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Overview

Persephone Borrow is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within immunology and medicine, with a primary focus on immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and HIV research and treatment.

The scientist's work covers the following main fields of study:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Immunology
  • Virology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Interferon and Immune Responses

Persephone Borrow has published notable papers such as:

  • "Broad and strong memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells induced by SARS-CoV-2 in UK convalescent individuals following COVID-19" (2020, Nature Immunology)
  • "Strategies for HIV-1 vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies" (2022, Nature reviews. Immunology)
  • "CD4+ T Follicular Helper Cells in Human Tonsils and Blood Are Clonally Convergent but Divergent from Non-Tfh CD4+ Cells" (2020, Cell Reports)
  • "Broad and strong memory CD4+and CD8+T cells induced by SARS-CoV-2 in UK convalescent COVID-19 patients" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • "Aberrant B cell repertoire selection associated with HIV neutralizing antibody breadth" (2020, Nature Immunology)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrew J. McMichael
  • Barton F. Haynes
  • Simon Brackenridge
  • Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco
  • Wayne Paes

Persephone Borrow's publications have appeared predominantly in venue platforms such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature reviews. Immunology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity associated with control of viremia in primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.

    P Borrow;H Lewicki;B H Hahn;G M Shaw

  • Antiviral pressure exerted by HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) during primary infection demonstrated by rapid selection of CTL escape virus.

    Persephone Borrow;Hanna Lewicki;Xiping Wei;Marc S. Horwitz

  • Induction of Bystander T Cell Proliferation by Viruses and Type I Interferon in Vivo

    David F. Tough;Persephone Borrow;Jonathan Sprent

  • Broad and strong memory CD4 + and CD8 + T cells induced by SARS-CoV-2 in UK convalescent individuals following COVID-19.

    Y Peng;A J Mentzer;G Liu;G Liu;X Yao

  • The immune response during acute HIV-1 infection: clues for vaccine development.

    Andrew J. McMichael;Persephone Borrow;Georgia D. Tomaras;Nilu Goonetilleke

  • Cross-priming of CD8 + T cells stimulated by virus-induced type I interferon

    Agnes Le Bon;Nathalie Etchart;Nathalie Etchart;Cornelia Rossmann;Miranda Ashton

  • Induction of a Striking Systemic Cytokine Cascade prior to Peak Viremia in Acute Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection, in Contrast to More Modest and Delayed Responses in Acute Hepatitis B and C Virus Infections

    Andrea R. Stacey;Philip J. Norris;Philip J. Norris;Li Qin;Li Qin;Elizabeth A. Haygreen

  • Identification of α-dystroglycan as a receptor for lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and Lassa fever virus

    Wei Cao;Michael D. Henry;Persephone Borrow;Hiroki Yamada

  • Major expansion of CD8+ T cells with a predominant V beta usage during the primary immune response to HIV.

    G Pantaleo;J F Demarest;H Soudeyns;C Graziosi

  • The first T cell response to transmitted/founder virus contributes to the control of acute viremia in HIV-1 infection

    Nilu Goonetilleke;Michael K.P. Liu;Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Guido Ferrari

  • Viral infection switches non-plasmacytoid dendritic cells into high interferon producers

    Sandra S Diebold;Maria Montoya;Hermann Unger;Lena Alexopoulou

  • Type I interferons produced by dendritic cells promote their phenotypic and functional activation.

    Maria Montoya;Giovanna Schiavoni;Fabrizio Mattei;Ion Gresser

  • Initial T cell frequency dictates memory CD8+ T cell lineage commitment.

    Amanda L Marzo;Kimberly D Klonowski;Agnes Le Bon;Persephone Borrow

  • Cytokines induced during chronic hepatitis B virus infection promote a pathway for NK cell–mediated liver damage

    Claire Dunn;R. Maurizia Brunetto;Gary Reynolds;Theodoros Christophides

  • Phenotypic properties of transmitted founder HIV-1

    Nicholas F. Parrish;Feng Gao;Hui Li;Elena E. Giorgi

  • Virus-induced immunosuppression: immune system-mediated destruction of virus-infected dendritic cells results in generalized immune suppression.

    P. Borrow;C. F. Evans;M. B. A. Oldstone

  • Strategies for HIV-1 vaccines that induce broadly neutralizing antibodies

    Unknown

  • SAP controls T cell responses to virus and terminal differentiation of TH2 cells.

    Chengbin Wu;Khuong B. Nguyen;Gary C. Pien;Ninghai Wang

  • CD40L-deficient mice show deficits in antiviral immunity and have an impaired memory CD8+ CTL response.

    P. Borrow;A. Tishon;S. Lee;J. Xu

  • Transmission of Single HIV-1 Genomes and Dynamics of Early Immune Escape Revealed by Ultra-Deep Sequencing

    Will Fischer;Vitaly V. Ganusov;Vitaly V. Ganusov;Elena E. Giorgi;Elena E. Giorgi;Peter T. Hraber

  • Determinants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Escape from the Primary CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Response

    Nicola A. Jones;Xiping Wei;Darren R. Flower;MaiLee Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. McMichael
Andrew J. McMichael University of Oxford
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes Duke University
Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Michael B. A. Oldstone Scripps Research Institute
Bette T. Korber
Bette T. Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory
Myron S. Cohen
Myron S. Cohen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip J. Norris
Philip J. Norris University of California, San Francisco
Benedikt M. Kessler
Benedikt M. Kessler University of Oxford
Eric Hunter
Eric Hunter Emory University

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