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Overview

James L. Riley is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, focusing extensively on research within the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work spans several subfields including Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Virology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects

James L. Riley has published frequently in several prominent venues. The most common publication outlets include:

  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood
  • Molecular Therapy

Recent papers authored by or involving Riley demonstrate a focus on CAR T cell technologies and HIV-related immunotherapies. Notable publications include:

  • PSMA-targeting TGFβ-insensitive armored CAR T cells in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a phase 1 trial, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Genetic engineering of T cells for immunotherapy, 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Dual CD4-based CAR T cells with distinct costimulatory domains mitigate HIV pathogenesis in vivo, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • CCR5-edited CD4+ T cells augment HIV-specific immunity to enable post-rebound control of HIV replication, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Throughout their career, Riley has collaborated repeatedly with several researchers, forming frequent coauthoring partnerships with:

  • Carl H. June
  • Gavin I. Ellis
  • Colby R. Maldini
  • Julie K. Jadlowsky
  • Pablo Tebas

Best Publications

  • CTLA-4 and PD-1 receptors inhibit T-cell activation by distinct mechanisms

    Richard V. Parry;Jens M. Chemnitz;Kenneth A. Frauwirth;Anthony R. Lanfranco

  • The CD28 signaling pathway regulates glucose metabolism.

    Kenneth A Frauwirth;James L Riley;Marian H Harris;Richard V Parry

  • Chimeric Receptors Containing CD137 Signal Transduction Domains Mediate Enhanced Survival of T Cells and Increased Antileukemic Efficacy In Vivo

    Michael C. Milone;Jonathan D. Fish;Jonathan D. Fish;Carmine Carpenito;Richard G. Carroll

  • Establishment of HIV-1 resistance in CD4+ T cells by genome editing using zinc-finger nucleases

    Elena E. Perez;Jianbin Wang;Jeffrey C. Miller;Yann Jouvenot;Yann Jouvenot

  • SHP-1 and SHP-2 associate with immunoreceptor tyrosine-based switch motif of programmed death 1 upon primary human T cell stimulation, but only receptor ligation prevents T cell activation.

    Jens M. Chemnitz;Richard V. Parry;Kim E. Nichols;Carl H. June

  • Control of large, established tumor xenografts with genetically retargeted human T cells containing CD28 and CD137 domains

    Carmine Carpenito;Michael C. Milone;Raffit Hassan;Jacqueline C. Simonet

  • Cutting Edge: Regulatory T Cells from Lung Cancer Patients Directly Inhibit Autologous T Cell Proliferation

    Edward Y. Woo;Heidi Yeh;Christina S. Chu;Katia Schlienger

  • PD-1 signaling in primary T cells.

    James L. Riley

  • Decade-Long Safety and Function of Retroviral-Modified Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells

    John Scholler;Troy L. Brady;Gwendolyn Binder-Scholl;Wei-Ting Hwang

  • Identification of a Titin-derived HLA-A1-presented peptide as a cross-reactive target for engineered MAGE A3-directed T cells

    Brian J. Cameron;Andrew B. Gerry;Joseph Dukes;Jane V. Harper

  • Ex vivo expansion of polyclonal and antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes by artificial APCs expressing ligands for the T-cell receptor, CD28 and 4-1BB.

    Marcela V. Maus;Anna K. Thomas;Debra G.B. Leonard;David Allman

  • PSMA-targeting TGFβ-insensitive armored CAR T cells in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a phase 1 trial

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  • Expression of a Functional CCR2 Receptor Enhances Tumor Localization and Tumor Eradication by Retargeted Human T Cells Expressing a Mesothelin - Specific Chimeric Antibody Receptor

    Edmund K. Moon;Carmine Carpenito;Jing Sun;Liang-Chuan S. Wang

  • Human T Regulatory Cell Therapy: Take a Billion or So and Call Me in the Morning

    James L. Riley;Carl H. June;Bruce R. Blazar

  • The PDL1-PD1 axis converts human TH1 cells into regulatory T cells.

    Shoba Amarnath;Courtney W. Mangus;Courtney W. Mangus;James C. M. Wang;Fang Wei

  • Role of PD-1 during effector CD8 T cell differentiation.

    Eunseon Ahn;Koichi Araki;Masao Hashimoto;Weiyan Li

  • FOXP3 interactions with histone acetyltransferase and class II histone deacetylases are required for repression

    Bin Li;Arabinda Samanta;Xiaomin Song;Kathryn T. Iacono

  • Chronic Virus Infection Enforces Demethylation of the Locus that Encodes PD-1 in Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells

    Benjamin Alan Youngblood;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Sang-Jun Ha;Sang-Jun Ha;Jaikumar Duraiswamy

  • DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR bind ebola glycoproteins and enhance infection of macrophages and endothelial cells.

    Graham Simmons;Jacqueline D. Reeves;Case C. Grogan;Luk H. Vandenberghe

  • Multifactorial T-cell Hypofunction That Is Reversible Can Limit the Efficacy of Chimeric Antigen Receptor–Transduced Human T cells in Solid Tumors

    Edmund K. Moon;Liang-Chuan Wang;Douglas V. Dolfi;Caleph B. Wilson

  • The CD28 family: a T-cell rheostat for therapeutic control of T-cell activation.

    James L. Riley;Carl H. June

  • CTLA-4 and PD-1 Receptors Inhibit T-Cell Activation by Distinct Mechanisms.

    Jens M. Chemnitz;James L. Riley;Kenneth A. Frauwirth;Inbal Braunstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl H. June
Carl H. June University of Pennsylvania
Bruce L. Levine
Bruce L. Levine University of Pennsylvania
Richard G. Carroll
Richard G. Carroll University of Pennsylvania
Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
Michael C. Milone
Michael C. Milone University of Pennsylvania
Michael C. Holmes
Michael C. Holmes Ambys Medicines
Marcela V. Maus
Marcela V. Maus Harvard University
John E. Wagner
John E. Wagner University of Minnesota
Jeffrey S. Miller
Jeffrey S. Miller University of Minnesota
Philip D. Gregory
Philip D. Gregory Sangamo BioSciences (United States)

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