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Janko Nikolich-Zugich

Janko Nikolich-Zugich

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Immunology

D-Index
63
Citations
14421
World Ranking
3025
National Ranking
1418

Overview

Janko Nikolich-Zugich is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on medicine with significant contributions to infectious diseases, immunology, neurology, epidemiology, and oncology. Their body of work includes 153 publications in medicine, with notable activity in investigations related to infectious diseases (70 publications) and immunology (36 publications).

Their research addresses key topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and the long-term effects of COVID-19. Other areas of interest include cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, immune cell function and interaction, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Janko Nikolich-Zugich has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jennifer L. Uhrlaub
  • Mladen Jergović
  • Christopher P. Coplen
  • Bonnie LaFleur
  • Deepta Bhattacharya

The scientist's work appears extensively in specialized journals and repositories. Notable venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • GeroScience
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Journal of Virology
  • Aging Cell

Selected recent papers demonstrating the scope of their research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in older adults: what we may expect regarding pathogenesis, immune responses, and outcomes, 2020, GeroScience
  • Orthogonal SARS-CoV-2 Serological Assays Enable Surveillance of Low-Prevalence Communities and Reveal Durable Humoral Immunity, 2020, Immunity
  • Long COVID: a clinical update, 2024, The Lancet
  • Immune responses to two and three doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in adults with solid tumors, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Affinity-Restricted Memory B Cells Dominate Recall Responses to Heterologous Flaviviruses, 2020, Immunity

Best Publications

  • The twilight of immunity: emerging concepts in aging of the immune system

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  • The many important facets of T-cell repertoire diversity

    Janko Nikolich-Žugich;Mark K. Slifka;Ilhem Messaoudi

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in older adults: what we may expect regarding pathogenesis, immune responses, and outcomes.

    Janko Nikolich-Zugich;Kenneth S. Knox;Carlos Tafich Rios;Bhupinder Natt

  • MIFlowCyt: the minimum information about a Flow Cytometry Experiment.

    Jamie A. Lee;Josef Spidlen;Keith Boyce;Jennifer Cai

  • Ageing and life-long maintenance of T-cell subsets in the face of latent persistent infections

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  • Direct link between mhc polymorphism, T cell avidity, and diversity in immune defense.

    Ilhem Messaoudi;Jose A. Guevara Patiño;Ruben Dyall;Joël LeMaoult

  • Aging and Cytomegalovirus Infection Differentially and Jointly Affect Distinct Circulating T Cell Subsets in Humans

    Anne M. Wertheimer;Michael S. Bennett;Byung Park;Jennifer L. Uhrlaub

  • IRF-3, IRF-5, and IRF-7 coordinately regulate the type I IFN response in myeloid dendritic cells downstream of MAVS signaling

    Helen M. Lazear;Alissa Lancaster;Courtney Wilkins;Mehul S. Suthar;Mehul S. Suthar

  • Orthogonal SARS-CoV-2 Serological Assays Enable Surveillance of Low-Prevalence Communities and Reveal Durable Humoral Immunity.

    Tyler J. Ripperger;Jennifer L. Uhrlaub;Makiko Watanabe;Rachel Wong;Rachel Wong

  • Age-related CD8 T Cell Clonal Expansions Constrict CD8 T Cell Repertoire and Have the Potential to Impair Immune Defense

    Ilhem Messaoudi;Joël Lemaoult;Jose A Guevara-Patino;Beatrix M Metzner

  • West Nile virus infection activates the unfolded protein response, leading to CHOP induction and apoptosis.

    Guruprasad R. Medigeshi;Alissa M. Lancaster;Alec J. Hirsch;Thomas Briese

  • Delay of T cell senescence by caloric restriction in aged long-lived nonhuman primates

    Ilhem Messaoudi;Jessica Warner;Miranda Fischer;Buyng Park

  • Aging of the T Cell Compartment in Mice and Humans: From No Naive Expectations to Foggy Memories

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  • Key role of T cell defects in age-related vulnerability to West Nile virus.

    James D Brien;Jennifer L Uhrlaub;Jennifer L Uhrlaub;Alec Hirsch;Clayton A Wiley

  • CMV and Immunosenescence: from basics to clinics

    Rafael Solana;Raquel Tarazona;Allison E Aiello;Arne N Akbar

  • Immune responses to two and three doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in adults with solid tumors.

    Rachna T. Shroff;Pavani Chalasani;Ran Wei;Daniel Pennington

  • West Nile Virus Entry Requires Cholesterol-Rich Membrane Microdomains and Is Independent of αvβ3 Integrin

    Guruprasad R. Medigeshi;Alec J. Hirsch;Daniel N. Streblow;Janko Nikolich-Zugich

  • Global analyses revealed age‐related alterations in innate immune responses after stimulation of pathogen recognition receptors

    Talibah U. Metcalf;Rafael A. Cubas;Khader Ghneim;Michael J. Cartwright

  • Protective capacity and epitope specificity of CD8(+) T cells responding to lethal West Nile virus infection.

    James D Brien;Jennifer L Uhrlaub;Janko Nikolich-Zugich

  • New advances in CMV and immunosenescence.

    Paolo Sansoni;Rosanna Vescovini;Francesco F. Fagnoni;Arne Akbar

  • Human memory T cells with a naive phenotype accumulate with aging and respond to persistent viruses

    Vesna Pulko;John S Davies;Carmine Martinez;Marion C Lanteri

  • Nonrandom attrition of the naive CD8+ T-cell pool with aging governed by T-cell receptor:pMHC interactions

    Brian D. Rudd;Vanessa Venturi;Gang Li;Partha Samadder

  • Cytomegalovirus infection impairs immune responses and accentuates T-cell pool changes observed in mice with aging.

    Luka Cicin-Sain;James D. Brien;James D. Brien;Jennifer L. Uhrlaub;Jennifer L. Uhrlaub;Anja Drabig

  • Dramatic increase in naïve T cell turnover is linked to loss of naïve T cells from old primates

    Luka Čičin-Šain;Ilhem Messaoudi;Byung Park;Noreen Currier

  • Human Monocyte Subsets Are Transcriptionally and Functionally Altered in Aging in Response to Pattern Recognition Receptor Agonists.

    Talibah U. Metcalf;Peter A. Wilkinson;Mark J. Cameron;Khader Ghneim

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne N. Akbar
Arne N. Akbar University College London
Jos A. Bosch
Jos A. Bosch University of Amsterdam
Joel LeMaoult
Joel LeMaoult Université Paris Cité
Jay A. Nelson
Jay A. Nelson Oregon Health & Science University
Meredith Hay
Meredith Hay University of Arizona
Tamas Fulop
Tamas Fulop Université de Sherbrooke
Elias K. Haddad
Elias K. Haddad Drexel University
Michael S. Diamond
Michael S. Diamond Washington University in St. Louis
Paul Moss
Paul Moss University of Birmingham
Graham Pawelec
Graham Pawelec University of Tübingen

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