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Overview

Robert A. Seder is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and immunology, with a particular focus on infectious diseases and immune responses.

Their publication record includes notable recent papers such as:

  • Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus causes attenuated disease in mice and hamsters, 2022, Nature
  • Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization, 2020, Nature
  • mRNA-1273 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against spike mutants from global SARS-CoV-2 variants, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Serum Neutralizing Activity Elicited by mRNA-1273 Vaccine, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent co-authors working alongside Robert A. Seder include:

  • Mario Roederer
  • Daniel C. Douek
  • Barbara J. Flynn
  • Patricia A. Darrah
  • Mark G. Lewis

Major venues where this scientist has published are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Cell

Their main fields of study are:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Molecular Biology
  • Animal Science and Zoology

The primary research topics addressed by Robert A. Seder cover:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Robert A. Seder has also been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Lymphocyte responses and cytokines

    William E. Paul;Robert A. Seder

  • Vaccine Adjuvants: Putting Innate Immunity to Work

    Robert L. Coffman;Alan Sher;Robert A. Seder

  • Acquisition of Lymphokine-Producing Phenotype by CD4+ T Cells

    R A Seder;W E Paul

  • Multifunctional TH1 cells define a correlate of vaccine-mediated protection against Leishmania major.

    Patricia A Darrah;Dipti T Patel;Paula M De Luca;Ross W B Lindsay

  • T-cell quality in memory and protection: implications for vaccine design

    Robert A. Seder;Patricia A. Darrah;Mario Roederer

  • DNA vaccines: immunology, application, and optimization*.

    Sanjay Gurunathan;Dennis M. Klinman;Robert A. Seder

  • Generation of interleukin 4 (IL-4)-producing cells in vivo and in vitro: IL-2 and IL-4 are required for in vitro generation of IL-4-producing cells.

    G Le Gros;S Z Ben-Sasson;R Seder;F D Finkelman

  • The presence of interleukin 4 during in vitro priming determines the lymphokine-producing potential of CD4+ T cells from T cell receptor transgenic mice.

    R A Seder;W E Paul;M M Davis;B Fazekas de St Groth

  • Similarities and differences in CD4+ and CD8+ effector and memory T cell generation.

    Robert A Seder;Rafi Ahmed

  • Interleukin 12 acts directly on CD4+ T cells to enhance priming for interferon gamma production and diminishes interleukin 4 inhibition of such priming

    Robert A. Seder;Ricardo Gazzinelli;Alan Sher;William E. Paul

  • Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates.

    Kizzmekia S Corbett;Barbara Flynn;Kathryn E Foulds;Joseph R Francica

  • Protection Against Malaria by Intravenous Immunization with a Nonreplicating Sporozoite Vaccine

    Robert A. Seder;Lee Jah Chang;Mary E. Enama;Kathryn L. Zephir

  • Live attenuated malaria vaccine designed to protect through hepatic CD8+ T cell immunity

    J. E. Epstein;K. Tewari;K. E. Lyke;B. K. L. Sim

  • Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization

    Patricia A. Darrah;Joseph J. Zeppa;Pauline Maiello;Joshua A. Hackney

  • VACCINATION WITH DNA ENCODING THE IMMUNODOMINANT LACK PARASITE ANTIGEN CONFERS PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY TO MICE INFECTED WITH LEISHMANIA MAJOR

    Sanjay Gurunathan;David L. Sacks;Daniel R. Brown;Steven L. Reiner

  • Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity.

    Robert A. Seder;Adrian V. S. Hill

  • mRNA-1273 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against spike mutants from global SARS-CoV-2 variants

    Kai Wu;Anne P. Werner;Juan I. Moliva;Matthew Koch

  • Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccination Provides Long-Term Protective Immunity Characterized by Multifunctional CD4 Memory T Cells

    Thomas Lindenstrøm;Else Marie Agger;Karen S. Korsholm;Patricia A. Darrah

  • Sterile protection against human malaria by chemoattenuated PfSPZ vaccine

    Benjamin Mordmüller;Güzin Surat;Heimo Lagler;Heimo Lagler;Sumana Chakravarty

  • Activation events during thymic selection.

    Albert Bendelac;Polly Matzinger;Robert A. Seder;William E. Paul

  • Serum Neutralizing Activity Elicited by mRNA-1273 Vaccine.

    Kai Wu;Anne P Werner;Matthew Koch;Angela Choi

  • Acquisition of lymphokine-producing phenotype by CD4+ T cells.

    Robert A. Seder

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Roederer
Mario Roederer National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Karin Loré
Karin Loré Karolinska Institute
Thomas L. Richie
Thomas L. Richie Naval Medical Research Center
Richard A. Koup
Richard A. Koup National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Srinivas S. Rao
Srinivas S. Rao National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Fred D. Finkelman
Fred D. Finkelman University of Cincinnati
David L. Sacks
David L. Sacks National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Daniel C. Douek
Daniel C. Douek National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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