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Leonid Margolis is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, contributing to a significant number of publications in these areas.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Immunology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Virology, and Infectious Diseases. Their work focuses on several key topics such as extracellular vesicles in disease, HIV research and treatment, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, immune cell function and interaction, HIV-related health complications and treatments, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Margolis are:

  • "Microbiota-host communications: Bacterial extracellular vesicles as a common language" (2021), published in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Term Human Placental Trophoblasts Express SARS-CoV-2 Entry Factors ACE2, TMPRSS2, and Furin" (2021), published in mSphere
  • "Compartmentalized profiling of amniotic fluid cytokines in women with preterm labor" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Placental small extracellular vesicles: Current questions and investigative opportunities" (2020), published in Placenta
  • "The physico-chemical landscape of extracellular vesicles" (2024), published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Frequent collaborators of Leonid Margolis include Wendy Fitzgerald, Elena Vasilieva, Christophe Vanpouille, Michael M. Lederman, and Daria M. Potashnikova. This highlights a pattern of ongoing collaborations with researchers in related fields.

The scientist's frequent publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research and include:

  • Atherosclerosis
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Viruses
  • AIDS

Best Publications

  • Semen-Derived Amyloid Fibrils Drastically Enhance HIV Infection

    Jan Münch;Elke Rücker;Ludger Ständker;Knut Adermann

  • Extracellular vesicles and viruses: Are they close relatives?

    Esther Nolte-‘t Hoen;Tom Cremer;Robert C. Gallo;Leonid B. Margolis

  • The biology of extracellular vesicles: The known unknowns.

    Leonid Margolis;Yoel Sadovsky

  • A System of Cytokines Encapsulated in ExtraCellular Vesicles

    Wendy Fitzgerald;Michael L. Freeman;Michael Marcel Lederman;Elena Vasilieva

  • Selective transmission of CCR5-utilizing HIV-1: the 'gatekeeper' problem resolved?

    Leonid Margolis;Robin Shattock

  • Genetic Variation in OAS1 Is a Risk Factor for Initial Infection with West Nile Virus in Man

    Jean K. Lim;Andrea Lisco;David H. McDermott;Linda Huynh

  • Cell‐Cell and Cell‐Extracellular Matrix Interactions Regulate Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation

    Silvia S. Chen;Wendy Fitzgerald;Joshua Zimmerberg;Hynda K. Kleinman

  • Infection of human tonsil histocultures: a model for HIV pathogenesis.

    Svetlana Glushakova;Boris Baibakov;Leonid B. Margolis;Joshua Zimmerberg

  • Complex Extracellular Matrices Promote Tissue-Specific Stem Cell Differentiation

    Deborah Philp;Silvia S. Chen;Wendy Fitzgerald;Jan Orenstein

  • Abnormal activation and cytokine spectra in lymph nodes of people chronically infected with HIV-1

    Angélique Biancotto;Jean Charles Grivel;Sarah J. Iglehart;Christophe Vanpouille

  • Microbiota–host communications: Bacterial extracellular vesicles as a common language

    Rogers A. Ñahui Palomino;Christophe Vanpouille;Paolo E. Costantini;Paolo E. Costantini;Leonid Margolis

  • CCR5- and CXCR4-tropic HIV-1 are equally cytopathic for their T-cell targets in human lymphoid tissue.

    Jean-Charles Grivel;Leonid B. Margolis

  • Candidate Microbicides Block HIV-1 Infection of Human Immature Langerhans Cells within Epithelial Tissue Explants

    Tatsuyoshi Kawamura;Sandra S. Cohen;Debra L. Borris;Elisabeth A. Aquilino

  • Domains in Cell Plasma Membranes Investigated by Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

    Jeeseong Hwang;Levi A. Gheber;Leonid Margolis;Michael Edidin

  • Use of human tissue explants to study human infectious agents

    Jean-Charles Grivel;Leonid Margolis

  • Biological and Technical Variables Affecting Immunoassay Recovery of Cytokines from Human Serum and Simulated Vaginal Fluid: A Multicenter Study

    Raina N. Fichorova;Nicola Richardson-Harman;Massimo Alfano;Laurent Belec

  • Isolation and clonal analysis of human epidermal keratinocyte stem cells in long-term culture.

    Sandra Papini;Denise Cecchetti;Daniela Campani;Wendy Fitzgerald

  • CXCR4 utilization is sufficient to trigger CD4+ T cell depletion in HIV-1-infected human lymphoid tissue

    Michael L. Penn;Jean-Charles Grivel;Birgit Schramm;Mark A. Goldsmith

  • Selective transmission of R5 HIV-1 variants: where is the gatekeeper?

    Jean-Charles Grivel;Robin J Shattock;Leonid B Margolis

  • Evidence of perturbations of the cytokine network in preterm labor

    Roberto Romero;Roberto Romero;Jean Charles Grivel;Adi L. Tarca;Piya Chaemsaithong;Piya Chaemsaithong

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Charles Grivel
Jean-Charles Grivel Sidra Medical and Research Center
Michael M. Lederman
Michael M. Lederman Case Western Reserve University
Joshua Zimmerberg
Joshua Zimmerberg National Institutes of Health
Paolo Lusso
Paolo Lusso National Institutes of Health
Jan Balzarini
Jan Balzarini KU Leuven
Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero National Institutes of Health
Adi L. Tarca
Adi L. Tarca National Institutes of Health
Robin J. Shattock
Robin J. Shattock Imperial College London
Guido Poli
Guido Poli Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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