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Susan W. Barnett is affiliated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions to the fields of virology, molecular biology, epidemiology, immunology, and infectious diseases. The main topics covered in their work include HIV research and treatment, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, virology and viral diseases, Hepatitis B virus studies, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and immune responses and vaccinations.

Recent publications by Susan W. Barnett include:

  • "Vaccine Efficacy of ALVAC-HIV and Bivalent Subtype C gp120-MF59 in Adults", 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Phase 1 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Vaccine Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of HIV Subtype C DNA and MF59-Adjuvanted Subtype C Envelope Protein", 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "HIV-1 Vaccine Sequences Impact V1V2 Antibody Responses: A Comparison of Two Poxvirus Prime gp120 Boost Vaccine Regimens", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Correction: ALVAC-HIV B/C candidate HIV vaccine efficacy dependent on neutralization profile of challenge virus and adjuvant dose and type", 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Safety and immunogenicity of a subtype C ALVAC-HIV (vCP2438) vaccine prime plus bivalent subtype C gp120 vaccine boost adjuvanted with MF59 or alum in healthy adults without HIV (HVTN 107): A phase 1/2a randomized trial", 2024, PLoS Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barnett include:

  • Georgia D. Tomaras
  • Marguerite Koutsoukos
  • Olivier Van Der Meeren
  • M. Juliana McElrath
  • Lawrence Corey

The main publication venues for their work are:

  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • PLoS Medicine

Best Publications

  • Increased DNA vaccine delivery and immunogenicity by electroporation in vivo.

    Georg Widera;Melissa Austin;Dietmar Rabussay;Cheryl Goldbeck

  • Nonviral delivery of self-amplifying RNA vaccines

    Andrew J. Geall;Ayush Verma;Gillis R. Otten;Christine A. Shaw

  • Transient facial nerve paralysis (Bell's palsy) following intranasal delivery of a genetically detoxified mutant of Escherichia coli heat labile toxin.

    David J. M. Lewis;Zhiming Huo;Susan Barnett;Ingrid Kromann

  • A Cationic Nanoemulsion for the Delivery of Next-generation RNA Vaccines

    Luis A Brito;Michelle Chan;Christine A Shaw;Armin Hekele

  • Enhancement of DNA vaccine potency in rhesus macaques by electroporation

    Gillis Otten;Mary Schaefer;Barbara Doe;Hong Liu

  • Purification, Characterization, and Immunogenicity of a Soluble Trimeric Envelope Protein Containing a Partial Deletion of the V2 Loop Derived from SF162, an R5-Tropic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolate

    Indresh K. Srivastava;Leonidas Stamatatos;Elaine Kan;Michael Vajdy

  • Induction of potent immune responses by cationic microparticles with adsorbed human immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccines.

    Derek O'Hagan;Manmohan Singh;Mildred Ugozzoli;Carl Wild

  • Adjuvant-dependent Innate and Adaptive Immune Signatures of Risk of SIVmac251 Acquisition

    Monica Vaccari;Shari N Gordon;Slim Fourati;Luca Schifanella;Luca Schifanella

  • Vaccine priming is restricted to draining lymph nodes and controlled by adjuvant-mediated antigen uptake.

    Frank Liang;Gustaf Lindgren;Kerrie J. Sandgren;Elizabeth A. Thompson

  • Vaccine Efficacy of ALVAC-HIV and Bivalent Subtype C gp120–MF59 in Adults

    Glenda E. Gray;Glenda E. Gray;Glenda E. Gray;Linda Gail Bekker;Fatima Laher;Mookho Malahleha

  • Vaccination with HIV-1 gp120 DNA induces immune responses that are boosted by a recombinant gp120 protein subunit

    Susan W. Barnett;Sabita Rajasekar;Harold Legg;Barbara Doe

  • Increased Expression and Immunogenicity of Sequence-Modified Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 <i>gag</i> Gene

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  • Recent advances in the characterization of HIV-1 neutralization assays for standardized evaluation of the antibody response to infection and vaccination.

    Victoria R. Polonis;Bruce K. Brown;Andrew Rosa Borges;Susan Zolla-Pazner

  • Potent Immune Responses in Rhesus Macaques Induced by Nonviral Delivery of a Self-amplifying RNA Vaccine Expressing HIV Type 1 Envelope With a Cationic Nanoemulsion

    Willy M. Bogers;Herman Oostermeijer;Petra Mooij;Gerrit Koopman

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype B ancestral envelope protein is functional and elicits neutralizing antibodies in rabbits similar to those elicited by a circulating subtype B envelope.

    N. A. Doria-Rose;G. H. Learn;A. G. Rodrigo;D. C. Nickle

  • Structural and biochemical studies of HCMV gH/gL/gO and Pentamer reveal mutually exclusive cell entry complexes

    Claudio Ciferri;Sumana Chandramouli;Danilo Donnarumma;Pavel A. Nikitin

  • Replicating Rather than Nonreplicating Adenovirus-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Recombinant Vaccines Are Better at Eliciting Potent Cellular Immunity and Priming High-Titer Antibodies

    Bo Peng;Liqun Rejean Wang;Victor Raúl Gómez-Román;Alberta Davis-Warren

  • Infection of Human Dendritic Cells by a Sindbis Virus Replicon Vector Is Determined by a Single Amino Acid Substitution in the E2 Glycoprotein

    Jason P. Gardner;Ilya Frolov;Silvia Perri;Yaying Ji

  • Protection of macaques against vaginal SHIV challenge by systemic or mucosal and systemic vaccinations with HIV-envelope.

    Susan W Barnett;Indresh K Srivastava;Elaine Kan;Fengmin Zhou

  • Purification and Characterization of Oligomeric Envelope Glycoprotein from a Primary R5 Subtype B Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Indresh K. Srivastava;Leonidas Stamatatos;Harold Legg;Elaine Kan

  • The Human Immunodeficiency Viruses

    Edward Barker;Susan W. Barnett;Leonidas Stamatatos;Jay A. Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Montefiori
David C. Montefiori Duke University
Georgia D. Tomaras
Georgia D. Tomaras Duke University
Jeffrey B. Ulmer
Jeffrey B. Ulmer Novartis (Switzerland)
Jonathan L. Heeney
Jonathan L. Heeney University of Cambridge
Guido Ferrari
Guido Ferrari Duke University
Leonidas Stamatatos
Leonidas Stamatatos Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Celia C. LaBranche
Celia C. LaBranche Duke University
Marjorie Robert-Guroff
Marjorie Robert-Guroff National Institutes of Health
Mario Roederer
Mario Roederer National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
David Venzon
David Venzon National Institutes of Health

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