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Andrew J. McMichael

Andrew J. McMichael

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Immunology
UK
2026
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Medicine
UK
2026

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Best Scientists

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165
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1037
National Ranking
102

Immunology

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168
Citations
112155
World Ranking
58
National Ranking
4

Medicine

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168
Citations
112196
World Ranking
566
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Andrew J. McMichael is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. The subfields that characterize their work include Immunology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Their research covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Broad and strong memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells induced by SARS-CoV-2 in UK convalescent individuals following COVID-19" (2020), published in Nature Immunology
  • "Longitudinal COVID-19 profiling associates IL-1RA and IL-10 with disease severity and RANTES with mild disease" (2020), published in JCI Insight
  • "Strategies for HIV-1 vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies" (2022), published in Nature Reviews. Immunology
  • "An immunodominant NP105-113-B*07:02 cytotoxic T cell response controls viral replication and is associated with less severe COVID-19 disease" (2021), published in Nature Immunology
  • "Autoimmunity-associated T cell receptors recognize HLA-B*27-bound peptides" (2022), published in Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Persephone Borrow, Geraldine M. Gillespie, Simon Brackenridge, Barton F. Haynes, and Nilu Goonetilleke.

Publications by Andrew J. McMichael appear most commonly in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Immunology
  • Nature Reviews. Immunology
  • Nature Communications

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1992. They are also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Phenotypic Analysis of Antigen-Specific T Lymphocytes

    John D. Altman;Paul A. H. Moss;Philip J. R. Goulder;Dan H. Barouch

  • HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C

    Veronique M. Braud;David S. J. Allan;Christopher A. O'Callaghan;Kalle Söderström

  • The epitopes of influenza nucleoprotein recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes can be defined with short synthetic peptides

    A.R.M. Townsend;J. Rothbard;F.M. Gotch;G. Bahadur

  • Memory CD8+ T cells vary in differentiation phenotype in different persistent virus infections.

    Victor Appay;P. Rod Dunbar;Margaret Callan;Paul Klenerman

  • Common West African HLA antigens are associated with protection from severe malaria

    Adrian V. S. Hill;Catherine E. M. Allsopp;Dominic Kwiatkowski;Nicholas M. Anstey

  • Evolution of the immune system in humans from infancy to old age.

    A K Simon;G A Hollander;A McMichael

  • Quantitation of HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and plasma load of viral RNA.

    G. S. Ogg;Xia Jin;S. Bonhoeffer;P. R. Dunbar

  • A Whole-Genome Association Study of Major Determinants for Host Control of HIV-1

    Jacques Fellay;Kevin V. Shianna;Dongliang Ge;Sara Colombo

  • Late escape from an immunodominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response associated with progression to AIDS.

    P. J. R. Goulder;R. E. Phillips;R. A. Colbert;S. Mcadam

  • Cytotoxic T-cell immunity to influenza.

    Andrew J. McMichael;Frances M. Gotch;Gary R. Noble;Paul A. S. Beare

  • Human immunodeficiency virus genetic variation that can escape cytotoxic T cell recognition.

    R E Phillips;S Rowland-Jones;D F Nixon;F M Gotch

  • Broad and strong memory CD4 + and CD8 + T cells induced by SARS-CoV-2 in UK convalescent individuals following COVID-19.

    Y Peng;A J Mentzer;G Liu;G Liu;X Yao

  • Skewed maturation of memory HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes

    P Champagne;G S Ogg;A S King;C Knabenhans

  • Bias due to misclassification in the estimation of relative risk.

    Karen T. Copeland;Harvey Checkoway;Anthony J. McMICHAEL;Robert H. Holbrook

  • HIV-Specific Cd8+T Cells Produce Antiviral Cytokines but Are Impaired in Cytolytic Function

    Victor Appay;Douglas F. Nixon;Sean M. Donahoe;Geraldine M.A. Gillespie

  • The immune response during acute HIV-1 infection: clues for vaccine development.

    Andrew J. McMichael;Persephone Borrow;Georgia D. Tomaras;Nilu Goonetilleke

  • Preexisting influenza-specific CD4+ T cells correlate with disease protection against influenza challenge in humans

    T M Wilkinson;Li Ckf.;Chui Csc.;Huang Aky.;Huang Aky.

  • Direct Visualization of Antigen-specific CD8+T Cells during the Primary Immune Response to Epstein-Barr Virus In Vivo

    M.F.C. Callan;L. Tan;N. Annels;G.S. Ogg

  • Original antigenic sin and apoptosis in the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever.

    Juthathip Mongkolsapaya;Wanwisa Dejnirattisai;Xiao-ning Xu;Sirijitt Vasanawathana

  • Standardized mortality ratios and the "healthy worker effect": Scratching beneath the surface.

    A J McMichael

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Rowland-Jones
Sarah Rowland-Jones University of Sheffield
Tomáš Hanke
Tomáš Hanke University of Oxford
Tao Dong
Tao Dong University of Oxford
Graham S. Ogg
Graham S. Ogg University of Oxford
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes Duke University
Paul Bowness
Paul Bowness University of Oxford
John I. Bell
John I. Bell Ellison Institute of Technology
Persephone Borrow
Persephone Borrow University of Oxford
Bette T. Korber
Bette T. Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory
Xiao-Ning Xu
Xiao-Ning Xu Imperial College London

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