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Vineet D. Menachery is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Animal Science and Zoology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work centers largely on topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, including COVID-19 clinical research studies, animal virus infections, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, interferon and immune responses, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Pei-Yong Shi, Ralph S. Baric, Xuping Xie, Kenneth S. Plante, and Lisa E. Gralinski.

Menachery's research has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication sources are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 44 publications, UNC Libraries with 38 publications, Nature Communications (12 publications), The Journal of Immunology (8 publications), and Nature (7 publications).

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Menachery include:

  • Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness, 2020, Nature
  • Return of the Coronavirus: 2019-nCoV, 2020, Viruses
  • Evasion of Type I Interferon by SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis, 2021, Nature
  • An Infectious cDNA Clone of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe

Best Publications

  • Broad-spectrum antiviral GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses

    Timothy P. Sheahan;Amy C. Sims;Rachel L. Graham;Vineet D. Menachery

  • Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness.

    Jessica A. Plante;Yang Liu;Jianying Liu;Hongjie Xia

  • Return of the Coronavirus: 2019-nCoV.

    Lisa E. Gralinski;Vineet D. Menachery

  • A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

    Vineet D. Menachery;Boyd L. Yount;Kari Debbink;Sudhakar Agnihothram

  • Evasion of Type I Interferon by SARS-CoV-2.

    Hongjie Xia;Zengguo Cao;Xuping Xie;Xianwen Zhang

  • An infectious cDNA clone of SARS-CoV-2

    Xuping Xie;Antonio Muruato;Kumari G. Lokugamage;Krishna Narayanan

  • Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis.

    Bryan A. Johnson;Xuping Xie;Adam L. Bailey;Birte Kalveram

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from Patient with Coronavirus Disease, United States.

    Jennifer Harcourt;Jennifer Harcourt;Azaibi Tamin;Xiaoyan Lu;Shifaq Kamili

  • Complement Activation Contributes to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Pathogenesis

    Lisa E. Gralinski;Timothy Patrick Sheahan;Thomas E. Morrison;Vineet D. Menachery;Vineet D. Menachery

  • Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 spike 69/70 deletion, E484K and N501Y variants by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited sera.

    Xuping Xie;Yang Liu;Jianying Liu;Xianwen Zhang

  • Rapid generation of neutralizing antibody responses in COVID-19 patients

    Mehul S. Suthar;Mehul S. Suthar;Matthew G. Zimmerman;Matthew G. Zimmerman;Robert C. Kauffman;Grace Mantus

  • The N501Y spike substitution enhances SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission.

    Yang Liu;Jianying Liu;Kenneth S. Plante;Jessica A. Plante

  • SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence

    Vineet D. Menachery;Boyd L. Yount;Amy C Sims;Kari Debbink

  • Delta spike P681R mutation enhances SARS-CoV-2 fitness over Alpha variant

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  • Type I Interferon Susceptibility Distinguishes SARS-CoV-2 from SARS-CoV.

    Kumari G. Lokugamage;Adam Hage;Maren de Vries;Ana M. Valero-Jimenez

  • Further Evidence for Bats as the Evolutionary Source of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.

    S. J. Anthony;S. J. Anthony;Kirsten Vk Gilardi;V. D. Menachery;Tracey Goldstein

  • The variant gambit: COVID-19's next move.

    Jessica A. Plante;Brooke M. Mitchell;Kenneth S. Plante;Kari Debbink

  • Reverse genetics with a full-length infectious cDNA of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

    Trevor Scobey;Boyd L. Yount;Amy C. Sims;Eric F. Donaldson

  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation.

    Antonio E. Muruato;Camila R. Fontes-Garfias;Ping Ren;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco

  • Type I and Type III Interferons Restrict SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human Airway Epithelial Cultures.

    Abigail Vanderheiden;Philipp Ralfs;Philipp Ralfs;Tatiana Chirkova;Amit A. Upadhyay;Amit A. Upadhyay

  • Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness and neutralization susceptibility.

    Jessica A Plante;Yang Liu;Jianying Liu;Hongjie Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Ralph S. Baric
Ralph S. Baric University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lisa E. Gralinski
Lisa E. Gralinski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Xuping Xie
Xuping Xie The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Mehul S. Suthar
Mehul S. Suthar Emory University
Boyd Yount
Boyd Yount University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jing Zou
Jing Zou The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Katrina M. Waters
Katrina M. Waters Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alexandra Schäfer
Alexandra Schäfer Duke University

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