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Her current research interests are unknown as her last publication was in 2008.

Recognition
Marilyn Kozak was listed as one of the top 10 Women Scientists of the 80's in an article published by The Scientist. This was awarded based on the number of citations for their published work between 1981-1988. During this time, Kozak had 3,107 citations. Her most cited work was from 1984, entitled "Compilation and analysis of sequences upstream from the translational start site in eukaryotic mRNAs". This paper highlighted the research that brought the known cellular mRNAs from 32 to 166.

Controversy
In March of 2001, Dr. Kozak published a mini-review in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology entitled "New Ways of Initiating Translation in Eukaryotes" that resulted in push-back from the scientific community. In her publication, Dr. Kozak discussed her hesitation towards the role of Internal Ribosome Entry Site s (IRES). This was most heavily refuted by Dr. Robert Schneider, who published a response article of the same name in the same Journal in Dec. 2001. In this response, Dr. Schneider claimed that in publishing her mini-review, Dr. Kozak hoped to increase the validity of her own findings. He further stated that Dr. Kozak's publication was not up to scholarly standards and should not have been accepted into the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Later impacts of this controversy, including a suggestion that Dr. Kozak was defunded by the NIH, was explored in the blog post "First Human Bioinformatician Criticizes Bad Science Of NIH-Funded Bigshots Disappears", written in 2015.

Contributions
Along with her published work, Dr. Kozak has contributed to the scientific community with her role on the editorial board for the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology. She has been listed intermittently as an editor between the years 1983-1991.

Published Work
Kozak, M (26 October 1987). "An analysis of 5'-noncoding sequences from 699 vertebrate messenger RNAs". Nucleic Acids Research, vol 15, no. 20, Oct. 1987, pp. 8125–48. doi:10.1093/nar/15.20.8125.

---. “An Analysis of Vertebrate MRNA Sequences: Intimations of Translational Control.” The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 115, no. 4, Nov. 1991, pp. 887–903. jcb.rupress.org, doi:10.1083/jcb.115.4.887.

---. “Influences of MRNA Secondary Structure on Initiation by Eukaryotic Ribosomes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 83, no. 9, May 1986, pp. 2850–54. www.pnas.org, doi:10.1073/pnas.83.9.2850.

---. “The Scanning Model for Translation: An Update.” The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 108, no. 2, Feb. 1989, pp. 229–41. jcb.rupress.org, doi:10.1083/jcb.108.2.229.

---. “At Least Six Nucleotides Preceding the AUG Initiator Codon Enhance Translation in Mammalian Cells.” Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 196, no. 4, Aug. 1987, pp. 947–50. ScienceDirect, doi:10.1016/0022-2836(87)90418-9.

---. “Point Mutations Define a Sequence Flanking the AUG Initiator Codon That Modulates Translation by Eukaryotic Ribosomes.” Cell, vol. 44, no. 2, Jan. 1986, pp. 283–92. www.cell.com, doi:10.1016/0092-8674(86)90762-2.

---. “Possible Role of Flanking Nucleotides in Recognition of the AUG Initiator Codon by Eukaryotic Ribosomes.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 9, no. 20, Oct. 1981, pp. 5233–52. academic.oup.com, doi:10.1093/nar/9.20.5233.

---. "Faulty old ideas about translational regulation paved the way for current confusion about how microRNAs function." Gene, vol. 423, no.2, Nov. 2008, pp. 108-115. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.013.