  • Derailed endocytosis: an emerging feature of cancer

    Yaron Mosesson;Gordon B. Mills;Yosef Yarden

  • Epidermal growth factor induces rapid, reversible aggregation of the purified epidermal growth factor receptor

    Yosef Yarden;Joseph Schlessinger

  • Isolation of the Neu HER-2 stimulatory ligand: A 44 kd glycoprotein that induces differentiation of mammary tumor cells

    Elior Peles;Sarah S. Bacus;Raymond A. Koski;Hsieng S. Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Sela
Michael Sela Weizmann Institute of Science
David Givol
David Givol Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronit Pinkas-Kramarski
Ronit Pinkas-Kramarski Tel Aviv University
Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger Yale University
Stefan Wiemann
Stefan Wiemann German Cancer Research Center
Sima Lev
Sima Lev Weizmann Institute of Science
Elior Peles
Elior Peles Weizmann Institute of Science
Sabrina Strano
Sabrina Strano McMaster University
Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Giovanni Blandino
Giovanni Blandino McMaster University

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