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47
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11061
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4750
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

Best Publications

  • A preliminary evaluation of a recombinant circumsporozoite protein vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria. RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Evaluation Group.

    J A Stoute;M Slaoui;D G Heppner;P Momin

  • Enhanced T-cell immunogenicity of plasmid DNA vaccines boosted by recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara in humans.

    Samuel J McConkey;William H H Reece;Vasee S Moorthy;Daniel Webster

  • Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase 2a Trial of Falciparum Malaria Vaccines RTS,S/AS01B and RTS,S/AS02A in Malaria-Naive Adults: Safety, Efficacy, and Immunologic Associates of Protection

    Kent E. Kester;James F. Cummings;Opokua Ofori-Anyinam;Christian F. Ockenhouse

  • Efficacy of RTS, S/AS02 malaria vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection in semi-immune adult men in The Gambia: a randomised trial

    Kalifa A. Bojang;Paul J. M. Milligan;Margaret Pinder;Laurence Vigneron

  • The promise of mRNA vaccines: a biotech and industrial perspective.

    Nicholas A. C. Jackson;Kent E. Kester;Danilo Casimiro;Sanjay Gurunathan

  • Efficacy of recombinant circumsporozoite protein vaccine regimens against experimental Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Kent E. Kester;Denise A. McKinney;Nadia Tornieporth;Christian F. Ockenhouse

  • A CD4(+) T-cell immune response to a conserved epitope in the circumsporozoite protein correlates with protection from natural Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease.

    William H H Reece;Margaret Pinder;Philip K Gothard;Paul Milligan

  • Phase I/IIa Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy Trial of NYVAC-Pf7, a Pox-Vectored, Multiantigen, Multistage Vaccine Candidate for Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

    Christian F. Ockenhouse;Pei Fang Sun;David E. Lanar;Bruce T. Wellde

  • Long-Term Efficacy and Immune Responses following Immunization with the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine

    J A Stoute;K E Kester;U Krzych;B T Wellde

  • Protective Immunity Induced with Malaria Vaccine, RTS,S, Is Linked to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein-Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells Producing IFN-γ

    Peifang Sun;Robert Schwenk;Katherine White;Jose A. Stoute

  • Towards an RTS,S-based, multi-stage, multi-antigen vaccine against falciparum malaria: progress at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

    D. Gray Heppner;Kent E. Kester;Christian F. Ockenhouse;Nadia Tornieporth

  • Phase 1/2a Study of the Malaria Vaccine Candidate Apical Membrane Antigen-1 (AMA-1) Administered in Adjuvant System AS01B or AS02A

    Michele D. Spring;James F. Cummings;Christian F. Ockenhouse;Sheetij Dutta

  • Potent Induction of Focused Th1-Type Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses by RTS,S/SBAS2, a Recombinant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Vaccine

    A. Lalvani;P. Moris;G. Voss;A. A. Pathan

  • Update on the clinical development of candidate malaria vaccines

    W. Ripley Ballou;Myriam Arevalo-Herrera;Daniel Carucci;Thomas L. Richie

  • The relationship between RTS,S vaccine-induced antibodies, CD4⁺ T cell responses and protection against Plasmodium falciparum infection.

    Michael T. White;Philip Bejon;Philip Bejon;Ally Olotu;Jamie T. Griffin

  • Prevention of infections associated with combat-related extremity injuries.

    Clinton K. Murray;William T. Obremskey;Joseph R. Hsu;Romney C. Andersen

  • Common and Divergent Immune Response Signaling Pathways Discovered in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Gene Expression Patterns in Presymptomatic and Clinically Apparent Malaria

    Christian F. Ockenhouse;Wan Chung Hu;Kent E. Kester;James F. Cummings

  • Guidelines for the prevention of infections associated with combat-related injuries: 2011 update: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Surgical Infection Society

    Duane R. Hospenthal;Clinton K. Murray;Romney C. Andersen;R. Bryan Bell

  • Evaluation of RTS,S/AS02A and RTS,S/AS01B in adults in a high malaria transmission area.

    Mark E. Polhemus;Shon A. Remich;Bernhards R. Ogutu;John N. Waitumbi

  • Phase 2a trial of 0, 1, and 3 month and 0, 7, and 28 day immunization schedules of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02 in malaria-naïve adults at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

    Kent E. Kester;James F. Cummings;Christian F. Ockenhouse;Robin Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Cohen
Joe Cohen GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
D. Gray Heppner
D. Gray Heppner Crozet BioPharma
W. Ripley Ballou
W. Ripley Ballou International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Christian F. Ockenhouse
Christian F. Ockenhouse Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Urszula Krzych
Urszula Krzych United States Army Research Laboratory
David E. Lanar
David E. Lanar Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Joseph S. Solomkin
Joseph S. Solomkin University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Margaret Pinder
Margaret Pinder Durham University
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham

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