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John J Morton

TitleAssistant Research Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
DepartmentSOM-MED
Phone303/724-6614

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    1. Kermansaravi M, Omar I, Finer N, Le Roux C, Carbajo MA, Sarwer D, Busetto L, Ponce J, Logue J, Parretti HM, O'Kane M, Shahabi S, Khunti K, Blakemore AI, Stenberg E, Abbott S, Alqahtani A, Aminian A, Amr B, Balibrea JM, Batterham RL, Behrens E, Bhatt DL, Chesworth P, Chowbey P, Clare K, Neto MG, Graham Y, Goel R, Hanif W, Herrera MF, Kasama K, Kassir R, Knop FK, Kothari SN, Kristinsson JA, McGowan B, McKechnie A, Miller K, Miras AD, Morton J, Ogden J, Peterli R, Pinkney JH, Pournaras D, Pouwels S, Prager G, Salminen P, Serlie MJ, Shabbir A, Singhal R, Taheri S, Tahrani AA, Weiner R, Shikora SA, Mahawar K. International expert consensus on surgery for type 2 diabetes mellitus. BMC Endocr Disord. 2025 Jul 01; 25(1):151. PMID: 40598146.
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    2. Brown WA, Liem R, Al-Sabah S, Anvari M, Boza C, Cohen RV, Ghaferi A, Våge V, Himpens J, Kow L, Morton J, Musella M, Pattou F, Sakran N, Clapp B, Prager G, Shikora S. Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Across the IFSO Chapters: Key Insights on the Baseline Patient Demographics, Procedure Types, and Mortality from the Eighth IFSO Global Registry Report. Obes Surg. 2024 May; 34(5):1764-1777. PMID: 38592648.
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    3. Hönisch B, Royer DL, Breecker DO, Polissar PJ, Bowen GJ, Henehan MJ, Cui Y, Steinthorsdottir M, McElwain JC, Kohn MJ, Pearson A, Phelps SR, Uno KT, Ridgwell A, Anagnostou E, Austermann J, Badger MPS, Barclay RS, Bijl PK, Chalk TB, Scotese CR, de la Vega E, DeConto RM, Dyez KA, Ferrini V, Franks PJ, Giulivi CF, Gutjahr M, Harper DT, Haynes LL, Huber M, Snell KE, Keisling BA, Konrad W, Lowenstein TK, Malinverno A, Guillermic M, Mejía LM, Milligan JN, Morton JJ, Nordt L, Whiteford R, Roth-Nebelsick A, Rugenstein JKC, Schaller MF, Sheldon ND, Sosdian S, Wilkes EB, Witkowski CR, Zhang YG, Anderson L, Beerling DJ, Bolton C, Cerling TE, Cotton JM, Da J, Ekart DD, Foster GL, Greenwood DR, Hyland EG, Jagniecki EA, Jasper JP, Kowalczyk JB, Kunzmann L, Kürschner WM, Lawrence CE, Lear CH, Martínez-Botí MA, Maxbauer DP, Montagna P, Naafs BDA, Rae JWB, Raitzsch M, Retallack GJ, Ring SJ, Seki O, Sepúlveda J, Sinha A, Tesfamichael TF, Tripati A, van der Burgh J, Yu J, Zachos JC, Zhang L. Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science. 2023 Dec 08; 382(6675):eadi5177. PMID: 38060645.
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    4. Nieto C, Miller B, Alzofon N, Chimed T, Himes J, Joshi M, Gomez K, Chowdhury FN, Le PN, Weaver A, Somerset H, Morton JJ, Wang JH, Wang XJ, Gao D, Hansen K, Keysar SB, Jimeno A. The?programmed death ligand 1 interactome demonstrates bidirectional signaling coordinating immune suppression and cancer progression in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 11 08; 115(11):1392-1403. PMID: 37389416.
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    5. Stults-Kolehmainen MA, Bond DS, Richardson LA, Herring LY, Mulone B, Garber CE, Morton J, Ghiassi S, Duffy AJ, Balk E, Abolt CJ, Howard MC, Ash GI, Williamson S, Marcon ER, De Los Santos M, Bond S, Huehls J, Alowaish O, Heyman NB, Gualano B. Role of the exercise professional in metabolic and bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2024 01; 20(1):98-108. PMID: 38238107.
