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Ronald J. Mandel is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Neurology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics including virus-based gene therapy research, RNA interference and gene delivery, CRISPR and genetic engineering, nerve injury and regeneration, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neurological disorders and treatments, and cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Ronald J. Mandel has published work in multiple scientific venues. The prominent journals featuring their research include Gene Therapy, Molecular Therapy, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, and Biomolecules.

  • A comprehensive study of a 29-capsid AAV library in a non-human primate central nervous system (2021, Molecular Therapy)
  • The Future of GDNF in Parkinson's Disease (2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience)
  • Site-specific modifications to AAV8 capsid yields enhanced brain transduction in the neonatal MPS IIIB mouse (2020, Gene Therapy)
  • Correction: Site-specific modifications to AAV8 capsid yields enhanced brain transduction in the neonatal MPS IIIB mouse (2023, Gene Therapy)
  • Sex Differences in Brain Transcriptomes of Juvenile Cynomolgus Macaques (2025, Biomolecules)

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Ronald J. Mandel has coauthored papers with Sanford L. Boye, Coy D. Heldermon, Paul D. Gamlin, Janine Gilkes, and Benjamin L. Judkins.

Best Publications

  • A Third-Generation Lentivirus Vector with a Conditional Packaging System

    Tom Dull;Romain Zufferey;Michael Kelly;R. J. Mandel

  • Multiply attenuated lentiviral vector achieves efficient gene delivery in vivo.

    Romain Zufferey;Dea Nagy;Ron J. Mandel;Luigi Naldini

  • Self-Inactivating Lentivirus Vector for Safe and Efficient In Vivo Gene Delivery

    Romain Zufferey;Thomas Dull;Ronald J. Mandel;Anatoly Bukovsky

  • Nucleus basalis and thalamic control of neocortical activity in the freely moving rat

    G Buzsaki;RG Bickford;G Ponomareff;LJ Thal

  • Recombinant AAV viral vectors pseudotyped with viral capsids from serotypes 1, 2, and 5 display differential efficiency and cell tropism after delivery to different regions of the central nervous system.

    Corinna Burger;Oleg S. Gorbatyuk;Margaret J. Velardo;Carmen S. Peden

  • Parkinson-like neurodegeneration induced by targeted overexpression of alpha-synuclein in the nigrostriatal system.

    Deniz Kirik;Carl Rosenblad;Corinna Burger;Cecilia Lundberg

  • Long-term rAAV-mediated gene transfer of GDNF in the rat Parkinson's model: intrastriatal but not intranigral transduction promotes functional regeneration in the lesioned nigrostriatal system.

    Deniz Kirik;Carl Rosenblad;Anders Björklund;Ronald J. Mandel

  • Midbrain injection of recombinant adeno-associated virus encoding rat glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor protects nigral neurons in a progressive 6-hydroxydopamine-induced degeneration model of Parkinson’s disease in rats

    R. J. Mandel;S. K. Spratt;R. O. Snyder;S. E. Leff

  • Towards a neuroprotective gene therapy for Parkinson's disease: use of adenovirus, AAV and lentivirus vectors for gene transfer of GDNF to the nigrostriatal system in the rat Parkinson model.

    Anders Björklund;Deniz Kirik;C Rosenblad;B Georgievska

  • Nigrostriatal alpha-synucleinopathy induced by viral vector-mediated overexpression of human alpha-synuclein: a new primate model of Parkinson's disease.

    Deniz Kirik;Lucy E. Annett;Corinna Burger;Nicholas Muzyczka

  • Genome-wide genotyping in Parkinson's disease and neurologically normal controls: first stage analysis and public release of data

    Hon-Chung Fung;Hon-Chung Fung;Hon-Chung Fung;Sonja Scholz;Mar Matarin;Javier Simón-Sánchez;Javier Simón-Sánchez

  • The phosphorylation state of Ser-129 in human α-synuclein determines neurodegeneration in a rat model of Parkinson disease

    Oleg S. Gorbatyuk;Shoudong Li;Layla F. Sullivan;Weijun Chen

  • Continuous low-level glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor delivery using recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors provides neuroprotection and induces behavioral recovery in a primate model of Parkinson's disease

    Andisheh Eslamboli;Biljana Georgievska;Rosalind M. Ridley;Harry F. Baker

  • Characterization of Intrastriatal Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Gene Transfer of Human Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Human GTP-Cyclohydrolase I in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease

    R. J. Mandel;K. G. Rendahl;S. K. Spratt;R. O. Snyder

  • Intrastriatal rAAV-mediated delivery of anti-huntingtin shRNAs induces partial reversal of disease progression in R6/1 Huntington's disease transgenic mice.

    Edgardo Rodriguez-Lebron;Eileen M. Denovan-Wright;Kevin Nash;Alfred S. Lewin

  • Regional differences in the regulation of dopamine and noradrenaline release in medial frontal cortex, nucleus accumbens and caudate-putamen: a microdialysis study in the rat.

    M. Angela Cenci;Peter Kalén;Ronald J. Mandel;Anders Björklund

  • Long-term consequences of human alpha-synuclein overexpression in the primate ventral midbrain.

    Andisheh Eslamboli;Marina Romero-Ramos;Corinna Burger;Tomas Bjorklund

  • Analysis of the PINK1 Gene in a Large Cohort of Cases With Parkinson Disease

    Ekaterina Rogaeva;Janel Johnson;Anthony E. Lang;Cindy Gulick

  • Circulating Anti-Wild-Type Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2 (AAV2) Antibodies Inhibit Recombinant AAV2 (rAAV2)-Mediated, but Not rAAV5-Mediated, Gene Transfer in the Brain

    Carmen S. Peden;Corinna Burger;Nicholas Muzyczka;Ronald J. Mandel

  • In Vivo RNAi-Mediated α-Synuclein Silencing Induces Nigrostriatal Degeneration

    Oleg S Gorbatyuk;Shoudong Li;Kevin Nash;Marina Gorbatyuk

  • Immune Responses to Adenovirus and Adeno-Associated Vectors Used for Gene Therapy of Brain Diseases: The Role of Immunological Synapses in Understanding the Cell Biology of Neuroimmune Interactions

    Pedro R. Lowenstein;Ronald J. Mandel;Wei Dong Xiong;Kurt Kroeger

  • Regulation of gene expression in vivo following transduction by two separate rAAV vectors

    K. G. Rendahl;S. E. Leff;G. R. Otten;S. K. Spratt

  • Suppression of insult-induced neurogenesis in adult rat brain by brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

    Elin Larsson;Ronald J Mandel;Ronald L Klein;Nicholas Muzyczka

Frequent Co-Authors

Deniz Kirik
Deniz Kirik Lund University
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Leon J. Thal
Leon J. Thal University of California, San Diego
Michael S. Okun
Michael S. Okun University of Florida
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Patrick K. Randall
Patrick K. Randall Medical University of South Carolina
Cecilia Lundberg
Cecilia Lundberg Lund University
Jeffrey H. Kordower
Jeffrey H. Kordower Arizona State University
Kelly D. Foote
Kelly D. Foote University of Florida

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