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Overview

Robert W. Shafer is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant emphasis on Infectious Diseases and Virology. Additional areas of study include Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Neurology.

The scientist's main topical interests cover HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, HIV research and interventions, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Specific topics include long-term effects of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Frequent publication venues for Robert W. Shafer include Clinical Infectious Diseases and Viruses, with notable contributions also appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, and The Lancet HIV.

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Robert W. Shafer include Soo-Yon Rhee, Kaiming Tao, Philip L. Tzou, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, and Michael R. Jordan.

Recent papers illustrate Robert W. Shafer's ongoing involvement in virological and infectious disease research. These publications include:

  • The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants (2021, Nature Reviews Genetics)
  • 2025 update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1 (2025, PubMed)
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Treatment and Management of Patients With COVID-19 (September 2022) (2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Coronavirus Resistance Database (CoV-RDB): SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility to monoclonal antibodies, convalescent plasma, and plasma from vaccinated persons (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Selection Analysis Identifies Clusters of Unusual Mutational Changes in Omicron Lineage BA.1 That Likely Impact Spike Function (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)

Best Publications

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

    Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

  • 2011 update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1.

    Johnson Va;Calvez;Günthard Hf;Paredes R

  • Drug Resistance Mutations for Surveillance of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug-Resistance: 2009 Update

    Diane E. Bennett;Ricardo J. Camacho;Dan Otelea;Daniel R. Kuritzkes

  • The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

    Kaiming Tao;Philip L. Tzou;Janin Nouhin;Ravindra K. Gupta

  • Human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase and protease sequence database

    Robert W. Shafer;Derek Stevenson;Bryan Chan

  • 2017 Update of the Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1.

    Annemarie M. Wensing;Vincent Calvez;Huldrych F. Günthard;Victoria A. Johnson

  • 2014 Update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1.

    Annemarie M Wensing;Vincent Calvez;Huldrych F Günthard;Victoria A Johnson

  • Exogenous reinfection with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with advanced HIV infection.

    Peter M. Small;Robert W. Shafer;Philip C. Hopewell;Samir P. Singh

  • 2015 Update of the Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1.

    Annemarie M. Wensing;Vincent Calvez;Huldrych F. Günthard;Victoria A. Johnson

  • Web resources for HIV type 1 genotypic-resistance test interpretation.

    Tommy F. Liu;Robert W. Shafer

  • 2019 update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1.

    Annemarie M. Wensing;Vincent Calvez;Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein;Charlotte Charpentier

  • Characterization of mutation spectra with ultra-deep pyrosequencing: Application to HIV-1 drug resistance

    Chunlin Wang;Yumi Mitsuya;Baback Gharizadeh;Mostafa Ronaghi

  • Rationale and Uses of a Public HIV Drug-Resistance Database

    Robert W. Shafer

  • Comparison of Sequential Three-Drug Regimens as Initial Therapy for HIV-1 Infection

    Gregory K. Robbins;Victor De Gruttola;Robert W. Shafer;Laura M. Smeaton

  • HIV-1 drug resistance mutations: an updated framework for the second decade of HAART.

    Robert W. Shafer;Jonathan M. Schapiro

  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

    Robert W. Shafer;Dong S. Kim;Jeffrey P. Weiss;John M. Quale

  • Genotypic Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Drug Resistance

    Robert W. Shafer

  • HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase mutations for drug resistance surveillance.

    Robert W. Shafer;Soo-Yon Rhee;Deenan Pillay;Veronica Miller

  • HIV-1 Antiretroviral Resistance: Scientific Principles and Clinical Applications

    Michele W. Tang;Robert W. Shafer

  • Impact of HIV-1 subtype and antiretroviral therapy on protease and reverse transcriptase genotype: Results of a global collaboration

    Rami Kantor;David A Katzenstein;Brad Efron;Ana Patricia Carvalho

Frequent Co-Authors

Soo-Yon Rhee
Soo-Yon Rhee Stanford University
David Katzenstein
David Katzenstein Stanford University
Thomas C. Merigan
Thomas C. Merigan Stanford University
Mark A. Winters
Mark A. Winters Stanford University
Jonathan M. Schapiro
Jonathan M. Schapiro Sheba Medical Center
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Deenan Pillay
Deenan Pillay University College London
Susan Holmes
Susan Holmes Stanford University
Lynn Morris
Lynn Morris University of the Witwatersrand
Douglas D. Richman
Douglas D. Richman University of California, San Diego

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