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Sunny Himansu

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23H-index

49Paper Count

6.5KCitation Count

Published Papers 32

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Monovalent and multivalent OspA mRNA-LNP vaccines elicit functional antibodies and protect against Borrelia burgdorferi in mice

npj Vaccines

IF6.5

2026-05-05

OAAI

Meredith B. Finn; Graham Willsey; Carol Lyn Piazza; Luke Clendenen; Muskan Shrestha; Stephanie Soee You; Lingzhi Ma; Yukti Dhingra; Adrian R. Laciak; Kevin A. Uggowitzer; Joshua M. Obiero; Grace Freeman-Gallant; Harini Natarajan; Shannon Green; Elham Pirayesh; Yen-Ting Lai; Sunny Himansu; Andrea Carfi; Linden T. Hu; Nicholas Mantis; Obadiah Plante; Christina Dold

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A structure-based mRNA vaccine for Nipah virus in healthy adults: a phase 1 trial

Nature Medicine

IF50

2026-03-12

OAAI

Aurélie Ploquin; Rosemarie D. Mason; LaSonji A. Holman; Myra Happe; Alicia T. Widge; Laura Novik; Ana M. Ortega-Villa; Galina V. Yamshchikov; Ingelise J. Gordon; Abidemi Ola; Anita Arthur; Pamela J. M. Costner; Floreliz Mendoza; Jamie Saunders; Xioalin Wang; William R. Whalen; Joanna Utoh; Jennifer Cunningham; Lorin N. Loftus; Ashley Heimann; Katia Korzeniwsky; Shayne F. Andrew; Evan Lamb; Shruthi Shyam Sunder; Amelia Thompson; Mary McDonald; Kathryn E. Foulds; Nancy J. Sullivan; Jessica Bahorich; Emily E. Coates; Rebecca J. Loomis; Barney S. Graham; Karin Bok; Sunny Himansu; Brett Leav; Walla Dempsey; John H. Beigel; Mario Roederer; Lesia K. Dropulic

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Virus glycoprotein nanodisc platform for vaccine analytics

Nature Communications

IF15.7

2026-02-10

OAAI

Kimmo Rantalainen; Alessia Liguori; Gabriel Ozorowski; Claudia Flynn; Jon M. Steichen; Olivia M. Swanson; Patrick J. Madden; Sabyasachi Baboo; Swastik Phulera; Anant Gharpure; Danny Lu; Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy; Patrick Skog; Sierra Terada; Monolina Shil; Jolene K. Diedrich; Erik Georgeson; Ryan Tingle; Saman Eskandarzadeh; Wen-Hsin Lee; Nushin Alavi; Diana Goodwin; Michael Kubitz; Sonya Amirzehni; Sunny Himansu; Devin Sok; Jeong Hyun Lee; John R. Yates; James C. Paulson; Shane Crotty; Torben Schiffner; Andrew B. Ward; William R. Schief

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mRNA delivery of circumsporozoite protein epitope-based malaria vaccines induces protection in a mouse model

npj Vaccines

IF6.5

2025-11-18

OAAI

Nelson R. Wu; Nathan Beutler; Xiaozhen Hu; Patrick D. Skog; Alessia Liguori; Yevel Flores-Garcia; Laura Maiorino; Sierra Terada; Danny Lu; Yen-Chung Lai; Justin Ndihokubwayo; Torben Schiffner; Christopher A. Cottrell; Saman Eskandarzadeh; Nushin Alavi; Michael Kubitz; Nicole Phelps; Ryan Tingle; Sam Hodges; John E. Youhanna; Sonya Amirzehni; Darrell J. Irvine; Sunny Himansu; Fidel Zavala; Thomas F. Rogers; Dennis R. Burton; William R. Schief

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Simultaneous priming of HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to multiple epitopes by germline-targeting mRNA-LNP immunogens in mouse models

Science Immunology

IF16.3

2025-10-17

PREAI

Zhenfei Xie; Xuesong Wang; Yu Yan; Jon M. Steichen; Krystal M. Ma; Christopher A. Cottrell; Eleonora Melzi; Maria Bottermann; Paula Maldonado Villavicencio; Kimmo Rantalainen; Torben Schiffner; John E. Warner; Stephanie R. Weldon; Thavaleak Prum; Jordan R. Ellis-Pugh; Jonathan L. Torres; Abigail M. Jackson; Claudia T. Flynn; Gabriel Ozorowski; Sunny Himansu; Andrea Carfi; Andrew B. Ward; Usha Nair; William R. Schief; Facundo D. Batista

