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Rachael A. Clark is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily within Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Specifically, their work includes numerous studies in Immunology, Dermatology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Neurology.

Their investigation covers key scientific topics such as:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Dermatology and Skin Diseases
  • Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments

Rachael A. Clark has contributed to prominent journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Science Immunology
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • American Journal of Transplantation
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Collaboration is notable in their career, with frequent co-authorship alongside researchers including Jessica E. Teague, Thomas S. Kupper, Ahmed Gehad, Beatrice Dyring-Andersen, and Bohdan Pomahač.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Spatially and cell-type resolved quantitative proteomic atlas of healthy human skin," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Arthritis flares mediated by tissue-resident memory T cells in the joint," 2021, Cell Reports
  • "Peripheral host T cells survive hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and promote graft-versus-host disease," 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Tapinarof validates the aryl hydrocarbon receptor as a therapeutic target: A clinical review," 2023, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • "CD1a selectively captures endogenous cellular lipids that broadly block T cell response," 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Best Publications

  • Skin infection generates non-migratory memory CD8+ T(RM) cells providing global skin immunity.

    Xiaodong Jiang;Rachael A. Clark;Luzheng Liu;Amy J. Wagers

  • The Vast Majority of CLA+ T Cells Are Resident in Normal Skin

    Rachael A. Clark;Benjamin Chong;Nina Mirchandani;Nooshin K. Brinster

  • Survival of tissue-resident memory T cells requires exogenous lipid uptake and metabolism

    Youdong Pan;Tian Tian;Chang Ook Park;Serena Y. Lofftus

  • Human skin is protected by four functionally and phenotypically discrete populations of resident and recirculating memory T cells.

    Rei Watanabe;Ahmed Gehad;Chao Yang;Laura L. Scott

  • Sézary syndrome and mycosis fungoides arise from distinct T-cell subsets: a biologic rationale for their distinct clinical behaviors

    James J. Campbell;Rachael A. Clark;Rei Watanabe;Thomas S. Kupper

  • Human Epidermal Langerhans Cells Maintain Immune Homeostasis in Skin by Activating Skin Resident Regulatory T Cells

    Julien Seneschal;Rachael A. Clark;Ahmed Gehad;Clare M. Baecher-Allan

  • Resident memory T cells in human health and disease

    Rachael A. Clark

  • Robust tumor immunity to melanoma mediated by interleukin-9-producing T cells

    Rahul Purwar;Christoph Schlapbach;Sheng Xiao;Hong Soon Kang

  • The Majority of Human Peripheral Blood CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ Regulatory T Cells Bear Functional Skin-Homing Receptors

    Kazuki Hirahara;Luzheng Liu;Rachael A. Clark;Kei-ichi Yamanaka

  • Skin effector memory T cells do not recirculate and provide immune protection in alemtuzumab-treated CTCL patients.

    Rachael A. Clark;Rei Watanabe;Jessica E. Teague;Christoph Schlapbach

  • Skin-Resident T Cells: The Ups and Downs of On Site Immunity

    Rachael A. Clark

  • Resident Memory T Cells (TRM) Are Abundant in Human Lung: Diversity, Function, and Antigen Specificity

    Rahul Purwar;James Campbell;George Murphy;William G. Richards

  • CD8+ T Cells in the Lesional Skin of Atopic Dermatitis and Psoriasis Patients Are an Important Source of IFN-γ, IL-13, IL-17, and IL-22

    DirkJan Hijnen;Edward F. Knol;Yoony Y. Gent;Barbara Giovannone

  • Common clonal origin of central and resident memory T cells following skin immunization

    Olivier Gaide;Ryan O Emerson;Xiaodong Jiang;Nicholas Gulati

  • The Public Repository of Xenografts Enables Discovery and Randomized Phase II-like Trials in Mice

    Elizabeth C. Townsend;Mark A. Murakami;Alexandra Christodoulou;Amanda L. Christie

  • Clinically resolved psoriatic lesions contain psoriasis-specific IL-17–producing αβ T cell clones

    Tiago R. Matos;John T. O’Malley;Elizabeth L. Lowry;David Hamm

  • CD1a-autoreactive T cells are a normal component of the human αβ T cell repertoire

    Annemieke de Jong;Victor Peña-Cruz;Tan-Yun Cheng;Rachael A Clark

  • Human squamous cell carcinomas evade the immune response by down-regulation of vascular E-selectin and recruitment of regulatory T cells

    Rachael A. Clark;Susan J. Huang;George F. Murphy;Ilse G. Mollet

  • Old Meets New: The Interaction Between Innate and Adaptive Immunity

    Rachael Clark;Thomas Kupper

  • Topical resiquimod can induce disease regression and enhance T-cell effector functions in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

    Alain H. Rook;Joel C. Gelfand;Maria Wysocka;Andrea B. Troxel

  • A Novel Method for the Isolation of Skin Resident T Cells from Normal and Diseased Human Skin

    Rachael A. Clark;Benjamin F. Chong;Nina Mirchandani;Kei Ichi Yamanaka

  • Response to Comment on “The Vast Majority of CLA+ T Cells Are Resident in Normal Skin”

    Rachael A. Clark;Thomas S. Kupper

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Kupper
Thomas S. Kupper Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert C. Fuhlbrigge
Robert C. Fuhlbrigge University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Harlan Robins
Harlan Robins Adaptive Biotechnologies (United States)
George F. Murphy
George F. Murphy Brigham and Women's Hospital
James G. Krueger
James G. Krueger Rockefeller University
Jamie Rossjohn
Jamie Rossjohn Monash University
John D. Altman
John D. Altman Emory University
Charles P. Lin
Charles P. Lin Harvard University
Manabu Fujimoto
Manabu Fujimoto Osaka University
Francis R. Carbone
Francis R. Carbone University of Melbourne

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