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  • 2019 - Edwin Grant Conklin Medal, Society for Developmental Biology
  • 2016 - Libin/AHFMR Prize in Cardiovascular Research
  • 2003 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eric N. Olson is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans across multiple disciplines, predominantly in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on medicine. Their subfields of study include molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, genetics, surgery, and oncology.

The scientist's work covers diverse key topics such as CRISPR and genetic engineering, congenital heart defects research, muscle physiology and disorders, pluripotent stem cells research, RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, and virus-based gene therapy research.

Recent publications of Eric N. Olson include:

  • Systemic nanoparticle delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins for effective tissue specific genome editing, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Precise correction of Duchenne muscular dystrophy exon deletion mutations by base and prime editing, 2021, Science Advances
  • Cell-Type-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Murine Neonatal Heart Regeneration at Single-Cell Resolution, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Dynamic Transcriptional Responses to Injury of Regenerative and Non-regenerative Cardiomyocytes Revealed by Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • YAP/TAZ deficiency reprograms macrophage phenotype and improves infarct healing and cardiac function after myocardial infarction, 2020, PLoS Biology

Eric N. Olson frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Ning Liu, Kenian Chen, Lin Xu, and John McAnally. These collaborators have contributed significantly to the body of work associated with Olson's research.

The scientist has published extensively in prominent scientific venues, such as Circulation Research, Circulation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Developmental Cell, and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Eric N. Olson has received a range of awards and honors throughout their career, including the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal from the Society for Developmental Biology in 2019, the Libin/AHFMR Prize in Cardiovascular Research in 2016, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association in 2003, election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award in 1999, and fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Best Publications

  • The many roles of histone deacetylases in development and physiology: Implications for disease and therapy

    Michael Haberland;Rusty L. Montgomery;Eric N. Olson

  • A Calcineurin-Dependent Transcriptional Pathway for Cardiac Hypertrophy

    Jeffery D. Molkentin;Jeffery D. Molkentin;Jian Rong Lu;Christopher L. Antos;Bruce Markham

  • Transcriptional co-activator PGC-1α drives the formation of slow-twitch muscle fibres

    Jiandie Lin;Hai Wu;Paul T. Tarr;Chen Yu Zhang

  • Transient regenerative potential of the neonatal mouse heart

    Enzo R. Porrello;Ahmed I. Mahmoud;Emma Simpson;Joseph A. Hill

  • Dysregulation of microRNAs after myocardial infarction reveals a role of miR-29 in cardiac fibrosis

    Eva van Rooij;Lillian B. Sutherland;Jeffrey E. Thatcher;J. Michael DiMaio

  • The Endothelial-Specific MicroRNA miR-126 Governs Vascular Integrity and Angiogenesis

    Shusheng Wang;Arin B Aurora;Brett A. Johnson;Xiaoxia Qi

  • Cardiac Hypertrophy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    N. Frey;N. Frey;Eric N Olson

  • Control of Stress-Dependent Cardiac Growth and Gene Expression by a MicroRNA

    Eva Van Rooij;Lillian B. Sutherland;Xiaoxia Qi;James A Richardson

  • A signature pattern of stress-responsive microRNAs that can evoke cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

    Eva van Rooij;Lillian B. Sutherland;Ning Liu;Andrew H. Williams

  • MicroRNAs in Stress Signaling and Human Disease

    Joshua T. Mendell;Eric N. Olson

  • Muscle deficiency and neonatal death in mice with a targeted mutation in the myogenin gene

    Paul Hasty;Paul Hasty;Allan Bradley;Julia H. Morris;Diane G. Edmondson

  • NFAT Signaling: Choreographing the Social Lives of Cells

    Gerald R Crabtree;Eric N Olson

  • Pervasive roles of microRNAs in cardiovascular biology

    Eric M. Small;Eric N. Olson

  • Delivery of microRNA-126 by apoptotic bodies induces CXCL12-dependent vascular protection

    Alma Zernecke;Kiril Bidzhekov;Heidi Noels;Erdenechimeg Shagdarsuren

  • Control of mouse cardiac morphogenesis and myogenesis by transcription factor MEF2C.

    Qing Lin;John Schwarz;Corazon Bucana;Eric N. Olson

  • TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT BY MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR-2 (MEF2) PROTEINS

    Brian L. Black;Eric N. Olson

  • Requirement of the transcription factor GATA4 for heart tube formation and ventral morphogenesis.

    Jeffery D. Molkentin;Qing Lin;Stephen A. Duncan;Eric N. Olson

  • Gene regulatory networks in the evolution and development of the heart

    Eric N. Olson

  • P53-independent expression of p21Cip1 in muscle and other terminally differentiating cells

    S. B. Parker;G. Eichele;Pumin Zhang;A. Rawls

  • Heart repair by reprogramming non-myocytes with cardiac transcription factors

    Kunhua Song;Young Jae Nam;Xiang Luo;Xiaoxia Qi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhonda Bassel-Duby
Rhonda Bassel-Duby The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
James A. Richardson
James A. Richardson The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John M. Shelton
John M. Shelton The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Timothy A. McKinsey
Timothy A. McKinsey University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Joseph A. Hill
Joseph A. Hill The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Deepak Srivastava
Deepak Srivastava King's College London
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Da-Zhi Wang
Da-Zhi Wang Boston Children's Hospital
James F. Martin
James F. Martin Baylor College of Medicine
Joseph M. Miano
Joseph M. Miano University of Rochester

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