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Mark A. Tomai is affiliated with 3M in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Within these broad areas, their work extensively covers subfields including immunology, infectious diseases, virology, epidemiology, and molecular biology.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Immune Response and Inflammation

Mark A. Tomai has published extensively in notable venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Immunology
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Mark A. Tomai include:

  • New horizons in adjuvants for vaccine development (2020, Current Opinion in Immunology)
  • Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses (2021, Nature)
  • T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • 3M-052, a synthetic TLR-7/8 agonist, induces durable HIV-1 envelope-specific plasma cells and humoral immunity in nonhuman primates (2020, Science Immunology)
  • SARS-CoV-2 RBD trimer protein adjuvanted with Alum-3M-052 protects from SARS-CoV-2 infection and immune pathology in the lung (2021, Nature Communications)

Mark A. Tomai collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors who contribute to related research fields. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Christopher B. Fox
  • David C. Montefiori
  • Barton F. Haynes
  • Kevin O. Saunders
  • Ralph S. Baric

Best Publications

  • Synthetic TLR agonists reveal functional differences between human TLR7 and TLR8.

    Keith B. Gorden;Kevin S. Gorski;Sheila J. Gibson;Ross M. Kedl

  • Plasmacytoid dendritic cells produce cytokines and mature in response to the TLR7 agonists, imiquimod and resiquimod

    Sheila J Gibson;Jana M Lindh;Tony R Riter;Raymond M Gleason

  • Review Article Imiquimod applied topically: a novel immune response modifier and new class of drug

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  • A Randomized, Controlled, Molecular Study of Condylomata Acuminata Clearance during Treatment with Imiquimod

    Stephen K. Tyring;Istvan Arany;Margaret A. Stanley;Mark A. Tomai

  • Cytokine induction by the immunomodulators imiquimod and S-27609.

    Traci L. Testerman;John F. Gerster;Linda M. Imbertson;Michael J. Reiter

  • Development of a Topically Active Imiquimod Formulation

    John L. Chollet;Michael J. Jozwiakowski;Kenneth R. Phares;Michael J. Reiter

  • The use of Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonists as vaccine adjuvants

    John P Vasilakos;Mark A Tomai

  • Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses.

    Kevin O. Saunders;Esther Lee;Robert Parks;David R. Martinez

  • Adjuvant activities of immune response modifier R-848: comparison with CpG ODN.

    John P. Vasilakos;Rose M.A. Smith;Sheila J. Gibson;Jana M. Lindh

  • Stimulation of interferon and cytokine gene expression by imiquimod and stimulation by Sendai virus utilize similar signal transduction pathways.

    K Megyeri;W C Au;I Rosztoczy;N B Raj

  • The imidazoquinolines, imiquimod and R-848, induce functional, but not phenotypic, maturation of human epidermal Langerhans' cells.

    Robert P. Burns;Barbara Ferbel;Mark Tomai;Richard Miller

  • The antiviral activity of Toll-like receptor 7 and 7/8 agonists.

    Richard L Miller;Tze-Chiang Meng;Mark A Tomai

  • Distinct indirect pathways govern human NK-cell activation by TLR-7 and TLR-8 agonists

    Kevin S. Gorski;Emily L. Waller;Jacqueline Bjornton-Severson;John A. Hanten

  • Intratumoral immunotherapy with TLR7/8 agonist MEDI9197 modulates the tumor microenvironment leading to enhanced activity when combined with other immunotherapies

    Stefanie R. Mullins;John P. Vasilakos;Katharina Deschler;Iwen Grigsby

  • The immune response modifiers imiquimod and R-848 are potent activators of B lymphocytes.

    Mark A. Tomai;Linda M. Imbertson;Tamara L. Stanczak;Lorraine T. Tygrett

  • Methods of maturing plasmacytoid dendritic cells using immune response modifier molecules

    Mark A. Tomai;John P. Vasilakos;John C. Stolpa

  • Targeted selection of HIV-specific antibody mutations by engineering B cell maturation.

    Kevin O. Saunders;Kevin Wiehe;Ming Tian;Priyamvada Acharya

  • Dendritic cell maturation and subsequent enhanced T-cell stimulation induced with the novel synthetic immune response modifier R-848.

    Cory L. Ahonen;Sheila J. Gibson;Rose M. Smith;Linda K. Pederson

  • Cellular requirements for cytokine production in response to the immunomodulators imiquimod and S-27609

    Sheila J. Gibson;Linda M. Imbertson;Tamara L. Wagner;Traci L. Testerman

  • Enhancement of the innate and cellular immune response in patients with genital warts treated with topical imiquimod cream 5

    Istvan Arany;Stephen K Tyring;Margaret A Stanley;Mark A Tomai

  • T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers.

    Prabhu S. Arunachalam;Tysheena P. Charles;Vineet Joag;Venkata S. Bollimpelli

  • Immunomodulatory effects of Toll-like receptor-7 activation on chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells

    D E Spaner;Y Shi;D White;J Mena

  • Daily or weekly therapy with resiquimod (R-848) reduces genital recurrences in herpes simplex virus-infected guinea pigs during and after treatment.

    David I. Bernstein;Christopher J. Harrison;Mark A. Tomai;Richard L Miller

  • Imidazoquinoline Toll-like receptor 8 agonists activate human newborn monocytes and dendritic cells through adenosine-refractory and caspase-1–dependent pathways

    Victoria J. Philbin;Victoria J. Philbin;David J. Dowling;David J. Dowling;Leighanne C. Gallington;Guadalupe Cortés;Guadalupe Cortés

  • TLR7/8 adjuvant overcomes newborn hyporesponsiveness to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine at birth

    David J. Dowling;David J. Dowling;Simon D. van Haren;Simon D. van Haren;Annette Scheid;Ilana Bergelson

  • 3M-052, a synthetic TLR-7/8 agonist, induces durable HIV-1 envelope–specific plasma cells and humoral immunity in nonhuman primates

    Sudhir Pai Kasturi;Mohammed Ata Ur Rasheed;Mohammed Ata Ur Rasheed;Colin Havenar-Daughton;Mathew Pham

  • Characterization of a Nontoxic Monophosphoryl Lipid A

    Arthur G Johnson;M. Tomai;L. Solem;L. Beck

  • Methods and compositions for enhancing immune response

    Richard L. Miller;Mark A. Tomai;Ross M. Kedl;Isidro Angelo Eleazar Zarraga

  • Dendritic cells from HIV-1 infected individuals are less responsive to toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands.

    Jeffrey A. Martinson;Alejandro Roman-Gonzalez;Allan R. Tenorio;Carlos J. Montoya

  • A Formulated TLR7/8 Agonist is a Flexible, Highly Potent and Effective Adjuvant for Pandemic Influenza Vaccines.

    Neal Van Hoeven;Christopher B Fox;Brian Granger;Tara Evers

  • SARS-CoV-2 RBD trimer protein adjuvanted with Alum-3M-052 protects from SARS-CoV-2 infection and immune pathology in the lung.

    Nanda Kishore Routhu;Narayanaiah Cheedarla;Venkata Satish Bollimpelli;Sailaja Gangadhara

  • Immunostimulatory combinations and treatments

    Ross M Kedl;Mark A Tomai;John P Vasilakos

  • New horizons in adjuvants for vaccine development.

    Steven G Reed;Mark Tomai;Michael J Gale

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross M. Kedl
Ross M. Kedl University of Colorado Boulder
Ofer Levy
Ofer Levy Boston Children's Hospital
Maria Wysocka
Maria Wysocka University of Pennsylvania

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