Orest Hurko, M.D.
Affiliations: | Clinical | Biologics Consulting Group, Inc. |
Area:
Mendelian disordersGoogle:
"Orest Hurko"Bio:
Undergraduate thesis at Harvard College with Helga Doty, graduate studies with Richard Wurtman at MIT, and MD from Harvard. Staff Associate with Marshall Nirenberg at NIH then Chief Resident then faculty in Neurology at Johns Hopkins, where he was the neurologist in the Moore Genetics Clinical and Author-Editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man with Victor McKusick. Founded Investigational Medicine in Neuroscience at SmithKline Beecham, Investigational Medicine (Neurology) at GSK, and then the interdisciplinary Discovery Medicine at Wyeth. Director of trnaslational Medicine Research Collaboration in Scotland
Mean distance: 13.91 (cluster 11) | S | N | B | C | P |
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Richard J. Wurtman | grad student | MIT | |
| Marshall Nirenberg | post-doc | 1975-1978 |
Publications
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| Becher MW, Wills ML, Noll WW, et al. (1999) Kearns-Sayre syndrome with features of Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome and a novel 2905-base pair mitochondrial DNA deletion. Human Pathology. 30: 577-81 |
| Threlkeld AB, Miller NR, Golnik KC, et al. (1992) Ophthalmic involvement in myo-neuro-gastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 114: 322-8 |
| Hurko O, Johns DR, Rutledge SL, et al. (1990) Heteroplasmy in chronic external ophthalmoplegia: clinical and molecular observations. Pediatric Research. 28: 542-8 |
| Johns DR, Hurko O. (1989) Preferential amplification and molecular characterization of junction sequences of a pathogenetic deletion in human mitochondrial DNA. Genomics. 5: 623-8 |
| Hurko O, Elster P, Wurtman RJ. (1974) Adenylate cyclase activity in bovine adrenal medulla. Endocrinology. 94: 591-3 |
| Lytle LD, Hurko O, Romero JA, et al. (1972) The effects of 6-hydroxydopamine pretreatment on the accumulation of dopa and dopamine in brain and peripheral organs following L-dopa administration. Journal of Neural Transmission. 33: 63-71 |