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COVID-19 Research Efforts

Roan Lab

SARS-CoV-2, a new SARS-related Betacoronavirus first reported in December 2019, quickly spread around the world causing an outbreak that was declared a pandemic in March 2020. We have characterized global and antigen-specific immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in the context of mild vs. severe COVID-19, vaccination, hybrid immunity, and Long COVID. 

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Neidleman J., Luo X., Frouard J., Xie G., Gill G., Stein E.S., McGregor M., Ma T., George A.F., Kosters A., Greene W.C., Vasquez J., Ghosn E., Lee S.*, Roan N.R.* SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells exhibit phenotypic features reflecting helper function, lack of terminal differentiation, and high proliferative potential. 2020. *co-corresponding. Cell Reports Medicine

Neidleman J., Luo X., George A.F., McGregor M., Yang J., Yun C., Murray V., Gill G., Greene W.C., Vasquez J., Lee S., Ghosn E.,* Lynch K.,* Roan N.R.* Distinctive features of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells predict recovery from severe COVID-19. 2021. *co-corresponding. Cell Reports.

Ma T., Ryu H., McGregor M., Babcock B., Neidleman J., Xie G., George A.F., Frouard J., Murray V., Gill G., Ghosn E., Newell E., Lee S., Roan N.R. Protracted yet coordinated differentiation of long-lived SARAS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells during COVID-19 convalescence. 2021. Journal of Immunology.

Neidleman J., Luo X., McGregor M., Xie G., Murray V., Greene W.C., Lee S.A.*, Roan N.R.* mRNA vaccine-induced T cells respond identically to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern but differ in longevity and homing properties depending on prior infection status. 2021. *co-corresponding. Elife.

Suryawanshi R.K., Chen I.P., Ma T., Syed A.M., Brazer N., Saldhi P. Simoneau C.R., Ciling A., Khalid M.M., Sreekumar B., Chen P., Kumar G.R., Montano M., Gascon R., Tsou C., Garcia-Knight M.A. Sotomayor-Gonzalez A., Servellita V., Gliwa A., Nguyen J., Silva I., Milbes B., Kojima N., Hess V., Shacreaw M., Lopez L., Brobeck M., Turner F., Soveg F.W., George A.F., Fang X. Maishan M., Matthay M., Morris M.K., Wadword D., Hanson C., Greene W.C., Andino R., Spraggon L., Roan N.R.*, Chiu C.Y.*, Doudna J.A.*, Ott M*. Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination. 2022. *co-corresponding. Nature

Yin K, Peluso MJ, Luo X, Thomas R, Shin M, Neidleman J, Andrew A, Young K, Ma T, Hoh R, Anglin K, Huang B, Argueta U, Lopez M, Valdivieso D, Asare K, Deveau T, Munter SE, Ibrahim R, Standker L, Lu S, Golberg SA, Lee SA, Lynch KL, Kelly JD, Martin JN, Munch J, Deeks SG, Henrich TJ*, Roan NR*. Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation, and an uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2. 2023. *co-corresponding. Cover Article, Nature Immunology.