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Overview

Dorian B. McGavern is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they focus on subfields including Immunology, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

Their work covers several main topics such as:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immune Response and Inflammation

Frequent publication venues for McGavern include:

  • Nature Immunology
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurosurgery

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "A lymphocyte-microglia-astrocyte axis in chronic active multiple sclerosis", 2021, Nature
  • "Gut-educated IgA plasma cells defend the meningeal venous sinuses", 2020, Nature
  • "BACH2 enforces the transcriptional and epigenetic programs of stem-like CD8+ T cells", 2021, Nature Immunology
  • "T cell engagement of cross-presenting microglia protects the brain from a nasal virus infection", 2020, Science Immunology
  • "Temporally distinct myeloid cell responses mediate damage and repair after cerebrovascular injury", 2021, Nature Neuroscience

McGavern collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Selamawit Gossa
  • Dragan Maric
  • E. Ashley Moseman
  • Pamela L. Schwartzberg
  • Panagiotis Mastorakos

Best Publications

  • A role for humoral mechanisms in the pathogenesis of Devic’s neuromyelitis optica

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Raul N. Mandler;Dorian McGavern;Wolfgang Bruck

  • Microglia development and function.

    Debasis Nayak;Theodore L. Roth;Dorian B. McGavern

  • Interleukin-10 determines viral clearance or persistence in vivo.

    David G Brooks;Matthew J Trifilo;Kurt H Edelmann;Luc Teyton

  • Inflammation and Neuroprotection in Traumatic Brain Injury

    Kara N. Corps;Theodore L. Roth;Dorian B. McGavern

  • Neuroimmunology of Traumatic Brain Injury: Time for a Paradigm Shift.

    Yasir N. Jassam;Saef Izzy;Saef Izzy;Michael Whalen;Dorian B. McGavern

  • A lymphocyte-microglia-astrocyte axis in chronic active multiple sclerosis.

    Martina Absinta;Martina Absinta;Martina Absinta;Dragan Maric;Marjan Gharagozloo;Thomas Garton

  • The TCF1-Bcl6 axis counteracts type I interferon to repress exhaustion and maintain T cell stemness.

    Tuoqi Wu;Yun Ji;E. Ashley Moseman;Haifeng C. Xu

  • Transcranial amelioration of inflammation and cell death after brain injury

    Theodore L. Roth;Debasis Nayak;Tatjana Atanasijevic;Alan P. Koretsky

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals TOX as a key regulator of CD8+ T cell persistence in chronic infection.

    Chen Yao;Hong-Wei Sun;Neal E. Lacey;Yun Ji

  • Differentiation of human and murine induced pluripotent stem cells to microglia-like cells.

    Hetal Pandya;Michael J Shen;David M Ichikawa;Andrea B Sedlock

  • Cross-linking cellular prion protein triggers neuronal apoptosis in vivo.

    Laura Solforosi;Jose R. Criado;Dorian B. McGavern;Sebastian Wirz

  • Inflammatory neuroprotection following traumatic brain injury.

    Matthew V. Russo;Dorian B. McGavern

  • Viral persistence redirects CD4 T cell differentiation toward T follicular helper cells

    Laura M. Fahey;Elizabeth B. Wilson;Heidi Elsaesser;Chris D. Fistonich

  • Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis

    Jiyun V. Kim;Silvia Ss Kang;Michael L. Dustin;Dorian B. McGavern

  • Viral diseases of the central nervous system.

    Phillip A Swanson;Dorian B McGavern

  • Intrinsic Functional Dysregulation of CD4 T Cells Occurs Rapidly following Persistent Viral Infection

    David G. Brooks;Luc Teyton;Michael B. A. Oldstone;Dorian B. McGavern

  • Illuminating viral infections in the nervous system

    Dorian B. McGavern;Silvia S. Kang

  • Advances in Meningeal Immunity

    Rejane Rua;Dorian B. McGavern

  • The anatomy and immunology of vasculature in the central nervous system.

    Panagiotis Mastorakos;Dorian McGavern

  • PD-1 promotes immune exhaustion by inducing antiviral T cell motility paralysis.

    Bernd H. Zinselmeyer;Sara Heydari;Catarina Sacristán;Debasis Nayak

  • Bone marrow plasmacytoid dendritic cells can differentiate into myeloid dendritic cells upon virus infection.

    Elina I Zuniga;Dorian B McGavern;Jose L Pruneda-Paz;Chao Teng

  • Absence of neurological deficits following extensive demyelination in a class I-deficient murine model of multiple sclerosis

    Cynthia Rivera-Quiñones;Dorian McGavern;James D. Schmelzer;Samuel F. Hunter

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. A. Oldstone
Michael B. A. Oldstone Scripps Research Institute
Moses Rodriguez
Moses Rodriguez Mayo Clinic
David G. Brooks
David G. Brooks University of Toronto
Michael L. Dustin
Michael L. Dustin University of Oxford
Pamela L. Schwartzberg
Pamela L. Schwartzberg National Institutes of Health
Luca Gattinoni
Luca Gattinoni University of Regensburg
Stefan Kunz
Stefan Kunz University of Lausanne
Juan Carlos de la Torre
Juan Carlos de la Torre Scripps Research Institute
Claudia Kemper
Claudia Kemper National Institutes of Health
Dragan Maric
Dragan Maric National Institutes of Health

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