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Alain Townsend

Active 1982–2025

96
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20,778
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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,468 citing papers, 30.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 938 citing papers, 11.7% of this breakdownChina: 615 citing papers, 7.7% of this breakdownGermany: 467 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownFrance: 275 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownAustralia: 270 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownNetherlands: 248 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownCanada: 215 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownJapan: 204 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownItaly: 203 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 193 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownIndia: 140 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine56.8%
  • Immunology and Microbiology27.5%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.4%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.8%
  • Nursing0.5%
  • Neuroscience0.4%
  • Other1.6%

Topics

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research9.6%
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses7.9%
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction7.8%
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology6.6%
  • vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches4.2%
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research3.9%
  • Other60%

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  1. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-B.1.1.529 leads to widespread escape from neutralizing antibody responses

    Authors: Wanwisa Dejnirattisai, Jiandong Huo, Daming Zhou, Jiří Zahradník, Piyada Supasa, Chang Liu, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Helen M. Ginn, Alexander J. Mentzer, Aekkachai Tuekprakhon, Rungtiwa Nutalai, Beibei Wang, Aiste Dijokaite-Guraliuc, Suman Khan, Ori Avinoam, Mohammad W. Bahar, Donal Skelly, Sandra Adele, Síle A. Johnson, Ali Amini, Thomas Ritter, Chris Mason, Christina Dold, Daniel Pan, Sara Assadi, Adam Bellass, Nicola Omo-Dare, David Koeckerling, Amy Flaxman, Daniel Jenkin, Parvinder K. Aley, Merryn Voysey, Sue Ann Costa Clemens, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Valdinete Alves do Nascimento, Fernanda Nascimento, Cristiano Fernandes da Costa, Paola Cristina Resende, Alex Pauvolid‐Corrêa, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira, Vicky L. Baillie, Natali Serafin, Gaurav Kwatra, Kelly da Silva, Shabir A. Madhi, Marta C. Nunes, Tariq Malik, Peter Openshaw, J. Kenneth Baillie, Malcolm G. Semple, Alain Townsend, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Tiong Kit Tan, Miles W. Carroll, Paul Klenerman, Eleanor Barnes, Susanna Dunachie, Bede Constantinides, Hermione J. Webster, Derrick W. Crook, Andrew J. Pollard, Teresa Lambe, Christopher P. Conlon, Alexandra Deeks, John Frater, Lisa Frending, Siobhan Gardiner, Anni Jämsén, Katie Jeffery, Tom Malone, Eloise Phillips, Lucy Rothwell, Lizzie Stafford, J. Kenneth Baillie, Malcolm G. Semple, Peter Openshaw, Gail Carson, Beatrice Alex, Petros Andrikopoulos, Benjamin Bach, William Barclay, Debby Bogaert, Meera Chand, Kanta Chechi, G Cooke, Ana da Silva Filipe, Thushan I. de Silva, Annemarie B Docherty, Gonçalo dos Santos Correia, Marc‐Emmanuel Dumas, Jake Dunning, Tom Fletcher, Chris Green, William Greenhalf, Julian L. Griffin, Rishi K Gupta, Ewen M. Harrison, Julian A. Hiscox, Antonia Ho, Peter Horby and 366 more - Cell 2022 cited by 1,027

  2. Mosaic RBD nanoparticles protect against challenge by diverse sarbecoviruses in animal models

    Authors: Alexander A. Cohen, Neeltje van Doremalen, Allison J. Greaney, Hanné Andersen, Ankur Sharma, Tyler N. Starr, Jennifer R. Keeffe, Chengcheng Fan, Jonathan E. Schulz, Priyanthi N.P. Gnanapragasam, Leesa M. Kakutani, Anthony P. West, Greg Saturday, Yu E. Lee, Han Gao, Claudia A. Jette, Mark G. Lewis, Tiong Kit Tan, Alain Townsend, Jesse D. Bloom, Vincent J. Munster, Pamela J. Björkman - Science 2022 cited by 283

  3. Secondary influenza challenge triggers resident memory B cell migration and rapid relocation to boost antibody secretion at infected sites