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HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to the Apex epitope induced in nonhuman primates

Science Immunology

IF16.3

2025-08-22

PREAI

Krystal M. Ma; Henry J. Sutton; Payal P. Pratap; Jon M. Steichen; Diane Carnathan; James Quinn; Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy; Alessia Liguori; Sashank Agrawal; Sabyasachi Baboo; Patrick Madden; Christopher A. Cottrell; Jordan R. Willis; Jeong-Hyun Lee; Elise Landais; Xiaozhen Hu; Parham Ramezani-Rad; Gabriel Ozorowski; Vanessa R. Lewis; Jolene K. Diedrich; Xiaoya Zhou; Tasha K. Altheide; Nicole Phelps; Erik Georgeson; Nushin B. Alavi; Danny Lu; Saman Eskandarzadeh; Michael Kubitz; Yumiko Adachi; Tina-Marie Mullen; Murillo Silva; Mariane B. Melo; Sunny Himansu; Darrell J. Irvine; Dennis R. Burton; John R. Yates; James C. Paulson; Devin Sok; Ian A. Wilson; Guido Silvestri; Andrew B. Ward; Shane Crotty; William R. Schief

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Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial

Science Translational Medicine

IF14.6

2025-07-30

PREAI

K. Rachael Parks; Zoe Moodie; Mary A. Allen; Catherine Yen; Briana D. Furch; Kellie J. MacPhee; Gabriel Ozorowski; Jack Heptinstall; William O. Hahn; Zihan Zheng; Huiyin Lu; Shannon Grant; Elize Domin; Michael O. Duff; Aaron Seese; Constanza Marini-Macouzet; Lamar Ballweber-Fleming; Wen-Hsin Lee; Christopher A. Cottrell; Alessia Liguori; Erik Georgeson; Nushin Alavi; Michael Kubitz; Nicole Phelps; Kelly E. Seaton; Kristen W. Cohen; Maija A. Anderson; Kajari Mondal; Dagna S. Laufer; James G. Kublin; Andrew B. Ward; Ollivier Hyrien; Stephen C. De Rosa; Sunny Himansu; Brett Leav; Caroline Reuter; Georgia D. Tomaras; David Montefiori; Stephen R. Walsh; Ian Frank; Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk; Paul A. Goepfert; Kathryn E. Stephenson; Lindsey R. Baden; Hong Van Tieu; Michael C. Keefer; Jesse Clark; Sharon A. Riddler; William R. Schief; M. Juliana McElrath

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Vaccination with an mRNA-encoded membrane-bound HIV envelope trimer induces neutralizing antibodies in animal models

Science Translational Medicine

IF14.6

2025-07-30

OAAI

Parham Ramezani-Rad; Christopher A. Cottrell; Ester Marina-Zárate; Alessia Liguori; Elise Landais; Jonathan L. Torres; Amber Myers; Jeong Hyun Lee; Sabyasachi Baboo; Claudia Flynn; Katherine McKenney; Eugenia Salcedo; Xiaoya Zhou; Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy; Erik Georgeson; Nicole Phelps; Danny Lu; Saman Eskandarzadeh; Sergey Menis; Michael Kubitz; Bettina Groschel; Nushin Alavi; Abigail M. Jackson; Wen-Hsin Lee; Andy S. Tran; Elana Ben-Akiva; Katarzyna Kaczmarek Michaels; Jolene K. Diedrich; Chiamaka A. Enemuo; Vanessa Lewis; Arpan Pradhan; Sudhir Pai Kasturi; Torben Schiffner; Jon M. Steichen; Diane G. Carnathan; Sunny Himansu; John R. Yates; James C. Paulson; Gabriel Ozorowski; Darrell J. Irvine; Guido Silvestri; Devin Sok; Andrew B. Ward; Shane Crotty; William R. Schief

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Vaccination with mRNA-encoded nanoparticles drives early maturation of HIV bnAb precursors in humans

