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Overview

Scott S. Zamvil is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, immunology, and microbiology, with subfields including neurology, immunology, pathology and forensic medicine, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass multiple sclerosis research studies, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immunotherapy and immune responses, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and immune cell function and interaction.

Frequently publishing in journals such as Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, Neurology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Immunology, Scott S. Zamvil contributes to diverse aspects of neuroimmunology and related fields.

  • Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course (2022, Cell)
  • Transcriptional profiling and therapeutic targeting of oxidative stress in neuroinflammation (2020, Nature Immunology)
  • A pathogenic and clonally expanded B cell transcriptome in active multiple sclerosis (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Defining blood-induced microglia functions in neurodegeneration through multiomic profiling (2023, Nature Immunology)
  • Spinal Cord Atrophy Predicts Progressive Disease in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (2021, Annals of Neurology)

Scott S. Zamvil has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Michael R. Wilson, Stephen L. Hauser, Riley Bove, Jennifer Graves, and Bruce Cree. These collaborations highlight their engagement with experts contributing to the study of neuroinflammation, multiple sclerosis, and immunology.

Best Publications

  • B7-1 and B7-2 costimulatory molecules activate differentially the Th1/Th2 developmental pathways: Application to autoimmune disease therapy

    Vijay K Kuchroo;Mercy Prabhu Das;Julia A Brown;Ann M Ranger

  • The HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, atorvastatin, promotes a Th2 bias and reverses paralysis in central nervous system autoimmune disease

    Sawsan Youssef;Olaf Stüve;Juan C. Patarroyo;Pedro J. Ruiz;Pedro J. Ruiz

  • The T Lymphocyte in Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis

    Scott S. Zamvil;Lawrence Steinman

  • Limited heterogeneity of T cell receptors from lymphocytes mediating autoimmune encephalomyelitis allows specific immune intervention

    Hans Acha-Orbea;Dennis J. Mitchell;Luika Timmermann;David C. Wraith

  • Statin therapy and autoimmune disease: from protein prenylation to immunomodulation

    John Greenwood;Lawrence Steinman;Scott S. Zamvil

  • T-cell clones specific for myelin basic protein induce chronic relapsing paralysis and demyelination

    Scott Zamvil;Patricia Nelson;Jacqueline Trotter;Dennis Mitchell

  • How to successfully apply animal studies in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis to research on multiple sclerosis.

    Lawrence Steinman;Scott S. Zamvil

  • T-cell epitope of the autoantigen myelin basic protein that induces encephalomyelitis

    Scott S. Zamvil;Dennis J. Mitchell;Anne C. Moore;Kumiko Kitamura

  • Type II monocytes modulate T cell-mediated central nervous system autoimmune disease

    Martin S Weber;Thomas Prod'homme;Sawsan Youssef;Shannon E Dunn

  • MHC class II–dependent B cell APC function is required for induction of CNS autoimmunity independent of myelin-specific antibodies

    Nicolas Molnarfi;Ulf Schulze-Topphoff;Martin S Weber;Juan C Patarroyo

  • Update on the Autoimmune Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis: B-Cells as Disease-Drivers and Therapeutic Targets

    H.-Christian von Büdingen;Arumugam Palanichamy;Klaus Lehmann-Horn;Brady A. Michel

  • Silent progression in disease activity-free relapsing multiple sclerosis.

    Bruce A C Cree;Jill A Hollenbach;Riley Bove

  • Aquaporin 4-Specific T Cells in Neuromyelitis Optica Exhibit a Th17 Bias and Recognize Clostridium ABC Transporter

    Michel Varrin-Doyer;Collin M. Spencer;Ulf Schulze-Topphoff;Patricia A. Nelson

  • Recirculating Intestinal IgA-Producing Cells Regulate Neuroinflammation via IL-10

    Olga L. Rojas;Anne-Katrin Pröbstel;Elisa A. Porfilio;Angela A. Wang

  • Dimethyl fumarate treatment induces adaptive and innate immune modulation independent of Nrf2.

    Ulf Schulze-Topphoff;Michel Varrin-Doyer;Kara Pekarek;Collin M. Spencer

  • Lymphotoxin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha production by myelin basic protein-specific T cell clones correlates with encephalitogenicity.

    Marianne Broome Powell;Dennis Mitchell;Jennifer Lederman;Julie Buckmeier

  • B cells in autoimmune and neurodegenerative central nervous system diseases.

    Joseph J. Sabatino;Anne-Katrin Pröbstel;Anne-Katrin Pröbstel;Scott S. Zamvil

  • B-cell activation influences T-cell polarization and outcome of anti-CD20 B-cell depletion in central nervous system autoimmunity.

    Martin S. Weber;Thomas Prod'homme;Juan C. Patarroyo;Nicolas Molnarfi

  • Virtues and pitfalls of EAE for the development of therapies for multiple sclerosis

    Lawrence Steinman;Scott S. Zamvil

  • Accelerated remyelination during inflammatory demyelination prevents axonal loss and improves functional recovery

    Feng Mei;Feng Mei;Klaus Lehmann-Horn;Yun-An A Shen;Kelsey A Rankin

  • Does MOG Ig-positive AQP4-seronegative opticospinal inflammatory disease justify a diagnosis of NMO spectrum disorder?

    Scott S. Zamvil;Anthony J. Slavin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence Steinman
Lawrence Steinman Stanford University
Olaf Stüve
Olaf Stüve The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Bruce A. C. Cree
Bruce A. C. Cree University of California, San Francisco
Raymond A. Sobel
Raymond A. Sobel Stanford University
Stephen L. Hauser
Stephen L. Hauser University of California, San Francisco
Elliot M. Frohman
Elliot M. Frohman The University of Texas at Austin
Howard L. Weiner
Howard L. Weiner Harvard University
Sergio E. Baranzini
Sergio E. Baranzini University of California, San Francisco
Claude C.A. Bernard
Claude C.A. Bernard Monash University
Bernhard Hemmer
Bernhard Hemmer Technical University of Munich

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