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    6. Stults-Kolehmainen MA, Bond DS, Richardson LA, Herring LY, Mulone B, Garber CE, Morton J, Ghiassi S, Duffy AJ, Balk E, Abolt CJ, Howard MC, Ash GI, Williamson S, Marcon ER, De Los Santos M, Bond S, Huehls J, Alowaish O, Heyman NB, Gualano B. Role of the exercise professional in metabolic and bariatric surgery. medRxiv. 2023 Aug 18. PMID: 37645986.
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    7. Ramos SA, Armitage LH, Morton JJ, Alzofon N, Handler D, Kelly G, Homann D, Jimeno A, Russ HA. Generation of functional thymic organoids from human pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2023 04 11; 18(4):829-840. PMID: 36963390.
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    8. Jiang Z, Wang J, Imai D, Snider T, Klug J, Mangalindan R, Morton J, Zhu L, Salmon AB, Wezeman J, Hu J, Menon V, Marka N, Neidernhofer L, Ladiges W. Short term treatment with a cocktail of rapamycin, acarbose and phenylbutyrate delays aging phenotypes in mice. Sci Rep. 2022 05 04; 12(1):7300. PMID: 35508491.
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    9. Ramos SA, Morton JJ, Yadav P, Reed B, Alizadeh SI, Shilleh AH, Perrenoud L, Jaggers J, Kappler J, Jimeno A, Russ HA. Generation of functional human thymic cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 02; 149(2):767-781.e6. PMID: 34331993.
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    10. Welbourn R, Hollyman M, Kinsman R, Dixon J, Cohen R, Morton J, Ghaferi A, Higa K, Ottosson J, Pattou F, Al-Sabah S, Anvari M, Himpens J, Liem R, Våge V, Walton P, Brown W, Kow L. Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery Utilisation in Patients With and Without Diabetes: Data from the IFSO Global Registry 2015-2018. Obes Surg. 2021 06; 31(6):2391-2400. PMID: 33638756.
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    11. Jin Z, Gan TJ, Belani KG, Bergese S, Chung F, Diemunsch P, Habib AS, Kovac AL, Meyer TA, Urman RD, Apfel CC, Ayad S, Beagley L, Candiotti K, Englesakis M, Hedrick TL, Kranke P, Lee S, Lipman D, Minkowitz HS, Morton J, Philip BK. In Response. Anesth Analg. 2021 02 01; 132(2):e31-e33. PMID: 33449569.
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    12. Morton JJ, Alzofon N, Keysar SB, Chimed TS, Reisinger J, Perrenoud L, Le PN, Nieto C, Gomez K, Miller B, Yeager R, Gao D, Tan AC, Somerset H, Medina T, Wang XJ, Wang JH, Robinson W, Roop DR, Gonzalez R, Jimeno A. Studying Immunotherapy Resistance in a Melanoma Autologous Humanized Mouse Xenograft. Mol Cancer Res. 2021 02; 19(2):346-357. PMID: 33087417.
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    13. Dou Y, Darvas M, Sharma K, Mathieu J, Morton J, Tan H, Soto-Palma C, Angelini LA, McGowan SJ, Niedernhofer LJ, Suh Y, Robbins PD, Barzilai N, Ladiges WC. Development of an IGF1R longevity variant mouse line using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Trends Biomed Res. 2020 Dec; 3(1). PMID: 37113577.
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    14. Zhou R, Ying L, Valle J, Moore J, Nadzam G, Roberts K, Ghiassi S, Morton J, Duffy A. Correlating actual one-year weight loss with predicted weight loss by the MBSAQIP: bariatric surgical risk/benefit calculator. Surg Endosc. 2021 10; 35(10):5705-5708. PMID: 32968922.
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    15. Gomez KE, Wu F, Keysar SB, Morton JJ, Miller B, Chimed TS, Le PN, Nieto C, Chowdhury FN, Tyagi A, Lyons TR, Young CD, Zhou H, Somerset HL, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Cancer Cell CD44 Mediates Macrophage/Monocyte-Driven Regulation of Head and Neck Cancer Stem Cells. Cancer Res. 2020 10 01; 80(19):4185-4198. PMID: 32816856.