Science

IF45.8

2025-05-15

PREAI

Jordan R. Willis; Madhu Prabhakaran; Michelle Muthui; Ansuya Naidoo; Troy Sincomb; Weiwei Wu; Christopher A. Cottrell; Elise Landais; Allan C. deCamp; Nahid R. Keshavarzi; Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy; Jeong Hyun Lee; Linda M. Murungi; Wilfrida A. Ogonda; Nicole L. Yates; Martin M. Corcoran; Swastik Phulera; Joel Musando; Amanda Tsai; Gabrielle Lemire; Yiakon Sein; Michael Muteti; Praveen Alamuri; Jennifer A. Bohl; Drienna Holman; Sunny Himansu; Brett Leav; Caroline Reuter; Li-An Lin; Baoyu Ding; Chunla He; Walter L. Straus; Kellie J. MacPhee; Isabel Regadas; Diana V. Nyabundi; Ruth Chirchir; Omu Anzala; John N. Kimotho; Caleb Kibet; Kelli Greene; Hongmei Gao; Erica Beatman; Kiara Benson; Dominick Laddy; David M. Brown; Rhianna Bronson; Jalen Jean-Baptiste; Suprabhath Gajjala; Zahra Rikhtegaran-Tehrani; Alison Benner; Mukundhan Ramaswami; Danny Lu; Nushin Alavi; Sonya Amirzehni; Michael Kubitz; Ryan Tingle; Erik Georgeson; Nicole Phelps; Yumiko Adachi; Alessia Liguori; Claudia Flynn; Katherine McKenney; Xiaoya Zhou; D. Collins Owuor; Sharon A. Owuor; Soo-Young Kim; Michael Duff; Ju Yeong Kim; Grace Gibson; Sabyasachi Baboo; Jolene Diedrich; Torben Schiffner; Marisa Shields; Mabela Matsoso; Jennifer Santos; Kristen Syvertsen; Allison Kennedy; Melissa Schroeter; Johan Vekemans; John R. Yates; James C. Paulson; Ollivier Hyrien; Adrian B. McDermott; Pholo Maenetje; Julien Nyombayire; Etienne Karita; Rosine Ingabire; Vinodh Edward; Vincent Muturi-Kioi; Janine Maenza; Adrienne E. Shapiro; M. Juliana McElrath; Srilatha Edupuganti; Barbara S. Taylor; David Diemert; Gabriel Ozorowski; Richard A. Koup; David Montefiori; Andrew B. Ward; Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam; Georgia Tomaras; Devin J. Hunt; Daniel Muema; Devin Sok; Dagna S. Laufer; Sarah F. Andrews; Eunice W. Nduati; William R. Schief

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Inclusion of a retroviral protease enhances the immunogenicity of VLP-forming mRNA vaccines against HIV-1 or SARS-CoV-2 in mice

SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE

IF14.6

2025-04-30

PREAI

Zhang, Peng; Singh, Mamta; Becker, Vada A.; Croft, Jacob; Tsybovsky, Yaroslav; Gopan, Vinay; Seo, Yuna; Liu, Qingbo; Rogers, Denise; Miao, Huiyi; Lin, Yin; Rogan, Daniel; Shields, Courtney; Elbashir, Sayda M.; Calabrese, Samantha; Renzi, Isabella; Preznyak, Vladimir; Narayanan, Elizabeth; Stewart-Jones, Guillaume; Himansu, Sunny; Connors, Mark; Lee, Kelly; Carfi, Andrea; Lusso, Paolo

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Vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to HIV gp41 (vol 25, pg 1073, 2024)

NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

IF27.6

2024-06-14

OAAI

Schiffner, Torben; Phung, Ivy; Ray, Rashmi; Irimia, Adriana; Tian, Ming; Swanson, Olivia; Lee, Jeong Hyun; Lee, Chang-Chun D.; Marina-Zarate, Ester; Cho, So Yeon; Huang, Jiachen; Ozorowski, Gabriel; Skog, Patrick D.; Serra, Andreia M.; Rantalainen, Kimmo; Allen, Joel D.; Baboo, Sabyasachi; Rodriguez, Oscar L.; Himansu, Sunny; Zhou, Jianfu; Hurtado, Jonathan; Flynn, Claudia T.; McKenney, Katherine; Havenar-Daughton, Colin; Saha, Swati; Shields, Kaitlyn; Schultze, Steven; Smith, Melissa L.; Liang, Chi-Hui; Toy, Laura; Pecetta, Simone; Lin, Ying-Cing; Willis, Jordan R.; Sesterhenn, Fabian; Kulp, Daniel W.; Hu, Xiaozhen; Cottrell, Christopher A.; Zhou, Xiaoya; Ruiz, Jennifer; Wang, Xuesong; Nair, Usha; Kirsch, Kathrin H.; Cheng, Hwei-Ling; Davis, Jillian; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Liguori, Alessia; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Ngo, Julia T.; Lewis, Vanessa; Phelps, Nicole; Tingle, Ryan D.; Spencer, Skye; Georgeson, Erik; Adachi, Yumiko; Kubitz, Michael; Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Elsliger, Marc A.; Amara, Rama R.; Landais, Elise; Briney, Bryan; Burton, Dennis R.; Carnathan, Diane G.; Silvestri, Guido; Watson, Corey T.; Yates, John R.; Paulson, James C.; Crispin, Max; Grigoryan, Gevorg; Ward, Andrew B.; Sok, Devin; Alt, Frederick W.; Wilson, Ian A.; Batista, Facundo D.; Crotty, Shane; Schief, William R.

