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Gerard Zurawski is affiliated with Baylor University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected areas within immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions to medicine. The main fields of study encompass Immunology and Microbiology and Medicine, while subfields include Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Virology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • HIV Research and Treatment

Gerard Zurawski has frequently published in several venues including:

  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • EBioMedicine

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's publications include Sandra Zurawski, Yves Lévy, Sylvain Cardinaud, Mireille Centlivre, and Botond Z. Igyártó.

Some of the recent published papers are:

  • Targeting SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain to cells expressing CD40 improves protection to infection in convalescent macaques, 2021, Nature Communications
  • TLR-9 agonist and CD40-targeting vaccination induces HIV-1 envelope-specific B cells with a diversified immunoglobulin repertoire in humanized mice, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Design, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a pan-sarbecovirus dendritic-cell targeting vaccine, 2022, EBioMedicine
  • Anti-CD40 Antibody Fused to CD40 Ligand Is a Superagonist Platform for Adjuvant Intrinsic DC-Targeting Vaccines, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection, 2022, eLife

Best Publications

  • IL-33, an interleukin-1-like cytokine that signals via the IL-1 receptor-related protein ST2 and induces T helper type 2-associated cytokines

    Jochen Schmitz;Alexander Owyang;Elizabeth Oldham;Yaoli Song

  • Human Blood CXCR5+CD4+ T Cells Are Counterparts of T Follicular Cells and Contain Specific Subsets that Differentially Support Antibody Secretion

    Rimpei Morita;Nathalie Schmitt;Salah Eddine Bentebibel;Rajaram Ranganathan

  • IL-25 induces IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 and Th2-associated pathologies in vivo.

    Madeline M. Fort;Jeanne Cheung;David Yen;Joana Li

  • Interleukin 13, an interleukin 4-like cytokine that acts on monocytes and B cells, but not on T cells.

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  • New IL-17 Family Members Promote Th1 or Th2 Responses in the Lung: In Vivo Function of the Novel Cytokine IL-25

    Stephen D. Hurst;Tony Muchamuel;Daniel M. Gorman;Jonathan M. Gilbert

  • Functional Specializations of Human Epidermal Langerhans Cells and CD14+ Dermal Dendritic Cells

    Eynav Klechevsky;Eynav Klechevsky;Rimpei Morita;Maochang Liu;Yanying Cao

  • Receptors for interleukin‐13 and interleukin‐4 are complex and share a novel component that functions in signal transduction.

    S.M. Zurawski;F. Vega;B. Huyghe;G. Zurawski

  • Nucleotide sequence of the gene for the M(r) 32,000 thylakoid membrane protein from Spinacia oleracea and Nicotiana debneyi predicts a totally conserved primary translation product of M(r) 38,950.

    Gerard Zurawski;Hans J. Bohnert;Paul R. Whitfeld;Warwick Bottomley

  • Skin-Resident Murine Dendritic Cell Subsets Promote Distinct and Opposing Antigen-Specific T Helper Cell Responses

    Botond Z. Igyártó;Krystal Haley;Daniela Ortner;Aleh Bobr

  • Impaired Development of Th2 Cells in IL-13-Deficient Mice

    Grahame J McKenzie;Claire L Emson;Sarah E Bell;Shannon Anderson

  • The primary binding subunit of the human interleukin-4 receptor is also a component of the interleukin-13 receptor.

    Sandra M. Zurawski;Pascale Chomarat;Odile Djossou;Christine Bidaud

  • The structure of the gene for the large subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from spinach chloroplast DNA.

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  • A family of small inducible proteins secreted by leukocytes are members of a new superfamily that includes leukocyte and fibroblast-derived inflammatory agents, growth factors, and indicators of various activation processes.

    Brown Kd;Zurawski Sm;Mosmann Tr;Zurawski G

  • Activation of mouse T-helper cells induces abundant preproenkephalin mRNA synthesis

    Gerard Zurawski;Michael Benedik;Barkley J. Kamb;John S. Abrams

  • THE NATURE OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DIVERGENCE BETWEEN BARLEY AND MAIZE CHLOROPLAST DNA

    Gerard Zurawski;Michael T. Clegg;Anthony H. D. Brown

  • Thymic stromal lymphopoietin fosters human breast tumor growth by promoting type 2 inflammation

    Alexander Pedroza-Gonzalez;Alexander Pedroza-Gonzalez;Kangling Xu;Kangling Xu;Te Chia Wu;Te Chia Wu;Te Chia Wu;Caroline Aspord;Caroline Aspord

  • Cross-priming CD8+ T cells by targeting antigens to human dendritic cells through DCIR

    Eynav Klechevsky;Eynav Klechevsky;Anne-Laure Flamar;Anne-Laure Flamar;Yanying Cao;Jean-Philippe Blanck

  • Candida albicans Morphology and Dendritic Cell Subsets Determine T Helper Cell Differentiation

    Sakeen W. Kashem;Botond Z. Igyarto;Maryam Gerami-Nejad;Yosuke Kumamoto

  • Harnessing human dendritic cell subsets for medicine

    Hideki Ueno;Nathalie Schmitt;Eynav Klechevsky;Alexander Pedroza-Gonzalez

  • The biosynthesis and primary structure of pea seed lectin.

    T J Higgins;P M Chandler;G Zurawski;S C Button

  • Targeting self- and foreign antigens to dendritic cells via DC-ASGPR generates IL-10–producing suppressive CD4+ T cells

    Dapeng Li;Gabrielle Romain;Anne Laure Flamar;Dorothée Duluc

  • Nucleotide sequence of the leader region of the phenylalanine operon of Escherichia coli.

    Gerard Zurawski;Keith Brown;David Killingly;Charles Yanofsky

  • Definition and spatial location of mouse interleukin-2 residues that interact with its heterotrimeric receptor

    Zurawski Sm;Vega F;Doyle El;Huyghe B

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra Zurawski
Sandra Zurawski Baylor University
Karolina Palucka
Karolina Palucka Baylor University
Robert A. Kastelein
Robert A. Kastelein MSD (United States)
J. Fernando Bazan
J. Fernando Bazan Stanford University
Jean-Pierre Gorvel
Jean-Pierre Gorvel Aix-Marseille University
Virginia Pascual
Virginia Pascual Cornell University
Bert A. 't Hart
Bert A. 't Hart University of Amsterdam
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky Stanford University

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