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John A. Zaia is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with focused subfields in Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies

Among their recent publications are:

  • HIV-1 Remission after Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • COVID-19 vaccination elicits an evolving, cross-reactive antibody response to epitopes conserved with endemic coronavirus spike proteins, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Vaccine-induced spike- and nucleocapsid-specific cellular responses maintain potent cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants, 2022, iScience
  • Large-scale manufacturing and characterization of CMV-CD19CAR T cells, 2022, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Pre-clinical data supporting immunotherapy for HIV using CMV-HIV-specific CAR T cells with CMV vaccine, 2022, Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephen J. Forman (12 collaborations)
  • Sanjeet Dadwal (8 collaborations)
  • Sandra Ortega-Francisco (8 collaborations)
  • Ryotaro Nakamura (8 collaborations)
  • Don J. Diamond (7 collaborations)

John A. Zaia has published often in the following venues:

  • Blood (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Cytotherapy (3 publications)
  • New England Journal of Medicine (1 publication)
  • Cell Reports (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Ribozymes as potential anti-HIV-1 therapeutic agents.

    Nava Sarver;Edouard M. Cantin;Pairoj S. Chang;Pairoj S. Chang;John A. Zaia

  • A randomized, controlled trial of prophylactic ganciclovir for cytomegalovirus pulmonary infection in recipients of allogeneic bone marrow transplants; The City of Hope-Stanford-Syntex CMV Study Group.

    Gerhard M. Schmidt;David A. Horak;Joyce C. Niland;Steven R. Duncan

  • Towards an HIV cure: a global scientific strategy

    Steven G Deeks;Brigitte Autran;Ben Berkhout;Monsef Benkirane

  • Cytomegalovirus in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: Current status, known challenges, and future strategies.

    Michael Boeckh;W.Garrett Nichols;Genovefa Papanicolaou;Robert Rubin

  • Identification of the major late human cytomegalovirus matrix protein pp65 as a target antigen for CD8+ virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes

    Elizabeth McLaughlin‐Taylor;Hema Pande;Stephen J. Forman;Becky Tanamachi

  • Acyclovir Halts Progression of Herpes Zoster in Immunocompromised Patients

    Balfour Hh;Bean B;Laskin Ol;Ambinder Rf

  • RNA-Based Gene Therapy for HIV with Lentiviral Vector–Modified CD34+ Cells in Patients Undergoing Transplantation for AIDS-Related Lymphoma

    David L. DiGiusto;Amrita Krishnan;Lijing Li;Haitang Li

  • Growth Inhibition by Acycloguanosine of Herpesviruses Isolated from Human Infections

    Clyde S. Crumpacker;Lowell E. Schnipper;John A. Zaia;Myron J. Levin

  • Novel Dual Inhibitory Function Aptamer–siRNA Delivery System for HIV-1 Therapy

    Jiehua Zhou;Haitang Li;Shirley Li;John Zaia

  • Long-Term Inhibition of HIV-1 Infection in Primary Hematopoietic Cells by Lentiviral Vector Delivery of a Triple Combination of Anti-HIV shRNA, Anti-CCR5 Ribozyme, and a Nucleolar-Localizing TAR Decoy

    Ming Jie Li;James Kim;Shirley Li;John Zaia

  • Airborne Transmission of Chickenpox in a Hospital

    Jeanne M. Leclair;John A. Zaia;Myron J. Levin;Richard G. Congdon

  • Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Infection by Cytomegalovirus Immune Globulin After Marrow Transplantation

    J D Meyers;J Leszczynski;J A Zaia;N Flournoy

  • Direct detection of HIV-1 RNA from AIDS and ARC patient samples.

    George J. Murakawa;John A. Zaia;Patricia A. Spallone;Delilah A. Stephens

  • Ribozymes as anti-HIV-1 therapeutic agents: principles, applications, and problems.

    John J. Rossi;David Elkins;John A. Zaia;Sean Sullivan

  • Evaluation of Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin: Protection of Immunosuppressed Children after Household Exposure to Varicella

    J. A. Zaia;M. J. Levin;S. R. Preblud;J. Leszczynski

  • Inhibition of HIV-1 infection by lentiviral vectors expressing Pol III-promoted anti-HIV RNAs

    Ming Jie Li;Gerhard Bauer;Alessandro Michienzi;Jiing Kuan Yee

  • Design of HIV Vectors for Efficient Gene Delivery into Human Hematopoietic Cells

    Priscilla Y. Yam;Shulian Li;Jerry Wu;Jun Hu

  • Durable remissions with autologous stem cell transplantation for high-risk HIV-associated lymphomas.

    Amrita Krishnan;Arturo Molina;John Zaia;David Smith

  • Genomic Editing of the HIV-1 Coreceptor CCR5 in Adult Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Using Zinc Finger Nucleases

    Lijing Li;Ludmila Krymskaya;Jianbin Wang;Jill Henley

  • Plasma polymerase chain reaction for cytomegalovirus DNA after allogeneic marrow transplantation: comparison with polymerase chain reaction using peripheral blood leukocytes, pp65 antigenemia, and viral culture.

    Michael Boeckh;Ghislaine M. Gallez-Hawkins;David Myerson;John A. Zaia

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi City Of Hope National Medical Center
Don J. Diamond
Don J. Diamond City Of Hope National Medical Center
Simon F. Lacey
Simon F. Lacey University of Pennsylvania
Myron J. Levin
Myron J. Levin University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Arturo Molina
Arturo Molina Sutro Biopharma
Michael Boeckh
Michael Boeckh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Karl G. Blume
Karl G. Blume Stanford University
Ramesh Akkina
Ramesh Akkina Colorado State University
Donald B. Kohn
Donald B. Kohn University of California, Los Angeles

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