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  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Massimo Palmarini is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions in the subfields of Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Palmarini has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Biology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Palmarini are:

  • Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study: a multicentre, prospective cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Microbe
  • The altered entry pathway and antigenic distance of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant map to separate domains of spike protein, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Inflammatory profiles across the spectrum of disease reveal a distinct role for GM-CSF in severe COVID-19, 2021, Science Immunology
  • A plasmid DNA-launched SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics system and coronavirus toolkit for COVID-19 research, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19, 2021, Science

Palmarini collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Openshaw
  • Malcolm G. Semple
  • Ana da Silva Filipe
  • J. Kenneth Baillie
  • William Barclay

Palmarini has been recognized with fellowships from prominent institutions. These include the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded in 2009 and the Fellowship of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

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  • SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway

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  • Comparative host-coronavirus protein interaction networks reveal pan-viral disease mechanisms.

    David E. Gordon;Joseph Hiatt;Mehdi Bouhaddou;Veronica V. Rezelj

  • Revealing the history of sheep domestication using retrovirus integrations

    Bernardo Chessa;Filipe Pereira;Frederick Arnaud;Antonio Amorim

  • Pregnancy recognition and conceptus implantation in domestic ruminants: roles of progesterone, interferons and endogenous retroviruses

    Thomas E Spencer;Greg A Johnson;Fuller W Bazer;Robert C Burghardt

  • Late Ebola virus relapse causing meningoencephalitis: a case report.

    Michael Jacobs;Alison Rodger;David J Bell;Sanjay Bhagani

  • The altered entry pathway and antigenic distance of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant map to separate domains of spike protein

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  • Fundamental properties of the mammalian innate immune system revealed by multispecies comparison of type I interferon responses.

    Andrew E. Shaw;Joseph Hughes;Quan Gu;Abdelkader Behdenna

  • Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus Is Necessary and Sufficient To Induce a Contagious Lung Cancer in Sheep

    Massimo Palmarini;J. Michael Sharp;Marcelo de las Heras;Hung Fan

  • Endogenous retroviruses regulate periimplantation placental growth and differentiation

    Kathrin A. Dunlap;Massimo Palmarini;Mariana Varela;Robert C. Burghardt

  • Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Clark D Russell;Cameron J Fairfield;Thomas M Drake;Lance Turtle

  • Identification and characterization of a novel non-structural protein of bluetongue virus.

    Maxime Ratinier;Marco Caporale;Matthew Golder;Giulia Franzoni

  • The hyper-transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant exhibits significant antigenic change, vaccine escape and a switch in cell entry mechanism

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  • Outcome of Hospitalization for COVID-19 in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease: An International Multicenter Study

    Thomas M Drake;Annemarie B Docherty;Ewen M Harrison;Jennifer K Quint

  • A prenylated dsRNA sensor protects against severe COVID-19.

    Arthur Wickenhagen;Elena Sugrue;Spyros Lytras;Srikeerthana Kuchi

  • A plasmid DNA-launched SARS-CoV-2 reverse genetics system and coronavirus toolkit for COVID-19 research.

    Suzannah J. Rihn;Andreas Merits;Siddharth Bakshi;Matthew L. Turnbull

  • A paradigm for virus-host coevolution: sequential counter-adaptations between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.

    Frederick Arnaud;Marco Caporale;Mariana Varela;Roman Biek

  • Direct transformation of rodent fibroblasts by jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus DNA

    Naoyoshi Maeda;Massimo Palmarini;Claudio Murgia;Hung Fan

  • Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive spike-specific immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection

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  • Retrovirus-Induced Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma, an Animal Model for Lung Cancer

    Massimo Palmarini;Hung Fan

  • Risk of adverse outcomes in patients with underlying respiratory conditions admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a national, multicentre prospective cohort study using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK.

    Chloe I Bloom;Thomas M Drake;Annemarie B Docherty;Brian J Lipworth

  • Reduced neutralisation of the Delta (B.1.617.2) SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern following vaccination.

    Chris Davis;Nicola Logan;Grace Tyson;Richard Orton

  • Receptor Usage and Fetal Expression of Ovine Endogenous Betaretroviruses: Implications for Coevolution of Endogenous and Exogenous Retroviruses

    Thomas E. Spencer;Manuela Mura;Manuela Mura;C. Allison Gray;Philip J. Griebel

  • A Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Docking Site in the Cytoplasmic Tail of the Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus Transmembrane Protein Is Essential for Envelope-Induced Transformation of NIH 3T3 Cells

    Massimo Palmarini;Naoyoshi Maeda;Claudio Murgia;Claudio De-Fraja

  • Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of Three Type D Endogenous Retroviruses of Sheep Reveal a Different Cell Tropism from That of the Highly Related Exogenous Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus

    Massimo Palmarini;Claus Hallwirth;Denis York;Claudio Murgia

  • A Paradigm for Virus–Host Coevolution: Sequential Counter Adaptations between Endogenous and Exogenous Retroviruses

    F. Arnaud;M. Caporale;M. Varela;M. Golder

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Spencer
Thomas E. Spencer University of Missouri
Peter P. C. Mertens
Peter P. C. Mertens University of Nottingham
Alain Kohl
Alain Kohl University of Glasgow
David Robertson
David Robertson Vanderbilt University
Stéphan Zientara
Stéphan Zientara Université Paris Cité
Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
Anette Bøtner
Anette Bøtner University of Copenhagen
Kate Templeton
Kate Templeton NHS Lothian
Maria Zambon
Maria Zambon Public Health England
Walter Baumgartner
Walter Baumgartner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

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