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    16. Gan TJ, Belani KG, Bergese S, Chung F, Diemunsch P, Habib AS, Jin Z, Kovac AL, Meyer TA, Urman RD, Apfel CC, Ayad S, Beagley L, Candiotti K, Englesakis M, Hedrick TL, Kranke P, Lee S, Lipman D, Minkowitz HS, Morton J, Philip BK. Fourth Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. Anesth Analg. 2020 08; 131(2):411-448. PMID: 32467512.
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    17. Morton JJ, Alzofon N, Jimeno A. The humanized mouse: Emerging translational potential. Mol Carcinog. 2020 07; 59(7):830-838. PMID: 32275343.
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    18. Keysar SB, Gomes N, Miller B, Jackson BC, Le PN, Morton JJ, Reisinger J, Chimed TS, Gomez KE, Nieto C, Frederick B, Pronk GJ, Somerset HL, Tan AC, Wang XJ, Raben D, Su TT, Jimeno A. Inhibiting Translation Elongation with SVC112 Suppresses Cancer Stem Cells and Inhibits Growth in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2020 03 01; 80(5):1183-1198. PMID: 31911553.
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    19. Chowdhury FN, Reisinger J, Gomez KE, Chimed TS, Thomas CM, Le PN, Miller B, Morton JJ, Nieto CM, Somerset HL, Wang XJ, Keysar SB, Jimeno A. Leading edge or tumor core: Intratumor cancer stem cell niches in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma and their association with stem cell function. Oral Oncol. 2019 11; 98:118-124. PMID: 31586893.
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    20. Morton J, Garg T, Leva N. Concerning Greater Social Contexts in Bariatric Surgery Availability and Telomere Length Outcomes-Reply. JAMA Surg. 2019 09 01; 154(9):884. PMID: 31188413.
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    21. Le PN, Keysar SB, Miller B, Eagles JR, Chimed TS, Reisinger J, Gomez KE, Nieto C, Jackson BC, Somerset HL, Morton JJ, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Wnt signaling dynamics in head and neck squamous cell cancer tumor-stroma interactions. Mol Carcinog. 2019 03; 58(3):398-410. PMID: 30378175.
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    22. Morton JJ, Keysar SB, Perrenoud L, Chimed TS, Reisinger J, Jackson B, Le PN, Nieto C, Gomez K, Miller B, Gao D, Somerset H, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Dual use of hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells enhances engraftment and immune cell trafficking in an allogeneic humanized mouse model of head and neck cancer. Mol Carcinog. 2018 11; 57(11):1651-1663. PMID: 30129680.
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    23. Keysar SB, Eagles JR, Miller B, Jackson BC, Chowdhury FN, Reisinger J, Chimed TS, Le PN, Morton JJ, Somerset HL, Varella-Garcia M, Tan AC, Song JI, Bowles DW, Reyland ME, Jimeno A. Salivary Gland Cancer Patient-Derived Xenografts Enable Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells and New Gene Events Associated with Tumor Progression. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 06 15; 24(12):2935-2943. PMID: 29555661.
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    24. Keysar SB, Le PN, Miller B, Jackson BC, Eagles JR, Nieto C, Kim J, Tang B, Glogowska MJ, Morton JJ, Padilla-Just N, Gomez K, Warnock E, Reisinger J, Arcaroli JJ, Messersmith WA, Wakefield LM, Gao D, Tan AC, Serracino H, Vasiliou V, Roop DR, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Regulation of Head and Neck Squamous Cancer Stem Cells by PI3K and SOX2. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2017 01; 109(1). PMID: 27634934.
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    25. Morton JJ, Bird G, Refaeli Y, Jimeno A. Humanized Mouse Xenograft Models: Narrowing the Tumor-Microenvironment Gap. Cancer Res. 2016 11 01; 76(21):6153-6158. PMID: 27587540.
