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Margaret A. Liu

Margaret A. Liu

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Immunology

D-Index
58
Citations
16764
World Ranking
3476
National Ranking
77

Overview

Margaret A. Liu is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases. Their research spans multiple subfields including immunology, molecular biology, animal science and zoology, and ecology. The primary topics addressed in their work include viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, RNA interference and gene delivery, immunotherapy and immune responses, animal virus infection studies, bacteriophages, and microbial interactions, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

The scientist has co-authored papers with several frequent collaborators, such as Ivana Knežević, Hye-Na Kang, Rebecca Sheets, Heidi Meyer, and Keith Peden.

Margaret A. Liu's recent publications reflect their interest and expertise in vaccine development and regulatory considerations. These include the following papers:

  • "Development of mRNA Vaccines: Scientific and Regulatory Issues," 2021, Vaccines
  • "The Key Role of Nucleic Acid Vaccines for One Health," 2021, Viruses
  • "WHO informal consultation on regulatory considerations for evaluation of the quality, safety and efficacy of RNA-based prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases, 20-22 April 2021," 2022, Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • "A timely update of global COVID-19 vaccine development," 2020, Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • "WHO informal consultation on the guidelines for evaluation of the quality, safety, and efficacy of DNA vaccines, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2019," 2020, npj Vaccines

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as Emerging Microbes & Infections, Vaccines, Viruses, npj Vaccines, and Molecular Frontiers Journal. Their work considers both scientific and regulatory issues in the emerging field of RNA-based and DNA-based vaccines.

Best Publications

  • Heterologous protection against influenza by injection of DNA encoding a viral protein

    Jeffrey B. Ulmer;John J. Donnelly;Suezanne E. Parker;Gary H. Rhodes

  • Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a tuberculosis DNA vaccine

    Huygen K;Denis O;Montgomery Dl

  • DNA Vaccines: Progress and Challenges

    John J. Donnelly;Britta Wahren;Margaret A. Liu

  • DNA vaccines: an historical perspective and view to the future

    Margaret A. Liu

  • Potent, protective anti-HIV immune responses generated by bimodal HIV envelope DNA plus protein vaccination.

    Norman L. Letvin;David C. Montefiori;Yasuhiro Yasutomi;Helen C. Perry

  • DNA vaccines: a review

    M. A. Liu

  • Preclinical efficacy of a prototype DNA vaccine: Enhanced protection against antigenic drift in influenza virus

    John J. Donnelly;Arthur Friedman;Douglas Martinez;Donna L. Montgomery

  • A Comparison of Plasmid DNA and mRNA as Vaccine Technologies

    Margaret A Liu

  • Priming of cytotoxic T lymphocytes by DNA vaccines: requirement for professional antigen presenting cells and evidence for antigen transfer from myocytes.

    T.-M. Fu;J. B. Ulmer;M. J. Caulfield;R. R. Deck

  • Heterologous and Homologous Protection Against Influenza A by DNA Vaccination: Optimization of DNA Vectors

    Donna L. Montgomery;John W. Shiver;Karen R. Leander;Helen C. Perry

  • Generation of MHC class I-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes by expression of a viral protein in muscle cells: antigen presentation by non-muscle cells.

    J. B. Ulmer;R. R. Deck;C. M. Dewitt;J. J. Donnelly

  • PROTECTIVE CD4+ AND CD8+ T CELLS AGAINST INFLUENZA VIRUS INDUCED BY VACCINATION WITH NUCLEOPROTEIN DNA

    Jeffrey B. Ulmer;Tong-Ming Fu;R. Randall Deck;Arthur Friedman

  • Immunization of non-human primates with DNA vaccines

    Margaret A. Liu;William McClements;Jeffrey B. Ulmer;John Shiver

  • Immunologic basis of vaccine vectors.

    Margaret A. Liu

  • Immunization with DNA vaccines encoding glycoprotein D or glycoprotein B, alone or in combination, induces protective immunity in animal models of herpes simplex virus-2 disease.

    William L. McClements;Marcy E. Armstrong;Robert D. Keys;Margaret A. Liu

  • Serine esterase in cytolytic T lymphocytes

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  • Human clinical trials of plasmid DNA vaccines.

    Margaret A Liu;Jeffrey B Ulmer

  • Can successful vaccines teach us how to induce efficient protective immune responses

    Paul Henri Lambert;Margaret Liu;Claire-Anne Siegrist

  • Protective immunity by intramuscular injection of low doses of influenza virus DNA vaccines.

    Jeffrey M Ulmer;R.Randall Deck;Corrille M DeWitt;Arthur Friedman

  • Protection Against Papillomavirus with a Polynucleotide Vaccine

    J J Donnelly;D Martinez;K U Jansen;R W Ellis

  • Gene-based vaccines and immunotherapeutics

    Margaret Liu;Bruce Acres;Jean-Marc Balloul;Nadine Bizouarne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey B. Ulmer
Jeffrey B. Ulmer Novartis (Switzerland)
John J. Donnelly
John J. Donnelly Novartis (United States)
Britta Wahren
Britta Wahren Karolinska Institute
John W. Shiver
John W. Shiver United States Military Academy
Jorma Hinkula
Jorma Hinkula Linköping University
Norman L. Letvin
Norman L. Letvin Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Paul-Henri Lambert
Paul-Henri Lambert University of Geneva
Thomas W. Dubensky
Thomas W. Dubensky Tempest Therapeutics
Kris Huygen
Kris Huygen Institut Pasteur
Michael J. Brennan
Michael J. Brennan Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

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