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Overview

Ofer Levy is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers a range of main topics including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Immune responses and vaccinations, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Immune Response and Inflammation, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research.

Among the recent papers published by Ofer Levy are:

  • "Bell's palsy and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines", 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Transcriptional atlas of the human immune response to 13 vaccines reveals a common predictor of vaccine-induced antibody responses", 2022, Nature Immunology
  • "Pan-vaccine analysis reveals innate immune endotypes predictive of antibody responses to vaccination", 2022, Nature Immunology
  • "BCG vaccination-induced emergency granulopoiesis provides rapid protection from neonatal sepsis", 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Toward precision adjuvants: optimizing science and safety", 2020, Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ofer Levy include:

  • Al Ozonoff
  • Joann Diray-Arce
  • Hanno Steen
  • Simon D. van Haren
  • Kinga K. Smolen

They have published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Vaccine
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • The interaction of TIGIT with PVR and PVRL2 inhibits human NK cell cytotoxicity

    Noa Stanietsky;Hrvoje Simic;Jurica Arapovic;Amir Toporik

  • Innate immunity of the newborn: basic mechanisms and clinical correlates

    Ofer Levy

  • Innate Immune Function by Toll-like Receptors: Distinct Responses in Newborns and the Elderly

    Tobias R. Kollmann;Ofer Levy;Ruth R. Montgomery;Stanislas Goriely

  • Selective Impairment of TLR-Mediated Innate Immunity in Human Newborns: Neonatal Blood Plasma Reduces Monocyte TNF-α Induction by Bacterial Lipopeptides, Lipopolysaccharide, and Imiquimod, but Preserves the Response to R-848

    Ofer Levy;Kol A. Zarember;Rene M. Roy;Rene M. Roy;Colette Cywes;Colette Cywes

  • Clinical Features and Outcome of Patients With IRAK-4 and MyD88 Deficiency

    Capucine Picard;Capucine Picard;Horst Von Bernuth;Horst Von Bernuth;Horst Von Bernuth;Pegah Ghandil;Pegah Ghandil;Pegah Ghandil;Maya Chrabieh;Maya Chrabieh

  • Challenges in infant immunity: implications for responses to infection and vaccines

    Mercy Prabhudas;Becky Adkins;Hayley Gans;Christopher King

  • Selective predisposition to bacterial infections in IRAK-4–deficient children: IRAK-4–dependent TLRs are otherwise redundant in protective immunity

    Cheng Lung Ku;Horst Von Bernuth;Horst Von Bernuth;Capucine Picard;Shen Ying Zhang

  • Protecting the Newborn and Young Infant from Infectious Diseases: Lessons from Immune Ontogeny

    Tobias R. Kollmann;Beate Kampmann;Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Arnaud Marchant

  • Ontogeny of Early Life Immunity

    David J. Dowling;David J. Dowling;Ofer Levy;Ofer Levy

  • Lipid mediator-induced expression of bactericidal/ permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in human mucosal epithelia

    Geraldine Canny;Ofer Levy;Glenn T. Furuta;Sailaja Narravula-Alipati

  • Cementless surface replacement arthroplasty of the shoulder. 5- to 10-year results with the Copeland mark-2 prosthesis.

    O. Levy;S. A. Copeland

  • Therapeutic potential of the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein.

    Ofer Levy

  • The use of fibrin tissue adhesive to reduce blood loss and the need for blood transfusion after total knee arthroplasty. A prospective, randomized, multicenter study.

    Ofer Levy;Uri Martinowitz;Ariel Oran;Chanan Tauber

  • Infection-induced inflammation and cerebral injury in preterm infants

    Tobias Strunk;Tobias Strunk;Terrie Eleanor Inder;Xiaoyang Wang;Xiaoyang Wang;David Burgner;David Burgner

  • Cementless surface replacement arthroplasty (Copeland CSRA) for osteoarthritis of the shoulder.

    Ofer Levy;Stephen A Copeland

  • The Adenosine System Selectively Inhibits TLR-Mediated TNF-α Production in the Human Newborn

    Ofer Levy;Ofer Levy;Melissa Coughlin;Bruce N. Cronstein;Rene M. Roy

  • Antimicrobial proteins and peptides of blood: templates for novel antimicrobial agents

    Ofer Levy

  • Harnessing the beneficial heterologous effects of vaccination

    Helen S. Goodridge;S. Sohail Ahmed;Nigel Curtis;Tobias R. Kollmann

  • Innate immunity of the human newborn is polarized toward a high ratio of IL-6/TNF-alpha production in vitro and in vivo.

    Donatella F Angelone;Michael R Wessels;Michael R Wessels;Melissa Coughlin;Eugenie E Suter

  • Antimicrobial proteins and peptides: anti‐infective molecules of mammalian leukocytes

    Ofer Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate Kampmann
Beate Kampmann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Tobias R. Kollmann
Tobias R. Kollmann Dalhousie University
Jerrold Weiss
Jerrold Weiss University of Iowa
Xiaoyang Wang
Xiaoyang Wang University of Gothenburg
Hanno Steen
Hanno Steen Boston Children's Hospital
Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Peter Richmond
Peter Richmond University of Western Australia
Carina Mallard
Carina Mallard University of Gothenburg
Donald A. Goldmann
Donald A. Goldmann Boston Children's Hospital
Peter Elsbach
Peter Elsbach New York University

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