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    26. Gan GN, Altunbas C, Morton JJ, Eagles J, Backus J, Dzingle W, Raben D, Jimeno A. Radiation dose uncertainty and correction for a mouse orthotopic and xenograft irradiation model. Int J Radiat Biol. 2016; 92(1):50-6. PMID: 26689828.
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    27. Gan GN, Eagles J, Keysar SB, Wang G, Glogowska MJ, Altunbas C, Anderson RT, Le PN, Morton JJ, Frederick B, Raben D, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Hedgehog signaling drives radioresistance and stroma-driven tumor repopulation in head and neck squamous cancers. Cancer Res. 2014 Dec 01; 74(23):7024-36. PMID: 25297633.
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    28. Bird GA, Polsky A, Estes P, Hanlon T, Hamilton H, Morton JJ, Gutman J, Jimeno A, Turner BC, Refaeli Y. Expansion of human and murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells ex vivo without genetic modification using MYC and Bcl-2 fusion proteins. PLoS One. 2014; 9(8):e105525. PMID: 25170611.
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    29. Watchmaker PB, Lahl K, Lee M, Baumjohann D, Morton J, Kim SJ, Zeng R, Dent A, Ansel KM, Diamond B, Hadeiba H, Butcher EC. Comparative transcriptional and functional profiling defines conserved programs of intestinal DC differentiation in humans and mice. Nat Immunol. 2014 Jan; 15(1):98-108. PMID: 24292363.
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    30. Anderson RT, Keysar SB, Bowles DW, Glogowska MJ, Astling DP, Morton JJ, Le P, Umpierrez A, Eagles-Soukup J, Gan GN, Vogler BW, Sehrt D, Takimoto SM, Aisner DL, Wilhelm F, Frederick BA, Varella-Garcia M, Tan AC, Jimeno A. The dual pathway inhibitor rigosertib is effective in direct patient tumor xenografts of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Mol Cancer Ther. 2013 Oct; 12(10):1994-2005. PMID: 23873848.
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    31. Saito TL, Hashimoto S, Gu SG, Morton JJ, Stadler M, Blumenthal T, Fire A, Morishita S. The transcription start site landscape of C. elegans. Genome Res. 2013 Aug; 23(8):1348-61. PMID: 23636945.
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    32. Keysar SB, Le PN, Anderson RT, Morton JJ, Bowles DW, Paylor JJ, Vogler BW, Thorburn J, Fernandez P, Glogowska MJ, Takimoto SM, Sehrt DB, Gan GN, Eagles-Soukup JR, Serracino H, Hirsch FR, Lucia MS, Thorburn A, Song JI, Wang XJ, Jimeno A. Hedgehog signaling alters reliance on EGF receptor signaling and mediates anti-EGFR therapeutic resistance in head and neck cancer. Cancer Res. 2013 Jun 01; 73(11):3381-92. PMID: 23576557.
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    33. Keysar SB, Astling DP, Anderson RT, Vogler BW, Bowles DW, Morton JJ, Paylor JJ, Glogowska MJ, Le PN, Eagles-Soukup JR, Kako SL, Takimoto SM, Sehrt DB, Umpierrez A, Pittman MA, Macfadden SM, Helber RM, Peterson S, Hausman DF, Said S, Leem TH, Goddard JA, Arcaroli JJ, Messersmith WA, Robinson WA, Hirsch FR, Varella-Garcia M, Raben D, Wang XJ, Song JI, Tan AC, Jimeno A. A patient tumor transplant model of squamous cell cancer identifies PI3K inhibitors as candidate therapeutics in defined molecular bins. Mol Oncol. 2013 Aug; 7(4):776-90. PMID: 23607916.
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    34. Morton JJ, Blumenthal T. RNA processing in C. elegans. Methods Cell Biol. 2011; 106:187-217. PMID: 22118278.
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    35. Morton JJ, Blumenthal T. Identification of transcription start sites of trans-spliced genes: uncovering unusual operon arrangements. RNA. 2011 Feb; 17(2):327-37. PMID: 21156961.
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    36. Davis MW, Morton JJ, Carroll D, Jorgensen EM. Gene activation using FLP recombinase in C. elegans. PLoS Genet. 2008 Mar 21; 4(3):e1000028. PMID: 18369447.
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