Andrew Paul Feinberg (born August 5, 1952) is the director of the Center for Epigenetics, chief of the Division of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and the King Fahd Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Molecular Biology & Genetics in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.^[1]

Andrew Feinberg received his B.A. in 1973 and M.D. in 1976 from the accelerated medical program at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins in 1981. He did his residency in internal medicine, followed by a fellowship in genetics at Hopkins. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental biology at UCSD where he researched the multiple differentiation paths of Dictyostelium discoideum. His research into hereditary inheritance of traits outside of DNA was initially seen as controversial, and he was told that if he continued this work, his funding would be cut off.^[2]

Dr. Feinberg discovered epigenetic alterations in human cancer with Bert Vogelstein in 1983. He is also credited with the discovery of gene imprinting in humans.^[1] He has made many contributions to the field of epigenetics in cancer, and discovered the molecular basis of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.^[2] He pursued this work while he was an HHMI Investigator at the University of Michigan from 1986-1994,^[3] when he returned to Johns Hopkins as King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Medicine.

Awards

• Delta Omega, National Public Health Honorary Society, 1981
• American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1990
• Association of American Physicians, 1995
• ISI, Most Cited Authors List (Top 0.1%), 2001
• MERIT Award, National Cancer Institute, 2001
• Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
• Elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine, 2007
• Wallenberg Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2009
• Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009^[1]
• Inaugural Daniel Coit Gilman Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, 2011
• Feodor Lynen Medal, 2011
• NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2011
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
• Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, Association for Molecular Pathology, 2017^[4]

Publications

Feinberg has more than 92,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 112.^[5]

He was among the top 1% most cited in the world for subject field and year of publication in the 2019 and 2020 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers reports.^[6][7]

• Pubmed citations
• Google Scholar citations

Highly Cited Articles (more than 1500 citations)

• 2004 with B Tycko, The history of cancer epigenetics, in: Nature Reviews Cancer. Vol. 4, nº 2; 143-153.
• 1983 with B Vogelstein, Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts, in: Nature. Vol. 301, nº 5895; 89-92.
• 2010 with K Kim, A Doi, B Wen, K Ng, R Zhao, P Cahan, J Kim, MJ Aryee, H Ji, et al, Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells, in: Nature. Vol. 467, nº 7313; 285-290.
• 2009 with RA Irizarry, C Ladd-Acosta, B Wen, Z Wu, C Montano, P Onyango, H Cui, et al, The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo-and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores, in: Nature Genetics. Vol. 41, nº 2; 178-186.
• 2006 with R Ohlsson, S Henikoff, The epigenetic progenitor origin of human cancer, in: Nature Reviews Genetics. Vol. 7, nº 1; 21-33.
• 2014 with MJ Aryee, AE Jaffe, H Corrada-Bravo, C Ladd-Acosta, Minfi: a flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA methylation microarrays, in: Bioinformatics. Vol. 30, nº 10; 1363-1369.
• 2007, Phenotypic plasticity and the epigenetics of human disease, in: Nature. Vol. 447, nº 7143; 433-440.

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