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Moriya Tsuji is affiliated with the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and immunology, with a focus on infectious diseases and immune responses.

The main fields of study covered by Moriya Tsuji include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Within these broad fields, their work concentrates on several subfields such as:

  • Immunology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology

The primary topics addressed by Moriya Tsuji involve:

  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Malaria Research and Control

Frequent publication venues for Moriya Tsuji include:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Biomolecules
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Vaccines
  • Cancer Research

Moriya Tsuji has coauthored multiple papers with several researchers, including:

  • Jing Huang
  • Jordana Grazziela Alves Coelho-dos-Reis
  • David D. Ho
  • Lihong Liu
  • Michael T. Yin

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Moriya Tsuji are:

  • "An antibody class with a common CDRH3 motif broadly neutralizes sarbecoviruses," 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Novel Peptide-Based PD1 Immunomodulators Demonstrate Efficacy in Infectious Disease Vaccines and Therapeutics," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Targeted Co-delivery of Tumor Antigen and α-Galactosylceramide to CD141+ Dendritic Cells Induces a Potent Tumor Antigen-Specific Human CD8+ T Cell Response in Human Immune System Mice," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Virus-Like Particle Based Vaccines Elicit Neutralizing Antibodies against the HIV-1 Fusion Peptide," 2020, Vaccines
  • "Immunization with short peptide particles reveals a functional CD8+ T-cell neoepitope in a murine renal carcinoma model," 2021, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Best Publications

  • Recognition of bacterial glycosphingolipids by natural killer T cells

    Yuki Kinjo;Douglass Wu;Gisen Kim;Guo-Wen Xing

  • Natural killer T cells recognize diacylglycerol antigens from pathogenic bacteria.

    Yuki Kinjo;Emmanuel Tupin;Douglass Wu;Masakazu Fujio

  • Superior Protection against Malaria and Melanoma Metastases by a C-glycoside Analogue of the Natural Killer T Cell Ligand α-Galactosylceramide

    John Schmieg;Guangli Yang;Richard W. Franck;Moriya Tsuji;Moriya Tsuji

  • A mechanism for glycoconjugate vaccine activation of the adaptive immune system and its implications for vaccine design

    Fikri Yavuz Avci;Xiangming Li;Moriya Tsuji;Dennis Lee Kasper;Dennis Lee Kasper

  • Invariant natural killer T cells recognize glycolipids from pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria

    Yuki Kinjo;Petr Illarionov;José Luis Vela;Bo Pei

  • Natural Killer T Cell Ligand α-Galactosylceramide Enhances Protective Immunity Induced by Malaria Vaccines

    Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza;Luc Van Kaer;Cornelia C. Bergmann;James M. Wilson

  • The C-Glycoside Analogue of the Immunostimulant α-Galactosylceramide (KRN7000): Synthesis and Striking Enhancement of Activity

    Guangli Yang;John Schmieg;Moriya Tsuji;Richard W. Franck

  • α-Galactosylceramide-activated Vα14 natural killer T cells mediate protection against murine malaria.

    Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza;Camila de Oliveira;Margaret Tomaska;Seokmann Hong

  • Detection of malaria liver-stages in mice infected through the bite of a single Anopheles mosquito using a highly sensitive real-time PCR

    Oscar Bruña-Romero;Julius C.R. Hafalla;Gloria González-Aseguinolaza;Gen-ichiro Sano

  • Bacterial glycolipids and analogs as antigens for CD1d-restricted NKT cells

    Douglass Wu;Guo-Wen Xing;Michael A. Poles;Amir Horowitz

  • Demonstration of heat-shock protein 70 in the sporozoite stage of malaria parasites

    Moriya Tsuji;Denise Mattei;Ruth S. Nussenzweig;Daniel Eichinger

  • Gamma delta T cells contribute to immunity against the liver stages of malaria in alpha beta T-cell-deficient mice

    Moriya Tsuji;Peter Mombaerts;Peter Mombaerts;Leo Lefrancois;Ruth S. Nussenzweig

  • Design of a potent CD1d-binding NKT cell ligand as a vaccine adjuvant

    Xiangming Li;Masakazu Fujio;Masakazu Imamura;Douglass Wu

  • Glycolipid α-C-galactosylceramide is a distinct inducer of dendritic cell function during innate and adaptive immune responses of mice

    Shin-ichiro Fujii;Kanako Shimizu;Hiroaki Hemmi;Mikiko Fukui

  • Single immunizing dose of recombinant adenovirus efficiently induces CD8+ T cell-mediated protective immunity against malaria.

    Elaine G. Rodrigues;Fidel Zavala;Daniel Eichinger;James M. Wilson;James M. Wilson

  • CD4+ cytolytic T cell clone confers protection against murine malaria.

    Moriya Tsuji;Pedro Romero;Ruth S. Nussenzweig;Fidel P Zavala

  • Cutting edge: the IgG response to the circumsporozoite protein is MHC class II-dependent and CD1d-independent: exploring the role of GPIs in NK T cell activation and antimalarial responses.

    Alberto Molano;Se Ho Park;Ya Hui Chiu;Sandy Nosseir

  • Complete, long-lasting protection against malaria of mice primed and boosted with two distinct viral vectors expressing the same plasmodial antigen.

    Oscar Bruña-Romero;Gloria González-Aseguinolaza;Julius C. R. Hafalla;Moriya Tsuji

  • Structure-Based Discovery of Glycolipids for CD1d-Mediated NKT Cell Activation: Tuning the Adjuvant versus Immunosuppression Activity

    Masakazu Fujio;Douglass Wu;Raquel Garcia-Navarro;David D. Ho

  • Immunization and Infection Change the Number of Recombination Activating Gene (Rag)-Expressing B Cells in the Periphery by Altering Immature Lymphocyte Production

    Hitoshi Nagaoka;Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza;Moriya Tsuji;Michel C. Nussenzweig;Michel C. Nussenzweig

Frequent Co-Authors

Fidel P Zavala
Fidel P Zavala Johns Hopkins University
Ruth S. Nussenzweig
Ruth S. Nussenzweig New York University
David D. Ho
David D. Ho Columbia University
Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong Scripps Research Institute
Mitchell Kronenberg
Mitchell Kronenberg University of California, San Diego
Dennis L. Kasper
Dennis L. Kasper Harvard University
James M. Wilson
James M. Wilson University of Pennsylvania
Steven A. Porcelli
Steven A. Porcelli Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Victor Nussenzweig
Victor Nussenzweig New York University
Jonathan P. Schneck
Jonathan P. Schneck Johns Hopkins University

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