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Overview

Michele A. Cleary is affiliated with MSD in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, with an emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

Their work addresses several topics, notably:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Cleary has published recent papers including:

  • "Effectiveness of current digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia interventions for adolescents with insomnia symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis," 2025, Journal of Sleep Research
  • "The perspectives of autistic adolescents and their parents on sleep strategies for insomnia," 2025, Sleep Medicine

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Cele Richardson
  • Helen Heussler
  • Jenny Downs
  • Jennifer H. Walsh
  • R J Ross

Michele A. Cleary's work appears mainly in journals such as the Journal of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine, with contributions covering experimental and clinical approaches to understanding sleep-related challenges, especially in youth populations.

Best Publications

  • A microRNA component of the p53 tumour suppressor network

    Lin He;Xingyue He;Xingyue He;Lee P. Lim;Elisa de Stanchina;Elisa de Stanchina

  • Widespread siRNA "off-target" transcript silencing mediated by seed region sequence complementarity.

    Aimee L. Jackson;Julja Burchard;Janell Schelter;B. Nelson Chau

  • A resource for large-scale RNA-interference-based screens in mammals

    Patrick J. Paddison;Jose M. Silva;Douglas S. Conklin;Douglas S. Conklin;Mike Schlabach;Mike Schlabach

  • Second-generation shRNA libraries covering the mouse and human genomes.

    Jose M Silva;Mamie Z Li;Ken Chang;Wei Ge

  • MicroRNAs in the miR-106b Family Regulate p21/CDKN1A and Promote Cell Cycle Progression

    Irena Ivanovska;Alexey S. Ball;Robert L. Diaz;Jill F. Magnus

  • Transcripts targeted by the microRNA-16 family cooperatively regulate cell cycle progression

    Peter S. Linsley;Janell Schelter;Julja Burchard;Miho Kibukawa

  • Synthetic shRNAs as potent RNAi triggers.

    Despina Siolas;Despina Siolas;Cara Lerner;Julja Burchard;Wei Ge

  • HIF Induces Human Embryonic Stem Cell Markers in Cancer Cells

    Julie Mathieu;Zhan Zhang;Wenyu Zhou;Amy J. Wang

  • The POU domain: versatility in transcriptional regulation by a flexible two-in-one DNA-binding domain.

    W Herr;M A Cleary

  • MicroRNAs and cell cycle regulation.

    Michael Carleton;Michele A. Cleary;Peter S. Linsley

  • Coordinated Regulation of Cell Cycle Transcripts by p53-Inducible microRNAs, miR-192 and miR-215

    Sara A Georges;Matthew C Biery;Soo-Yeon Kim;Janell M Schelter

  • MicroRNA miR-210 modulates cellular response to hypoxia through the MYC antagonist MNT.

    Zhan Zhang;Hong Sun;Hongyue Dai;Ryan M Walsh

  • The Myc–miR-17∼92 Axis Blunts TGFβ Signaling and Production of Multiple TGFβ-Dependent Antiangiogenic Factors

    Michael Dews;Jamie L. Fox;Stacy Hultine;Prema Sundaram

  • Cloning of short hairpin RNAs for gene knockdown in mammalian cells

    Patrick J Paddison;Michele Cleary;Jose Maria Silva;Kenneth Chang

  • Production of complex nucleic acid libraries using highly parallel in situ oligonucleotide synthesis.

    Michele A Cleary;Kristopher Kilian;Yanqun Wang;Jeff Bradshaw

  • microRNAs regulate human embryonic stem cell division.

    Junlin Qi;Jenn Yah Yu;Halyna R. Shcherbata;Julie Mathieu

  • Global Survey of Genomic Imprinting by Transcriptome Sequencing

    Tomas Babak;Brian DeVeale;Christopher Armour;Christopher Raymond

  • Characterization of microRNAs involved in embryonic stem cell states.

    Bradford Stadler;Irena Ivanovska;Kshama Mehta;Sunny Song

  • p53-responsive miR-194 inhibits thrombospondin-1 and promotes angiogenesis in colon cancers

    Prema Sundaram;Stacy Hultine;Lauren M. Smith;Michael Dews

  • New Regulators of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Revealed by Integrative Molecular Screening

    Michael B. Major;Brian S. Roberts;Jason D. Berndt;Shane Marine

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter S. Linsley
Peter S. Linsley Benaroya Research Institute
Winship Herr
Winship Herr University of Lausanne
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Marc Ferrer
Marc Ferrer National Institutes of Health
Randall T. Moon
Randall T. Moon University of Washington
W. Richard McCombie
W. Richard McCombie Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ravi Sachidanandam
Ravi Sachidanandam Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael J. MacCoss
Michael J. MacCoss University of Washington
Stephen J. Elledge
Stephen J. Elledge Harvard University
Hannele Ruohola-Baker
Hannele Ruohola-Baker University of Washington

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