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Jon A. Wolff publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jon A. Wolff sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 175 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Jon A. Wolff D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jon A. Wolff sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jon A. Wolff was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covered several specific subfields, including geriatrics and gerontology, genetics, oncology, and molecular biology. Their scholarly output also addressed various topics such as pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, virus-based gene therapy research, CAR-T cell therapy research, and viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects.

Among the recent publications attributed to Jon A. Wolff were the following:

  • 263 Informing Intervention Design in Cognitively Impaired Populations: Lessons Learned from the Optimize Deprescribing Intervention, 2022, Age and Ageing
  • Reengineering a receptor footprint of adeno-associated virus enables selective and systemic gene transfer to muscle, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Current Status of Pharmaceutical and Genetic Therapeutic Approaches to Treat DMD, 2020, UNC Libraries

Their frequent publication venues included UNC Libraries and Age and Ageing, with multiple contributions in the former and at least one publication in the latter.

Jon A. Wolff collaborated with several coauthors during their career. Recurring collaborators included O Sheehan, EA Bayliss, Andrew R. Green, ML Drace, and James S Norton.

Best Publications

  • Direct gene transfer into mouse muscle in vivo.

    Jon A. Wolff;Robert W. Malone;Phillip Williams;Wang Chong

  • High levels of foreign gene expression in hepatocytes after tail vein injections of naked plasmid DNA.

    Guofeng Zhang;Vladimir Budker;Jon A. Wolff

  • Long-term persistence of plasmid DNA and foreign gene expression in mouse muscle.

    Jon A. Wolff;James J. Ludtke;Gyula Acsadi;Philip Williams

  • Efficient delivery of siRNA for inhibition of gene expression in postnatal mice

    David L. Lewis;James E. Hagstrom;Aaron G. Loomis;Jon A. Wolff

  • Dynamic PolyConjugates for targeted in vivo delivery of siRNA to hepatocytes.

    David B. Rozema;David L. Lewis;Darren H. Wakefield;So C. Wong

  • Human dystrophin expression in mdx mice after intramuscular injection of dna constructs

    Gyula Acsadi;George Dickson;Donald R. Love;Agnes Jani

  • Grafting genetically modified cells to the damaged brain: restorative effects of NGF expression

    Michael B. Rosenberg;Theodore Friedmann;Robin C. Robertson;Mark Tuszynski

  • Progress and prospects: naked DNA gene transfer and therapy.

    H Herweijer;J A Wolff

  • Conditions affecting direct gene transfer into rodent muscle in vivo.

    Wolff Ja;Williams P;Acsadi G;Jiao S

  • Direct Gene Transfer into Nonhuman Primate Myofibers In Vivo

    Shoushu Jiao;Phillip Williams;Randi K. Berg;Bradley A. Hodgeman

  • Plasmid DNA entry into postmitotic nuclei of primary rat myotubes

    Martin E. Dowty;Phillip Williams;Guofeng Zhang;James E. Hagstrom

  • DNA vector chemistry: The covalent attachment of signal peptides to plasmid DNA

    Magdolna G. Sebestyén;James J. Ludtke;Michael C. Bassik;Guofeng Zhang

  • The Mechanism of Naked DNA Uptake and Expression

    Jon A Wolff;Vladimir Budker

  • Direct gene transfer and expression into rat heart in vivo.

    G Acsadi;S S Jiao;A Jani;D Duke

  • Long-term correction of rat model of Parkinson's disease by gene therapy

    Shoushu Jiao;Vladimir Gurevich;Jon A. Wolff

  • A nuclear localization signal can enhance both the nuclear transport and expression of 1 kb DNA.

    James J. Ludtke;Guofeng Zhang;Magdolna G. Sebestyén;Jon A. Wolff

  • Grafting genetically modified cells to the brain: possibilities for the future.

    F.H. Gage;J.A. Wolff;M.B. Rosenberg;L. Xu

  • Expression of naked plasmids by cultured myotubes and entry of plasmids into T tubules and caveolae of mammalian skeletal muscle.

    Jon A. Wolff;Martin E. Dowty;Shoushu Jiao;Gabriella Repetto

  • Hypothesis: naked plasmid DNA is taken up by cells in vivo by a receptor-mediated process.

    Vladimir Budker;Tatayana Budker;Guofeng Zhang;Vladimir Subbotin

  • Reengineering a receptor footprint of adeno-associated virus enables selective and systemic gene transfer to muscle

    Aravind Asokan;Julia C. Conway;Jana L. Phillips;Chengwen Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Marion L. Greaser
Marion L. Greaser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Theodore Friedmann
Theodore Friedmann University of California, San Diego
Franklin R. Manis
Franklin R. Manis University of Southern California
Stuart J. Knechtle
Stuart J. Knechtle Duke University
Philip L. Felgner
Philip L. Felgner University of California, Irvine
Xandra O. Breakefield
Xandra O. Breakefield Harvard University
Dietrich Matern
Dietrich Matern Mayo Clinic
Catherine McBride-Chang
Catherine McBride-Chang Purdue University West Lafayette
Brage S. Andresen
Brage S. Andresen University of Southern Denmark
Louise T. Chow
Louise T. Chow University of Alabama at Birmingham

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