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Overview

Lisa E. Hensley is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to the study of infectious diseases with a focus on viral outbreaks and molecular biology. Their work spans several interrelated scientific fields including medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, virology, and emergency medical services.

Their research topics predominantly cover viral infections and outbreak investigations, viral infections and vectors, and poxvirus research and outbreaks. Additional areas of study include Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and disaster response and management.

Hensley has published in multiple scientific venues, with significant contributions appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Viruses, and the American Journal of Pathology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Anne W. Rimoin, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Nicole A. Hoff, Richard S. Bennett, and Jason Kindrachuk.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Lisa E. Hensley include:

  • Streamlined inactivation, amplification, and Cas13-based detection of SARS-CoV-2 (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2024, Nature Medicine)
  • Simplified Cas13-based assays for the fast identification of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants (2022, Nature Biomedical Engineering)
  • Deployable CRISPR-Cas13a diagnostic tools to detect and report Ebola and Lassa virus cases in real-time (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Clade I-Associated Mpox Cases Associated with Sexual Contact, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023, Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Best Publications

  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ebola Virus Disease Therapeutics.

    Mulangu S;Dodd Le;Davey Rt;Tshiani Mbaya O

  • Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Anne W. Rimoin;Prime M. Mulembakani;Sara C. Johnston;James O. Lloyd Smith

  • Live attenuated recombinant vaccine protects nonhuman primates against Ebola and Marburg viruses.

    Steven M. Jones;Heinz Feldmann;Heinz Feldmann;Ute Ströher;Ute Ströher;Joan B. Geisbert

  • Small molecule inhibitors reveal Niemann–Pick C1 is essential for Ebola virus infection

    Marceline Côté;John Misasi;John Misasi;Tao Ren;Anna Bruchez

  • Pathogenesis of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in cynomolgus macaques: evidence that dendritic cells are early and sustained targets of infection.

    Thomas W. Geisbert;Lisa E. Hensley;Tom Larsen;Howard A. Young

  • Repurposing of Clinically Developed Drugs for Treatment of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection

    Julie Dyall;Christopher M. Coleman;Brit J. Hart;Thiagarajan Venkataraman

  • Postexposure protection of non-human primates against a lethal Ebola virus challenge with RNA interference: a proof-of-concept study

    Thomas W. Geisbert;Amy Ch Lee;Marjorie Robbins;Joan B. Geisbert

  • Treatment of Ebola virus infection with a recombinant inhibitor of factor VIIa/tissue factor: a study in rhesus monkeys.

    Thomas W Geisbert;Lisa E Hensley;Peter B Jahrling;Tom Larsen

  • Molecular Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus

    Suzanne E Mate;Jeffrey R Kugelman;Tolbert G Nyenswah;Jason T Ladner

  • Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia

    Abdulaziz N. Alagaili;Thomas Briese;Nischay Mishra;Vishal Kapoor

  • Streamlined inactivation, amplification, and Cas13-based detection of SARS-CoV-2

    Jon Arizti-Sanz;Catherine A. Freije;Catherine A. Freije;Alexandra C. Stanton;Alexandra C. Stanton;Brittany A. Petros

  • Mechanisms Underlying Coagulation Abnormalities in Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Overexpression of Tissue Factor in Primate Monocytes/Macrophages Is a Key Event

    Thomas W. Geisbert;Howard A. Young;Peter B. Jahrling;Kelly J. Davis

  • Reverse genetics with a full-length infectious cDNA of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

    Boyd Yount;Kristopher M. Curtis;Elizabeth A. Fritz;Lisa E. Hensley

  • Delayed Treatment of Ebola Virus Infection with Plant-Derived Monoclonal Antibodies Provides Protection in Rhesus Macaques

    Gene Garrard Olinger;James Pettitt;Do Kim

  • Pathogenesis of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Primate Models: Evidence that Hemorrhage Is Not a Direct Effect of Virus-Induced Cytolysis of Endothelial Cells

    Thomas W. Geisbert;Howard A. Young;Peter B. Jahrling;Kelly J. Davis

  • Antiviral Potential of ERK/MAPK and PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling Modulation for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection as Identified by Temporal Kinome Analysis

    Jason Kindrachuk;Britini Ork;Brit J. Hart;Steven Mazur

  • Chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine generates acute and durable protective immunity against ebolavirus challenge

    Daphne A Stanley;Anna N Honko;Anna N Honko;Clement Asiedu;John C Trefry

  • FDA-Approved Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators Inhibit Ebola Virus Infection

    Lisa M. Johansen;Jennifer M. Brannan;Sue E. Delos;Charles J. Shoemaker

  • The Pathology of Experimental Aerosolized Monkeypox Virus Infection in Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)

    Gary M Zaucha;Peter B Jahrling;Thomas W Geisbert;James R Swearengen

  • Effective post-exposure treatment of Ebola infection.

    Heinz Feldmann;Steven M Jones;Steven M Jones;Kathleen M Daddario-DiCaprio;Kathleen M Daddario-DiCaprio;Joan B Geisbert

  • Apoptosis induced in vitro and in vivo during infection by Ebola and Marburg viruses

    Thomas W Geisbert;Lisa E Hensley;Tammy R Gibb;Keith E Steele

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Geisbert
Thomas W. Geisbert The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Peter B. Jahrling
Peter B. Jahrling National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Gene G. Olinger
Gene G. Olinger Boston University
Joan B. Geisbert
Joan B. Geisbert The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Heinz Feldmann
Heinz Feldmann National Institutes of Health
Pardis C. Sabeti
Pardis C. Sabeti Harvard University
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Michael R. Holbrook
Michael R. Holbrook National Institutes of Health
Gustavo Palacios
Gustavo Palacios Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ute Ströher
Ute Ströher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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