    Authors: Andrew J. MacLean, Niamh Richmond, Lada A. Koneva, Moustafa Attar, Cesar A. Prada‐Medina, Emily Thornton, Ariane C. Gomes, Aadil El-Turabi, Martin F. Bachmann, Pramila Rijal, Tiong Kit Tan, Alain Townsend, Stephen N. Sansom, Oliver Bannard, Tal I. Arnon - Immunity 2022 cited by 136

  4. Neutralizing nanobodies bind SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD and block interaction with ACE2

    Authors: Jiandong Huo, Audrey Le Bas, Reinis R. Ruza, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Halina Mikolajek, Tomas Malinauskas, Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Maud Dumoux, Philip N. Ward, Jingshan Ren, Daming Zhou, Peter J. Harrison, Miriam Weckener, Daniel K. Clare, Vinod K. Vogirala, Julika Radecke, L. Moynié, Yuguang Zhao, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, Michael L. Knight, Julia A. Tree, Karen R. Buttigieg, Naomi S. Coombes, Michael J. Elmore, Miles W. Carroll, Loïc Carrique, Pranav N. M. Shah, William James, Alain Townsend, David I. Stuart, Raymond J. Owens, James H. Naismith - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2020 cited by 550

  5. The antigenic anatomy of SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain

    Authors: Wanwisa Dejnirattisai, Daming Zhou, Helen M. Ginn, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Piyada Supasa, James Brett Case, Yuguang Zhao, Thomas S. Walter, Alexander J. Mentzer, Chang Liu, Beibei Wang, Guido C. Paesen, Jose Slon-Campos, César López‐Camacho, Natasha M. Kafai, Adam L. Bailey, Rita E. Chen, Baoling Ying, Craig Thompson, Jai S. Bolton, Alex Fyfe, Sunetra Gupta, Tiong Kit Tan, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, William James, Michael L. Knight, Miles W. Carroll, Donal Skelly, Christina Dold, Yanchun Peng, Robert H. Levin, Tao Dong, Andrew J. Pollard, Julian C. Knight, Paul Klenerman, Nigel Temperton, David R. Hall, Mark A. Williams, Neil G. Paterson, F.K.R. Bertram, C. Alistair Siebert, Daniel K. Clare, Andrew Howe, Julika Radecke, Yun Song, Alain Townsend, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Elizabeth E. Fry, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Michael Diamond, Jingshan Ren, David I. Stuart, Gavin Screaton - Cell 2021 cited by 440

  6. A COVID-19 vaccine candidate using SpyCatcher multimerization of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain induces potent neutralising antibody responses

    Authors: Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Rolle Rahikainen, Anthony H. Keeble, Lisa Schimanski, Saira Hussain, Ruth Harvey, Jack W. P. Hayes, Jane C. Edwards, Rebecca McLean, Veronica Martini, Miriam Pedrera, Nazia Thakur, Carina Conceicao, Isabelle Dietrich, Holly Shelton, Anna B. Ludi, Ginette Wilsden, Clare Browning, Adrian K. Zagrajek, Dagmara Bialy, Sushant Bhat, Phoebe Stevenson-Leggett, Philippa Hollinghurst, Matthew Tully, Katy Moffat, Chris Chiu, Ryan Waters, Ashley R. Gray, Mehreen Azhar, Valérie Mioulet, Joseph Newman, Amin S. Asfor, Alison Burman, Sylvia Crossley, John A. Hammond, Elma Tchilian, Bryan Charleston, Dalan Bailey, Tobias J. Tuthill, Simon P. Graham, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Tomas Malinauskas, Jiandong Huo, Julia A. Tree, Karen R. Buttigieg, Raymond J. Owens, Miles W. Carroll, Rodney S. Daniels, John W. McCauley, David I. Stuart, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Mark Howarth, Alain Townsend - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 289

  7. Autophagy is a critical regulator of memory CD8+ T cell formation

    Authors: Daniel J. Puleston, Hanlin Zhang, Timothy J. Powell, Elina Lipina, Stuart Sims, Isabel Panse, Alexander Watson, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Alain Townsend, Paul Klenerman, Anna Katharina Simon - eLife 2014 cited by 362

  8. Adenosine-to-inosine editing of endogenous Z-form RNA by the deaminase ADAR1 prevents spontaneous MAVS-dependent type I interferon responses

