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Britta Wahren is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on HIV research and treatment, including HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, as well as vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches. The work also touches on monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, immunotherapy and immune responses, transgenic plants and applications, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Their scientific contributions span several fields of study such as immunology and microbiology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine. More specifically, subfields of their research include virology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, radiology, nuclear medicine, and immunology.

Britta Wahren has published multiple papers in a variety of journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Induction of Identical IgG HIV-1 Envelope Epitope Recognition Patterns After Initial HIVIS-DNA/MVA-CMDR Immunization and a Late MVA-CMDR Boost, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Frequent Anti-V1V2 Responses Induced by HIV-DNA Followed by HIV-MVA with or without CN54rgp140/GLA-AF in Healthy African Volunteers, 2020, Microorganisms
  • HIV-1 Protease as DNA Immunogen against Drug Resistance in HIV-1 Infection: DNA Immunization with Drug Resistant HIV-1 Protease Protects Mice from Challenge with Protease-Expressing Cells, 2022, Cancers
  • Frequent and Durable Anti-HIV Envelope VIV2 IgG Responses Induced by HIV-1 DNA Priming and HIV-MVA Boosting in Healthy Tanzanian Volunteers, 2020, Vaccines
  • Cellular Immune Response Induced by DNA Immunization of Mice with Drug Resistant Integrases of HIV-1 Clade A Offers Partial Protection against Growth and Metastatic Activity of Integrase-Expressing Adenocarcinoma Cells, 2021, Microorganisms

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include:

  • Agricola Joachim
  • Patricia Munseri
  • Said Aboud
  • Eligius Lyamuya
  • Muhammad Bakari

Their work has been published in several venues, some with multiple publications, including:

  • Microorganisms
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Cancers
  • Vaccines
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Locked nucleic acid (LNA) mediated improvements in siRNA stability and functionality

    Joacim Elmén;Håkan Thonberg;Karl Ljungberg;Miriam Frieden

  • DNA Vaccines: Progress and Challenges

    John J. Donnelly;Britta Wahren;Margaret A. Liu

  • Cellular cytotoxic response induced by DNA vaccination in HIV-1-infected patients

    Sandra Calarota;Göran Bratt;Siv Nordlund;Jorma Hinkula

  • Intranasal immunization of a DNA vaccine with IL-12- and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-expressing plasmids in liposomes induces strong mucosal and cell-mediated immune responses against HIV-1 antigens.

    E. Okada;S. Sasaki;N. Ishii;I. Aoki

  • Epstein-Barr virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with AIDS-related primary lymphoma of the central nervous system

    P. Cinque;M. Brytting;B. Wahren;A. Linde

  • Highly attenuated modified vaccinia virus Ankara replicates in baby hamster kidney cells, a potential host for virus propagation, but not in various human transformed and primary cells.

    Ingo Drexler;Karl Heller;Britta Wahren;Volker Erfle

  • Polymerase chain reaction on cerebrospinal fluid for diagnosis of virus-associated opportunistic diseases of the central nervous system in HIV-infected patients.

    Paola Cinque;Luca Vago;Helena Dahl;Maria Brytting

  • Clinical and subclinical reactivations of varicella-zoster virus in immunocompromised patients.

    Per Ljungman;Berit Lönnqvist;Gösta Gahrton;Olle Ringdén

  • Gene-based vaccines: recent technical and clinical advances

    Jeffrey B. Ulmer;Britta Wahren;Margaret A. Liu

  • Characteristics of the specific cell-mediated immune response in human immunodeficiency virus infection.

    B Wahren;L Morfeldt-Månsson;G Biberfeld;L Moberg

  • Efficacy and Safety of Vaccination of Marrow Transplant Recipients with a Live Attenuated Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine

    P Ljungman;E Fridell;B Lönnqvist;P Bolme

  • Induction of specific T-cell responses in HIV infection

    Ann-Charlotte Leandersson;Göran Bratt;Jorma Hinkula;Gustav Gilljam

  • Skin electroporation: effects on transgene expression, DNA persistence and local tissue environment.

    Anna-Karin Roos;Fredrik Eriksson;James A. Timmons;Josefine Gerhardt

  • Cytomegalovirus infection associated with and preceding chronic graft-versus-host disease.

    Berit Lonnqvist;Olle Ringdén;Britta Wahren;Gösta Gahrton

  • Fine specificity of the human immune response to the major neutralization epitopes expressed on cytomegalovirus gp58/116 (gB), as determined with human monoclonal antibodies

    Mats Ohlin;Vivi Anne Sundqvist;Michael Mach;Britta Wahren

  • DNA vaccines: recent developments and future possibilities.

    Margaret A Liu;Britta Wahren;Gunilla B Karlsson Hedestam

  • Sexually transmitted agents and cervical neoplasia in Colombia and Spain.

    S. de Sanjosé;N. Muñoz;F. X. Bosch;K. Reimann

  • Virus-specific antibody activity of different subclasses of immunoglobulins G and A in cytomegalovirus infections.

    G A Linde;L Hammarström;M A Persson;C I Smith

  • Broad Immunogenicity of a Multigene, Multiclade HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Boosted with Heterologous HIV-1 Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara

    Eric Sandström;Charlotta Nilsson;Bo Hejdeman;Andreas Bråve

  • RAPID TEA-BAG PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS USING 9-FLUORENYLMETHOXYCARBONYL (FMOC) PROTECTED AMINO ACIDS APPLIED FOR ANTIGENIC MAPPING OF VIRAL PROTEINS

    Matti Sällberg;Ulla Rudén;Lars O. Magnius;Erling Norrby

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorma Hinkula
Jorma Hinkula Linköping University
Eric Sandström
Eric Sandström Karolinska Institute
Annika Linde
Annika Linde Karolinska Institute
Gunnel Biberfeld
Gunnel Biberfeld Karolinska Institute
Paolo Rossi
Paolo Rossi University of Rome Tor Vergata
Jan Albert
Jan Albert Karolinska Institute
Margaret A. Liu
Margaret A. Liu Karolinska Institute
Merlin L. Robb
Merlin L. Robb Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Gabriella Scarlatti
Gabriella Scarlatti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Kenji Okuda
Kenji Okuda Yokohama City University

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