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2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

Lynn Morris is a researcher affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their work is situated primarily in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a particular focus on Virology, Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered by their research include HIV Research and Treatment, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lynn Morris are:

  • Penny L. Moore
  • Carolyn Williamson
  • David C. Montefiori
  • Myron S. Cohen
  • Peter B. Gilbert

The scientist has published multiple papers in various venues. The most frequent venues of publication include UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Virology, Frontiers in Immunology, and Nature Medicine.

Some notable recent papers by Lynn Morris include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma" (2021) - Nature Medicine
  • "Two Randomized Trials of Neutralizing Antibodies to Prevent HIV-1 Acquisition" (2021) - New England Journal of Medicine
  • "SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma" (2021) - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Cross-Reactive Neutralizing Antibody Responses Elicited by SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 (B.1.351)" (2021) - New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Neutralization titer biomarker for antibody-mediated prevention of HIV-1 acquisition" (2022) - Nature Medicine

Lynn Morris has received recognition in the form of awards including being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2020 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women

    Quarraisha Abdool Karim;Salim S. Abdool Karim;Salim S. Abdool Karim;Salim S. Abdool Karim;Janet A. Frohlich;Anneke C. Grobler

  • SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma.

    Constantinos Kurt Wibmer;Frances Ayres;Tandile Hermanus;Mashudu Madzivhandila

  • Initial B-Cell Responses to Transmitted Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1: Virion-Binding Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG Antibodies Followed by Plasma Anti-gp41 Antibodies with Ineffective Control of Initial Viremia

    Georgia D. Tomaras;Nicole L. Yates;Pinghuang Liu;Li Qin

  • Structure and immune recognition of trimeric pre-fusion HIV-1 Env

    Marie Pancera;Tongqing Zhou;Aliaksandr Druz;Ivelin S. Georgiev

  • Developmental pathway for potent V1V2-directed HIV-neutralizing antibodies.

    Nicole A. Doria-Rose;Chaim A. Schramm;Jason Gorman;Penny L. Moore

  • The Neutralization Breadth of HIV-1 Develops Incrementally over Four Years and Is Associated with CD4+ T Cell Decline and High Viral Load during Acute Infection

    Elin S. Gray;Maphuti C. Madiga;Tandile. Hermanus;Penny L. Moore

  • Neutralizing antibodies generated during natural HIV-1 infection: good news for an HIV-1 vaccine?

    Leonidas Stamatatos;Leonidas Stamatatos;Lynn Morris;Dennis R Burton;John R Mascola

  • Analysis of a Clonal Lineage of HIV-1 Envelope V2/V3 Conformational Epitope-Specific Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies and Their Inferred Unmutated Common Ancestors

    Mattia Bonsignori;Kwan Ki Hwang;Xi Chen;Chun Yen Tsao

  • Two Randomized Trials of Neutralizing Antibodies to Prevent HIV-1 Acquisition

    Lawrence Corey;Peter B Gilbert;Michal Juraska;David C Montefiori

  • Viral escape from HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies drives increased plasma neutralization breadth through sequential recognition of multiple epitopes and immunotypes

    Constantinos Kurt Wibmer;Jinal N Bhiman;Elin S Gray;Nancy Tumba

  • Nature of nonfunctional envelope proteins on the surface of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

    Penny L. Moore;Emma T. Crooks;Lauren Porter;Ping Zhu

  • Profiling the Specificity of Neutralizing Antibodies in a Large Panel of Plasmas from Patients Chronically Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtypes B and C

    James M. Binley;Elizabeth A. Lybarger;Emma T. Crooks;Michael S. Seaman

  • Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Acute Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype C Infection

    E. S. Gray;P. L. Moore;I. A. Choge;J. M. Decker

  • Impact of HIV-1 subtype and antiretroviral therapy on protease and reverse transcriptase genotype: Results of a global collaboration

    Rami Kantor;David A Katzenstein;Brad Efron;Ana Patricia Carvalho

  • Evolution of an HIV glycan-dependent broadly neutralizing antibody epitope through immune escape

    Penny L. Moore;Elin S. Gray;C. Kurt Wibmer;C. Kurt Wibmer;Jinal N. Bhiman;Jinal N. Bhiman

  • Genetic and Neutralization Properties of Subtype C Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Molecular env Clones from Acute and Early Heterosexually Acquired Infections in Southern Africa

    Ming Li;Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Cynthia A. Derdeyn;Lynn Morris

  • Potent, Broad-Spectrum Inhibition of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 by the CCR5 Monoclonal Antibody PRO 140

    Alexandra Trkola;Thomas J. Ketas;Kirsten A. Nagashima;Lu Zhao

  • Optimal combinations of broadly neutralizing antibodies for prevention and treatment of HIV-1 Clade C infection

    Kshitij Wagh;Tanmoy Bhattacharya;Carolyn Williamson;Alex Robles

  • High-Throughput Mapping of B Cell Receptor Sequences to Antigen Specificity

    Ian Setliff;Andrea R. Shiakolas;Kelsey A. Pilewski;Amyn A. Murji

  • HIV-1 Antigen–specific and –nonspecific B Cell Responses Are Sensitive to Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

    Lynn Morris;James M. Binley;Brian A. Clas;Sebastian Bonhoeffer

  • Recommendations for the design and use of standard virus panels to assess neutralizing antibody responses elicited by candidate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 vaccines.

    John R. Mascola;Patricia D'Souza;Peter Gilbert;Beatrice H. Hahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Penny L. Moore
Penny L. Moore National Health Laboratory Service
Salim S. Abdool Karim
Salim S. Abdool Karim Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
Carolyn Williamson
Carolyn Williamson University of Cape Town
David C. Montefiori
David C. Montefiori Duke University
Elin S. Gray
Elin S. Gray Edith Cowan University
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola ModeX Therapeutics
Jinal N. Bhiman
Jinal N. Bhiman University of the Witwatersrand
Glenda Gray
Glenda Gray South African Medical Research Council
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes Duke University
Georgia D. Tomaras
Georgia D. Tomaras Duke University

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