    Authors: Qiannan Tang, Rachel E. Rigby, George R. Young, Astrid Korning Hvidt, Tanja Davis, Tiong Kit Tan, Anne Bridgeman, Alain Townsend, George Kassiotis, Jan Rehwinkel - Immunity 2021 cited by 125

  9. Hepcidin-Mediated Hypoferremia Disrupts Immune Responses to Vaccination and Infection

    Authors: Joe N. Frost, Tiong Kit Tan, Munawar Abbas, Sarah K. Wideman, Michael Bonadonna, Nicole U. Stoffel, Katherine Wray, Barbara Kronsteiner, Gaby Smits, Dean R. Campagna, Tiago L. Duarte, José Manuel Lopes, Akshay Shah, Andrew E. Armitage, João Arezes, Pei Jin Lim, Alexandra E. Preston, David Ahern, Megan R. Teh, Caitlin Naylor, Mariolina Salio, Uzi Gileadi, Simon C. Andrews, Susanna Dunachie, Michael Zimmermann, Fiona van der Klis, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Oliver Bannard, Simon J. Draper, Alain Townsend, Bruno Galy, Mark D. Fleming, Marie C. Lewis, Hal Drakesmith - Med 2020 cited by 125

  10. An immunodominant NP105–113-B*07:02 cytotoxic T cell response controls viral replication and is associated with less severe COVID-19 disease

    Authors: Yanchun Peng, Suet Ling Felce, Danning Dong, Frank Penkava, Alexander J. Mentzer, Xuan Yao, Guihai Liu, Zixi Yin, Ji‐Li Chen, Yongxu Lu, Dannielle Wellington, Peter A. C. Wing, Delaney Dominey-Foy, Jin Chen, Wenbo Wang, Megat Abd Hamid, Ricardo A. Fernandes, Beibei Wang, Anastasia Fries, Xiaodong Zhuang, Neil Ashley, Timothy Rostron, Craig Waugh, Paul Sopp, Philip Hublitz, Ryan Beveridge, Tiong Kit Tan, Christina Dold, Andrew Kwok, Charlotte Rich‐Griffin, Wanwisa Dejnirattisa, Chang Liu, Prathiba Kurupati, Isar Nassiri, Robert Watson, Orion Tong, Chelsea Taylor, Piyush Kumar Sharma, Bo Sun, Fabiola Curion, Santiago Revale, Lucy C. Garner, Kathrin Jansen, Ricardo C. Ferreira, Moustafa Attar, Jeremy Fry, Rebecca A Russell, Hans J. Stauss, William James, Alain Townsend, Ling‐Pei Ho, Paul Klenerman, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Gavin Screaton, Calliope A. Dendrou, Stephen N. Sansom, Rachael Bashford-Rogers, Benny Chain, Geoffrey L. Smith, Jane A. McKeating, Benjamin P. Fairfax, Paul Bowness, Andrew J. McMichael, Graham S. Ogg, Julian C. Knight, Tao Dong - Nature Immunology 2021 cited by 182

  11. Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by Destruction of the Prefusion Spike

    Authors: Jiandong Huo, Yuguang Zhao, Jingshan Ren, Daming Zhou, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Helen M. Ginn, Loïc Carrique, Tomas Malinauskas, Reinis R. Ruza, Pranav N. M. Shah, Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Naomi S. Coombes, Kevin R. Bewley, Julia A. Tree, Julika Radecke, Neil G. Paterson, Piyada Supasa, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Gavin Screaton, Miles W. Carroll, Alain Townsend, Elizabeth E. Fry, Raymond J. Owens, David I. Stuart - Cell Host & Microbe 2020 cited by 389

  12. Overcoming Symmetry Mismatch in Vaccine Nanoassembly through Spontaneous Amidation

    Authors: Rolle Rahikainen, Pramila Rijal, Tiong Kit Tan, Hung‐Jen Wu, Anne‐Marie Andersson, Jordan R. Barrett, Thomas A. Bowden, Simon J. Draper, Alain Townsend, Mark Howarth - Angewandte Chemie 2020 cited by 105

  13. Systematic Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies against Ebola Virus GP Defines Features that Contribute to Protection

