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Best Female Scientists

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127
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67500
World Ranking
394
National Ranking
236

Immunology

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126
Citations
67444
World Ranking
269
National Ranking
173

Medicine

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126
Citations
67413
World Ranking
2923
National Ranking
1620

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Mary Carrington is affiliated with the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in the United States. Their research spans the fields of immunology and microbiology with a strong focus on medicine. Carrington's work includes significant contributions to immunology, virology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, and oncology.

The scientist's main topics of research cover:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Mary Carrington has published extensively, with a preferred publishing in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell, Nature, Frontiers in Immunology, and The Journal of Immunology. The highest number of publications appear in bioRxiv, followed by multiple significant contributions in Cell and Nature.

Some of the recent notable papers include:

  • Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1, 2020, Nature
  • Functional HPV-specific PD-1+ stem-like CD8 T cells in head and neck cancer, 2021, Nature
  • T cell reactivity to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is preserved in most but not all individuals, 2022, Cell
  • A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Profiling SARS-CoV-2 HLA-I peptidome reveals T cell epitopes from out-of-frame ORFs, 2021, Cell

Frequent co-authors working with Carrington include:

  • Yuko Yuki
  • Maureen P. Martin
  • Mathias Viard
  • Bruce D. Walker
  • Arman Bashirova

This scientist's research is interdisciplinary, involving the interface of immune cell biology, infectious diseases, and cancer immunology. The detailed exploration of viral reservoirs and immune responses highlights a significant involvement in studies related to HIV as well as other viral infections like SARS-CoV-2.

Best Publications

  • Genetic Restriction of HIV-1 Infection and Progression to AIDS by a Deletion Allele of the CKR5 Structural Gene

    Michael Dean;Mary Carrington;Cheryl Winkler;Gavin A. Huttley

  • Interleukin-1 polymorphisms associated with increased risk of gastric cancer

    Emad M. El-Omar;Emad M. El-Omar;Mary Carrington;Wong Ho Chow;Kenneth E.L. McColl

  • Genetic variation in IL28B and spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus

    David L. Thomas;Chloe L Thio;Maureen P. Martin;Ying Qi

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

    Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

  • HLA and HIV-1: heterozygote advantage and B*35-Cw*04 disadvantage.

    Mary Carrington;George W. Nelson;Maureen P. Martin;Teri Kissner

  • Epistatic interaction between KIR3DS1 and HLA-B delays the progression to AIDS

    Maureen P. Martin;Xiaojiang Gao;Jeong Hee Lee;George W. Nelson

  • HLA and NK Cell Inhibitory Receptor Genes in Resolving Hepatitis C Virus Infection

    Salim I. Khakoo;Chloe L. Thio;Maureen P. Martin;Collin R. Brooks

  • Influence of combinations of human major histocompatibility complex genes on the course of HIV–1 infection

    Richard A. Kaslow;Mary Carrington;R. Apple;L. Park

  • Combinations of Maternal KIR and Fetal HLA-C Genes Influence the Risk of Preeclampsia and Reproductive Success

    Susan E. Hiby;James J. Walker;Kevin M. O'Shaughnessy;Christopher W.G. Redman

  • Contrasting Genetic Influence of CCR2 and CCR5 Variants on HIV-1 Infection and Disease Progression

    Michael W. Smith;Michael Dean;Mary Carrington;Cheryl Winkler

  • HLA-A*3101 and carbamazepine-induced hypersensitivity reactions in Europeans

    Mark McCormack;Ana Alfirevic;Stephane Bourgeois;John J. Farrell

  • The Influence of HLA Genotype on AIDS

    Mary Carrington;Stephen J. O'Brien

  • Genetic Restriction of AIDS Pathogenesis by an SDF-1 Chemokine Gene Variant

    Cheryl Winkler;William Modi;Michael W. Smith;George W. Nelson

  • A high resolution HLA and SNP haplotype map for disease association studies in the extended human MHC

    Paul I W de Bakker;Gil McVean;Pardis C Sabeti;Marcos M Miretti

  • Innate partnership of HLA-B and KIR3DL1 subtypes against HIV-1

    Maureen P. Martin;Ying Qi;Xiaojiang Gao;Eriko Yamada

  • Effect of a single amino acid change in MHC class I molecules on the rate of progression to AIDS.

    Xiaojiang Gao;George W. Nelson;Peter Karacki;Maureen P. Martin

  • Dating the Origin of the CCR5-Δ32 AIDS-Resistance Allele by the Coalescence of Haplotypes

    J. Claiborne Stephens;David E. Reich;David B. Goldstein;Hyoung Doo Shin

  • Sex differences in the Toll-like receptor–mediated response of plasmacytoid dendritic cells to HIV-1

    Angela Meier;J Judy Chang;Ellen S Chan;Richard B Pollard

  • The Shaping of Modern Human Immune Systems by Multiregional Admixture with Archaic Humans

    Laurent Abi-Rached;Matthew J. Jobin;Matthew J. Jobin;Subhash Kulkarni;Alasdair McWhinnie

  • Maternal activating KIRs protect against human reproductive failure mediated by fetal HLA-C2

    Susan E. Hiby;Richard Apps;Andrew M. Sharkey;Lydia E. Farrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen P. Martin
Maureen P. Martin National Institutes of Health
Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Xiaojiang Gao
Xiaojiang Gao National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
James J. Goedert
James J. Goedert National Institutes of Health
Marcus Altfeld
Marcus Altfeld University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Jacques Fellay
Jacques Fellay École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Philip J. R. Goulder
Philip J. R. Goulder University of Oxford
Susan Buchbinder
Susan Buchbinder University of California, San Francisco
Michael Dean
Michael Dean National Institutes of Health

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