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Overview

Holden T. Maecker is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has an extensive body of research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several related subfields including Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Their research focuses on various main topics, among which are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • CAR-T Cell Therapy Research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Maecker's notable recent publications include:

  • Systems biological assessment of immunity to mild versus severe COVID-19 infection in humans (2020, Science)
  • Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans (2021, Nature)
  • An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging (2021, Nature Aging)
  • Cytokine profile in plasma of severe COVID-19 does not differ from ARDS and sepsis (2020, JCI Insight)
  • The single-cell epigenomic and transcriptional landscape of immunity to influenza vaccination (2021, Cell)

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Maecker include:

  • Kari C. Nadeau
  • Mark M. Davis
  • Yael Rosenberg-Hasson
  • Bali Pulendran
  • Purvesh Khatri

Maecker has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Best Publications

  • Standardizing immunophenotyping for the Human Immunology Project

    Holden T. Maecker;J. Philip McCoy;Robert Nussenblatt

  • Systems biological assessment of immunity to mild versus severe COVID-19 infection in humans.

    Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Florian Wimmers;Chris Ka Pun Mok;Ranawaka A. P. M. Perera

  • The tetraspanin superfamily: molecular facilitators.

    Holden T. Maecker;Scott C. Todd;Shoshana Levy

  • Variation in the Human Immune System Is Largely Driven by Non-Heritable Influences

    Petter Brodin;Petter Brodin;Vladimir Jojic;Tianxiang Gao;Sanchita Bhattacharya

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Mübeccel Akdis

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • mTOR inhibition improves immune function in the elderly

    Joan B. Mannick;Giuseppe Del Giudice;Maria Lattanzi;Nicholas M. Valiante

  • In vivo detection and imaging of phosphatidylserine expression during programmed cell death

    F G Blankenberg;P D Katsikis;J F Tait;R E Davis

  • CD81 (TAPA-1): A MOLECULE INVOLVED IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND CELL ADHESION IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

    Shoshana Levy;Scott C. Todd;Holden T. Maecker

  • Genetic and environmental determinants of human NK cell diversity revealed by mass cytometry

    Amir Horowitz;Dara M. Strauss-Albee;Michael Leipold;Jessica Kubo

  • An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging

    Nazish Sayed;Yingxiang Huang;Khiem Nguyen;Zuzana Krejciova-Rajaniemi

  • Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans.

    Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Madeleine K. D. Scott;Thomas Hagan;Thomas Hagan;Chunfeng Li

  • Peanut oral immunotherapy results in increased antigen-induced regulatory T-cell function and hypomethylation of forkhead box protein 3 (FOXP3)

    Aleena Syed;Marco A. Garcia;Shu Chen Lyu;Robert Bucayu

  • A clinically meaningful metric of immune age derived from high-dimensional longitudinal monitoring

    Ayelet Alpert;Yishai Pickman;Michael Leipold;Yael Rosenberg-Hasson

  • Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans.

    Gregory M. Fahy;Robert T. Brooke;James P. Watson;Zinaida Good

  • Cytokine signature associated with disease severity in chronic fatigue syndrome patients

    Jose G. Montoya;Tyson H. Holmes;Jill N. Anderson;Holden T. Maecker

  • Use of overlapping peptide mixtures as antigens for cytokine flow cytometry

    Holden T Maecker;Holli S Dunn;Maria A Suni;Elham Khatamzas;Elham Khatamzas

  • Cytomegalovirus infection enhances the immune response to influenza

    David Furman;Vladimir Jojic;Shalini Sharma;Shai S. Shen-Orr

  • Sustained outcomes in oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy (POISED study): a large, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 study

    R Sharon Chinthrajah;Natasha Purington;Sandra Andorf;Andrew Long

  • Standardizing Flow Cytometry Immunophenotyping Analysis from the Human ImmunoPhenotyping Consortium

    Greg Finak;Marc Langweiler;Maria Jaimes;Mehrnoush Malek

  • An ovalbumin-IL-12 fusion protein is more effective than ovalbumin plus free recombinant IL-12 in inducing a T helper cell type 1-dominated immune response and inhibiting antigen-specific IgE production.

    Tae Sung Kim;Rosemarie H. DeKruyff;Randall Rupper;Holden T. Maecker

  • Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccination of Human Newborns Induces T Cells with Complex Cytokine and Phenotypic Profiles

    Andreia P. Soares;Thomas J. Scriba;Sarah Joseph;Ryhor Harbacheuski

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark M. Davis
Mark M. Davis Stanford University
Vernon C. Maino
Vernon C. Maino Becton Dickinson (United States)
Cornelia L. Dekker
Cornelia L. Dekker Stanford University
Kari C. Nadeau
Kari C. Nadeau Harvard University
Mary L. Disis
Mary L. Disis University of Washington
Shoshana Levy
Shoshana Levy Stanford University
Ronald Levy
Ronald Levy Stanford University
Paul J. Utz
Paul J. Utz Stanford University
Stephen J. Galli
Stephen J. Galli Stanford University
Jose G. Montoya
Jose G. Montoya Stanford University

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