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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
  • 1995 - King Faisal Prize
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1989 - Canada Gairdner International Award

Overview

Mark M. Davis is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research contributions span across several fields, predominantly in Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work has focused extensively on subfields such as Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Epidemiology.

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • CAR-T Cell Therapy Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Holden T. Maecker
  • Kari C. Nadeau
  • Bali Pulendran
  • Vamsee Mallajosyula
  • Huang Huang

Mark M. Davis has contributed to publications in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cell
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers include:

  • Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae, 2022, Cell
  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Nature
  • Multi-Omics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19, 2020, Cell
  • Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans, 2021, Nature
  • An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging, 2021, Nature Aging

In addition to journal articles, Mark M. Davis has published books, including a volume titled T-Cell Repertoire Characterization published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2022.

The scientist has received multiple awards, including:

  • Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), 2021
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2016
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2004
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
  • Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 1996
  • King Faisal Prize, 1995
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993
  • Canada Gairdner International Award, 1989

Best Publications

  • Phenotypic Analysis of Antigen-Specific T Lymphocytes

    John D. Altman;Paul A. H. Moss;Philip J. R. Goulder;Dan H. Barouch

  • T-cell antigen receptor genes and T-cell recognition.

    Mark M. Davis;Pamela J. Bjorkman

  • The Immunological Synapse: A Molecular Machine Controlling T Cell Activation

    Arash Grakoui;Shannon K. Bromley;Cenk Sumen;Mark M. Davis

  • Isolation of cDNA clones encoding T cell-specific membrane-associated proteins.

    Stephen M. Hedrick;Stephen M. Hedrick;David I. Cohen;David I. Cohen;Ellen A. Nielsen;Mark M. Davis;Mark M. Davis

  • Clonal replacement of tumor-specific T cells following PD-1 blockade.

    Kathryn E Yost;Ansuman T Satpathy;Daniel K Wells;Yanyan Qi

  • miR-181a is an intrinsic modulator of T cell sensitivity and selection

    Qi Jing Li;Jacqueline Chau;Peter J.R. Ebert;Giselle Sylvester

  • Characterization of circulating T cells specific for tumor-associated antigens in melanoma patients.

    Peter P. Lee;Cassian Yee;Peter A. Savage;Lawrence Fong

  • Organoid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment.

    James T. Neal;Xingnan Li;Junjie Zhu;Valeria Giangarra

  • Ligand recognition by alpha beta T cell receptors.

    Mark M. Davis;J. Jay Boniface;Ziv Reich;Daniel Lyons

  • The presence of interleukin 4 during in vitro priming determines the lymphokine-producing potential of CD4+ T cells from T cell receptor transgenic mice.

    R A Seder;W E Paul;M M Davis;B Fazekas de St Groth

  • The immunological synapse.

    S K Bromley;W R Burack;K G Johnson;K Somersalo

  • Altered peptide ligand vaccination with Flt3 ligand expanded dendritic cells for tumor immunotherapy

    Lawrence Fong;Yafei Hou;Alberto Rivas;Claudia Benike

  • Variation in the Human Immune System Is Largely Driven by Non-Heritable Influences

    Petter Brodin;Petter Brodin;Vladimir Jojic;Tianxiang Gao;Sanchita Bhattacharya

  • An immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region gene is generated from three segments of DNA: VH, D and JH

    P. Early;H. Huang;M. Davis;K. Calame

  • Two mRNAs can be produced from a single immunoglobulin μ gene by alternative RNA processing pathways

    P Early;J Rogers;M Davis;K Calame

  • Identifying specificity groups in the T cell receptor repertoire

    Jacob Glanville;Huang Huang;Allison Nau;Olivia Hatton

  • Direct observation of ligand recognition by T cells

    Darrell J. Irvine;Marco A. Purbhoo;Michelle Krogsgaard;Mark M. Davis

  • Diversity in the CDR3 Region of VH Is Sufficient for Most Antibody Specificities

    John L Xu;Mark M Davis

  • Blimp-1, a novel zinc finger-containing protein that can drive the maturation of B lymphocytes into immunoglobulin-secreting cells

    C.Alexander Turner;David H. Mack;Mark M. Davis

  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

    David Gate;David Gate;Naresha Saligrama;Olivia Leventhal;Andrew C. Yang

  • Polymerase chain reaction with single-sided specificity: analysis of T cell receptor delta chain.

    Elwyn Y. Loh;John F. Elliott;Steve Cwirla;Lewis L. Lanier

Frequent Co-Authors

Yueh-hsiu Chien
Yueh-hsiu Chien Stanford University
Cornelia L. Dekker
Cornelia L. Dekker Stanford University
Holden T. Maecker
Holden T. Maecker Stanford University
Evan W. Newell
Evan W. Newell Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Stephen M. Hedrick
Stephen M. Hedrick University of California, San Diego
Purvesh Khatri
Purvesh Khatri Stanford University
John D. Altman
John D. Altman Emory University
Qi-Jing Li
Qi-Jing Li Duke University
K. Christopher Garcia
K. Christopher Garcia Stanford University
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington

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