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Fyodor D. Urnov is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans key topics in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, focusing on molecular biology, infectious diseases, genetics, physiology, and oncology as primary subfields.

The main themes in Fyodor D. Urnov's work involve CRISPR and genetic engineering, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 research, biomedical ethics and regulation, biosensors and analytical detection, pluripotent stem cell research, and clinical research studies related to COVID-19.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Urnov are:

  • "Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease", 2025, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Persistent repression of tau in the brain using engineered zinc finger protein transcription factors", 2021, Science Advances
  • "Blueprint for a pop-up SARS-CoV-2 testing lab", 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "A roadmap for affordable genetic medicines", 2024, Nature
  • "Enhancing pediatric access to cell and gene therapies", 2024, Nature Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Urnov include:

  • Jennifer A. Doudna (9 publications)
  • Petros Giannikopoulos (7 publications)
  • Alexander J. Ehrenberg (7 publications)
  • Jennifer Hamilton (7 publications)
  • Ariana Hirsh (7 publications)

Key publication venues where Urnov's work has appeared often include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with eight publications, The CRISPR Journal with five, PLoS ONE with four, Molecular Therapy with three, and the New England Journal of Medicine with two.

Best Publications

  • Genome editing with engineered zinc finger nucleases

    Fyodor D. Urnov;Edward J. Rebar;Michael C. Holmes;H. Steve Zhang

  • A TALE nuclease architecture for efficient genome editing

    Jeffrey C Miller;Siyuan Tan;Guijuan Qiao;Kyle A Barlow

  • Highly efficient endogenous human gene correction using designed zinc-finger nucleases

    Fyodor D. Urnov;Jeffrey C. Miller;Ya-Li Lee;Christian M. Beausejour

  • Genetic engineering of human pluripotent cells using TALE nucleases

    Dirk Hockemeyer;Haoyi Wang;Samira Kiani;Christine S Lai

  • Distinct Factors Control Histone Variant H3.3 Localization at Specific Genomic Regions

    Aaron D. Goldberg;Laura A. Banaszynski;Kyung Min Noh;Peter W. Lewis

  • Establishment of HIV-1 resistance in CD4+ T cells by genome editing using zinc-finger nucleases

    Elena E. Perez;Jianbin Wang;Jeffrey C. Miller;Yann Jouvenot;Yann Jouvenot

  • Efficient targeting of expressed and silent genes in human ESCs and iPSCs using zinc-finger nucleases

    Dirk Hockemeyer;Frank Soldner;Caroline Beard;Qing Gao

  • Knockout Rats via Embryo Microinjection of Zinc-Finger Nucleases

    Aron M. Geurts;Gregory J. Cost;Yevgeniy Freyvert;Bryan Zeitler

  • Precise genome modification in the crop species Zea mays using zinc-finger nucleases

    Vipula K. Shukla;Yannick Doyon;Jeffrey C. Miller;Russell C. DeKelver

  • Heritable targeted gene disruption in zebrafish using designed zinc-finger nucleases

    Yannick Doyon;Jasmine M McCammon;Jeffrey C Miller;Farhoud Faraji

  • Gene editing in human stem cells using zinc finger nucleases and integrase-defective lentiviral vector delivery

    A. Lombardo;A. Lombardo;P. Genovese;P. Genovese;C.M. Beausejour;C.M. Beausejour;S. Colleoni;S. Colleoni

  • Generation of Isogenic Pluripotent Stem Cells Differing Exclusively at Two Early Onset Parkinson Point Mutations

    Frank Soldner;Josée Laganière;Albert W. Cheng;Dirk Hockemeyer

  • Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs.

    Andrew J. Wood;Te-Wen Lo;Bryan Zeitler;Catherine S. Pickle

  • K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

    Judith Straimer;Nina F. Gnädig;Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga

  • Don’t edit the human germ line

    Edward Lanphier;Fyodor Urnov;Sarah Ehlen Haecker;Michael Werner

  • Targeted gene addition into a specified location in the human genome using designed zinc finger nucleases.

    Erica A. Moehle;Jeremy M. Rock;Ya-Li Lee;Yann Jouvenot

  • Enhancing zinc-finger-nuclease activity with improved obligate heterodimeric architectures

    Yannick Doyon;Thuy D Vo;Matthew C Mendel;Shon G Greenberg

  • Targeted gene knockout in mammalian cells by using engineered zinc-finger nucleases

    Yolanda Santiago;Edmond Chan;Pei-Qi Liu;Salvatore Orlando

  • Nuclear receptors: coactivators, corepressors and chromatin remodeling in the control of transcription

    TN Collingwood;FD Urnov;AP Wolffe

  • Genetic engineering of human ES and iPS cells using TALE nucleases

    Dirk Hockemeyer;Haoyi Wang;Samira Kiani;Christine S. Lai

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip D. Gregory
Philip D. Gregory Sangamo BioSciences (United States)
Edward J. Rebar
Edward J. Rebar Sangamo BioSciences (United States)
Michael C. Holmes
Michael C. Holmes Ambys Medicines
Jeffrey C. Miller
Jeffrey C. Miller Sangamo BioSciences (United States)
Lei Zhang
Lei Zhang Sangamo BioSciences (United States)
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington
Dirk Hockemeyer
Dirk Hockemeyer University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer A. Doudna
Jennifer A. Doudna University of California, Berkeley
Thalia Papayannopoulou
Thalia Papayannopoulou University of Washington

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