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Immunology
Australia
2023

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Immunology

D-Index
92
Citations
37454
World Ranking
996
National Ranking
35

Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
37512
World Ranking
11163
National Ranking
351

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Sharon R. Lewin is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has an extensive research portfolio primarily centered on medicine and immunology. Their work spans 256 publications in Medicine and 128 in Immunology and Microbiology, reflecting a broad engagement with these scientific fields.

The subfields of their research focus on Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology. These areas represent key domains of expertise that underpin much of their scientific inquiry.

The main research topics addressed in their body of work include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Development and Treatment
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sharon R. Lewin include:

  • Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19 (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Isolation and rapid sharing of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from the first patient diagnosed with COVID-19 in Australia (2020, The Medical Journal of Australia)
  • Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society Global Scientific Strategy 2021 (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses (2021, Cell Reports Medicine)
  • HIV infection (2023, Nature Reviews Disease Primers)

Publication venues where Sharon R. Lewin frequently publishes include:

  • Journal of Virus Eradication
  • EBioMedicine
  • The Lancet HIV
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including James McMahon, Thomas A. Rasmussen, Ajantha Rhodes, Steven G. Deeks, and Michael Roche. These partnerships have supported a substantial volume of joint scientific output.

Sharon R. Lewin has been recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science since 2014.

Best Publications

  • The end of AIDS: HIV infection as a chronic disease

    Steven G Deeks;Sharon Ruth Lewin;Sharon Ruth Lewin;Diane V Havlir

  • Dramatic rise in plasma viremia after CD8+ T cell depletion in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected macaques

    Xia Jin;Daniel E. Bauer;Sarah E. Tuttleton;Sharon Lewin

  • Plasma Levels of Soluble CD14 Independently Predict Mortality in HIV Infection

    Netanya Sandler;Handan Wand;Annelys Roque;Matthew G Law

  • HIV infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention

    Gary Maartens;Connie L Celum;Sharon Ruth Lewin;Sharon Ruth Lewin;Sharon Ruth Lewin

  • Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19.

    Irani Thevarajan;Irani Thevarajan;Thi H O Nguyen;Marios Koutsakos;Julian Druce

  • Quantifying residual HIV-1 replication in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy.

    Linqi Zhang;B. Ramratnam;K. Tenner-Racz;Yuxian He

  • Panobinostat, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, for latent-virus reactivation in HIV-infected patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy: a phase 1/2, single group, clinical trial

    Thomas A Rasmussen;Martin Tolstrup;Christel R Brinkmann;Rikke Olesen

  • Towards an HIV cure: a global scientific strategy

    Steven G Deeks;Brigitte Autran;Ben Berkhout;Monsef Benkirane

  • Activation of HIV transcription with short-course vorinostat in HIV-infected patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy.

    Julian H. Elliott;Fiona Wightman;Ajantha Solomon;Khader Ghneim

  • Immune checkpoint blockade in infectious diseases.

    Michelle N Wykes;Sharon R Lewin;Sharon R Lewin

  • Serum hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen titers: disease phase influences correlation with viral load and intrahepatic hepatitis B virus markers

    Alexander J.V. Thompson;Tin Nguyen;David Iser;David Iser;Anna Ayres

  • Advancing global health and strengthening the HIV response in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission

    Linda Gail Bekker;Linda Gail Bekker;George Alleyne;Stefan Baral;Javier Cepeda

  • CXCR5 + follicular cytotoxic T cells control viral infection in B cell follicles

    Yew Ann Leong;Yaping Chen;Hong Sheng Ong;Di Wu

  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare: A Cause of Disseminated Life-Threatening Infection in Homosexuals and Drug Abusers

    Jeffrey B. Greene;Gurdip S. Sidhu;Sharon Lewin;Jerome F. Levine

  • Getting the "Kill" into "Shock and Kill": Strategies to Eliminate Latent HIV.

    Youry Kim;Youry Kim;Jenny L. Anderson;Sharon R. Lewin;Sharon R. Lewin

  • International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

    Steven G Deeks;Sharon R Lewin;Anna Laura Ross;Jintanat Ananworanich

  • An in-depth comparison of latent HIV-1 reactivation in multiple cell model systems and resting CD4+ T cells from aviremic patients.

    Celsa A. Spina;Celsa A. Spina;Jenny Anderson;Nancie M. Archin;Alberto Bosque

  • The CD16+ monocyte subset is more permissive to infection and preferentially harbors HIV-1 in vivo.

    Philip Ellery;Philip Ellery;Emma Dawn Tippett;Emma Dawn Tippett;Ya-Lin Chiu;Geza Paukovics

  • CD4+ T Cells Expressing PD-1, TIGIT and LAG-3 Contribute to HIV Persistence during ART

    Rémi Fromentin;Wendy Bakeman;Mariam B. Lawani;Gabriela Khoury;Gabriela Khoury

  • Regulation of Toll-like receptor-2 expression in chronic hepatitis B by the precore protein†

    Kumar Visvanathan;Narelle A Skinner;Alex J V Thompson;Stephen M Riordan

  • Measuring recent thymic emigrants in blood of normal and HIV-1-infected individuals before and after effective therapy.

    Linqi Zhang;Sharon R. Lewin;Martin Markowitz;Hsi-Hsun Lin

  • Immunopathogenesis of hepatitis B virus infection

    Ju-Hui Judy Chang;Sharon R Lewin;Sharon R Lewin;Sharon R Lewin

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul U. Cameron
Paul U. Cameron University of Melbourne
Suzanne M. Crowe
Suzanne M. Crowe Burnet Institute
Paul R. Gorry
Paul R. Gorry RMIT University
Stephen Locarnini
Stephen Locarnini Melbourne Health
Jennifer F Hoy
Jennifer F Hoy Monash University
Martyn A. French
Martyn A. French University of Western Australia
Steven G. Deeks
Steven G. Deeks University of California, San Francisco
Gail V. Matthews
Gail V. Matthews University of New South Wales
Damian F. J. Purcell
Damian F. J. Purcell University of Melbourne
Anthony Jaworowski
Anthony Jaworowski RMIT University

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