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Overview

Kim J. Hasenkrug is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within immunology and microbiology, with a focus on infectious diseases and immune system function.

Their recent scientific contributions include several publications across leading journals and preprint platforms. Notable papers are:

  • Depleting myeloid-biased haematopoietic stem cells rejuvenates aged immunity, 2024, Nature
  • Interferon resistance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Interferon Resistance of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Immunotherapeutic Blockade of CD47 Inhibitory Signaling Enhances Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Viral Infection, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Upregulation of CD47 Is a Host Checkpoint Response to Pathogen Recognition, 2020, mBio

Hasenkrug collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Aaron Carmody, Ronald J. Messer, Lara Myers, Irving L. Weissman, and Deepashri Rao. These frequent partnerships support work mainly in immunology-related research.

The scientist's publications are often found in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Nature

Regarding academic fields of study, Hasenkrug's work is primarily categorized under:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine

Subfields of focus include:

  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Virology
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology

The main research topics covered in Hasenkrug's body of work involve:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune responses and vaccinations

Best Publications

  • Functional Impairment of CD8+ T Cells by Regulatory T Cells during Persistent Retroviral Infection

    Ulf Dittmer;Hong He;Ronald J. Messer;Simone Schimmer

  • HIV vaccine design: insights from live attenuated SIV vaccines

    Wayne C Koff;Philip R Johnson;David I Watkins;Dennis R Burton

  • Immunosuppression by CD4+ regulatory T cells induced by chronic retroviral infection

    Michihiro Iwashiro;Ronald J. Messer;Karin E. Peterson;Ingunn M. Stromnes

  • Depleting myeloid-biased haematopoietic stem cells rejuvenates aged immunity

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  • Critical Role for CD4+ T Cells in Controlling Retrovirus Replication and Spread in Persistently Infected Mice

    Kim J. Hasenkrug;Diane M. Brooks;Ulf Dittmer

  • Immunity to retroviral infection: The Friend virus model

    Kim J. Hasenkrug;Bruce Chesebro

  • Apobec3 Encodes Rfv3, a Gene Influencing Neutralizing Antibody Control of Retrovirus Infection

    Mario L. Santiago;Mauricio Montano;Robert Benitez;Ronald J. Messer

  • Interferon resistance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

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  • BLT-humanized C57BL/6 Rag2-/-γc-/-CD47-/- mice are resistant to GVHD and develop B- and T-cell immunity to HIV infection.

    Kerry J. Lavender;Wendy W. Pang;Ronald J. Messer;Amanda K. Duley

  • Interferon Alpha Subtype-Specific Suppression of HIV-1 Infection In Vivo

    Kerry J. Lavender;Kathrin Gibbert;Karin E. Peterson;Erik Van Dis

  • Adaptive Immune Responses to Zika Virus Are Important for Controlling Virus Infection and Preventing Infection in Brain and Testes.

    Clayton W. Winkler;Lara M. Myers;Tyson A. Woods;Ronald J. Messer

  • Transient depletion of regulatory T cells in transgenic mice reactivates virus-specific CD8+ T cells and reduces chronic retroviral set points.

    Kirsten K. Dietze;Gennadiy Zelinskyy;Kathrin Gibbert;Simone Schimmer

  • Requirement for multiple lymphocyte subsets in protection by a live attenuated vaccine against retroviral infection

    Ulf Dittmer;Diane M. Brooks;Kim J. Hasenkrug

  • In Vitro Suppression of CD8+ T Cell Function by Friend Virus-Induced Regulatory T Cells

    Shelly J. Robertson;Ronald J. Messer;Aaron B. Carmody;Kim J. Hasenkrug

  • Interferon-α Subtypes in an Ex Vivo Model of Acute HIV-1 Infection: Expression, Potency and Effector Mechanisms.

    Michael S. Harper;Kejun Guo;Kathrin Gibbert;Eric J. Lee

  • CD8+ T-Cell Dysfunction due to Cytolytic Granule Deficiency in Persistent Friend Retrovirus Infection

    Gennadiy Zelinskyy;Shelly J. Robertson;Simone Schimmer;Ronald J. Messer

  • Role and specificity of T-cell subsets in spontaneous recovery from Friend virus-induced leukemia in mice.

    M N Robertson;G J Spangrude;K Hasenkrug;L Perry

  • Suppression of Acute Anti-Friend Virus CD8+ T-Cell Responses by Coinfection with Lactate Dehydrogenase-Elevating Virus

    Shelly J. Robertson;Christoph G. Ammann;Ronald J. Messer;Aaron B. Carmody

  • Characterization of a Live-Attenuated Retroviral Vaccine Demonstrates Protection via Immune Mechanisms

    Ulf Dittmer;Diane M. Brooks;Kim J. Hasenkrug

  • Infectious Entry by Amphotropic as well as Ecotropic Murine Leukemia Viruses Occurs through an Endocytic Pathway

    Louis J. Katen;Michael M. Januszeski;W. French Anderson;Kim J. Hasenkrug

  • Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells Upregulate Programmed Death-1 Expression during Acute Friend Retrovirus Infection but Are Highly Cytotoxic and Control Virus Replication

    Gennadiy Zelinskyy;Lara Myers;Kirsten K. Dietze;Kathrin Gibbert

  • An advanced BLT-humanized mouse model for extended HIV-1 cure studies.

    Kerry J. Lavender;Craig Pace;Kathrin Sutter;Ronald J. Messer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Dittmer
Ulf Dittmer University of Duisburg-Essen
Mario L. Santiago
Mario L. Santiago University of Colorado Denver
Bruce Chesebro
Bruce Chesebro National Institutes of Health
George Kassiotis
George Kassiotis The Francis Crick Institute
Irving L. Weissman
Irving L. Weissman Stanford University
Warner C. Greene
Warner C. Greene University of California, San Francisco
Joseph M. McCune
Joseph M. McCune University of California, San Francisco
Heinz Feldmann
Heinz Feldmann National Institutes of Health
Karl S. Lang
Karl S. Lang University of Duisburg-Essen
Cara C. Wilson
Cara C. Wilson University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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