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Wayne G. Shreffler

Wayne G. Shreffler

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Immunology

D-Index
61
Citations
15211
World Ranking
3218
National Ranking
1505

Overview

Wayne G. Shreffler is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Immunology and Allergy, as well as Surgery, Immunology, Physiology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work covers several main topics including Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization, Asthma and respiratory diseases, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and Transgenic Plants and Applications.

Wayne G. Shreffler has contributed to multiple recent papers, some of which are:

  • Omalizumab for the Treatment of Multiple Food Allergies, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Sialylation of immunoglobulin E is a determinant of allergic pathogenicity, 2020, Nature
  • Prospective Assessment of Pediatrician-Diagnosed Food Protein-Induced Allergic Proctocolitis by Gross or Occult Blood, 2020, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • Clonally expanded, GPR15-expressing pathogenic effector T H 2 cells are associated with eosinophilic esophagitis, 2021, Science Immunology
  • Long-term, open-label extension study of the efficacy and safety of epicutaneous immunotherapy for peanut allergy in children: PEOPLE 3-year results, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yamini V. Virkud
  • Edwin Kim
  • Stacie M. Jones
  • Robert A. Wood
  • Victoria Martin

Their research is often published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Clinical efficacy and immune regulation with peanut oral immunotherapy.

    Stacie M. Jones;Laurent Pons;Joseph L. Roberts;Amy M. Scurlock

  • Oral immunotherapy for treatment of egg allergy in children.

    A. Wesley Burks;Stacie M. Jones;Robert A. Wood;David M. Fleischer

  • AR101 Oral Immunotherapy for Peanut Allergy

    Brian P Vickery;Andrea Vereda;Thomas B Casale

  • Tolerance to extensively heated milk in children with cow's milk allergy.

    Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn;Katherine A. Bloom;Scott. H. Sicherer;Wayne G. Shreffler

  • Molecular characterization of a kinesin-related antigen of Leishmania chagasi that detects specific antibody in African and American visceral leishmaniasis.

    James M. Burns;Wayne G. Shreffler;Darin R. Benson;Hashim W. Ghalib

  • Immunologic changes in children with egg allergy ingesting extensively heated egg.

    Heather Lemon-Mulé;Hugh A. Sampson;Scott H. Sicherer;Wayne G. Shreffler

  • Malaria circumsporozoite protein binds to heparan sulfate proteoglycans associated with the surface membrane of hepatocytes.

    Ute Frevert;Photini Sinnis;Carla Cerami;Wayne Shreffler

  • Oral peanut immunotherapy in children with peanut anaphylaxis

    Katharina Blumchen;Helen Ulbricht;Ute Staden;Kerstin Dobberstein

  • Sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy: clinical and immunologic evidence of desensitization.

    Edwin H. Kim;J. Andrew Bird;Michael Kulis;Susan Laubach

  • The clinical utility of basophil activation testing in diagnosis and monitoring of allergic disease

    H. J. Hoffmann;Alexandra Figueira Santos;C. Mayorga;A. Nopp

  • Microarray immunoassay : association of clinical history, in vitro IgE function, and heterogeneity of allergenic peanut epitopes

    Wayne G. Shreffler;Kirsten Beyer;Te Hua Tearina Chu;A. Wesley Burks

  • The major glycoprotein allergen from Arachis hypogaea, Ara h 1, is a ligand of dendritic cell-specific ICAM-grabbing nonintegrin and acts as a Th2 adjuvant in vitro.

    Wayne G. Shreffler;Russell R. Castro;Z. Yesim Kucuk;Zachary Charlop-Powers

  • Association of allergen-specific regulatory T cells with the onset of clinical tolerance to milk protein.

    Wayne G. Shreffler;Niya Wanich;Marla Moloney;Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn

  • Effect of Epicutaneous Immunotherapy vs Placebo on Reaction to Peanut Protein Ingestion among Children with Peanut Allergy: The PEPITES Randomized Clinical Trial

    David M. Fleischer;Matthew Greenhawt;Gordon Sussman;Philippe Bégin

  • Peanut epitopes for IgE and IgG4 in peanut-sensitized children in relation to severity of peanut allergy.

    Annebeth E. Flinterman;Edward F. Knol;Doerthe A. Lencer;Ludmilla Bardina

  • unc-8, a DEG/ENaC Family Member, Encodes a Subunit of a Candidate Mechanically Gated Channel That Modulates C. elegans Locomotion

    Nektarios Tavernarakis;Wayne Shreffler;Shiliang Wang;Monica Driscoll

  • Mapping of the IgE and IgG4 sequential epitopes of milk allergens with a peptide microarray–based immunoassay

    Inmaculada Cerecedo;Javier Zamora;Wayne G. Shreffler;Jing Lin

  • Correlation of IgE/IgG4 milk epitopes and affinity of milk-specific IgE antibodies with different phenotypes of clinical milk allergy.

    Julie Wang;Jing Lin;Ludmilla Bardina;Marina Goldis

  • Effect of Varying Doses of Epicutaneous Immunotherapy vs Placebo on Reaction to Peanut Protein Exposure Among Patients With Peanut Sensitivity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Hugh A. Sampson;Hugh A. Sampson;Wayne G. Shreffler;William H. Yang;Gordon L. Sussman

  • Identification of human CCR8 as a CCL18 receptor

    Sabina A. Islam;Morris F. Ling;John Leung;Wayne G. Shreffler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh A. Sampson
Hugh A. Sampson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn
Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn New York University
Stacie M. Jones
Stacie M. Jones University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Kirsten Beyer
Kirsten Beyer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Scott H. Sicherer
Scott H. Sicherer Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Corinne A. Keet
Corinne A. Keet Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
A. Wesley Burks
A. Wesley Burks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan O'b. Hourihane
Jonathan O'b. Hourihane Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Robert A. Wood
Robert A. Wood Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Agustin Calatroni
Agustin Calatroni Rho Federal Systems (United States)

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