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Overview

Tae-Wook Chun is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on immunology and microbiology. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as infectious diseases, virology, immunology, epidemiology, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their work cover various aspects of HIV research and treatment, including HIV/AIDS drug development and research interventions. Additionally, Tae-Wook Chun's work addresses SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, studies on immune cell function and interaction, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research contributions:

  • Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1, 2020, Nature
  • Time-resolved systems immunology reveals a late juncture linked to fatal COVID-19, 2021, Cell
  • Phenotypic signatures of immune selection in HIV-1 reservoir cells, 2023, Nature
  • Prolonged viral suppression with anti-HIV-1 antibody therapy, 2022, Nature
  • A Longitudinal Study of COVID-19 Sequelae and Immunity: Baseline Findings, 2022, Annals of Internal Medicine

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Tae-Wook Chun include:

  • Susan Moir
  • Jana Blažková
  • Victoria Shi
  • J. Shawn Justement
  • Michael C. Sneller

The scientist's work appears in various academic venues where they have multiple publications. The most frequent venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Quantification of latent tissue reservoirs and total body viral load in HIV-1 infection

    Tae Wook Chun;Lucy Carruth;Diana Finzi;Xuefei Shen

  • Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy

    Tae-Wook Chun;Lieven Stuyver;Stephanie B. Mizell;Linda A. Ehler

  • Early establishment of a pool of latently infected, resting CD4+ T cells during primary HIV-1 infection

    Tae Wook Chun;Delphine Engel;M. Michelle Berrey;Theresa Shea

  • Evidence for HIV-associated B cell exhaustion in a dysfunctional memory B cell compartment in HIV-infected viremic individuals

    Susan Moir;Jason Ho;Angela Malaspina;Wei-wei Wang

  • HIV-1 and T cell dynamics after interruption of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in patients with a history of sustained viral suppression

    Richard T. Davey;Niranjan Bhat;Christian Yoder;Tae Wook Chun

  • In vivo fate of HIV-1-infected T cells: Quantitative analysis of the transition to stable latency

    Tae Wook Chun;Diana Finzi;Joseph Margolick;Karen Chadwick

  • Tim-3 expression defines a novel population of dysfunctional T cells with highly elevated frequencies in progressive HIV-1 infection

    R. Brad Jones;Lishomwa C Ndhlovu;Jason D. Barbour;Prameet M. Sheth

  • Absence of Detectable HIV-1 Viremia after Treatment Cessation in an Infant

    Deborah Persaud;Carrie Ziemniak;Ya Hui Chen

  • Persistence of HIV in Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue despite Long-Term Antiretroviral Therapy

    Tae Wook Chun;David C. Nickle;Jesse S. Justement;Jennifer H. Meyers

  • Re-emergence of HIV after stopping therapy

    T W Chun;R T Davey;D Engel;H C Lane

  • Towards an HIV cure: a global scientific strategy

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

  • Relationship between pre-existing viral reservoirs and the re-emergence of plasma viremia after discontinuation of highly active anti-retroviral therapy.

    Tae Wook Chun;Richard T. Davey;Mario Ostrowski;J. Shawn Justement

  • Effect of interleukin-2 on the pool of latently infected, resting CD4+ T cells in HIV-1-infected patients receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy.

    Chun Tw;Engel D;Mizell Sb;Hallahan Cw

  • Pathogenic Mechanisms of HIV Disease

    Susan Moir;Tae-Wook Chun;Anthony S Fauci

  • Induction of HIV-1 Replication in Latently Infected CD4+ T Cells Using a Combination of Cytokines

    Tae-Wook Chun;Delphine Engel;Stephanie B. Mizell;Linda A. Ehler

  • Effect of HIV Antibody VRC01 on Viral Rebound after Treatment Interruption

    Katharine J Bar;Michael C Sneller;Linda J Harrison;J Shawn Justement

  • Virologic effects of broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 administration during chronic HIV-1 infection

    Rebecca M. Lynch;Eli Boritz;Emily E. Coates;Adam DeZure

  • Latent reservoirs of HIV: Obstacles to the eradication of virus

    Tae-Wook Chun;Anthony S. Fauci

  • HIV-1 induces phenotypic and functional perturbations of B cells in chronically infected individuals.

    Susan Moir;Angela Malaspina;Kisani M. Ogwaro;Eileen T. Donoghue

  • Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1

    Chenyang Jiang;Chenyang Jiang;Xiaodong Lian;Xiaodong Lian;Ce Gao;Xiaoming Sun

  • Early antibody therapy can induce long-lasting immunity to SHIV

    Yoshiaki Nishimura;Rajeev Gautam;Tae-Wook Chun;Reza Sadjadpour

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony S. Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci Georgetown University
Susan Moir
Susan Moir National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Claire W. Hallahan
Claire W. Hallahan National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Colin Kovacs
Colin Kovacs University of Toronto
Michael C. Sneller
Michael C. Sneller National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Mario A. Ostrowski
Mario A. Ostrowski University of Toronto
Mathias Lichterfeld
Mathias Lichterfeld Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stephen A. Migueles
Stephen A. Migueles National Institutes of Health
Xu G. Yu
Xu G. Yu Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Richard T. Davey
Richard T. Davey National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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