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Overview

Daniel C. Douek is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Virology, and Epidemiology.

Their main topics of work encompass:

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

The scientist has contributed papers to various publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature
  • The Journal of Immunology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Amy R. Henry
  • Matthew Gagné
  • Robert A. Seder
  • Peter D. Kwong
  • Mario Roederer

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel C. Douek include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus causes attenuated disease in mice and hamsters, 2022, Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 variant prediction and antiviral drug design are enabled by RBD in vitro evolution, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Infection and Vaccine-Induced Neutralizing-Antibody Responses to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617 Variants, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Immune correlates of protection by mRNA-1273 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates, 2021, Science
  • Characterization and antiviral susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2, 2022, Nature

Best Publications

  • CD4+ T Cell Depletion during all Stages of HIV Disease Occurs Predominantly in the Gastrointestinal Tract

    Jason M. Brenchley;Timothy W. Schacker;Laura E. Ruff;David A. Price

  • A human memory T cell subset with stem cell-like properties

    Luca Gattinoni;Enrico Lugli;Yun Ji;Zoltan Pos

  • Sensitive and viable identification of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells by a flow cytometric assay for degranulation

    Michael R. Betts;Jason M. Brenchley;David A. Price;Stephen C. De Rosa

  • HIV reservoir size and persistence are driven by T cell survival and homeostatic proliferation

    Nicolas Chomont;Mohamed El-Far;Petronela Ancuta;Lydie Trautmann

  • Impaired T H 17 cell differentiation in subjects with autosomal dominant hyper-IgE syndrome

    Joshua D. Milner;Jason M. Brenchley;Jason M. Brenchley;Arian Laurence;Alexandra F. Freeman

  • Plasma Levels of Soluble CD14 Independently Predict Mortality in HIV Infection

    Netanya Sandler;Handan Wand;Annelys Roque;Matthew G Law

  • Expression of CD57 defines replicative senescence and antigen-induced apoptotic death of CD8+ T cells

    Jason M. Brenchley;Nitin J. Karandikar;Michael R. Betts;David R. Ambrozak

  • PD-1 identifies the patient-specific CD8+ tumor-reactive repertoire infiltrating human tumors

    Alena Gros;Paul F. Robbins;Xin Yao;Yong F. Li

  • PD-1 is a regulator of virus-specific CD8+ T cell survival in HIV infection.

    Constantinos Petrovas;Joseph P. Casazza;Jason M. Brenchley;David A. Price

  • 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.

  • An autoinflammatory disease with deficiency of the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Seth L. Masters;Polly J. Ferguson;Paul Dancey

  • Systemic Effects of Inflammation on Health during Chronic HIV Infection

    Steven G. Deeks;Russell Tracy;Daniel C. Douek

  • Analysis of total human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell responses: relationship to viral load in untreated HIV infection

    Michael R. Betts;David R. Ambrozak;Daniel C. Douek;Sebastian Bonhoeffer

  • Superior control of HIV-1 replication by CD8+ T cells is reflected by their avidity, polyfunctionality, and clonal turnover

    Jorge R. Almeida;David A. Price;David A. Price;Laura Papagno;Zaïna Aït Arkoub

  • Emerging Concepts in the Immunopathogenesis of AIDS

    Daniel C. Douek;Mario Roederer;Richard A. Koup

  • T Cell Dynamics in HIV-1 Infection*

    Daniel C. Douek;Louis J. Picker;Richard A. Koup

  • Differential Th17 CD4 T-cell depletion in pathogenic and nonpathogenic lentiviral infections

    Jason M. Brenchley;Mirko Paiardini;Kenneth S. Knox;Kenneth S. Knox;Ava I. Asher

  • Relationship between T Cell Activation and CD4+ T Cell Count in HIV-Seropositive Individuals with Undetectable Plasma HIV RNA Levels in the Absence of Therapy

    Peter W. Hunt;Jason Brenchley;Elizabeth Sinclair;Joseph M. McCune

  • Persistent HIV-1 replication is associated with lower antiretroviral drug concentrations in lymphatic tissues

    Courtney V. Fletcher;Kathryn Staskus;Stephen W. Wietgrefe;Meghan Rothenberger

  • Second messenger role for Mg2+ revealed by human T-cell immunodeficiency

    Feng-Yen Li;Benjamin Chaigne-Delalande;Chrysi Kanellopoulou;Jeremiah C. Davis

  • Tryptophan catabolism by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 alters the balance of TH17 to regulatory T cells in HIV disease.

    David Favre;Jeff Mold;Peter W. Hunt;Bittoo Kanwar

Frequent Co-Authors

David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Jason M. Brenchley
Jason M. Brenchley National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Richard A. Koup
Richard A. Koup National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Emma Gostick
Emma Gostick Cardiff University
Mario Roederer
Mario Roederer National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Steven G. Deeks
Steven G. Deeks University of California, San Francisco
A. John Barrett
A. John Barrett National Institutes of Health
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola ModeX Therapeutics
J. Joseph Melenhorst
J. Joseph Melenhorst University of Pennsylvania
Timothy W. Schacker
Timothy W. Schacker University of Minnesota

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