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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sarah Rowland-Jones is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses broadly on medicine, with additional emphases on immunology and microbiology. Within these fields, specific subfields include infectious diseases, immunology, epidemiology, virology, and neurology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • AIDS
  • Nature reviews. Immunology

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Clinical characteristics with inflammation profiling of long COVID and association with 1-year recovery following hospitalisation in the UK: a prospective observational study (2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
  • Immunogenicity of standard and extended dosing intervals of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (2021, Cell)
  • T-cell and antibody responses to first BNT162b2 vaccine dose in previously infected and SARS-CoV-2-naive UK health-care workers: a multicentre prospective cohort study (2021, The Lancet Microbe)
  • T cell assays differentiate clinical and subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections from cross-reactive antiviral responses (2021, Nature Communications)
  • The D614G mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Implications for viral infectivity, disease severity and vaccine design (2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers including:

  • Thushan I. de Silva
  • Dan Wootton
  • Lance Turtle
  • Shona C. Moore
  • Susanna Dunachie

Sarah Rowland-Jones has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting their engagement with the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Tracking Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: Evidence that D614G Increases Infectivity of the COVID-19 Virus.

    Bette Korber;Will M. Fischer;Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran;Hyejin Yoon

  • Memory CD8+ T cells vary in differentiation phenotype in different persistent virus infections.

    Victor Appay;P. Rod Dunbar;Margaret Callan;Paul Klenerman

  • Quantitation of HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and plasma load of viral RNA.

    G. S. Ogg;Xia Jin;S. Bonhoeffer;P. R. Dunbar

  • Late escape from an immunodominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response associated with progression to AIDS.

    P. J. R. Goulder;R. E. Phillips;R. A. Colbert;S. Mcadam

  • Human immunodeficiency virus genetic variation that can escape cytotoxic T cell recognition.

    R E Phillips;S Rowland-Jones;D F Nixon;F M Gotch

  • Skewed maturation of memory HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes

    P Champagne;G S Ogg;A S King;C Knabenhans

  • HIV-Specific Cd8+T Cells Produce Antiviral Cytokines but Are Impaired in Cytolytic Function

    Victor Appay;Douglas F. Nixon;Sean M. Donahoe;Geraldine M.A. Gillespie

  • Original antigenic sin and apoptosis in the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever.

    Juthathip Mongkolsapaya;Wanwisa Dejnirattisai;Xiao-ning Xu;Sirijitt Vasanawathana

  • HIV-specific cytotoxic T-cells in HIV-exposed but uninfected Gambian women

    Sarah Rowland-Jones;Julian Sutton;Koya Ariyoshi;Tao Dong

  • Cellular immune responses to HIV.

    Andrew J. McMichael;Sarah L. Rowland-Jones

  • RANTES: a versatile and controversial chemokine

    Victor Appay;Sarah L Rowland-Jones

  • Human inhibitory receptors Ig-like transcript 2 (ILT2) and ILT4 compete with CD8 for MHC class I binding and bind preferentially to HLA-G

    Mitsunori Shiroishi;Kouhei Tsumoto;Kimie Amano;Yasuo Shirakihara

  • Characterization of CD4(+) CTLs ex vivo.

    Victor Appay;John J. Zaunders;Laura Papagno;Julian Sutton

  • A Re-Evaluation of the Frequency of CD8+ T Cells Specific for EBV in Healthy Virus Carriers

    Linda C. Tan;Nancy Gudgeon;Nicola E. Annels;Pokrath Hansasuta

  • Clustered Mutations in HIV-1 Gag Are Consistently Required for Escape from Hla-B27–Restricted Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses

    Anthony D. Kelleher;Chad Long;Edward C Holmes;Rachel L. Allen

  • Immune Activation and CD8+ T-Cell Differentiation towards Senescence in HIV-1 Infection

    L Papagno;C A Spina;A Marchant;M Salio

  • Cytotoxic T cell responses to multiple conserved HIV epitopes in HIV-resistant prostitutes in Nairobi.

    S. L. Rowland-Jones;Tao Dong;K. R. Fowke;J. Kimani

  • Functional Heterogeneity and High Frequencies of Cytomegalovirus-Specific CD8+ T Lymphocytes in Healthy Seropositive Donors

    Geraldine M. A. Gillespie;Mark R. Wills;Victor Appay;Chris O'Callaghan

  • Cytotoxic T-cell activity antagonized by naturally occurring HIV-1 Gag variants

    P Klenerman;S Rowland-Jones;S McAdam;J Edwards

  • HIV-1-specific mucosal CD8+ lymphocyte responses in the cervix of HIV-1-resistant prostitutes in Nairobi.

    Rupert Kaul;Francis A. Plummer;Francis A. Plummer;Joshua Kimani;Tao Dong

Frequent Co-Authors

Tao Dong
Tao Dong University of Oxford
Andrew J. McMichael
Andrew J. McMichael University of Oxford
Hilton Whittle
Hilton Whittle London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Francis A. Plummer
Francis A. Plummer University of Manitoba
Rupert Kaul
Rupert Kaul University of Toronto
Graham S. Ogg
Graham S. Ogg University of Oxford
Job J. Bwayo
Job J. Bwayo University of Nairobi
Grace John-Stewart
Grace John-Stewart University of Washington
Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha
Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha United Nations Children's Fund
Matthew Cotten
Matthew Cotten Wellcome Sanger Institute

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