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Martha Sedegah is affiliated with the Naval Medical Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The subfields of study in which they have actively published include public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, infectious diseases, immunology, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in their work cover malaria research and control, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, mosquito-borne diseases and control, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, computational drug discovery methods, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Frequent publication venues for Martha Sedegah include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Vaccine
  • Malaria Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • npj Vaccines

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Harini Ganeshan
  • María Belmonte
  • Eileen Villasante
  • Arnel Belmonte
  • Sandra Inoue

Recent notable papers featuring Martha Sedegah are:

  • "Messenger RNA expressing PfCSP induces functional, protective immune responses against malaria in mice", 2021, npj Vaccines
  • "A Phase IIa Controlled Human Malaria Infection and Immunogenicity Study of RTS,S/AS01E and RTS,S/AS01B Delayed Fractional Dose Regimens in Malaria-Naive Adults", 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • "Multidose Priming and Delayed Boosting Improve Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoite Vaccine Efficacy Against Heterologous P. falciparum Controlled Human Malaria Infection", 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "In vitro production of infectious Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites", 2022, Nature
  • "IMRAS-A clinical trial of mosquito-bite immunization with live, radiation-attenuated P. falciparum sporozoites: Impact of immunization parameters on protective efficacy and generation of a repository of immunologic reagents", 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Induction of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in humans by a malaria DNA vaccine

    Ruobing Wang;Denise L. Doolan;Thong P. Le;Richard C. Hedstrom

  • Protection of Humans against Malaria by Immunization with Radiation-Attenuated Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoites

    Stephen L. Hoffman;Lucy M. L. Goh;Thomas C. Luke;Imogene Schneider

  • Protection Against Malaria by Intravenous Immunization with a Nonreplicating Sporozoite Vaccine

    Robert A. Seder;Lee Jah Chang;Mary E. Enama;Kathryn L. Zephir

  • Protection against malaria by immunization with plasmid DNA encoding circumsporozoite protein.

    Martha M. Sedegah;Richard Hedstrom;Peter Hobart;Stephen L. Hoffman

  • CD8+ T cells (cytotoxic/suppressors) are required for protection in mice immunized with malaria sporozoites

    Walter R. Weiss;Martha Sedegah;Richard L. Beaudoin;Louis H. Miller

  • Live attenuated malaria vaccine designed to protect through hepatic CD8+ T cell immunity

    J. E. Epstein;K. Tewari;K. E. Lyke;B. K. L. Sim

  • Development of a metabolically active, non-replicating sporozoite vaccine to prevent Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

    Stephen L Hoffman;Peter F Billingsley;Eric James;Adam Richman

  • Circumventing genetic restriction of protection against malaria with multigene DNA immunization: CD8+ cell-, interferon gamma-, and nitric oxide-dependent immunity.

    Denise L. Doolan;Martha Sedegah;Richard C. Hedstrom;Peter Hobart

  • Boosting with recombinant vaccinia increases immunogenicity and protective efficacy of malaria DNA vaccine

    Martha Sedegah;Trevor R. Jones;Manjit Kaur;Richard Hedstrom

  • Safety, tolerability and humoral immune responses after intramuscular administration of a malaria DNA vaccine to healthy adult volunteers.

    Thong P. Le;Kevin M. Coonan;Richard C. Hedstrom;Yupin Charoenvit

  • Interleukin 12 induction of interferon gamma-dependent protection against malaria

    Martha Sedegah;Fred Finkelman;Stephen L. Hoffman

  • Cytotoxic T cells recognize a peptide from the circumsporozoite protein on malaria-infected hepatocytes.

    W R Weiss;S Mellouk;R A Houghten;M Sedegah

  • Protection against Plasmodium falciparum malaria by PfSPZ Vaccine

    Judith E. Epstein;Kristopher M. Paolino;Thomas L. Richie;Martha Sedegah

  • Protection against malaria by vaccination with sporozoite surface protein 2 plus CS protein.

    Srisin Khusmith;Yupin Charoenvit;Sanjai Kumar;Martha Sedegah

  • Sporozoite vaccine induces genetically restricted T cell elimination of malaria from hepatocytes

    Stephen L. Hoffman;Daniel Isenbarger;Gary W. Long;Martha Sedegah

  • A Plasmid Encoding Murine Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Increases Protection Conferred by a Malaria DNA Vaccine

    Walter R. Weiss;Ken J. Ishii;Richard C. Hedstrom;Martha Sedegah

  • Interleukin-12- and gamma interferon-dependent protection against malaria conferred by CpG oligodeoxynucleotide in mice

    Robert A. Gramzinski;Denise L. Doolan;Denise L. Doolan;Martha Sedegah;Martha Sedegah;Heather L. Davis

  • Induction of neonatal tolerance by plasmid DNA vaccination of mice.

    G Mor;G Yamshchikov;M Sedegah;M Takeno

  • Improving Protective Immunity Induced by DNA-Based Immunization: Priming with Antigen and GM-CSF-Encoding Plasmid DNA and Boosting with Antigen-Expressing Recombinant Poxvirus

    Martha Sedegah;Walter Weiss;John B. Sacci;John B. Sacci;Yupin Charoenvit

  • Monoclonal, but not polyclonal, antibodies protect against Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites.

    Y Charoenvit;S Mellouk;C Cole;R Bechara

Frequent Co-Authors

Denise L. Doolan
Denise L. Doolan Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine
Thomas L. Richie
Thomas L. Richie Naval Medical Research Center
Daniel J. Carucci
Daniel J. Carucci Naval Medical Research Center
Christian F. Ockenhouse
Christian F. Ockenhouse Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Bjoern Peters
Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Jay A. Berzofsky
Jay A. Berzofsky National Institutes of Health
Richard A. Houghten
Richard A. Houghten Florida International University
Christopher V. Plowe
Christopher V. Plowe University of Maryland, Baltimore

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