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Kevin V. Morris

Kevin V. Morris

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Genetics

D-Index
52
Citations
13103
World Ranking
3775
National Ranking
1627

Overview

Kevin V. Morris is affiliated with the City of Hope in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the biological and medical sciences, with a particular focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Key subfields where they have contributed include molecular biology, infectious diseases, cancer research, immunology, and genetics.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Frequent publication venues for Kevin V. Morris consist of:

  • Molecular Therapy
  • Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries

Recent papers include:

  • A SARS-CoV-2 targeted siRNA-nanoparticle therapy for COVID-19 (2021) published in Molecular Therapy
  • Extracellular vesicles: The next generation in gene therapy delivery (2023) published in Molecular Therapy
  • Exosome-mediated stable epigenetic repression of HIV-1 (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Therapeutic potential of RNA-enriched extracellular vesicles: The next generation in RNA delivery via biogenic nanoparticles (2024) published in Molecular Therapy
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cell exosome delivered Zinc Finger Protein activation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (2021) published in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Kevin V. Morris has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Tristan Scott
  • Roslyn M. Ray
  • Adi Idris
  • Nigel A.J. McMillan
  • Aroon Supramaniam

Best Publications

  • The rise of regulatory RNA.

    Kevin V. Morris;John S. Mattick

  • Small interfering RNA-induced transcriptional gene silencing in human cells.

    Kevin V. Morris;Simon W.-L. Chan;Steven E. Jacobsen;David J. Looney;David J. Looney

  • Evolutionary conservation of long non-coding RNAs; sequence, structure, function.

    Per Johnsson;Leonard Lipovich;Dan Grandér;Kevin V. Morris;Kevin V. Morris

  • Argonaute-1 directs siRNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

    Daniel H Kim;Louisa M Villeneuve;Kevin V Morris;John J Rossi

  • The reality of pervasive transcription

    Michael B. Clark;Paulo P. Amaral;Felix J. Schlesinger;Marcel E. Dinger

  • A pseudogene long noncoding RNA network regulates PTEN transcription and translation in human cells

    Per Johnsson;Amanda Ackley;Linda Vidarsdottir;Weng-Onn Lui

  • Bidirectional Transcription Directs Both Transcriptional Gene Activation and Suppression in Human Cells

    Kevin V. Morris;Sharon Santoso;Anne-Marie W Turner;Chiara Pastori

  • The antisense strand of small interfering RNAs directs histone methylation and transcriptional gene silencing in human cells.

    Marc S. Weinberg;Louisa M. Villeneuve;Ali Ehsani;Mohammed Amarzguioui

  • Promoter-associated RNA is required for RNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

    Jiang Han;Daniel Kim;Kevin V. Morris

  • Profiling microRNA expression with microarrays.

    James Q. Yin;Robert C. Zhao;Kevin V. Morris

  • Interferon-γ and Systemic Autoimmunity

    Kenneth M. Pollard;David M. Cauvi;Christopher B. Toomey;Kevin V. Morris

  • Promoter targeted small RNAs induce long-term transcriptional gene silencing in human cells

    Peter G. Hawkins;Sharon Santoso;Christopher Adams;Vasiliki Anest

  • Transcriptional regulation of Oct4 by a long non-coding RNA antisense to Oct4-pseudogene 5.

    Peter G. Hawkins;Kevin V. Morris

  • The role of long non-coding RNAs in neurodevelopment, brain function and neurological disease

    Thomas C. Roberts;Kevin V. Morris;Matthew J. A. Wood

  • An HIV-encoded antisense long noncoding RNA epigenetically regulates viral transcription.

    Sheena Saayman;Amanda Ackley;Anne Marie W Turner;Marylinda Famiglietti

  • Lentiviral-mediated delivery of siRNAs for antiviral therapy.

    K V Morris;J J Rossi

  • RNA and transcriptional modulation of gene expression.

    Peter G Hawkins;Kevin V Morris

  • Snapshots: chromatin control of viral infection.

    David M. Knipe;Paul M. Lieberman;Jae U. Jung;Alison A. McBride

  • Potent and Targeted Activation of Latent HIV-1 Using the CRISPR/dCas9 Activator Complex

    Sheena M Saayman;Sheena M Saayman;Daniel C Lazar;Tristan A Scott;Jonathan R Hart

  • A SARS-CoV-2 targeted siRNA-nanoparticle therapy for COVID-19.

    Adi Idris;Alicia Davis;Alicia Davis;Aroon Supramaniam;Dhruba Acharya

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi City Of Hope National Medical Center
Peter K. Vogt
Peter K. Vogt Scripps Research Institute
Dan Grandér
Dan Grandér Karolinska Institute
Matthew J.A. Wood
Matthew J.A. Wood University of Oxford
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala University of Eastern Finland
Vicente Planelles
Vicente Planelles University of Utah
Ramesh Akkina
Ramesh Akkina Colorado State University
John S. Mattick
John S. Mattick University of New South Wales
Ryan J. Taft
Ryan J. Taft Illumina (United States)
Ali Ehsani
Ali Ehsani University of Qom

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