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Galit Alter

Galit Alter

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
109
Citations
45039
World Ranking
931
National Ranking
566

Immunology

D-Index
113
Citations
49375
World Ranking
430
National Ranking
263

Medicine

D-Index
113
Citations
49375
World Ranking
4932
National Ranking
2675

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Galit Alter is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in fields related to Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their subfields of study include Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Epidemiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Molecular Biology.

The primary focus of their research revolves around topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, HIV Research and Treatment, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, and the COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction.

Galit Alter has authored multiple papers, notable among them are:

  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Correlates of protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques (2020, Nature)
  • DNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques (2020, Science)
  • SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality (2020, Nature Communications)
  • SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against rechallenge in rhesus macaques (2020, Science)

Their frequent co-authors include Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Caroline Atyeo, Stephanie Fischinger, Dan H. Barouch, and Yannic C. Bartsch.

Galit Alter has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent among them are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Cell

Best Publications

  • CD107a as a functional marker for the identification of natural killer cell activity

    Galit Alter;Jessica M. Malenfant;Marcus Altfeld

  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host.

    Bina Choi;Manish C. Choudhary;James Regan;Jeffrey A. Sparks

  • Correlates of protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques.

    Katherine McMahan;Jingyou Yu;Noe B. Mercado;Carolin Loos;Carolin Loos

  • DNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques.

    Jingyou Yu;Lisa H. Tostanoski;Lauren Peter;Noe B. Mercado

  • SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality.

    Jesse Fajnzylber;James Regan;Kendyll Coxen;Heather Corry

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against rechallenge in rhesus macaques.

    Abishek Chandrashekar;Jinyan Liu;Amanda J. Martinot;Amanda J. Martinot;Katherine McMahan

  • Single-shot Ad26 vaccine protects against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques.

    Noe B. Mercado;Roland Zahn;Frank Wegmann;Carolin Loos;Carolin Loos

  • Beyond binding: antibody effector functions in infectious diseases.

    Lenette L. Lu;Todd J. Suscovich;Sarah M. Fortune;Galit Alter

  • COVID-19-neutralizing antibodies predict disease severity and survival.

    Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran;Evan C. Lam;Michael G. Astudillo;Diane Yang

  • Loss of Bcl-6-Expressing T Follicular Helper Cells and Germinal Centers in COVID-19.

    Naoki Kaneko;Hsiao-Hsuan Kuo;Julie Boucau;Jocelyn R. Farmer

  • Coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine response in pregnant and lactating women: a cohort study.

    Kathryn J. Gray;Evan A. Bordt;Caroline Atyeo;Elizabeth Deriso

  • Persistence and decay of human antibody responses to the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in COVID-19 patients.

    Anita S. Iyer;Forrest K. Jones;Ariana Nodoushani;Meagan Kelly

  • Sex differences in the Toll-like receptor–mediated response of plasmacytoid dendritic cells to HIV-1

    Angela Meier;J Judy Chang;Ellen S Chan;Richard B Pollard

  • A Functional Role for Antibodies in Tuberculosis

    Lenette L. Lu;Lenette L. Lu;Amy W. Chung;Amy W. Chung;Tracy R. Rosebrock;Musie Ghebremichael

  • Differential natural killer cell–mediated inhibition of HIV-1 replication based on distinct KIR/HLA subtypes

    Galit Alter;Maureen P. Martin;Nickolas Teigen;William H Carr

  • Antibiotics-Driven Gut Microbiome Perturbation Alters Immunity to Vaccines in Humans.

    Thomas Hagan;Mario Cortese;Nadine Rouphael;Carolyn Boudreau

  • Protective efficacy of multiple vaccine platforms against Zika virus challenge in rhesus monkeys

    Peter Abbink;Rafael A. Larocca;Rafael A. De La Barrera;Christine A. Bricault

  • Expansion of HIV-specific T follicular helper cells in chronic HIV infection.

    Madelene Lindqvist;Jan van Lunzen;Damien Z. Soghoian;Bjorn D. Kuhl

  • A robust, high-throughput assay to determine the phagocytic activity of clinical antibody samples

    Margaret E. Ackerman;Brian Moldt;Richard T. Wyatt;Anne-Sophie Dugast

  • International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

    Steven G Deeks;Sharon R Lewin;Anna Laura Ross;Jintanat Ananworanich

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan H. Barouch
Dan H. Barouch Harvard Medical School
Marcus Altfeld
Marcus Altfeld University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Margaret E. Ackerman
Margaret E. Ackerman Dartmouth College
Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Hendrik Streeck
Hendrik Streeck University Hospital Bonn
Todd J. Suscovich
Todd J. Suscovich SeromYx Systems
Aaron G. Schmidt
Aaron G. Schmidt Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Merlin L. Robb
Merlin L. Robb Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Mary Carrington
Mary Carrington Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

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