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Overview

Don J. Diamond is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Immunology, Oncology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, notably:

  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Don J. Diamond include:

  • Flavia Chiuppesi
  • Teodora Kaltcheva
  • Qiao Zhou
  • Felix Wussow
  • Corinna La Rosa

The scientist has published multiple papers in venues where they have several appearances, such as npj Vaccines, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Frontiers in Immunology, and iScience.

Recent publications include:

  • Modeling Human Cytomegalovirus-Induced Microcephaly in Human iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids, 2020, Cell Reports Medicine
  • Development of a multi-antigenic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate using a synthetic poxvirus platform, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Poxvirus Vectored Cytomegalovirus Vaccine to Prevent Cytomegalovirus Viremia in Transplant Recipients, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Personal Protective Equipment and COVID-19, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • Synthetic multiantigen MVA vaccine COH04S1 protects against SARS-CoV-2 in Syrian hamsters and non-human primates, 2022, npj Vaccines

Best Publications

  • Development of a Candidate HLA A*0201 Restricted Peptide-Based Vaccine Against Human Cytomegalovirus Infection

    Don J. Diamond;Joanne York;Ji-Yao Sun;Christine L. Wright

  • Unusual organization and diversity of T-cell receptor a-chain genes

    Adrian C. Hayday;Adrian C. Hayday;Don J. Diamond;Gary Tanigawa;Joseph S. Heilig

  • The immune response to human CMV

    Corinna La Rosa;Don J Diamond

  • CD56dimCD57+NKG2C+ NK cell expansion is associated with reduced leukemia relapse after reduced intensity HCT.

    Frank Cichocki;Sarah Cooley;Zachary Davis;Todd E. DeFor

  • Regulation of growth hormone messenger RNA synthesis by dexamethasone and triiodothyronine: Transcriptional rate and mRNA stability changes in pituitary tumor cells

    Don J. Diamond;Howard M. Goodman

  • Impact of donor CMV status on viral infection and reconstitution of multifunction CMV-specific T cells in CMV-positive transplant recipients

    Wendi Zhou;Jeff Longmate;Simon F. Lacey;Joycelynne M. Palmer

  • Carbon nanotubes enhance CpG uptake and potentiate antiglioma immunity.

    Dongchang Zhao;Darya Alizadeh;Leying Zhang;Wei Liu

  • Human cytomegalovirus proteins pp65 and immediate early protein 1 are common targets for CD8+ T cell responses in children with congenital or postnatal human cytomegalovirus infection.

    Laura L. Gibson;Giampiero Piccinini;Daniele Lilleri;Maria Grazia Revello

  • Lack of association of cytomegalovirus with human brain tumors.

    Sean K Lau;Yuan-Yuan Chen;Wen-Gang Chen;Don J Diamond

  • Population coverage by HLA class-I restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes

    Longmate J;York J;La Rosa C;Krishnan R

  • Human cytomegalovirus vaccine based on the envelope gH/gL pentamer complex.

    Felix Wussow;Flavia Chiuppesi;Joy Martinez;John Campo

  • Clinical Evaluation of Safety and Immunogenicity of PADRE-Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Tetanus-CMV Fusion Peptide Vaccines With or Without PF03512676 Adjuvant

    Corinna La Rosa;Jeff Longmate;Simon F. Lacey;Teodora Kaltcheva

  • Cross-reactivity of T lymphocytes recognizing a human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope within BK and JC virus VP1 polypeptides.

    Ludmila Krymskaya;Madeva C. Sharma;Joy Martinez;Wahajul Haq

  • Predominant type 1 CMV-specific memory T-helper response in humans: evidence for gender differences in cytokine secretion.

    Maria C Villacres;Jeff Longmate;Catherine Auge;Don J Diamond

  • Systemic delivery of Salmonella typhimurium transformed with IDO shRNA enhances intratumoral vector colonization and suppresses tumor growth.

    Céline A. Blache;Edwin R. Manuel;Teodora I. Kaltcheva;Andrea N. Wong

  • The Effect of Single and Combined Activating Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Genotypes on Cytomegalovirus Infection and Immunity after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

    John A. Zaia;Joel Y. Sun;Ghislaine M. Gallez-Hawkins;Lia Thao

  • Effects of rat growth hormone (rGH)-releasing factor and somatostatin on the release and synthesis of rGH in dispersed pituitary cells

    Junichi Fukata;Don J. Diamond;Joseph B. Martin

  • Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara Expressing a Soluble Form of Glycoprotein B Causes Durable Immunity and Neutralizing Antibodies against Multiple Strains of Human Cytomegalovirus

    Zhongde Wang;Corinna La Rosa;Rebecca Maas;Heang Ly

  • Relative dominance of HLA-B*07 restricted CD8+ T-lymphocyte immune responses to human cytomegalovirus pp65 in persons sharing HLA-A*02 and HLA-B*07 alleles.

    Simon F Lacey;Maria C Villacres;Corinna La Rosa;Zhongde Wang

  • Enhancement of Cancer Vaccine Therapy by Systemic Delivery of a Tumor-Targeting Salmonella-Based STAT3 shRNA Suppresses the Growth of Established Melanoma Tumors

    Edwin R. Manuel;Céline A. Blache;Rebecca Paquette;Teodora I. Kaltcheva

  • Enhanced immune activity of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope analogs derived from positional scanning synthetic combinatorial libraries

    Corinna La Rosa;Corinna La Rosa;Corinna La Rosa;Radhika Krishnan;Radhika Krishnan;Radhika Krishnan;Susan Markel;Susan Markel;Susan Markel;Jonathan P. Schneck;Jonathan P. Schneck;Jonathan P. Schneck

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon F. Lacey
Simon F. Lacey University of Pennsylvania
John A. Zaia
John A. Zaia City Of Hope National Medical Center
Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
Peter A. Barry
Peter A. Barry Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
William J. Britt
William J. Britt University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ajit P. Limaye
Ajit P. Limaye University of Washington
Jeffrey S. Miller
Jeffrey S. Miller University of Minnesota
Daniel J. Weisdorf
Daniel J. Weisdorf University of Minnesota
Ellis L. Reinherz
Ellis L. Reinherz Harvard University

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