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Overview

Davey M. Smith is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on infectious diseases.

Their scholarly work spans several subfields including infectious diseases, epidemiology, neurology, virology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health. The main topics covered in their publications relate to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV research and treatment, long-term effects of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • "Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals," 2020, Cell
  • "Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection," 2021, Science
  • "Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Acute COVID-19 and Associations with Age and Disease Severity," 2020, Cell
  • "Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum," 2023, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • "Isolation of potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and protection from disease in a small animal model," 2020, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Davey M. Smith include:

  • Joseph J. Eron
  • Judith S. Currier
  • Michael D. Hughes
  • Kara W Chew
  • Carlee Moser

This scientist's research portfolio demonstrates extensive engagement with pandemic-related immunological and clinical questions, as well as ongoing HIV/AIDS research themes. Their work contributes to the biomedical understanding of infectious diseases through a combination of laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological approaches.

Best Publications

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals.

    Alba Grifoni;Daniela Weiskopf;Sydney I. Ramirez;Sydney I. Ramirez;Jose Mateus

  • Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection.

    Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan;Jose Mateus;Yu Kato;Kathryn M. Hastie

  • Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Acute COVID-19 and Associations with Age and Disease Severity.

    Carolyn Rydyznski Moderbacher;Sydney I. Ramirez;Sydney I. Ramirez;Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan;Alba Grifoni

  • Isolation of potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and protection from disease in a small animal model.

    Thomas F. Rogers;Thomas F. Rogers;Fangzhu Zhao;Deli Huang;Nathan Beutler

  • Development and Use of Personalized Bacteriophage-Based Therapeutic Cocktails To Treat a Patient with a Disseminated Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

    Robert T. Schooley;Biswajit Biswas;Jason J. Gill;Adriana Hernandez-Morales

  • Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans.

    Jose Mateus;Alba Grifoni;Alison Tarke;John Sidney

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2016 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

    Huldrych F. Günthard;Michael S. Saag;Constance A. Benson;Carlos del Rio

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2018 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

    Michael S. Saag;Constance A. Benson;Rajesh T. Gandhi;Jennifer F. Hoy

  • Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

    Ben Murrell;Steven Weaver;Martin D. Smith;Joel O. Wertheim

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2022 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel.

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  • Comprehensive analysis of T cell immunodominance and immunoprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 epitopes in COVID-19 cases.

    Alison Tarke;Alison Tarke;John Sidney;Conner K. Kidd;Jennifer M. Dan;Jennifer M. Dan

  • Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4 + and CD8 + T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals.

    Alison Tarke;Alison Tarke;John Sidney;Nils Methot;Esther Dawen Yu

  • An altered intestinal mucosal microbiome in HIV-1 infection is associated with mucosal and systemic immune activation and endotoxemia

    S M Dillon;E J Lee;C V Kotter;G L Austin

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2020 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel.

    Michael S. Saag;Rajesh T. Gandhi;Jennifer F. Hoy;Raphael J. Landovitz

  • Enhanced CD4+ T-cell recovery with earlier HIV-1 antiretroviral therapy.

    Tuan D Le;Edwina J. Wright;Davey M. Smith;Weijing He

  • Neutralizing antibody responses drive the evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope during recent HIV infection

    Simon D. W. Frost;Terri Wrin;Davey M. Smith;Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

  • Asymptomatic HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment increases risk for symptomatic decline.

    Igor Grant;Donald R. Franklin;Reena Deutsch;Steven P. Woods

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Circulating HIV DNA Correlates With Neurocognitive Impairment in Older HIV-infected Adults on Suppressive ART

    Michelli Faria de Oliveira;Ben Murrell;Josué Pérez-Santiago;Milenka Vargas

  • Sensitivity in Detection of Antibodies to Nucleocapsid and Spike Proteins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.

    Peter D Burbelo;Francis X Riedo;Chihiro Morishima;Stephen Rawlings

  • IDEPI: rapid prediction of HIV-1 antibody epitopes and other phenotypic features from sequence data using a flexible machine learning platform.

    N. Lance Hepler;Konrad Scheffler;Steven Weaver;Ben Murrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas D. Richman
Douglas D. Richman University of California, San Diego
Susan J. Little
Susan J. Little University of California, San Diego
Sara Gianella
Sara Gianella University of California, San Diego
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond Temple University
Scott Letendre
Scott Letendre University of California, San Diego
Ronald J. Ellis
Ronald J. Ellis University of California, San Diego
Martin Hoenigl
Martin Hoenigl University of California, San Diego
Igor Grant
Igor Grant University of California, San Diego
Joseph K. Wong
Joseph K. Wong University of California, San Francisco
Shane Crotty
Shane Crotty La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

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