    Authors: Erica Ollmann Saphire, Sharon L. Schendel, Marnie L. Fusco, Karthik Gangavarapu, Bronwyn M. Gunn, Anna Z. Wec, Peter Halfmann, Jennifer M. Brannan, Andrew S. Herbert, Xiangguo Qiu, Kshitij Wagh, Shihua He, Elena E. Giorgi, James Theiler, Kathleen B. J. Pommert, Tyler B. Krause, Hannah L. Turner, Charles D. Murin, Jesper Pallesen, Edgar Davidson, Rafi Ahmed, M. Javad Aman, Alexander Bukreyev, Dennis R. Burton, James E. Crowe, Carl W. Davis, George Georgiou, Florian Krammer, Christos A. Kyratsous, Jonathan R. Lai, Cory L. Nykiforuk, Michael Pauly, Pramila Rijal, Ayato Takada, Alain Townsend, Viktor E. Volchkov, Laura M. Walker, Cheng‐I Wang, Larry Zeitlin, Benjamin J. Doranz, Andrew B. Ward, Bette Korber, Gary Kobinger, Kristian G. Andersen, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Galit Alter, Kartik Chandran, John M. Dye - Cell 2018 cited by 231

  14. Structural basis for a conserved neutralization epitope on the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2

    Authors: Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Xiaorui Chen, Arpita Mohapatra, Hong Thuy Vy Nguyen, Lisa Schimanski, Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Susan K. Vester, Rory A. Hills, Mark Howarth, Jennifer R. Keeffe, Alexander A. Cohen, Leesa M. Kakutani, Yimin Wu, Md. Shahed-Al-Mahmud, Yu‐Chi Chou, Pamela J. Björkman, Alain Townsend, Che Ma - Nature Communications 2023 cited by 52

  15. Structural basis for the neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by an antibody from a convalescent patient

    Authors: Daming Zhou, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Cheng‐Pin Chen, Chung‐Guei Huang, Ting-Hua Chen, Shin‐Ru Shih, Yi‐Chun Lin, Chien‐Yu Cheng, Shu‐Hsing Cheng, Yhu‐Chering Huang, Tzou‐Yien Lin, Che Ma, Jiandong Huo, Loïc Carrique, Tomas Malinauskas, Reinis R. Ruza, Pranav N. M. Shah, Tiong Kit Tan, Pramila Rijal, Robert F. Donat, Kerry Godwin, Karen R. Buttigieg, Julia A. Tree, Julika Radecke, Neil G. Paterson, Piyada Supasa, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Gavin Screaton, Miles W. Carroll, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, Michael L. Knight, William James, Raymond J. Owens, James H. Naismith, Alain Townsend, Elizabeth E. Fry, Yuguang Zhao, Jingshan Ren, David I. Stuart, Kuan-Ying A. Huang - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2020 cited by 330

  16. Hepcidin regulation by innate immune and infectious stimuli

    Authors: Andrew E. Armitage, Lucy A. Eddowes, Uzi Gileadi, Suzanne Cole, Natasha Spottiswoode, T. Selvakumar, Ling‐Pei Ho, Alain Townsend, Hal Drakesmith - Blood 2011 cited by 295

  17. Two doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induce robust immune responses to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