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Multivalent mRNA-DTP vaccines are immunogenic and provide protection from Bordetella pertussis challenge in mice

NPJ VACCINES

IF6.5

2024-06-10

OAAI

Wolf, M. Allison; O'Hara, Joanne M.; Bitzer, Graham J.; Narayanan, Elisabeth; Boehm, Dylan T.; Bevere, Justin R.; Dejong, Megan A.; Hall, Jesse M.; Wong, Ting Y.; Falcone, Samantha; Deal, Cailin E.; Richards, Angelene; Green, Shannon; Nguyen, Brenda; King, Emily; Ogega, Clinton; Russo, Lisa; Sen-Kilic, Emel; Plante, Obadiah; Himansu, Sunny; Barbier, Mariette; Carfi, Andrea; Damron, F. Heath

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Vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to HIV gp41

NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

IF27.6

2024-05-30

OAAI

Schiffner, Torben; Phung, Ivy; Ray, Rashmi; Irimia, Adriana; Tian, Ming; Swanson, Olivia; Lee, Jeong Hyun; Lee, Chang-Chun D.; Marina-Zarate, Ester; Cho, So Yeon; Huang, Jiachen; Ozorowski, Gabriel; Skog, Patrick D.; Serra, Andreia M.; Rantalainen, Kimmo; Allen, Joel D.; Baboo, Sabyasachi; Rodriguez, Oscar L.; Himansu, Sunny; Zhou, Jianfu; Hurtado, Jonathan; Flynn, Claudia T.; Mckenney, Katherine; Havenar-Daughton, Colin; Saha, Swati; Shields, Kaitlyn; Schulze, Steven; Smith, Melissa L.; Liang, Chi-Hui; Toy, Laura; Pecetta, Simone; Lin, Ying-Cing; Willis, Jordan R.; Sesterhenn, Fabian; Kulp, Daniel W.; Hu, Xiaozhen; Cottrell, Christopher A.; Zhou, Xiaoya; Ruiz, Jennifer; Wang, Xuesong; Nair, Usha; Kirsch, Kathrin H.; Cheng, Hwei-Ling; Davis, Jillian; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Liguori, Alessia; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Ngo, Julia T.; Lewis, Vanessa; Phelps, Nicole; Tingle, Ryan D.; Spencer, Skye; Georgeson, Erik; Adachi, Yumiko; Kubitz, Michael; Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Elsliger, Marc A.; Amara, Rama R.; Landais, Elise; Briney, Bryan; Burton, Dennis R.; Carnathan, Diane G.; Silvestri, Guido; Watson, Corey T.; Yates III, John R.; Paulson, James C.; Crispin, Max; Grigoryan, Gevorg; Ward, Andrew B.; Sok, Devin; Alt, Frederick W.; Wilson, Ian A.; Batista, Facundo D.; Crotty, Shane; Schief, William R.

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Heterologous prime-boost vaccination drives early maturation of HIV broadly neutralizing antibody precursors in humanized mice

SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE

IF14.6

2024-05-22

OAAI

Cottrell, Christopher A.; Hu, Xiaozhen; Lee, Jeong Hyun; Skog, Patrick; Luo, Sai; Flynn, Claudia T.; McKenney, Katherine R.; Hurtado, Jonathan; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Liguori, Alessia; Willis, Jordan R.; Landais, Elise; Raemisch, Sebastian; Chen, Xuejun; Baboo, Sabyasachi; Himansu, Sunny; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Duan, Hongying; Cheng, Cheng; Schiffner, Torben; Bader, Daniel L. V.; Kulp, Daniel W.; Tingle, Ryan; Georgeson, Erik; Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Alavi, Nushin; Lu, Danny; Sincomb, Troy; Kubitz, Michael; Mullen, Tina-Marie; Yates, John R., III; Paulson, James C.; Mascola, John R.; Alt, Frederick W.; Briney, Bryan; Sok, Devin; Schief, William R.

