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Immunology

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141
Citations
83946
World Ranking
156
National Ranking
106

Medicine

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141
Citations
84012
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

George M. Shaw is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, as well as Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Virology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their main research topics focus on HIV Research and Treatment, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Recent papers authored by George M. Shaw include:

  • Strategies for HIV-1 vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (2022, Nature reviews. Immunology)
  • T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Recapitulation of HIV-1 Env-antibody coevolution in macaques leading to neutralization breadth (2020, Science)
  • Fab-dimerized glycan-reactive antibodies are a structural category of natural antibodies (2021, Cell)
  • Heightened resistance to host type 1 interferons characterizes HIV-1 at transmission and after antiretroviral therapy interruption (2021, Science Translational Medicine)

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Beatrice H. Hahn
  • Barton F. Haynes
  • Katharine J. Bar
  • Bette Korber
  • Kevin O. Saunders

Publication venues with multiple contributions consist of bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Journal of Virology, Cell Reports, and Science Translational Medicine.

Among their professional recognitions, George M. Shaw is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2013 and also a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

    Xiping Wei;Sajal K. Ghosh;Maria E. Taylor;Victoria A. Johnson

  • Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1

    Xiping Wei;Julie M. Decker;Shuyi Wang;Huxiong Hui

  • Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes

    Feng Gao;Elizabeth Bailes;David L. Robertson;Yalu Chen

  • Virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity associated with control of viremia in primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.

    P Borrow;H Lewicki;B H Hahn;G M Shaw

  • Identification and characterization of transmitted and early founder virus envelopes in primary HIV-1 infection

    Brandon F. Keele;Elena E. Giorgi;Elena E. Giorgi;Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Julie M. Decker

  • Emergence of Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Patients Receiving Fusion Inhibitor (T-20) Monotherapy

    Xiping Wei;Julie M. Decker;Hongmei Liu;Zee Zhang

  • AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications

    Beatrice H. Hahn;George M. Shaw;Kevin M. De;Cock

  • High levels of HIV-1 in plasma during all stages of infection determined by competitive PCR

    Piatak M;Saag Ms;Yang Lc;Clark Sj

  • Antiviral pressure exerted by HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) during primary infection demonstrated by rapid selection of CTL escape virus.

    Persephone Borrow;Hanna Lewicki;Xiping Wei;Marc S. Horwitz

  • POTENT SUPPRESSION OF HIV-1 REPLICATION IN HUMANS BY T-20, A PEPTIDE INHIBITOR OF GP41-MEDIATED VIRUS ENTRY

    J M Kilby;S Hopkins;T M Venetta;B DiMassimo

  • Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

    Brandon F. Keele;Fran Van Heuverswyn;Yingying Li;Elizabeth Bailes

  • HTLV-III infection in brains of children and adults with AIDS encephalopathy

    George M. Shaw;Mary E. Harper;Beatrice H. Hahn;Leon G. Epstein

  • Co-evolution of a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody and founder virus

    Hua-Xin Liao;Rebecca Lynch;Tongqing Zhou;Feng Gao;Feng Gao

  • High titers of cytopathic virus in plasma of patients with symptomatic primary HIV-1 infection.

    Stephen J. Clark;Michael S. Saag;W. Don Decker;Sherri Campbell-Hill

  • Identification and characterization of conserved and variable regions in the envelope gene of HTLV-III/LAV, the retrovirus of AIDS

    Bruno R. Starcich;Beatrice H. Hahn;George M. Shaw;Paul D. McNeely

  • Genetic identity, biological phenotype, and evolutionary pathways of transmitted/founder viruses in acute and early HIV-1 infection.

    Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Maria G. Salazar;Brandon F. Keele;Gerald H. Learn

  • Sensitivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 to the Fusion Inhibitor T-20 Is Modulated by Coreceptor Specificity Defined by the V3 Loop of gp120

    Cynthia A. Derdeyn;Julie M. Decker;Jeffrey N. Sfakianos;Xiaoyun Wu

  • Acute HIV-1 Infection

    Myron S. Cohen;George M. Shaw;Andrew J. McMichael;Barton F. Haynes

  • Initial B-Cell Responses to Transmitted Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1: Virion-Binding Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG Antibodies Followed by Plasma Anti-gp41 Antibodies with Ineffective Control of Initial Viremia

    Georgia D. Tomaras;Nicole L. Yates;Pinghuang Liu;Li Qin

  • Molecular characterization of human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic) virus type III in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome

    George M. Shaw;Beatrice H. Hahn;Suresh K. Arya;Jerome E. Groopman

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
Bette T. Korber
Bette T. Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes Duke University
Brandon F. Keele
Brandon F. Keele National Institutes of Health
Julie M. Decker
Julie M. Decker University of Alabama at Birmingham
feng gao
feng gao Duke University
Paul M. Sharp
Paul M. Sharp University of Edinburgh
David C. Montefiori
David C. Montefiori Duke University
Gerald H. Learn
Gerald H. Learn University of Pennsylvania
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche University of Pennsylvania

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