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Sarah M. Fortune is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Specific subfields of study include Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The main topics of Sarah M. Fortune's scientific work encompass:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Immunity
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sarah M. Fortune include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues," 2020, Cell
  • "Multimodal profiling of lung granulomas in macaques reveals cellular correlates of tuberculosis control," 2022, Immunity
  • "Robust IgM responses following intravenous vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Guérin associate with prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macaques," 2021, Nature Immunology
  • "Tuberculosis treatment failure associated with evolution of antibiotic resilience," 2022, Science
  • "Airway T cells are a correlate of i.v. Bacille Calmette-Guerin-mediated protection against tuberculosis in rhesus macaques," 2023, Cell Host & Microbe

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • JoAnne L. Flynn
  • Philana Ling Lin
  • Pauline Maiello
  • Michael C. Chao
  • Qingyun Liu

Best Publications

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.

    Carly G.K. Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian M. Mbano

  • Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence

    Naomi N.Q. Balaban;Sophie Helaine;Kim Lewis;Martin Ackermann;Martin Ackermann

  • Beyond binding: antibody effector functions in infectious diseases.

    Lenette L. Lu;Todd J. Suscovich;Sarah M. Fortune;Galit Alter

  • Seq-Well: portable, low-cost RNA sequencing of single cells at high throughput

    Todd M Gierahn;Marc H Wadsworth;Marc H Wadsworth;Marc H Wadsworth;Travis K Hughes;Travis K Hughes;Travis K Hughes;Bryan D Bryson;Bryan D Bryson

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Comprehensive Essentiality Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome via Saturating Transposon Mutagenesis.

    Michael A. DeJesus;Elias R. Gerrick;Weizhen Xu;Sae Woong Park

  • A Functional Role for Antibodies in Tuberculosis

    Lenette L. Lu;Lenette L. Lu;Amy W. Chung;Amy W. Chung;Tracy R. Rosebrock;Musie Ghebremichael

  • Sterilization of granulomas is common in active and latent tuberculosis despite within-host variability in bacterial killing

    Philana Ling Lin;Christopher B Ford;Christopher B Ford;M Teresa Coleman;Amy J Myers

  • Programmable transcriptional repression in mycobacteria using an orthogonal CRISPR interference platform

    Jeremy M. Rock;Forrest F. Hopkins;Alejandro Chavez;Alejandro Chavez;Marieme Diallo

  • Use of whole genome sequencing to estimate the mutation rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during latent infection

    Christopher B Ford;Philana Ling Lin;Michael R Chase;Rupal R Shah

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutation rate estimates from different lineages predict substantial differences in the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis

    Christopher B Ford;Rupal R Shah;Midori Kato Maeda;Sebastien Gagneux;Sebastien Gagneux

  • Mutually dependent secretion of proteins required for mycobacterial virulence

    S. M. Fortune;A. Jaeger;D. A. Sarracino;M. R. Chase

  • Asymmetry and Aging of Mycobacterial Cells Lead to Variable Growth and Antibiotic Susceptibility

    Bree B. Aldridge;Marta Fernandez-Suarez;Danielle Heller;Vijay Ambravaneswaran

  • Attitudes and knowledge of clinical staff regarding people who self-harm: A systematic review

    Kate E. A. Saunders;Keith E. Hawton;Sarah Fortune;Suhanthini Farrell

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades macrophage defenses by inhibiting plasma membrane repair

    Maziar Divangahi;Minjian Chen;Huixian Gan;Danielle Desjardins

  • Heterogeneity in tuberculosis

    Anthony M. Cadena;Sarah M. Fortune;JoAnne L. Flynn

  • Mycobacterial Esx-3 is required for mycobactin-mediated iron acquisition

    M. Sloan Siegrist;Meera Unnikrishnan;Matthew J. McConnell;Mark Borowsky

  • Variability in tuberculosis granuloma T cell responses exists, but a balance of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines is associated with sterilization.

    Hannah Priyadarshini Gideon;Jia Yao Phuah;Amy J. Myers;Bryan D. Bryson

  • Attitudes towards clinical services among people who self-harm: systematic review.

    Tatiana L. Taylor;Keith Hawton;Sarah Fortune;Navneet Kapur

  • NOD2, RIP2 and IRF5 play a critical role in the type I interferon response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Amit K. Pandey;Yibin Yang;Zhaozhao Jiang;Sarah Merritt Fortune

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Rubin
Eric J. Rubin Harvard University
Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton University of Oxford
Christopher M. Sassetti
Christopher M. Sassetti University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Philana Ling Lin
Philana Ling Lin University of Pittsburgh
Samuel M. Behar
Samuel M. Behar University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
JoAnne L. Flynn
JoAnne L. Flynn University of Pittsburgh
Thomas R. Ioerger
Thomas R. Ioerger Texas A&M University

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