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Christopher D. Pilcher is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their body of research primarily focuses on Medicine with significant contributions in Immunology and Microbiology. Within these fields, their work spans subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, Emergency Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of Christopher D. Pilcher's research include HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, HIV-related health complications and treatments, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Their recent papers are as follows:

  • TCF-1 regulates HIV-specific CD8+ T cell expansion capacity (2020) in JCI Insight
  • Group Testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- Coronavirus 2 to Enable Rapid Scale-up of Testing and Real-Time Surveillance of Incidence (2020) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Seminal plasma promotes decidualization of endometrial stromal fibroblasts in vitro from women with and without inflammatory disorders in a manner dependent on interleukin-11 signaling (2020) in Human Reproduction
  • Clinical and Immunologic Outcomes After Immediate or Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation During Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: The Sabes Randomized Clinical Study (2020) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Seminal Plasma-Derived Extracellular-Vesicle Fractions from HIV-Infected Men Exhibit Unique MicroRNA Signatures and Induce a Proinflammatory Response in Cells Isolated from the Female Reproductive Tract (2020) in Journal of Virology

Christopher D. Pilcher has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Rebecca Hoh
  • Frederick Hecht
  • Jeffrey N. Martin
  • Steven G. Deeks
  • Michael P. Busch

Their work has been published across several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • JCI Insight

Best Publications

  • Brief but efficient: acute HIV infection and the sexual transmission of HIV.

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Hsiao Chuan Tien;Joseph J. Eron;Pietro L. Vernazza

  • Triple-Nucleoside Regimens versus Efavirenz-Containing Regimens for the Initial Treatment of HIV-1 Infection

    Roy M. Gulick;Roy M. Gulick;Heather J. Ribaudo;Cecilia M. Shikuma;Stephanie Lustgarten

  • Detection of acute infections during HIV testing in North Carolina.

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Susan A. Fiscus;Trang Q. Nguyen;Evelyn Foust

  • Antiretroviral Therapy Initiated Within 6 Months of HIV Infection Is Associated With Lower T-Cell Activation and Smaller HIV Reservoir Size

    Vivek Jain;Wendy Hartogensis;Peter Bacchetti;Peter W. Hunt

  • Amplified transmission of HIV-1: comparison of HIV-1 concentrations in semen and blood during acute and chronic infection.

    Christopher D. Pilcher;George Joaki;Irving F. Hoffman;Francis E.A. Martinson

  • Challenges in Detecting HIV Persistence during Potentially Curative Interventions: A Study of the Berlin Patient

    Steven A. Yukl;Eli Boritz;Michael Busch;Christopher Bentsen

  • The Effect of Same-Day Observed Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV Viral Load and Treatment Outcomes in a US Public Health Setting

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Clarissa Ospina-Norvell;Aditi Dasgupta;Diane Jones

  • Three- vs four-drug antiretroviral regimens for the initial treatment of HIV-1 infection: a randomized controlled trial.

    Roy M. Gulick;Heather J. Ribaudo;Cecilia M. Shikuma;Christina Lalama

  • Acute HIV revisited: new opportunities for treatment and prevention

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Joseph J. Eron;Shannon Galvin

  • Real-time, universal screening for acute HIV infection in a routine HIV counseling and testing population.

    Christopher D. Pilcher;J. Todd McPherson;Peter A. Leone;Marlene Smurzynski

  • HIV in body fluids during primary HIV infection: implications for pathogenesis, treatment and public health.

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Diane C. Shugars;Susan A. Fiscus;William C. Miller

  • The unexpected movement of the HIV epidemic in the Southeastern United States: transmission among college students.

    Lisa B Hightow;Pia D M MacDonald;Christopher D Pilcher;Andrew H Kaplan

  • Frequent detection of acute primary HIV infection in men in Malawi

    Christopher D. Pilcher;Matthew A. Price;Irving F. Hoffman;Shannon Galvin

  • Amplified HIV Transmission and New Approaches to HIV Prevention

    Myron S. Cohen;Christopher D. Pilcher

  • Differential Persistence of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutation Classes

    Vivek Jain;Maria C. Sucupira;Peter Bacchetti;Wendy Hartogensis

  • HIV Antigens Can Induce TGF-β1-Producing Immunoregulatory CD8+ T Cells

    Mohammed L. Garba;Christopher D. Pilcher;Andrea L. Bingham;Joseph Eron

  • Independent assessment of candidate HIV incidence assays on specimens in the CEPHIA repository

    Reshma Kassanjee;Reshma Kassanjee;Christopher D. Pilcher;Sheila M. Keating;Shelley N. Facente

  • Beyond detuning: 10 years of progress and new challenges in the development and application of assays for HIV incidence estimation.

    Michael P Busch;Christopher D Pilcher;Timothy D Mastro;John Kaldor

  • Multiple V1/V2 env Variants Are Frequently Present during Primary Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Kimberly Ritola;Christopher D. Pilcher;Susan A. Fiscus;Noah G. Hoffman

  • Longitudinal Genetic Characterization Reveals That Cell Proliferation Maintains a Persistent HIV Type 1 DNA Pool During Effective HIV Therapy

    Susanne von Stockenstrom;Lina Odevall;Eunok Lee;Elizabeth Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick Hecht
Frederick Hecht University of California, San Francisco
Michael P. Busch
Michael P. Busch University of California, San Francisco
Joseph J. Eron
Joseph J. Eron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven G. Deeks
Steven G. Deeks University of California, San Francisco
Sheila M. Keating
Sheila M. Keating University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey N. Martin
Jeffrey N. Martin University of California, San Francisco
Susan A. Fiscus
Susan A. Fiscus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Price
Matthew Price University of Vermont
Myron S. Cohen
Myron S. Cohen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Satish K. Pillai
Satish K. Pillai Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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