According to PubMed, Joseph Schlessinger has authored over 400 scientific original and review articles in the area of pharmacology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology. Joseph Schlessinger is an expert in the area of tyrosine kinase signaling. Tyrosine kinase signaling plays a critical role in the control of many cellular processes including cell proliferation, differentiation, metabolism, as well as cell survival and migration.Tyrosine kinases play a particularly important role in cancer, and several agents that block their activity are now used as anti-cancer drugs, such as Imatinib. In 2001, Schlessinger was ranked by the ISI as one of the world's top 30 most cited scientists (across all fields) in the 1990s. His papers have been cited a total of 72,216 times. A September 2003 article in the UK newspaper 'The Guardian' listed Schlessinger as number 14 in the "Giants of Science."
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