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Overview

Peter S. Heeger is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, particularly focusing on immunology and microbiology. The subfields of their work include immunology, transplantation, surgery, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a range of immunological and transplantation-related subjects. These include:

  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Complement system in diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Peter S. Heeger has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Recent papers include:

  • "Immunology of COVID-19: Current State of the Science," 2020, Immunity
  • "Loss of decay-accelerating factor triggers podocyte injury and glomerulosclerosis," 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Signaling through the Inhibitory Fc Receptor FcγRIIB Induces CD8+ T Cell Apoptosis to Limit T Cell Immunity," 2020, Immunity
  • "VGF-derived peptide TLQP-21 modulates microglial function through C3aR1 signaling pathways and reduces neuropathology in 5xFAD mice," 2020, Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • "Dynamic regulation of B cell complement signaling is integral to germinal center responses," 2021, Nature Immunology

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Paolo Cravedi
  • Madhav C. Menon
  • Zeguo Sun
  • Zhongyang Zhang
  • Miguel Fribourg

Publications by Peter S. Heeger have appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • American Journal of Transplantation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • JCI Insight
  • Immunity

Peter S. Heeger is recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians, an affiliation that reflects standing within the medical community.

Best Publications

  • Preparation of PCR-quality mouse genomic DNA with hot sodium hydroxide and tris (HotSHOT)

    G.E. Truett;P. Heeger;R.L. Mynatt;A.A. Truett

  • Immunology of COVID-19: Current State of the Science.

    Nicolas Vabret;Graham J. Britton;Conor Gruber;Samarth Hegde

  • Locally Produced Complement Fragments C5a and C3a Provide Both Costimulatory and Survival Signals to Naive CD4+ T Cells

    Michael G. Strainic;Jinbo Liu;Danping Huang;Fengqi An

  • Pretransplant frequency of donor-specific, IFN-gamma-producing lymphocytes is a manifestation of immunologic memory and correlates with the risk of posttransplant rejection episodes.

    Peter S. Heeger;Neil S. Greenspan;Shannon Kuhlenschmidt;Cora Dejelo

  • Contributions of Direct and Indirect T Cell Alloreactivity During Allograft Rejection in Mice

    Gilles Benichou;Anna Valujskikh;Peter S. Heeger

  • Donor Toll-like receptor 4 contributes to ischemia and reperfusion injury following human kidney transplantation

    Bernd Krüger;Stefanie Krick;Navdeep Dhillon;Susan M. Lerner

  • Decay-accelerating factor modulates induction of T cell immunity.

    Peter S. Heeger;Peter S. Heeger;Peter N. Lalli;Peter N. Lalli;Feng Lin;Anna Valujskikh

  • Urinary-Cell mRNA Profile and Acute Cellular Rejection in Kidney Allografts

    Manikkam Suthanthiran;Joseph E. Schwartz;Ruchuang Ding;Michael Abecassis

  • Locally produced C5a binds to T cell–expressed C5aR to enhance effector T-cell expansion by limiting antigen-induced apoptosis

    Peter N. Lalli;Michael G. Strainic;Min Yang;Feng Lin

  • Primed allospecific T cells prevent the effects of costimulatory blockade on prolonged cardiac allograft survival in mice

    Anna Valujskikh;Birte Pantenburg;Peter S. Heeger

  • Molecules Great and Small: The Complement System

    Douglas R. Mathern;Peter S. Heeger

  • Adjuvant-Guided Type-1 and Type-2 Immunity: Infectious/Noninfectious Dichotomy Defines the Class of Response

    Hualin C. Yip;Alexey Y. Karulin;Magdalena Tary-Lehmann;Maike D. Hesse

  • Multicenter validation of urinary CXCL9 as a risk-stratifying biomarker for kidney transplant injury.

    Donald E Hricik;P. Nickerson;R. N. Formica;Emilio Poggio

  • Cross-primed CD8(+) T cells mediate graft rejection via a distinct effector pathway.

    Anna Valujskikh;Olivier Lantz;Olivier Lantz;Susanna Celli;Polly Matzinger

  • Comprehensive assessment and standardization of solid phase multiplex-bead arrays for the detection of antibodies to HLA.

    Elaine F. Reed;Ping Rao;Zilu Zhang;Howard Gebel

  • Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Spot (ELISPOT) Assay for Interferon‐Gamma Independently Predicts Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    Donald E Hricik;Victoria Rodriguez;Jocelyn Riley;Katherine Bryan

  • Signaling through C5a receptor and C3a receptor diminishes function of murine natural regulatory T cells.

    Wing-hong Kwan;William van der Touw;Estela Paz-Artal;Ming O. Li

  • Immune Reconstitution Following Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin

    S. Gurkan;Y. Luan;N. Dhillon;S. R. Allam

  • T Cells Primed by Leishmania major Infection Cross-React with Alloantigens and Alter the Course of Allograft Rejection

    Birte Pantenburg;Fred Heinzel;Lopamudra Das;Peter S. Heeger;Peter S. Heeger

  • Pre‐Transplant IFN‐γ ELISPOTs Are Associated with Post‐Transplant Renal Function in African American Renal Transplant Recipients

    Joshua J. Augustine;David S. Siu;Michael J. Clemente;James A. Schulak

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Fairchild
Robert L. Fairchild Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Mohamed H. Sayegh
Mohamed H. Sayegh American University of Beirut
Peter Nickerson
Peter Nickerson University of Manitoba
Randall C. Starling
Randall C. Starling Cleveland Clinic
Anil Chandraker
Anil Chandraker Brigham and Women's Hospital
Elaine F. Reed
Elaine F. Reed University of California, Los Angeles
Gilles Benichou
Gilles Benichou Harvard Medical School
Jonathan S. Bromberg
Jonathan S. Bromberg University of Maryland, Baltimore
Huabao Xiong
Huabao Xiong Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Miriam Merad
Miriam Merad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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