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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Otoniel Martínez-Maza is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and immunology, with a focus on pathology, oncology, and virology.

Their work primarily covers the following main fields of study:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Within these fields, Martínez-Maza's subfields include:

  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Oncology
  • Virology
  • Genetics

Their primary research topics consist of:

  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Viral-associated Cancers and Disorders
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • HIV-related Health Complications and Treatments
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Martínez-Maza has published frequently in a variety of scientific venues. The most common publication outlets for their research are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Cancer Research
  • Blood
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • iScience

Highlighted recent papers authored or coauthored by Martínez-Maza include:

  • "Accelerated aging with HIV occurs at the time of initial HIV infection" (2022, iScience)
  • "Treatment of advanced AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma in resource-limited settings: a three-arm, open-label, randomised, non-inferiority trial" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "The Effects of Anti-retroviral Therapy on Epigenetic Age Acceleration Observed in HIV-1-infected Adults" (2020, Pathogens and Immunity)
  • "Increased Rate of Epigenetic Aging in Men Living With HIV Prior to Treatment" (2022, Frontiers in Genetics)
  • "Circulating markers of microbial translocation and host response to bacteria with risk of colorectal cancer: a prospective, nested case-control study in men" (2023, EBioMedicine)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Marta Epeldegui
  • Larry Magpantay
  • Elizabeth C. Breen
  • Mary E. Sehl
  • Roger Shih

Martínez-Maza's contributions have been recognized through at least one notable award: the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph Consortium.

    Karin Ekström Smedby;Claire M. Vajdic;Michael Falster;Eric A. Engels

  • Infection with HIV is associated with elevated IL-6 levels and production.

    E C Breen;A R Rezai;K Nakajima;G N Beall

  • Sleep Loss Activates Cellular Inflammatory Signaling

    Michael R. Irwin;Minge Wang;Denise Ribeiro;Hyong Jin Cho

  • The effect of HAART-induced HIV suppression on circulating markers of inflammation and immune activation.

    Nikolas Itaru Wada;Lisa P. Jacobson;Joseph B. Margolick;Elizabeth Crabb Breen

  • Induction of IL-6 (B cell stimulatory factor-2/IFN-beta 2) production by HIV.

    K Nakajima;O Martínez-Maza;T Hirano;E C Breen

  • Serum interleukin-6 levels correlate with disease status in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer

    Jonathan S. Berek;Catherine Chung;Klara Kaldi;Joanna M. Watson

  • Oncostatin M as a potent mitogen for AIDS-Kaposi's sarcoma-derived cells.

    Steven A. Miles;Otoniel Martinez-Maza;Ahmad Rezai;Larry Magpantay

  • Constitutive Production of Interleukin 6 by Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines and by Primary Ovarian Tumor Cultures

    Joanna M. Watson;John L. Sensintaffar;Jonathan S. Berek;Otoniel Martínez-Maza

  • Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated with an in vivo increase in B lymphocyte activation and immaturity.

    O Martínez-Maza;E Crabb;R T Mitsuyasu;J L Fahey

  • Multisite comparison of high-sensitivity multiplex cytokine assays

    Elizabeth Crabb Breen;Sandra M. Reynolds;Christopher Cox;Lisa P. Jacobson

  • The multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 1983 to …

    R. Detels;L. Jacobson;J. Margolick;O. Martinez-Maza

  • Cancer incidence in the multicenter aids cohort study before and during the HAART era: 1984 to 2007

    Eric C. Seaberg;Dorothy Wiley;Otoniel Martínez-Maza;Joan S. Chmiel

  • IL-17A is increased in the serum and in spinal cord CD8 and mast cells of ALS patients

    Milan Fiala;Madhuri Chattopadhay;Antonio La Cava;Eric Tse

  • B-cell activation and lymphoma in patients with HIV.

    Otoniel Martínez-Maza;Elizabeth Crabb Breen

  • Risk of lymphoma subtypes after solid organ transplantation in the United States

    C A Clarke;L M Morton;C Lynch;R M Pfeiffer

  • Is the E receptor on human T lymphocytes a "negative signal receptor"?

    R Palacios;O Martinez-Maza

  • Presence of interleukin 10 (IL-10) in the ascites of patients with ovarian and other intra-abdominal cancers

    Walter H. Gotlieb;John S. Abrams;Joanna M. Watson;Thierry J. Velu

  • B-Cell Stimulatory Cytokines and Markers of Immune Activation Are Elevated Several Years Prior to the Diagnosis of Systemic AIDS–Associated Non-Hodgkin B-Cell Lymphoma

    Elizabeth Crabb Breen;Shehnaz K. Hussain;Larry Magpantay;Lisa P. Jacobson

  • IL-6 levels and genotype are associated with risk of young adult Hodgkin lymphoma.

    Wendy Cozen;Parkash S. Gill;Sue Ann Ingles;Rizwan Masood

  • Reduced ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity and enhanced OKT10 and HLA-DR expression on CD8 (T suppressor/cytotoxic) lymphocytes in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: evidence of CD8 cell immaturity.

    J F Salazar-Gonzalez;D J Moody;J V Giorgi;O Martinez-Maza

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth C. Breen
Elizabeth C. Breen University of California, Los Angeles
Roger Detels
Roger Detels University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa P. Jacobson
Lisa P. Jacobson Johns Hopkins University
Joseph B. Margolick
Joseph B. Margolick Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Bonavida
Benjamin Bonavida University of California, Los Angeles
Richard F. Ambinder
Richard F. Ambinder Johns Hopkins University
Jay H. Bream
Jay H. Bream Johns Hopkins University
Wendy Cozen
Wendy Cozen University of Southern California
Charles R. Rinaldo
Charles R. Rinaldo University of Pittsburgh
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Tadamitsu Kishimoto Osaka University

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