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mRNA-LNP prime boost evolves precursors toward VRC01-like broadly neutralizing antibodies in preclinical humanized mouse models

SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY

IF16.3

2024-05-10

OAAI

Wang, Xuesong; Cottrell, Christopher A.; Hu, Xiaozhen; Ray, Rashmi; Bottermann, Maria; Villavicencio, Paula Maldonado; Yan, Yu; Xie, Zhenfei; Warner, John E.; Ellis-Pugh, Jordan Renae; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Liguori, Alessia; Willis, Jordan R.; Menis, Sergey; Raemisch, Sebastian; Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Kubitz, Michael; Tingle, Ryan; Phelps, Nicole; Groschel, Bettina; Himansu, Sunny; Carfi, Andrea; Kirsch, Kathrin H.; Weldon, Stephanie R.; Nair, Usha; Schief, William R.; Batista, Facundo D.

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An mRNA-based platform for the delivery of pathogen-specific IgA into mucosal secretions

CELL REPORTS MEDICINE

IF10.6

2023-11-01

OAAI

Deal, Cailin E.; Richards, Angelene F.; Yeung, Tracy; Maron, Max J.; Wang, Ziqiu; Lai, Yen-Ting; Fritz, Brian R.; Himansu, Sunny; Narayanan, Elisabeth; Liu, Ding; Koleva, Rositsa; Licht, Stuart; Hsiao, Chiaowen J.; Rajlic, Ivana L.; Koch, Hillary; Kleyman, Michael; Pulse, Mark E.; Weiss, William J.; Doering, Jennifer E.; Lindberg, Samantha K.; Mantis, Nicholas J.; Carfi, Andrea; Plante, Obadiah J.

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A Lassa virus mRNA vaccine confers protection but does not require neutralizing antibody in a guinea pig model of infection

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

IF15.7

2023-09-12

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Ronk, Adam J.; Lloyd, Nicole M.; Zhang, Min; Atyeo, Caroline; Perrett, Hailee R.; Mire, Chad E.; Hastie, Kathryn M.; Sanders, Rogier W.; Brouwer, Philip J. M.; Saphire, Erica Olmann; Ward, Andrew B.; Ksiazek, Thomas G.; Alvarez Moreno, Juan Carlos; Thaker, Harshwardhan M.; Alter, Galit; Himansu, Sunny; Carfi, Andrea; Bukreyev, Alexander

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Increased neutralization potency and breadth elicited by a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine forming virus- like particles

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IF9.1

2023-07-10

OAAI

Zhang, Peng; Falcone, Samantha; Tsybovsky, Yaroslav; Singh, Mamta; Gopan, Vinay; Miao, Huiyi; Seo, Yuna; Rogers, Denise; Renzi, Isabella; Lai, Yen-Ting; Narayanan, Elisabeth; Stewart-Jones, Guillaume; Himansu, Sunny; Carfi, Andrea; Fauci, Anthony S.; Lusso, Paolo

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Membrane-bound mRNA immunogens lower the threshold to activate HIV Env V2 apex-directed broadly neutralizing B cell precursors in humanized mice

IMMUNITY

IF26.3

2022-11-01

OAAI

Melzi, Eleonora; Willis, Jordan R.; Ma, Krystal M.; Lin, Ying-Cing; Kratochvil, Sven; Berndsen, Zachary T.; Landais, Elise A.; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Nair, Usha; Warner, John; Steichen, Jon M.; Kalyuzhniy, Anton; Le, Amber; Pecetta, Simone; Perez, Manfredo; Kirsch, Kathrin; Weldon, Stephanie R.; Falcone, Samantha; Himansu, Sunny; Carfi, Andrea; Sok, Devin; Ward, Andrew B.; Schief, William R.; Batista, Facundo D.

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Human immunoglobulin repertoire analysis guides design of vaccine priming immunogens targeting HIV V2-apex broadly neutralizing antibody precursors

IMMUNITY

IF26.3

2022-11-01

OAAI

Willis, Jordan R.; Berndsen, Zachary T.; Ma, Krystal M.; Steichen, Jon M.; Schiffner, Torben; Landais, Elise; Liguori, Alessia; Kalyuzhniy, Oleksandr; Allen, Joel D.; Baboo, Sabyasachi; Omorodion, Oluwarotimi; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Hu, Xiaozhen; Georgeson, Erik; Phelps, Nicole; Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Groschel, Bettina; Kubitz, Michael; Adachi, Yumiko; Mullin, Tina-Marie; Alavi, Nushin B.; Falcone, Samantha; Himansu, Sunny; Carfi, Andrea; Wilson, Ian A.; Yates, John R.; Paulson, James C.; Crispin, Max; Ward, Andrew B.; Schief, William R.

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