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Overview

William J. Murphy is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on several subfields including Immunology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas in immune system function and cancer therapy. These topics include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Immune cells in cancer

William J. Murphy has contributed to multiple research articles, some of which have been published in notable journals. Recent publications include:

  • Fatty acid oxidation fuels glioblastoma radioresistance with CD47-mediated immune evasion, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Characterizing the Dysfunctional NK Cell: Assessing the Clinical Relevance of Exhaustion, Anergy, and Senescence, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Dual blockade of CD47 and HER2 eliminates radioresistant breast cancer cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Minimal PD-1 expression in mouse and human NK cells under diverse conditions, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Dissecting the biology of allogeneic HSCT to enhance the GvT effect whilst minimizing GvHD, 2020, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Coauthors frequently collaborating with William J. Murphy include:

  • Robert J. Canter
  • Sean J. Judge
  • Arta M. Monjazeb
  • Logan V. Vick
  • Cordelia Dunai

The primary venues for William J. Murphy's publications reflect a focus on immunology and cancer research, with frequent appearances in:

  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Blood

In addition to journal publications, William J. Murphy has authored book chapters or contributions. These include titles published by Frontiers Media and the Royal Irish Academy, featuring works such as Immune studies of SARS-CoV2 and vaccines using preclinical modeling (2025) and Days in the life: Reading the Michael Collins Diaries 1918-1922 (2022).

Best Publications

  • Macrophage nitric oxide synthase gene: two upstream regions mediate induction by interferon gamma and lipopolysaccharide

    Charles J. Lowenstein;Evan W. Alley;Prafulla Raval;Adele M. Snowman

  • Human endothelial cells express CCR2 and respond to MCP-1: direct role of MCP-1 in angiogenesis and tumor progression.

    Rosalba Salcedo;Maria Lourdes Ponce;Howard A. Young;Ken Wasserman

  • Advances in graft-versus-host disease biology and therapy

    Bruce R. Blazar;William J. Murphy;Mehrdad Abedi

  • Expression of the nitric oxide synthase gene in mouse macrophages activated for tumor cell killing. Molecular basis for the synergy between interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide.

    R B Lorsbach;W J Murphy;C J Lowenstein;S H Snyder

  • Paradoxical effects of obesity on T cell function during tumor progression and PD-1 checkpoint blockade

    Ziming Wang;Ethan G. Aguilar;Jesus I. Luna;Cordelia Dunai

  • Coexpression of Tim-3 and PD-1 identifies a CD8+ T-cell exhaustion phenotype in mice with disseminated acute myelogenous leukemia

    Qing Zhou;Meghan E. Munger;Rachelle G. Veenstra;Brenda J. Weigel

  • Identification of Defensin-1, Defensin-2, and CAP37/Azurocidin as T-cell Chemoattractant Proteins Released from Interleukin-8-stimulated Neutrophils (∗)

    Oleg Chertov;Dennis F. Michiel;Luoling Xu;Ji Ming Wang

  • Immunobiology of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    Lisbeth A. Welniak;Bruce R. Blazar;William J. Murphy

  • Serum amyloid A is a chemoattractant: induction of migration, adhesion, and tissue infiltration of monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

    Raffaele Badolato;Ji Ming Wang;William J Murphy;Andrew R. Lloyd

  • Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), -2, and -3 are chemotactic for human T lymphocytes.

    D. D. Taub;P. Proost;William J Murphy;M. Anver

  • Chemokines and T lymphocyte activation: I. Beta chemokines costimulate human T lymphocyte activation in vitro.

    Dennis D. Taub;Susan M. Turcovski-Corrales;Michael L. Key;Dan L. Longo

  • An Interferon-γ-activated Site (GAS) Is Necessary for Full Expression of the Mouse iNOS Gene in Response to Interferon-γ and Lipopolysaccharide

    Jianjun Gao;David C. Morrison;Tari J. Parmely;Stephen W. Russell

  • Suppression of graft-versus-host disease and amplification of graft-versus-tumor effects by activated natural killer cells after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

    Osamu Asai;Dan L. Longo;Zhi Gang Tian;Ronald L. Hornung

  • T lymphocyte recruitment by interleukin-8 (IL-8). IL-8-induced degranulation of neutrophils releases potent chemoattractants for human T lymphocytes both in vitro and in vivo.

    Dennis D. Taub;Miriam Anver;Joost J. Oppenheim;Dan L. Longo

  • 'Unlicensed' natural killer cells dominate the response to cytomegalovirus infection

    Mark T Orr;William J Murphy;Lewis L Lanier

  • Identification of Human Neutrophil-derived Cathepsin G and Azurocidin/CAP37 as Chemoattractants for Mononuclear Cells and Neutrophils

    Oleg Chertov;Hirotsugu Ueda;Luo Ling Xu;Kenji Tani

  • Eotaxin (CCL11) Induces In Vivo Angiogenic Responses by Human CCR3+ Endothelial Cells

    R. Salcedo;H. A. Young;M. L. Ponce;J. M. Ward

  • Canine and Feline Parvoviruses Can Use Human or Feline Transferrin Receptors To Bind, Enter, and Infect Cells

    John S. L. Parker;William J. Murphy;Dai Wang;Stephen J. O'Brien

  • Program death-1 signaling and regulatory T cells collaborate to resist the function of adoptively transferred cytotoxic T lymphocytes in advanced acute myeloid leukemia.

    Qing Zhou;Meghan E. Munger;Steven L. Highfill;Jakub Tolar

  • Donor B-cell alloantibody deposition and germinal center formation are required for the development of murine chronic GVHD and bronchiolitis obliterans

    Mathangi Srinivasan;Ryan Flynn;Andrew Price;Ann Ranger

  • Rejection of bone marrow allografts by mice with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). Evidence that natural killer cells can mediate the specificity of marrow graft rejection

    William J Murphy;V. Kumar;M. Bennett

  • Inhibition of acute graft-versus-host disease with retention of graft-versus-tumor effects by the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib

    Kai Sun;Lisbeth A. Welniak;Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari;Matthew J. O'Shaughnessy

  • Ganciclovir Treatment of Herpes Simplex Thymidine Kinase-Transduced Primary T Lymphocytes: An Approach for Specific In Vivo Donor T-cell Depletion After Bone Marrow Transplantation?

    P Tiberghien;CW Reynolds;J Keller;S Spence

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
Dan L. Longo
Dan L. Longo Harvard University
Jonathan S. Serody
Jonathan S. Serody University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David H. Munn
David H. Munn Augusta University
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari University of Minnesota
Geoffrey R. Hill
Geoffrey R. Hill Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jerome Ritz
Jerome Ritz Harvard University
Ivan Maillard
Ivan Maillard University of Pennsylvania
John Koreth
John Koreth Harvard University
Robert H. Wiltrout
Robert H. Wiltrout National Institutes of Health

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