    Authors: Donal Skelly, Adam Harding, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, Michael L. Knight, Stéphanie Longet, Anthony Brown, Sandra Adele, Emily Adland, Helen Brown, Senthil Chinnakannan, Timothy Donnison, Mohammad Ali, Patpong Rongkard, Matthew Pace, Peny Zacharopoulou, Nicola Robinson, Anna Csala, Cathy De Lara, Claire Hutchings, Hema Mehta, Lian Ni Lee, Matthew Edmans, Carl-Philipp Hackstein, Prabhjeet Phalora, Wenqin Li, Eloise Phillips, Tom Malone, Ane Ogbe, Cecilia Jay, Timothy Tipoe, Tom Tipton, Lizzie Stafford, Alexander J. Mentzer, Síle A. Johnson, Ali Amini, Thomas Marjot, Stavros Dimitriadis, Beatrice Simmons, Alexandra Deeks, Sven Kerneis, Hibatullah Abuelgasim, Robert Wilson, Sarah Thomas, Adam Watson, Ahmed Alhussni, Joseph Cutteridge, Esme Weeks, Lucy Denly, Katy Lillie, Jennifer Holmes, Philippa C. Matthews, Denise O’Donnell, Tiong Kit Tan, Lisa Schimanski, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Pramila Rijal, PITCH (Protective Immunity T cells in Health Care Worker) Study Group, Lance Turtle, Thushan I. de Silva, Alex Richter, C.J. Duncan, Rebecca Payne, Shona C. Moore, C-MORE/PHOSP-C Group, Julian C. Knight, Mark Philip Cassar, Betty Raman, Stefan Neubauer, Anastasia Fries, Nick P. Talbot, Nayia Petousi, Ling‐Pei Ho, Yanchun Peng, Tao Dong, Susana Camara, Spyridoula Marinou, Aline Linder, Syed Adlou, Mwila Kasanyinga, Alice Bridges-Webb, Jennifer Hill, Laura Silva-Reyes, Luke Blackwell, John Frater, Philip Goulder, Christopher P. Conlon, Katie Jeffery, Christina Dold, Andrew J. Pollard, Alex Sigal, Túlio de Oliveira, Alain Townsend, Paul Klenerman, Susanna Dunachie, Eleanor Barnes, Miles W. Carroll, William James - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 191

  18. Proactive vaccination using multiviral Quartet Nanocages to elicit broad anti-coronavirus responses

    Authors: Rory A. Hills, Tiong Kit Tan, Alexander A. Cohen, Jennifer R. Keeffe, Anthony H. Keeble, Priyanthi N.P. Gnanapragasam, Kaya N. Storm, Annie V. Rorick, Anthony P. West, Michelle L. Hill, Sai Liu, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, Madeeha Afzal, Amy Napier, Gabrielle Admans, William James, Pamela J. Björkman, Alain Townsend, Mark Howarth - Nature Nanotechnology 2024 cited by 61

  19. The epitopes of influenza nucleoprotein recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes can be defined with short synthetic peptides

    Authors: Alain Townsend - Cell 1986 cited by 1,709

  20. Empty MHC class I molecules come out in the cold

    Authors: Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Nico J. Stam, Claes Öhlén, Jacques Neefjes, Petter Höglund, Marie-Thérèse Heemels, Judy Bastin, Ton N. Schumacher, Alain Townsend, Klas Kärre, Hidde L. Ploegh - Nature 1990 cited by 936

  21. Broadly Inhibiting Antineuraminidase Monoclonal Antibodies Induced by Trivalent Influenza Vaccine and H7N9 Infection in Humans

    Authors: Pramila Rijal, Bei Bei Wang, Tiong Kit Tan, Lisa Schimanski, Philipp Janesch, Tao Dong, John W. McCauley, Rodney S. Daniels, Alain Townsend, Kuan-Ying A. Huang - Journal of Virology 2019 cited by 49

  22. Memory T cells established by seasonal human influenza A infection cross-react with avian influenza A (H5N1) in healthy individuals

    Authors: Laurel Yong-Hwa Lee, Lien Anh Ha, Cameron P. Simmons, Menno D. de Jong, Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh Châu, Reto Schumacher, Yan Peng, Andrew J. McMichael, Jeremy Farrar, Geoffrey L. Smith, Alain Townsend, Brigitte A. Askonas, Sarah Rowland‐Jones, Tao Dong - Journal of Clinical Investigation 2008 cited by 427

  23. Focused antibody response to influenza linked to antigenic drift

    Authors: Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Pramila Rijal, Lisa Schimanski, Timothy J. Powell, Tzou Yien Lin, John W. McCauley, Rodney S. Daniels, Alain Townsend - Journal of Clinical Investigation 2015 cited by 153

  24. Structure-Based Modification of an Anti-neuraminidase Human Antibody Restores Protection Efficacy against the Drifted Influenza Virus

    Authors: Haihai Jiang, Weiyu Peng, Jianxun Qi, Yan Chai, Hao Song, Yuhai Bi, Pramila Rijal, Haiyuan Wang, Babayemi Olawale Oladejo, Jinhua Liu, Yi Shi, George F. Gao, Alain Townsend, Yan Wu - mBio 2020 cited by 34