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Michael Theisen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has focused their research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their scholarly work encompasses several subfields, notably Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Parasitology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Theisen's research topics are centered significantly on infectious diseases, with particular attention to malaria research and control. Other main topics include mosquito-borne diseases and control, parasites and host interactions, the complement system in diseases, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, vector-borne infectious diseases, and HIV research and treatment.

Frequent coauthors in Theisen's publications include Susheel Kumar Singh, Bright Adu, Jordan Plieskatt, Mohammad Naghizadeh, and Asier Garcia-Senosiain.

Theisen has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most common publication venues are Frontiers in Immunology, Malaria Journal, Vaccine, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Theisen include:

  • Capsid-like particles decorated with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicit strong virus neutralization activity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Neutrophils dominate in opsonic phagocytosis of P. falciparum blood-stage merozoites and protect against febrile malaria, 2021, Communications Biology
  • A Reproducible and Scalable Process for Manufacturing a Pfs48/45 Based Plasmodium falciparum Transmission-Blocking Vaccine, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Preclinical development of a Pfs230-Pfs48/45 chimeric malaria transmission-blocking vaccine, 2021, npj Vaccines
  • Exploratory analysis of the effect of helminth infection on the immunogenicity and efficacy of the asexual blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate GMZ2, 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Best Publications

  • Cationic Liposomes Formulated with Synthetic Mycobacterial Cordfactor (CAF01): A Versatile Adjuvant for Vaccines with Different Immunological Requirements

    Else Marie Agger;Ida Rosenkrands;Jon Hansen;Karima Brahimi

  • Long-term clinical protection from falciparum malaria is strongly associated with IgG3 antibodies to merozoite surface protein 3.

    Christian Roussilhon;Claude Oeuvray;Christine Müller-Graf;Adama Tall

  • Antigenic Equivalence of Human T-Cell Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific RD1-Encoded Protein Antigens ESAT-6 and Culture Filtrate Protein 10 and to Mixtures of Synthetic Peptides

    Sandra M. Arend;Annemieke Geluk;Krista E. van Meijgaarden;Jaap T. van Dissel

  • Atypical and classical memory B cells produce Plasmodium falciparum neutralizing antibodies

    Matthias F Muellenbeck;Beatrix Ueberheide;Borko Amulic;Alexandra Epp

  • Cytophilic immunoglobulin responses to Plasmodium falciparum glutamate-rich protein are correlated with protection against clinical malaria in Dielmo, Senegal

    Claude Oeuvray;Michael Theisen;Christophe Rogier;Jean-Francois Trape

  • Humoral Responses to Plasmodium falciparum Blood-Stage Antigens and Association with Incidence of Clinical Malaria in Children Living in an Area of Seasonal Malaria Transmission in Burkina Faso, West Africa

    Issa Nebie;Amidou Diarra;Alphonse Ouedraogo;Issiaka Soulama

  • Association between Protection against Clinical Malaria and Antibodies to Merozoite Surface Antigens in an Area of Hyperendemicity in Myanmar: Complementarity between Responses to Merozoite Surface Protein 3 and the 220-Kilodalton Glutamate-Rich Protein

    Soe Soe;Michael Theisen;Christian Roussilhon;Khin-Saw Aye

  • Epitope Mapping of the Immunodominant Antigen TB10.4 and the Two Homologous Proteins TB10.3 and TB12.9, Which Constitute a Subfamily of the esat-6 Gene Family

    Rikke Louise Vinther Skjøt;Inger Brock;Sandra M. Arend;Martin E. Munk

  • The Glutamate-Rich Protein (GLURP) of Plasmodium falciparum Is a Target for Antibody-Dependent Monocyte-Mediated Inhibition of Parasite Growth In Vitro

    Michael Theisen;Soe Soe;Claude Oeuvray;Alan W. Thomas

  • Cohort study of the association of antibody levels to AMA1, MSP119, MSP3 and GLURP with protection from clinical malaria in Ghanaian children

    Daniel Dodoo;Anastasia Aikins;Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi;Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi;Helena Lamptey

  • Antigenicity and immunogenicity of recombinant glutamate-rich protein of Plasmodium falciparum expressed in Escherichia coli.

    M Theisen;J Vuust;A Gottschau;S Jepsen

  • Polymorphism in ospC gene of Borrelia burgdorferi and immunoreactivity of OspC protein: implications for taxonomy and for use of OspC protein as a diagnostic antigen.

    M Theisen;B Frederiksen;A M Lebech;J Vuust

  • Safety and immunogenicity of GMZ2 - a MSP3-GLURP fusion protein malaria vaccine candidate.

    Meral Esen;Peter G. Kremsner;Regina Schleucher;Michael Gässler

  • Naturally Acquired Antibodies to the Glutamate-Rich Protein Are Associated with Protection against Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

    Daniel Dodoo;Daniel Dodoo;Michael Theisen;Jørgen A. L. Kurtzhals;Jørgen A. L. Kurtzhals;Bartholomew D. Akanmori

  • Analysis of the OspE Determinants Involved in Binding of Factor H and OspE-Targeting Antibodies Elicited during Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in Mice

    Michael S. Metts;John V. McDowell;Michael Theisen;Paul Robert Hansen

  • A Plasmodium falciparum GLURP–MSP3 chimeric protein; expression in Lactococcus lactis, immunogenicity and induction of biologically active antibodies

    Michael Theisen;Soe Soe;Katja Brunstedt;Frank Follmann

  • Glutamate-rich protein (GLURP) induces antibodies that inhibit in vitro growth of Plasmodium falciparum in a phase 1 malaria vaccine trial.

    Cornelus C. Hermsen;Danielle F. Verhage;Denise S.C. Telgt;Karina Teelen

  • A phase 2b randomized, controlled trial of the efficacy of the GMZ2 malaria vaccine in African children.

    Sodiomon B Sirima;Benjamin Mordmüller;Paul Milligan;Ulysse Ateba Ngoa

  • Recent advances in recombinant protein-based malaria vaccines.

    Simon J. Draper;Evelina Angov;Toshihiro Horii;Louis H. Miller

  • Identification and characterization of a 29-kilodalton protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture filtrate recognized by mouse memory effector cells.

    Ida Rosenkrands;Peter Birk Rasmussen;Markus Carnio;Susanne Jacobsen

  • Identification of a Conserved Region of Plasmodium falciparum MSP3 Targeted by Biologically Active Antibodies to Improve Vaccine Design

    Subhash Singh;Soe Soe;Juan-Pedro Mejia;Christian Roussilhon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Christiansen
Michael Christiansen Statens Serum Institut
Benjamin Mordmüller
Benjamin Mordmüller Radboud University Medical Center
Robert W. Sauerwein
Robert W. Sauerwein Radboud University
Pierre Druilhe
Pierre Druilhe Institut Pasteur
Peter G. Kremsner
Peter G. Kremsner University of Tübingen
Peter E. Andersen
Peter E. Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Teun Bousema
Teun Bousema Radboud University
Saadou Issifou
Saadou Issifou University of Tübingen
Giampietro Corradin
Giampietro Corradin University of Lausanne
Ayola A. Adegnika
Ayola A. Adegnika University of Tübingen

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