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Debbie van Baarle is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and immunology and microbiology, with a particular emphasis on infectious diseases, immunology, epidemiology, molecular biology, and health.

Their work covers several key research topics, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Among the recent papers co-authored by van Baarle are:

  • The RECOVAC Immune-response Study: The Immunogenicity, Tolerability, and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease, on Dialysis, or Living With a Kidney Transplant, 2021, Transplantation
  • The RECOVAC Immune-response Study: The Immunogenicity, Tolerability, and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease, on Dialysis, or Living With a Kidney Transplant., 2022, PubMed
  • Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Vaccine Boosters after Ad26.COV2.S Priming, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Alternative strategies to increase the immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines in kidney transplant recipients not responding to two or three doses of an mRNA vaccine (RECOVAC): a randomised clinical trial, 2022, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • COVID-19 vaccination: the VOICE for patients with cancer, 2021, Nature Medicine

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel
  • Nynke Y. Rots
  • Rory D. de Vries
  • Marieke van der Heiden
  • Daryl Geers

Van Baarle has published extensively in several venues, often contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Aging Cell
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Immunology

In addition to journal articles, van Baarle has contributed to book publications, including a work published by University of Groningen Press titled Wie de schoen past...: op weg naar vaccinaties op maat in 2023.

Best Publications

  • HIV-specific CD8+ T cell proliferation is coupled to perforin expression and is maintained in nonprogressors

    Stephen A. Migueles;Alisha C. Laborico;W. Lesley Shupert;M. Shirin Sabbaghian

  • VDJdb: a curated database of T-cell receptor sequences with known antigen specificity

    Mikhail Shugay;Dmitriy V Bagaev;Ivan V Zvyagin;Renske M Vroomans

  • T cell responses to viral infections - opportunities for Peptide vaccination.

    Sietske Rosendahl Huber;Josine van Beek;Jørgen de Jonge;Willem Luytjes

  • Persistent numbers of tetramer+ CD8(+) T cells, but loss of interferon-gamma+ HIV-specific T cells during progression to AIDS.

    Stefan Kostense;Kristin Vandenberghe;Jeanine Joling;Debbie Van Baarle

  • Dysfunctional Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific CD8(+) T lymphocytes and increased EBV load in HIV-1 infected individuals progressing to AIDS-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

    D. van Baarle;E. Hovenkamp;M.F.C. Callan;K.C. Wolthers

  • Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Vaccine Boosters after Ad26.COV2.S Priming

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  • Impaired recovery of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)--specific CD8+ T lymphocytes after partially T-depleted allogeneic stem cell transplantation may identify patients at very high risk for progressive EBV reactivation and lymphoproliferative disease

    Pauline Meij;Joost W J van Esser;Hubert G M Niesters;Debbie van Baarle

  • The RECOVAC Immune-response Study: The Immunogenicity, Tolerability, and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease, on Dialysis, or Living With a Kidney Transplant.

    Jan-Stephan F Sanders;Frederike J Bemelman;A Lianne Messchendorp;Carla C Baan

  • Failing immune control as a result of impaired CD8+ T-cell maturation: CD27 might provide a clue.

    Debbie van Baarle;Stefan Kostense;Marinus H.J. van Oers;Dorte Hamann

  • Recognition of homo- and heterosubtypic variants of influenza A viruses by human CD8+ T lymphocytes

    Adrianus C. M. Boon;Gerrie de Mutsert;Debbie van Baarle;Derek J. Smith;Derek J. Smith

  • RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response

    Adam Penn-Nicholson;Stanley Kimbung Mbandi;Ethan Thompson;Simon C Mendelsohn

  • Metabolite changes in blood predict the onset of tuberculosis

    January rd Weiner;Jeroen Maertzdorf;Jayne S. Sutherland;Fergal J. Duffy

  • Changes in the composition of circulating CD8+ T cell subsets during acute Epstein-Barr and human immunodeficiency virus infections in humans

    M.T.L. Roos;R.A.W. van Lier;D. Hamann;G.J. Knol

  • Human Herpes Virus 6 Plasma DNA Positivity after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Children: an Important Risk Factor for Clinical Outcome

    P.J. Anne de Pagter;Rob Schuurman;Henk Visscher;Machiel de Vos

  • Cytomegalovirus persistence and T-cell immunosenescence in people aged fifty and older : A systematic review

    Marlies Weltevrede;Renske Eilers;Hester E. de Melker;Debbie van Baarle

  • Viral Replication Capacity as a Correlate of HLA B57/B5801-Associated Nonprogressive HIV-1 Infection

    Marjon Navis;Ingrid Schellens;Debbie van Baarle;José Borghans

  • Female sex and IL28B, a synergism for spontaneous viral clearance in hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconverters from a community-based cohort

    Charlotte H. B. S. van den Berg;Bart P. X. Grady;Janke Schinkel;Thijs van de Laar

  • Significance of senescence for virus-specific memory T cell responses: rapid ageing during chronic stimulation of the immune system

    Debbie van Baarle;Aster Tsegaye;Frank Miedema;Arne Akbar

  • Immune activation and collateral damage in AIDS pathogenesis

    Frank Miedema;Mette D. Hazenberg;Kiki Tesselaar;Debbie van Baarle

  • T cell subset and cytokine profiles in human visceral leishmaniasis during active and asymptomatic or sub-clinical infection with Leishmania donovani.

    Asrat Hailu;Asrat Hailu;Debbie van Baarle;Gerlinde J. Knol;Nega Berhe

  • The hallmarks of CMV-specific CD8 T-cell differentiation

    Sara P. H. van den Berg;Iris N. Pardieck;Josien Lanfermeijer;Delphine Sauce

  • Lack of Epstein-Barr virus- and HIV-specific CD27- CD8+ T cells is associated with progression to viral disease in HIV-infection

    Debbie van Baarle;Stefan Kostense;Egbert Hovenkamp;Graham Ogg

  • Immunophenotyping of blood lymphocytes at birth, during childhood, and during adulthood in HIV-1-uninfected Ethiopians.

    Aster Tsegaye;Dawit Wolday;Sigrid Otto;Beyene Petros

  • Loss of EBNA1-specific memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in HIV-infected patients progressing to AIDS-related non-hodgkin lymphoma

    Erwan Piriou;Karel van Dort;Karel van Dort;Nening M. Nanlohy;Nening M. Nanlohy;Marinus H. J. van Oers;Marinus H. J. van Oers

  • mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccination in patients receiving chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or chemoimmunotherapy for solid tumours: a prospective, multicentre, non-inferiority trial.

    Sjoukje F Oosting;Astrid A M van der Veldt;Corine H GeurtsvanKessel;Rudolf S N Fehrmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Miedema
Frank Miedema Utrecht University
Andy I. M. Hoepelman
Andy I. M. Hoepelman Utrecht University
Hanneke Schuitemaker
Hanneke Schuitemaker Valneva (Austria)
Joep M. A. Lange
Joep M. A. Lange University of Amsterdam
Rob Schuurman
Rob Schuurman Utrecht University
Elisabeth A. M. Sanders
Elisabeth A. M. Sanders Utrecht University
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Tom H. M. Ottenhoff
Tom H. M. Ottenhoff Leiden University Medical Center
John J. Miles
John J. Miles James Cook University
Neeltje A. Kootstra
Neeltje A. Kootstra University of Amsterdam

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