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Morton J. Cowan is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with 76 and 60 publications respectively. Within these main areas, they focus strongly on subfields including Immunology, Genetics, Hematology, Epidemiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers a range of key topics such as Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Blood disorders and treatments, Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, Virus-based gene therapy research, Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms, and Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances.

Morton J. Cowan has contributed to numerous scientific articles, frequently publishing in notable venues. The most common journals where their research appears include Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Journal of Clinical Immunology, and Blood.

Recent significant papers include the following:

  • Excellent outcomes following hematopoietic cell transplantation for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: a PIDTC report, 2020, Blood
  • The diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID): The Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) 2022 Definitions, 2022, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Measuring the effect of newborn screening on survival after haematopoietic cell transplantation for severe combined immunodeficiency: a 36-year longitudinal study from the Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium, 2023, The Lancet
  • Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Patients With Primary Immune Regulatory Disorders (PIRD): A Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) Survey, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Lentiviral Gene Therapy for Artemis-Deficient SCID, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include Jennifer M. Puck, Christopher C. Dvorak, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Élie Haddad, and Donald B. Kohn, reflecting an extensive network within immunological and clinical research communities.

Best Publications

  • Transplantation Outcomes for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, 2000–2009

    Sung Yun Pai;Brent R. Logan;Linda M. Griffith;Rebecca H. Buckley

  • Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in 11 Screening Programs in the United States

    Antonia Kwan;Roshini S. Abraham;Robert Currier;Amy Brower

  • Acquired immunodeficiency in an infant: possible transmission by means of blood products.

    ArthurJ. Ammann;DianeW. Wara;Selma Dritz;MortonJ. Cowan

  • Hurler Syndrome: II. Outcome of HLA-Genotypically Identical Sibling and HLA-Haploidentical Related Donor Bone Marrow Transplantation in Fifty-Four Children

    Charles Peters;Elsa G. Shapiro;James Anderson;P. Jean Henslee-Downey

  • Long-term effect of bone-marrow transplantation for childhood-onset cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

    Elsa G Shapiro;W. Krivit;L. Lockman;I. Jambaqué

  • Long-term outcome and lineage-specific chimerism in 194 patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome treated by hematopoietic cell transplantation in the period 1980-2009: an international collaborative study

    Daniele Moratto;Silvia Giliani;Carmem Bonfim;Evelina Mazzolari

  • Impact of donor type on outcome of bone marrow transplantation for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: collaborative study of the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry and the National Marrow Donor Program.

    Alexandra H. Filipovich;Judy V. Stone;Sandra C. Tomany;Michele Ireland

  • Outcome of unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation in 40 children with Hurler syndrome.

    Charles Peters;Michael Balthazor;Elsa G. Shapiro;Roberta J. King

  • X-linked lymphoproliferative disease due to SAP/SH2D1A deficiency: a multicenter study on the manifestations, management, and outcome of the disease

    Claire Booth;Kimberly C. Gilmour;Paul Veys;Andrew R. Gennery

  • Establishing diagnostic criteria for severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID), leaky SCID, and Omenn syndrome: The Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium experience

    William T. Shearer;Elizabeth Dunn;Luigi D. Notarangelo;Christopher C. Dvorak

  • Lentiviral hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency

    Suk See De Ravin;Xiaolin Wu;Susan Moir;Lela Kardava

  • Long-term follow-up of IPEX syndrome patients after different therapeutic strategies: An international multicenter retrospective study

    Federica Barzaghi;Laura Cristina Amaya Hernandez;Benedicte Neven;Silvia Ricci

  • Degradation of newly synthesized collagen.

    R S Bienkowski;M J Cowan;J A McDonald;R G Crystal

  • Immune reconstitution and survival of 100 SCID patients post-hematopoietic cell transplant: a PIDTC natural history study.

    Jennifer Heimall;Brent R. Logan;Morton J. Cowan;Luigi D. Notarangelo

  • Lentiviral Gene Therapy Combined with Low-Dose Busulfan in Infants with SCID-X1.

    Ewelina Mamcarz;Sheng Zhou;Timothy Lockey;Hossam Abdelsamed

  • Pneumococcal polysaccharide immunization in infants and children.

    Morton J. Cowan;Arthur J. Ammann;Diane W. Wara;Virgil M. Howie

  • Association of busulfan exposure with survival and toxicity after haemopoietic cell transplantation in children and young adults: a multicentre, retrospective cohort analysis

    Imke H. Bartelink;Arief Lalmohamed;Elisabeth M L van Reij;Christopher C. Dvorak

  • Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency and T-cell lymphopenia in California: Results of the first 2 years

    Antonia Kwan;Joseph A. Church;Morton J. Cowan;Rajni Agarwal

  • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: diagnosis, clinical and laboratory manifestations, and treatment.

    Hans D. Ochs;Alexandra H. Filipovich;Paul Veys;Morton J. Cowan

  • Acquired immune dysfunction in homosexual men: immunologic profiles.

    Arthur J. Ammann;Donald Abrams;Marcus Conant;David Chudwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer M. Puck
Jennifer M. Puck University of California, San Francisco
Diane W. Wara
Diane W. Wara University of California, San Francisco
Arthur J. Ammann
Arthur J. Ammann University of California, San Francisco
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health
Sung-Yun Pai
Sung-Yun Pai National Institutes of Health
Donald B. Kohn
Donald B. Kohn University of California, Los Angeles
Rebecca H. Buckley
Rebecca H. Buckley Duke University
Brent R. Logan
Brent R. Logan Medical College of Wisconsin
Elie Haddad
Elie Haddad University of Montreal
William T. Shearer
William T. Shearer Baylor College of Medicine

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