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Ronald Cohn

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Ronald Cohn

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
10 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (4 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 5 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Crispr Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Osteopontin Utrophin Dystrophin Base Editing Humanized Mouse Models Prime Editing

Latest papers

Exome and Genome Sequencing to Diagnose the Genetic Basis of Neonatal Hypotonia: An International Consortium Study.
Neurology · 2025
Co-assembly of oligo-urethane nanoparticles with defined lipid additives to tailor RNA delivery into cells.
Acta biomaterialia · 2025
Genetics Navigator: protocol for a mixed methods randomized controlled trial evaluating a digital platform to deliver genomic services in Canadian pediatric and adult populations.
BMJ open · 2024

All 16 publications

Latest funding

Next-Generation Gene Editing for DMD: Efficacy and Safety of AAV-Compatible Adenine Base and Prime Editing in a Humanized Mouse Model
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$990,675
Translation of base editing for correction of nonsense variants in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000
A Data-driven Approach to Identify High Priority Research Topics for Pediatric Hospital Care
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 15 grants and awards

16 publications.

Exome and Genome Sequencing to Diagnose the Genetic Basis of Neonatal Hypotonia: An International Consortium Study.

Morton SU, Costain G, French CE, Wakeling E, Szuto A, Christodoulou J, Cohn R, Darras BT, Wojcik MH, D'Gama AM, Dowling JJ, Lunke S, Muntoni F, Raymond L, Rowitch D, Beggs AH, Stark Z, Agrawal PB

Neurology2025

DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000210106 PMID: 39700446

Co-assembly of oligo-urethane nanoparticles with defined lipid additives to tailor RNA delivery into cells.

Shrestha S, Yan E, Yang B, Blundell A, Teng ACT, Marks RM, Cohn R, Ivakine E, Gramolini AO, Santerre JP

Acta biomaterialia2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2025.06.017 PMID: 40523574

Genetics Navigator: protocol for a mixed methods randomized controlled trial evaluating a digital platform to deliver genomic services in Canadian pediatric and adult populations.

D'Amours G, Clausen M, Luca S, Reble E, Kodida R, Assamad D, Bernier F, Chad L, Costain G, Dhalla I, Faghfoury H, Friedman JM, Hewson S, Jamieson T, Silver J, Shuman C, Osmond M, Carroll JC, Jobling R, Laberge AM, Aronson M, Liston E, Lerner-Ellis J, Marshall C, Brudno M, Pham Q, Rudzicz F, Cohn R, Mamdani M, Smith M, Shastri-Estrada S, Seto E, Thorpe K, Ungar W, Hayeems RZ, Bombard Y

BMJ open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090084 PMID: 39231549

AAV gene therapy for hereditary spastic paraplegia type 50: a phase 1 trial in a single patient.

Dowling JJ, Pirovolakis T, Devakandan K, Stosic A, Pidsadny M, Nigro E, Sahin M, Ebrahimi-Fakhari D, Messahel S, Varadarajan G, Greenberg BM, Chen X, Minassian BA, Cohn R, Bonnemann CG, Gray SJ

Nature medicine2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03078-4 PMID: 38942994

Novel protein-truncating variants of a chromatin-modifying gene MSL2 in syndromic neurodevelopmental disorders.

Lu X, Ng K, Pinto E Vairo F, Collins J, Cohn R, Riley K, Agre K, Gavrilova R, Klee EW, Rosenfeld JA, Jiang YH

European journal of human genetics : EJHG2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41431-024-01576-0 PMID: 38702431

Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of exome sequencing and its impact on diagnostic thinking for patients with rare disease in a publicly funded health care system: A prospective cohort study

Hartley T, Marshall D, Acker M, Fooks K, Gillespie MK, Price EM, Graham ID, White-Brown A, MacKay L, Macdonald SK

Genetics in Medicine202410 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2023.101012

Advancing Precision Medicine in Paediatrics: Past, present and future.

Elzagallaai A, Barker C, Lewis T, Cohn R, Rieder M

Cambridge prisms. Precision medicine2023

DOI: 10.1017/pcm.2022.14 PMID: 38550924

An efficient and cost-effective purification protocol for Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 nuclease.

Teng ACT, Tavassoli M, Shrestha S, Marks RM, McFadden MJ, Evagelou SL, Lindsay K, Vandenbelt A, Li W, Ivakine E, Cohn R, Santerre JP, Gramolini AO

STAR protocols2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101933 PMID: 36574341

Bridging clinical care and research in Ontario, Canada: Maximizing diagnoses from reanalysis of clinical exome sequencing data

Hartley T, Soubry É, Acker M, Osmond M, Couse M, Gillespie MK, Ito Y, Marshall AE, Lemire G, Huang L

Clinical Genetics202315 citations

DOI: 10.1111/cge.14262

Prevalence, Cost, and Variation in Cost of Pediatric Hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada

Gill PJ, Thavam T, Anwar MR, Zhu J, Parkin PC, Cohen E, To T, Mahant S, Buchanan F, Chen W

JAMA Network Open202233 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.47447

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Ronald Cohn

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Exome and Genome Sequencing to Diagnose the Genetic Basis of Neonatal Hypotonia: An International Consortium Study.

Co-assembly of oligo-urethane nanoparticles with defined lipid additives to tailor RNA delivery into cells.

Genetics Navigator: protocol for a mixed methods randomized controlled trial evaluating a digital platform to deliver genomic services in Canadian pediatric and adult populations.

AAV gene therapy for hereditary spastic paraplegia type 50: a phase 1 trial in a single patient.

Novel protein-truncating variants of a chromatin-modifying gene MSL2 in syndromic neurodevelopmental disorders.

Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of exome sequencing and its impact on diagnostic thinking for patients with rare disease in a publicly funded health care system: A prospective cohort study

Advancing Precision Medicine in Paediatrics: Past, present and future.

An efficient and cost-effective purification protocol for Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 nuclease.

Bridging clinical care and research in Ontario, Canada: Maximizing diagnoses from reanalysis of clinical exome sequencing data

Prevalence, Cost, and Variation in Cost of Pediatric Hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada

Frequent collaborators

Gregory Costain

Lauren Chad

Taila Hartley

Peter Kannu

Gail Graham

Evgueni Ivakine

Jodi Warman Chardon

David Chitayat

Mark Tarnopolsky

Muhammad Mamdani

Maureen Smith

Kristin Kernohan

Ashish Marwaha

Ashish Marwaha

Jagdeep Walia

Francois Bernier

Eriskay Liston

Beth Potter

Pranesh Chakraborty

Michael Geraghty

Robin Hayeems

Frank Rudzicz

Eyal Cohen

Cynthia Hawkins

Teresa To

David Dyment

Deborah Marshall

Rosanna Weksberg

Anne-Marie Laberge

Michael Brudno

Emily Seto

Kevin Thorpe

Jordan Lerner-Ellis

Wendy Ungar

Catherine Pound

Yvonne Bombard

Gita Wahi

Sanjay Mahant

Chumei Li