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Spain
2022

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  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Christian Brander is affiliated with the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant focus also on Medicine.

Their scientific work concentrates on infectious diseases, virology, immunology, molecular biology, and epidemiology. Key research topics include HIV research and treatment, immune cell function and interaction, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment. Additional interests cover gut microbiota and health, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Christian Brander has contributed to several recent publications, with notable papers including:

  • TOX is expressed by exhausted and polyfunctional human effector memory CD8 + T cells, 2020, Science Immunology
  • HIVconsv Vaccines and Romidepsin in Early-Treated HIV-1-Infected Individuals: Safety, Immunogenicity and Effect on the Viral Reservoir (Study BCN02), 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Administration of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibodies at ART initiation maintains long-term CD8+ T cell immunity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A minor population of macrophage-tropic HIV-1 variants is identified in recrudescing viremia following analytic treatment interruption, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Safety, immunogenicity and effect on viral rebound of HTI vaccines in early treated HIV-1 infection: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 1 trial, 2022, Nature Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Immunology, Vaccines, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Vaccines
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Christian Brander collaborates often with colleagues including Beatriz Mothe, Bonaventura Clotet, Javier Martínez-Picado, Àlex Olvera, and Roger Paredes.

  • Beatriz Mothe
  • Bonaventura Clotet
  • Javier Martínez-Picado
  • Àlex Olvera
  • Roger Paredes

Best Publications

  • CD8+ T-cell responses to different HIV proteins have discordant associations with viral load

    Photini Kiepiela;Kholiswa Ngumbela;Christina Thobakgale;Dhanwanthie Ramduth

  • HIV evolution: CTL escape mutation and reversion after transmission.

    A J Leslie;K J Pfafferott;P Chetty;R Draenert

  • Comprehensive Epitope Analysis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1)-Specific T-Cell Responses Directed against the Entire Expressed HIV-1 Genome Demonstrate Broadly Directed Responses, but No Correlation to Viral Load

    M. M. Addo;X. G. Yu;A. Rathod;D. Cohen

  • Dominant influence of HLA-B in mediating the potential co-evolution of HIV and HLA.

    Photini Kiepiela;Alasdair J. Leslie;Isobella Honeyborne;Danni Ramduth

  • HLA class I supertypes: a revised and updated classification

    John Sidney;Bjoern Peters;Nicole Frahm;Christian Brander

  • Evolution and transmission of stable CTL escape mutations in HIV infection

    Philip J. R. Goulder;Christian Brander;Yanhua Tang;Cecile Tremblay

  • Clustered Mutations in HIV-1 Gag Are Consistently Required for Escape from Hla-B27–Restricted Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses

    Anthony D. Kelleher;Chad Long;Edward C Holmes;Rachel L. Allen

  • Differential natural killer cell–mediated inhibition of HIV-1 replication based on distinct KIR/HLA subtypes

    Galit Alter;Maureen P. Martin;Nickolas Teigen;William H Carr

  • Adaptation of HIV-1 to human leukocyte antigen class I

    Y. Kawashima;K. Pfafferott;J. Frater;P. Matthews

  • Fitness Cost of Escape Mutations in p24 Gag in Association with Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Javier Martinez-Picado;Julia G. Prado;Elizabeth E. Fry;Katja Pfafferott

  • Cellular Immune Responses and Viral Diversity in Individuals Treated during Acute and Early HIV-1 Infection

    Marcus Altfeld;Eric S. Rosenberg;Raj Shankarappa;Joia S. Mukherjee

  • HIV-1 superinfection despite broad CD8 + T-cell responses containing replication of the primary virus

    Marcus Altfeld;Todd M. Allen;Xu G. Yu;Mary N. Johnston

  • Activation of drug-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in individuals allergic to sulfonamides, phenytoin, and carbamazepine.

    D Mauri-Hellweg;F Bettens;D Mauri;C Brander

  • Whole genome deep sequencing of HIV-1 reveals the impact of early minor variants upon immune recognition during acute infection

    Matthew R. Henn;Christian L. Boutwell;Patrick Charlebois;Niall J Lennon

  • Immune selection for altered antigen processing leads to cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape in chronic HIV-1 infection.

    Rika Draenert;Sylvie Le Gall;Katja J. Pfafferott;Alasdair J. Leslie

  • Escape from the dominant HLA-B27-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response in Gag is associated with a dramatic reduction in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication.

    Arne Schneidewind;Mark A. Brockman;Mark A. Brockman;Ruifeng Yang;Rahma I. Adam

  • Relative Dominance of Gag p24-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Is Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Control

    Rosario Zuñiga;Aldo Lucchetti;Patricia Galvan;Shyla Sanchez

  • Consistent Cytotoxic-T-Lymphocyte Targeting of Immunodominant Regions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus across Multiple Ethnicities

    Nicole Frahm;B. T. Korber;B. T. Korber;C. M. Adams;J. J. Szinger

  • Transfusion-transmitted infections

    Florian Bihl;Damiano Castelli;Francesco Marincola;Roger Y Dodd

  • Selective Escape from CD8+ T-Cell Responses Represents a Major Driving Force of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Sequence Diversity and Reveals Constraints on HIV-1 Evolution

    Todd M. Allen;Marcus Altfeld;Shaun C. Geer;Elizabeth T. Kalife

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Philip J. R. Goulder
Philip J. R. Goulder University of Oxford
Nicole Frahm
Nicole Frahm Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Marcus Altfeld
Marcus Altfeld University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Bette T. Korber
Bette T. Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory
Todd M. Allen
Todd M. Allen Harvard University
James I. Mullins
James I. Mullins University of Washington
Eric S. Rosenberg
Eric S. Rosenberg Harvard University
Marylyn M. Addo
Marylyn M. Addo Universität Hamburg
David Heckerman
David Heckerman Microsoft (United States)

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