Newswise — Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D., a professor and senior vice president at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, has been named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate, the global analytics company. The honor recognizes researchers who have demonstrated a significant influence in their chosen field of study through the publication of multiple works that have been cited by their peers.
This means that Chun, a renowned neuroscientist, was in the top 1% of citations for his field of study between 2009 and 2019.
Chun has made important contributions to our understanding of the brain and its diseases, including the discovery of somatic genomic mosaicism and gene recombination in the brain and its involvement in Alzheimer’s disease. Chun also identified the first lysophospholipid receptor, which is part of a growing class of receptors underlying new…
