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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Kay E. Davies is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, Nerve Injury and Regeneration, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Therapeutic approaches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 2023, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Control of backbone chemistry and chirality boost oligonucleotide splice switching activity, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Evaluating the potential of novel genetic approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 2021, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Alterations of neuromuscular junctions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 2020, Neuroscience Letters
  • Deletion of AMPA receptor GluA1 subunit gene (Gria1) causes circadian rhythm disruption and aberrant responses to environmental cues, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors of Kay E. Davies include:

  • Angela J. Russell
  • Stephen G. Davies
  • Maria Chatzopoulou
  • Sarah Squire
  • Graham M. Wynne

Their work has often been published in venues such as:

  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Journal of Clinical Virology
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • UNC Libraries

Kay E. Davies has received notable recognition, including the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2015 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Function and genetics of dystrophin and dystrophin-related proteins in muscle

    Derek J. Blake;Andrew Weir;Sarah E. Newey;Kay E. Davies

  • A gene (PEX) with homologies to endopeptidases is mutated in patients with X–linked hypophosphatemic rickets

    F. Francis;S. Hennig;B. Korn;R. Reinhardt

  • Utrophin-Dystrophin-Deficient Mice as a Model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    Anne E Deconinck;Jill A Rafael;Judith A Skinner;Susan C Brown

  • A highly polymorphic DNA marker linked to adult polycystic kidney disease on chromosome 16

    S. T. Reeders;M. H. Breuning;K. E. Davies;R. D. Nicholls

  • A functional genetic link between distinct developmental language disorders.

    Sonja C. Vernes;Dianne F. Newbury;Brett S. Abrahams;Laura Winchester

  • Report of the committee on the genetic constitution of the X chromosome

    K E Davies;J L Mandel;A P Monaco;R L Nussbaum

  • International SMA consortium meeting. (26-28 June 1992, Bonn, Germany).

    Theodore L. Munsat;Kay E. Davies

  • Expression of full-length utrophin prevents muscular dystrophy in mdx mice

    Jonathon Tinsley;Nicolas Deconinck;Rosie Fisher;David Kahn

  • Genetic mapping of chronic childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy to chromosome 5q1 1.2–13.3

    L. M. Brzustowicz;L. M. Brzustowicz;T. Lehner;T. Lehner;L. H. Castilla;L. H. Castilla;G. K. Penchaszadeh;G. K. Penchaszadeh

  • A systematic, genome-wide, phenotype-driven mutagenesis programme for gene function studies in the mouse.

    P M Nolan;J Peters;M Strivens;D Rogers

  • Very mild muscular dystrophy associated with the deletion of 46% of dystrophin.

    S. B. England;L. V. B. Nicholson;M. A. Johnson;S. M. Forrest

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

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

  • Trinucleotide repeat amplification and hypermethylation of a CpG island in FRAXE mental retardation

    S.J.L. Knight;A.V. Flannery;M.C. Hirst;L. Campbell

  • An autosomal transcript in skeletal muscle with homology to dystrophin.

    Donald R. Love;Diane F. Hill;George Dickson;Nigel K. Spurr

  • Amelioration of the dystrophic phenotype of mdx mice using a truncated utrophin transgene

    Jonathon M. Tinsley;Allyson C. Potter;Steven R. Phelps;Rosie Fisher

  • PDZ domains: targeting signalling molecules to sub-membranous sites.

    Christopher P. Ponting;Christopher Phillips;Kay E. Davies;Derek J. Blake

  • Primary structure of dystrophin-related protein.

    Jonathon M. Tinsley;Derek J. Blake;A. Roche;U. Fairbrother

  • Linkage analysis of two cloned DNA sequences flanking the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus on the short arm of the human X chromosome

    K.E. Davies;P.L. Pearson;P.S. Harper;J.M. Murray;J.M. Murray

  • Mutations in α-Tubulin Cause Abnormal Neuronal Migration in Mice and Lissencephaly in Humans

    David A. Keays;Guoling Tian;Karine Poirier;Guo Jen Huang

  • The Dual Specificity Phosphatases M3/6 and MKP-3 Are Highly Selective for Inactivation of Distinct Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases

    Marco Muda;Aspasia Theodosiou;Nanda Rodrigues;Ursula Boschert

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Blake
Derek J. Blake Cardiff University
Kevin Talbot
Kevin Talbot University of Oxford
Donald R. Love
Donald R. Love Auckland City Hospital
Samantha J.L. Knight
Samantha J.L. Knight University of Oxford
Rajesh V. Thakker
Rajesh V. Thakker University of Oxford
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne
Terry J. Smith
Terry J. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Victor Dubowitz
Victor Dubowitz Imperial College London
Chris P. Ponting
Chris P. Ponting University of Edinburgh
Peter S. Harper
Peter S. Harper Cardiff University

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