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W. Ripley Ballou is affiliated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to malaria research and control, mosquito-borne diseases and control, HIV research and treatment, computational drug discovery methods, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

The main fields of study for this scientist include medicine and immunology and microbiology. Within these broader areas, Ballou's subfields of study focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, virology, computational theory and mathematics, and molecular biology.

Ballou has contributed to several recent papers, demonstrating involvement in both clinical and preclinical research related to malaria and immunology. Selected publications are:

  • A Phase IIa Controlled Human Malaria Infection and Immunogenicity Study of RTS,S/AS01E and RTS,S/AS01B Delayed Fractional Dose Regimens in Malaria-Naive Adults (2020) published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Ultra-low dose immunization and multi-component vaccination strategies enhance protection against malaria in mice (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • The Ratiometric Transcript Signature MX2/GPR183 Is Consistently Associated With RTS,S-Mediated Protection Against Controlled Human Malaria Infection (2020) published in Frontiers in Immunology

Frequent co-authors of Ballou include Christian F. Ockenhouse, Jason A. Regules, Erik Jongert, Susan Cicatelli, and Elizabeth H. Duncan. Each of these collaborators has partnered on multiple works, indicating ongoing cooperative research efforts.

The most common publication venues associated with Ballou's work are The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Scientific Reports, and Frontiers in Immunology. This reflects a focus on infectious diseases, vaccine research, and immunology.

Best Publications

  • A preliminary evaluation of a recombinant circumsporozoite protein vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum malaria. RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Evaluation Group.

    J A Stoute;M Slaoui;D G Heppner;P Momin

  • First results of phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African children.

    Selidji Todagbe Agnandji;Bertrand Lell;Bertrand Lell;Solange Solmeheim Soulanoudjingar;Solange Solmeheim Soulanoudjingar

  • Efficacy of the RTS,S/AS02A vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease in young African children: randomised controlled trial

    Pedro L. Alonso;Jahit Sacarlal;John J. Aponte;Amanda J Leach

  • Protection of Humans against Malaria by Immunization with Radiation-Attenuated Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoites

    Stephen L. Hoffman;Lucy M. L. Goh;Thomas C. Luke;Imogene Schneider

  • Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase 2a Trial of Falciparum Malaria Vaccines RTS,S/AS01B and RTS,S/AS02A in Malaria-Naive Adults: Safety, Efficacy, and Immunologic Associates of Protection

    Kent E. Kester;James F. Cummings;Opokua Ofori-Anyinam;Christian F. Ockenhouse

  • A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants.

    Selidji Todagbe Agnandji;Selidji Todagbe Agnandji;Bertrand Lell;Bertrand Lell;José Francisco Fernandes;José Francisco Fernandes

  • Efficacy of RTS, S/AS02 malaria vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum infection in semi-immune adult men in The Gambia: a randomised trial

    Kalifa A. Bojang;Paul J. M. Milligan;Margaret Pinder;Laurence Vigneron

  • SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF A RECOMBINANT DNA PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM SPOROZOITE VACCINE

    W. Ripley Ballou;JamesA. Sherwood;JamesA. Sherwood;FranklinA. Neva;DanielM. Gordon

  • Duration of protection with RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in prevention of Plasmodium falciparum disease in Mozambican children: single-blind extended follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

    Pedro L Alonso;Jahit Sacarlal;John J Aponte;Amanda Leach

  • Efficacy of RTS,S/AS01E Vaccine against Malaria in Children 5 to 17 Months of Age

    Philip Bejon;John Lusingu;Ally Olotu;Amanda Leach

  • A field trial to assess a blood-Stage malaria vaccine

    Mahamadou A. Thera;Ogobara K. Doumbo;Drissa Coulibaly;Matthew B. Laurens

  • Safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a recombinantly produced Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein-hepatitis B surface antigen subunit vaccine.

    D. M. Gordon;T. W. McGovern;U. Krzych;J. C. Cohen

  • Blood stage malaria vaccine eliciting high antigen-specific antibody concentrations confers no protection to young children in Western Kenya.

    Bernhards R. Ogutu;Odika J. Apollo;Denise McKinney;Willis Okoth

  • Safety of the RTS,S/AS02D candidate malaria vaccine in infants living in a highly endemic area of Mozambique: a double blind randomised controlled phase I/IIb trial

    John J Aponte;John J Aponte;Pedro Aide;Montse Renom;Montse Renom;Inacio Mandomando

  • Efficacy of recombinant circumsporozoite protein vaccine regimens against experimental Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Kent E. Kester;Denise A. McKinney;Nadia Tornieporth;Christian F. Ockenhouse

  • A Monovalent Chimpanzee Adenovirus Ebola Vaccine Boosted with MVA

    Katie Ewer;Tommy Rampling;Navin Venkatraman;Georgina Bowyer

  • Phase I/IIa Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy Trial of NYVAC-Pf7, a Pox-Vectored, Multiantigen, Multistage Vaccine Candidate for Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

    Christian F. Ockenhouse;Pei Fang Sun;David E. Lanar;Bruce T. Wellde

  • Long-Term Efficacy and Immune Responses following Immunization with the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine

    J A Stoute;K E Kester;U Krzych;B T Wellde

  • Safety and Immunogenicity of RTS,S/AS02D Malaria Vaccine in Infants

    Salim Abdulla;Rolf Oberholzer;Rolf Oberholzer;Omar Juma;Sulende Kubhoja

  • Protective Immunity Induced with Malaria Vaccine, RTS,S, Is Linked to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein-Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells Producing IFN-γ

    Peifang Sun;Robert Schwenk;Katherine White;Jose A. Stoute

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Cohen
Joe Cohen GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
D. Gray Heppner
D. Gray Heppner Crozet BioPharma
Kent E. Kester
Kent E. Kester Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Amanda J. Leach
Amanda J. Leach Charles Darwin University
Christian F. Ockenhouse
Christian F. Ockenhouse Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Pedro L. Alonso
Pedro L. Alonso University of Barcelona
Urszula Krzych
Urszula Krzych United States Army Research Laboratory
Quique Bassat
Quique Bassat University of Barcelona
David E. Lanar
David E. Lanar Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford

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