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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Sergio A. Lira is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on immunology, microbiology, and medicine, with additional contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization consist of:

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Genetics
  • Epidemiology

The core topics of their research cover:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Recent publications by Sergio A. Lira demonstrate a focus on immunology, cancer, and inflammatory diseases. Selected papers include:

  • "Intratumoral heterogeneity and clonal evolution in liver cancer," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Ulcerative colitis is characterized by a plasmablast-skewed humoral response associated with disease activity," 2022, Nature Medicine
  • "Interleukin-33 Induces the Enzyme Tryptophan Hydroxylase 1 to Promote Inflammatory Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cell-Mediated Immunity," 2020, Immunity
  • "CCR8 marks highly suppressive Treg cells within tumours but is dispensable for their accumulation and suppressive function," 2021, Immunology
  • "Neuropeptide regulation of non-redundant ILC2 responses at barrier surfaces," 2022, Nature

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunity
  • Nature Communications
  • British Journal of Cancer

Collaborative research efforts are reflected in frequent coauthors, including:

  • Gláucia C. Furtado
  • Zhengxiang He
  • Lili Chen
  • Bruno Giotti
  • Alexander M. Tsankov

An award associated with Sergio A. Lira is their membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Mesenchymal and haematopoietic stem cells form a unique bone marrow niche

    Simón Méndez-Ferrer;Tatyana V. Michurina;Francesca Ferraro;Amin R. Mazloom

  • Interleukin-23 rather than interleukin-12 is the critical cytokine for autoimmune inflammation of the brain

    Daniel J. Cua;Jonathan Sherlock;Yi Chen;Craig A. Murphy

  • Control of microglial neurotoxicity by the fractalkine receptor

    Astrid E. Cardona;Erik P. Pioro;Margaret E. Sasse;Volodymyr Kostenko

  • Monocyte subsets differentially employ CCR2, CCR5, and CX3CR1 to accumulate within atherosclerotic plaques

    Frank Tacke;David Alvarez;Theodore J. Kaplan;Claudia Jakubzick

  • Renal agenesis and the absence of enteric neurons in mice lacking GDNF

    Marina P. Sánchez;Inmaculada Silos-Santiago;Jonas Frisén;Bin He

  • C-C chemokine receptor 6-regulated entry of TH-17 cells into the CNS through the choroid plexus is required for the initiation of EAE

    Andrea Reboldi;Caroline Coisne;Dirk Baumjohann;Federica Benvenuto

  • Severe sensory and sympathetic neuropathies in mice carrying a disrupted Trk/NGF receptor gene

    Richard J. Smeyne;Rüdiger Klein;Andreas Schnapp;Linda K. Long

  • Origin of the lamina propria dendritic cell network.

    Milena Bogunovic;Florent Ginhoux;Julie Helft;Limin Shang

  • Multiorgan inflammation and hematopoietic abnormalities in mice with a targeted disruption of RelB, a member of the NF-kappa B/Rel family.

    Falk Weih;Daniel Carrasco;Stephen K Durham;Debra S Barton

  • The origin and development of nonlymphoid tissue CD103+ DCs

    Florent Ginhoux;Kang Liu;Julie Helft;Milena Bogunovic

  • Alloantigen-presenting plasmacytoid dendritic cells mediate tolerance to vascularized grafts.

    Jordi C Ochando;Chiho Homma;Yu Yang;Andres Hidalgo

  • Recruitment of Beneficial M2 Macrophages to Injured Spinal Cord Is Orchestrated by Remote Brain Choroid Plexus

    Ravid Shechter;Omer Miller;Gili Yovel;Neta Rosenzweig

  • Disruption of the neurotrophin-3 receptor gene trkC eliminates la muscle afferents and results in abnormal movements

    Rüdiger Klein;Inmaculada Silos-Santiago;Richard J. Smeyne;Sergio A. Lira

  • CCR6 Mediates Dendritic Cell Localization, Lymphocyte Homeostasis, and Immune Responses in Mucosal Tissue

    Donald N Cook;Dina M Prosser;Reinhold Forster;Jiwen Zhang

  • Transgenic expression of the chemokine receptor encoded by human herpesvirus 8 induces an angioproliferative disease resembling Kaposi's sarcoma.

    Tong-Yuan Yang;Shu-Cheng Chen;Michael W. Leach;Denise Manfra

  • CX3CR1 is required for monocyte homeostasis and atherogenesis by promoting cell survival.

    Limor Landsman;Liat Bar-On;Alma Zernecke;Ki-Wook Kim

  • Controlled recruitment of monocytes and macrophages to specific organs through transgenic expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1.

    M E Fuentes;S K Durham;M R Swerdel;A C Lewin

  • Molecular identification and characterization of the platelet ADP receptor targeted by thienopyridine antithrombotic drugs.

    Carolyn J. Foster;Dina M. Prosser;Jacqueline M. Agans;Ying Zhai

  • Dendritic cells rapidly recruited into epithelial tissues via CCR6/CCL20 are responsible for CD8+ T cell crosspriming in vivo.

    Marie Le Borgne;Marie Le Borgne;Nathalie Etchart;Nathalie Etchart;Anne Goubier;Anne Goubier;Sergio A. Lira

  • Luminal Bacteria Recruit CD103+ Dendritic Cells into the Intestinal Epithelium to Sample Bacterial Antigens for Presentation

    Julia Farache;Idan Koren;Idan Milo;Irina Gurevich

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald N. Cook
Donald N. Cook National Institutes of Health
Frank Tacke
Frank Tacke Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Nicholas W. Lukacs
Nicholas W. Lukacs University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lloyd Mayer
Lloyd Mayer Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Satwant K. Narula
Satwant K. Narula Weizenbaum-Institut
Stephen W. Chensue
Stephen W. Chensue University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Miriam Merad
Miriam Merad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Robert A. Kastelein
Robert A. Kastelein MSD (United States)
Michael G. Rosenfeld
Michael G. Rosenfeld University of California, San Diego
Jonathan S. Bromberg
Jonathan S. Bromberg University of Maryland, Baltimore

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