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Stephen I. Alexander is affiliated with Children's Hospital at Westmead in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions across subfields such as immunology, molecular biology, nephrology, surgery, and transplantation.

Their work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Transplantation
  • Pediatric Nephrology
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Genetics in Medicine

Recent papers by Stephen I. Alexander include:

  • Identifying Outcomes Important to Patients with Glomerular Disease and Their Caregivers, 2020, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Standardized practices for RNA diagnostics using clinically accessible specimens reclassifies 75% of putative splicing variants, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Establishing core outcome domains in pediatric kidney disease: report of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology-Children and Adolescents (SONG-KIDS) consensus workshops, 2020, Kidney International
  • Gut Microbial Metabolites Induce Donor-Specific Tolerance of Kidney Allografts through Induction of T Regulatory Cells by Short-Chain Fatty Acids, 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Low-Dose Interleukin-2 Combined With Rapamycin Led to an Expansion of CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ Regulatory T Cells and Prolonged Human Islet Allograft Survival in Humanized Mice, 2020, Diabetes

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Jonathan C. Craig
  • Hugh J. McCarthy
  • Natasha M. Rogers
  • Germaine Wong
  • Simon Carter

Best Publications

  • Expression of interleukin (IL)-2 and IL-7 receptors discriminates between human regulatory and activated T cells

    Nabila Seddiki;Nabila Seddiki;Brigitte Santner-Nanan;Jeff Martinson;John Zaunders

  • TLR4 activation mediates kidney ischemia/reperfusion injury

    Huiling Wu;Gang Chen;Kate R. Wyburn;Jianlin Yin

  • Rejection of the kidney allograft.

    Brian J Nankivell;Stephen I Alexander

  • Interferon γ Is Required for Activation-induced Death of T Lymphocytes

    Yosef Refaeli;Luk Van Parijs;Stephen I. Alexander;Abul K. Abbas

  • Ex vivo programmed macrophages ameliorate experimental chronic inflammatory renal disease

    Y. Wang;Y.P. Wang;G. Zheng;V.W.S. Lee

  • Indirect allorecognition of major histocompatibility complex allopeptides in human renal transplant recipients with chronic graft dysfunction.

    John P. Vella;Monica Spadafora-Ferreira;Barbara Murphy;Stephen I. Alexander

  • Persistence of naive CD45RA+ regulatory T cells in adult life.

    Nabila Seddiki;Brigitte Santner-Nanan;Stuart G. Tangye;Stephen I. Alexander

  • Disruption of E-Cadherin by Matrix Metalloproteinase Directly Mediates Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Downstream of Transforming Growth Factor-β1 in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells

    Guoping Zheng;James Guy Lyons;Thian Kui Tan;Yiping Wang

  • IL-10/TGF-beta-modified macrophages induce regulatory T cells and protect against adriamycin nephrosis.

    Qi Cao;Yiping Wang;Dong Zheng;Yan Sun

  • Discrete functions of M2a and M2c macrophage subsets determine their relative efficacy in treating chronic kidney disease

    Junyu Lu;Qi Cao;Dong Zheng;Yan Sun

  • Chimerism and tolerance in a recipient of a deceased-donor liver transplant.

    Stephen I. Alexander;Neil Smith;Min Hu;Deborah Verran

  • CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells protect against injury in an innate murine model of chronic kidney disease.

    Deepika Mahajan;Yiping Wang;Xiahong Qin;Ying Wang

  • Endothelial Cells Modify the Costimulatory Capacity of Transmigrating Leukocytes and Promote Cd28-Mediated Cd4+ T Cell Alloactivation

    Mark D. Denton;Mark D. Denton;Christopher S. Geehan;Steve I. Alexander;Mohamed H. Sayegh

  • Nonmyeloablative haploidentical stem-cell transplantation using anti-CD2 monoclonal antibody (MEDI-507)-based conditioning for refractory hematologic malignancies

    Thomas R. Spitzer;Steven L. McAfee;Bimalangshu R. Dey;Christine Colby

  • The Role of Macrophages in the Development of Human Renal Allograft Fibrosis in the First Year After Transplantation

    D. Toki;W. Zhang;K. L. M. Hor;D. Liuwantara

  • T Regulatory Cells Contribute to the Attenuated Primary CD8+ and CD4+ T Cell Responses to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in Neonatal Mice

    Marian A. Fernandez;Franz K. Puttur;Yuan M. Wang;Wade Howden

  • Interactions between T lymphocytes and endothelial cells in allograft rejection.

    David M Briscoe;Stephen I Alexander;Andrew H Lichtman

  • Potentiating Tissue-Resident Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells by IL-33 to Prevent Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.

    Qi Cao;Yiping Wang;Zhiguo Niu;Chengshi Wang

  • Human CD62L- memory T cells are less responsive to alloantigen stimulation than CD62L+ naive T cells: potential for adoptive immunotherapy and allodepletion.

    Aaron E. Foster;Marina Marangolo;Mary M. Sartor;Stephen I. Alexander

  • Functional rare and low frequency variants in BLK and BANK1 contribute to human lupus

    Simon H. Jiang;Simon H. Jiang;Vicki Athanasopoulos;Julia I. Ellyard;Aaron Chuah

  • Renal F4/80+CD11c+ Mononuclear Phagocytes Display Phenotypic and Functional Characteristics of Macrophages in Health and in Adriamycin Nephropathy

    Qi Cao;Yiping Wang;Xin Maggie Wang;Junyu Lu

  • Foxp3-Transduced Polyclonal Regulatory T Cells Protect against Chronic Renal Injury from Adriamycin

    Yuan Min Wang;Geoff Yu Zhang;Yiping Wang;Min Hu

  • Ex vivo programmed macrophages ameliorate experimental chronic inflammatory renal disease. Commentary

    D. C. Kluth;Y. Wang;Y. P. Wang;G. Zheng

  • Human CD62L- memory T cells are less responsive to alloantigen stimulation than CD26L+ naive T cells: potential for adoptive immunotherapy and allodepletion

    Aaron E. Foster;Marina Marangolo;Mary M. Sartor;Stephen I. Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

David Harris
David Harris University of Sydney
Jonathan C. Craig
Jonathan C. Craig Flinders University
Allison Tong
Allison Tong University of Sydney
Steven J. Chadban
Steven J. Chadban University of Sydney
Ian E. Alexander
Ian E. Alexander University of Sydney
Jeremy R. Chapman
Jeremy R. Chapman University of Sydney
Robert B. Colvin
Robert B. Colvin Harvard University
Susan L. Furth
Susan L. Furth Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Melissa H. Little
Melissa H. Little Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Stuart L. Goldstein
Stuart L. Goldstein Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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