FEATURES
Dr. Alan Aderem
September 2007 |
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Dr. Alan Aderem talks
about his highly cited research on toll-like receptors,
which has placed him at #15 in the top 20 scientists
publishing in this area. His record in the analysis
includes 34 papers cited a total of 4,523 times. In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, his current record
includes 52 papers cited a total of 5,732 times to date,
the bulk of which can be found in the field of
Immunology. Dr. Aderem is the Director of the Institute
for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington.
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Dr. Lena Alexopoulou
& Dr. Richard Flavell
August
2007 |
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This month, Special Topics
talks with Dr. Lena Alexopoulou and Dr. Richard Flavell
about their highly cited paper, "Recognition of
double-stranded RNA and activation of NF-kappa B by
Toll-like receptor 3," (Alexopoulou L, Holt AC,
Medzhitov, and Flavell RA, Nature 413[6857]:
732-8, 18 October 2001). With 1,166 citations to its
credit, this paper ranks at #6 on our list of the top 20
papers on Toll-like receptors published in the past
decade. Dr. Alexopoulou is the Group Leader for the
Laboratory of Toll-like Receptors and Innate Immunity at
the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy. Dr.
Flavell is Professor and Chairman of Immunobiology and
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
at the Yale University School of Medicine.
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Dr. Bruce Beutler
July 2007 |
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Dr. Bruce Beutler is ranked at #10 on our list of the
most-cited scientists in Toll-like Receptor research
over the past decade, with 60 papers cited a total of
5,606 times. He is also the senior author of the
most-cited paper in this topic over the past decade,
"Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HEJ and C57BL/10SCCR
mice: mutations in the TLR4 gene," (Poltorak A, et
al., Science 282[5396]: 2085-8, 11 December 1998).
Dr. Beutler is the Chair of the Department of Genetics
at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,
California.
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