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Gwo-Yu Chuang is affiliated with Moderna Therapeutics in the United States and has contributed extensively to biomedical research, with a focus on medicine, immunology, microbiology, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple fields including virology, infectious diseases, immunology, and radiology.

Their research addresses key topics such as HIV research and treatment, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, immune cell function and interaction, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

Chuang has published significant papers including:

  • Cryo-EM Structures of SARS-CoV-2 Spike without and with ACE2 Reveal a pH-Dependent Switch to Mediate Endosomal Positioning of Receptor-Binding Domains (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • Nanobodies from camelid mice and llamas neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants (2021, Nature)
  • mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar B cell expansion, neutralizing responses, and protection from Omicron (2022, Cell)
  • Bivalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines increase breadth of neutralization and protect against the BA.5 Omicron variant in mice (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • Recapitulation of HIV-1 Env-antibody coevolution in macaques leading to neutralization breadth (2020, Science)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Chuang include:

  • Peter D. Kwong
  • John R. Mascola
  • Baoshan Zhang
  • Tongqing Zhou
  • Reda Rawi

Their publications have appeared primarily in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cell Host & Microbe

Chuang's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, the scientist focuses on subfields like:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Virology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Best Publications

  • Structure-Based Design of a Fusion Glycoprotein Vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus

    Jason S. McLellan;Man Chen;M. Gordon Joyce;Mallika Sastry

  • Structure of HIV-1 gp120 V1/V2 domain with broadly neutralizing antibody PG9

    Jason S. McLellan;Marie Pancera;Chris Carrico;Jason Gorman

  • Structure and immune recognition of trimeric pre-fusion HIV-1 Env

    Marie Pancera;Tongqing Zhou;Aliaksandr Druz;Ivelin S. Georgiev

  • Fragment-based identification of druggable ‘hot spots’ of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques

    Ryan Brenke;Dima Kozakov;Gwo-Yu Chuang;Dmitri Beglov

  • Potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies directed against spike N-terminal domain target a single supersite.

    Gabriele Cerutti;Yicheng Guo;Tongqing Zhou;Jason Gorman

  • Broad and potent HIV-1 neutralization by a human antibody that binds the gp41–gp120 interface

    Jinghe Huang;Byong H. Kang;Marie Pancera;Jeong Hyun Lee

  • Trimeric HIV-1-Env Structures Define Glycan Shields from Clades A, B and G

    Guillaume B.E. Stewart-Jones;Cinque Soto;Thomas Lemmin;Thomas Lemmin;Gwo Yu Chuang

  • Prefusion F–specific antibodies determine the magnitude of RSV neutralizing activity in human sera

    Joan O. Ngwuta;Man Chen;Kayvon Modjarrad;Kayvon Modjarrad;M. Gordon Joyce

  • Multidonor Analysis Reveals Structural Elements, Genetic Determinants, and Maturation Pathway for HIV-1 Neutralization by VRC01-Class Antibodies.

    Tongqing Zhou;Jiang Zhu;Xueling Wu;Stephanie Moquin

  • Identification of a CD4-Binding-Site Antibody to HIV that Evolved Near-Pan Neutralization Breadth.

    Jinghe Huang;Byong H. Kang;Elise Ishida;Tongqing Zhou

  • Crystal structure, conformational fixation and entry-related interactions of mature ligand-free HIV-1 Env

    Young Do Kwon;Marie Pancera;Priyamvada Acharya;Ivelin S. Georgiev

  • Fusion peptide of HIV-1 as a site of vulnerability to neutralizing antibody

    Rui Kong;Kai Xu;Tongqing Zhou;Priyamvada Acharya

  • Cryo-EM Structures of SARS-CoV-2 Spike without and with ACE2 Reveal a pH-Dependent Switch to Mediate Endosomal Positioning of Receptor-Binding Domains.

    Tongqing Zhou;Yaroslav Tsybovsky;Jason Gorman;Micah Rapp

  • Vaccine-Induced Antibodies that Neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses

    M. Gordon Joyce;Adam K. Wheatley;Paul V. Thomas;Gwo-Yu Chuang

  • Maturation Pathway from Germline to Broad HIV-1 Neutralizer of a CD4-Mimic Antibody

    Mattia Bonsignori;Tongqing Zhou;Zizhang Sheng;Lei Chen

  • Enhanced Potency of a Broadly Neutralizing HIV-1 Antibody In Vitro Improves Protection against Lentiviral Infection In Vivo

    Rebecca S. Rudicell;Young Do Kwon;Sung-Youl Ko;Amarendra Pegu

  • Epitope-based vaccine design yields fusion peptide-directed antibodies that neutralize diverse strains of HIV-1.

    K. Xu;P. Acharya;R. Kong;C. Cheng

  • Structural conservation of druggable hot spots in protein–protein interfaces

    Dima Kozakov;David R. Hall;Gwo-Yu Chuang;Regina Cencic

  • Maturation and Diversity of the VRC01-Antibody Lineage over 15 Years of Chronic HIV-1 Infection.

    Xueling Wu;Xueling Wu;Zhenhai Zhang;Chaim A. Schramm;M. Gordon Joyce

  • Delineating antibody recognition in polyclonal sera from patterns of HIV-1 isolate neutralization.

    Ivelin S. Georgiev;Nicole A. Doria-Rose;Tongqing Zhou;Young Do Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Kwong
Peter D. Kwong Columbia University Medical Center
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola ModeX Therapeutics
Baoshan Zhang
Baoshan Zhang National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Lawrence Shapiro
Lawrence Shapiro Columbia University
Ivelin S. Georgiev
Ivelin S. Georgiev Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tongqing Zhou
Tongqing Zhou National Institutes of Health
Mark K. Louder
Mark K. Louder National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Yongping Yang
Yongping Yang National Institutes of Health
Nicole A. Doria-Rose
Nicole A. Doria-Rose National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Sijy O'Dell
Sijy O'Dell National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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