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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David R. Corey is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. The scientist's research primarily falls within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work covers a range of topics related to RNA biology including RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, RNA Research and Splicing, MicroRNA in disease regulation, Corneal Surgery and Treatments, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA regulation and disease.

Corey's recent published papers include:

  • "Reexamining assumptions about miRNA-guided gene silencing" (2021, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "The 10th Oligonucleotide Therapy Approved: Golodirsen for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" (2020, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics)
  • "Challenges and Opportunities for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics" (2021, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics)
  • "Argonaute binding within 3'-untranslated regions poorly predicts gene repression" (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "Analyzing pre-symptomatic tissue to gain insights into the molecular and mechanistic origins of late-onset degenerative trinucleotide repeat disease" (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)

The frequent coauthors associated with David R. Corey include Jiaxin Hu, Krystal C. Johnson, V. Vinod Mootha, Xin Gong, and Audrius Kilikevičius.

Publications by Corey are often found in venues such as Nucleic Acids Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, RNA, and Cell Chemical Biology. The largest number of publications appear in Nucleic Acids Research, followed by contributions to bioRxiv and Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.

David R. Corey has been recognized with awards including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1984).

Best Publications

  • Non-coding RNAs as drug targets

    Masayuki Matsui;David R. Corey

  • Locked nucleic acid (LNA): fine-tuning the recognition of DNA and RNA

    Dwaine A Braasch;David R Corey

  • RNA interference in mammalian cells by chemically-modified RNA

    Dwaine A. Braasch;Susan Jensen;Yinghui Liu;Kiran Kaur

  • Inhibition of human telomerase in immortal human cells leads to progressive telomere shortening and cell death

    B. S. Herbert;A. E. Pitts;S. I. Baker;S. E. Hamilton

  • Activating gene expression in mammalian cells with promoter-targeted duplex RNAs.

    Bethany A Janowski;Scott T Younger;Daniel B Hardy;Rosalyn Ram

  • Immunological, morphological, and electrophysiological variation among retinal ganglion cells purified by panning

    Barbara A. Barres;Bruce E. Silverstein;Bruce E. Silverstein;David R. Corey;David R. Corey;Linda L.Y. Chun

  • Chemistry, mechanism and clinical status of antisense oligonucleotides and duplex RNAs

    Xiulong Shen;David R Corey

  • Inhibition of human telomerase activity by peptide nucleic acids.

    James C. Norton;Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek;Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek;Woodring E. Wright;Jerry W. Shay

  • Novel antisense and peptide nucleic acid strategies for controlling gene expression.

    Dwaine A. Braasch;David R. Corey

  • Regulation of TFEB and V‐ATPases by mTORC1

    Samuel Peña-Llopis;Silvia Vega-Rubin-De-Celis;Jacob C. Schwartz;Nicholas C. Wolff

  • Silencing disease genes in the laboratory and the clinic

    Jonathan K. Watts;David R. Corey

  • Involvement of AGO1 and AGO2 in mammalian transcriptional silencing

    Bethany A Janowski;Kenneth E Huffman;Jacob C Schwartz;Rosalyn Ram

  • RNAi Factors Are Present and Active in Human Cell Nuclei

    Keith T. Gagnon;Liande Li;Yongjun Chu;Bethany A. Janowski

  • Chemical modification: the key to clinical application of RNA interference?

    David R. Corey

  • Generation of a hybrid sequence-specific single-stranded deoxyribonuclease.

    D. R. Corey;P. G. Schultz

  • Antisense transcripts are targets for activating small RNAs

    Jacob C. Schwartz;Scott T. Younger;Ngoc Bich Nguyen;Daniel B. Hardy

  • Biodistribution of phosphodiester and phosphorothioate siRNA.

    Dwaine A. Braasch;Zain Paroo;Anca Constantinescu;Gang Ren

  • Single-Stranded RNAs Use RNAi to Potently and Allele-Selectively Inhibit Mutant Huntingtin Expression

    Dongbo Yu;Hannah Pendergraff;Jing Liu;Holly B. Kordasiewicz;Holly B. Kordasiewicz

  • Morpholino antisense oligonucleotides: tools for investigating vertebrate development.

    David R Corey;John M Abrams

  • Progesterone Receptor Plays a Major Antiinflammatory Role in Human Myometrial Cells by Antagonism of Nuclear Factor-κB Activation of Cyclooxygenase 2 Expression

    Daniel B. Hardy;Bethany A. Janowski;David R. Corey;Carole R. Mendelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry W. Shay
Jerry W. Shay The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Frank Rigo
Frank Rigo Ionis Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Eric E. Swayze
Eric E. Swayze Ionis Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John D. Minna
John D. Minna The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Charles S. Craik
Charles S. Craik University of California, San Francisco
Muthiah Manoharan
Muthiah Manoharan Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Masad J. Damha
Masad J. Damha McGill University
David J. Mangelsdorf
David J. Mangelsdorf The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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