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Akiko Iwasaki

Researcher Next ID · RN-023747

Researcher · Immunology and Microbiology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Chevy Chase, Canada

Not currently recruitingFunding unknown
Works count
635
Citation count
77,564
H-index
126
i10-index
329

Research interests

Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Publications

  • Distinguishing features of long COVID identified through immune profiling

    Nature · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06651-y

  • The immunology and immunopathology of COVID-19

    Science · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm8108

  • Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes

    Nature Medicine · 2022 · 10.1038/s41591-022-01810-6

  • Diverse functional autoantibodies in patients with COVID-19

    Nature · 2021 · 10.1038/s41586-021-03631-y

  • Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2

    New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc2016359

  • Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain

    The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202135

  • Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections

    Annual Review of Virology · 2020 · 10.1146/annurev-virology-012420-022445

  • Type I and Type III Interferons – Induction, Signaling, Evasion, and Application to Combat COVID-19

    Cell Host & Microbe · 2020 · 10.1016/j.chom.2020.05.008

  • Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT–qPCR primer–probe sets

    Nature Microbiology · 2020 · 10.1038/s41564-020-0761-6

  • Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes

    Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2700-3

  • Mitochondrial DNA stress primes the antiviral innate immune response

    Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14156

  • Control of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system

    Nature Immunology · 2015 · 10.1038/ni.3123

  • Apoptotic Caspases Prevent the Induction of Type I Interferons by Mitochondrial DNA

    Cell · 2014 · 10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.037

  • Innate immunity to influenza virus infection

    Nature reviews. Immunology · 2014 · 10.1038/nri3665

  • A vaccine strategy that protects against genital herpes by establishing local memory T cells

    Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11522

  • Microbiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infection

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1019378108

  • Influenza virus activates inflammasomes via its intracellular M2 ion channel

    Nature Immunology · 2010 · 10.1038/ni.1861

  • Regulation of Adaptive Immunity by the Innate Immune System

    Science · 2010 · 10.1126/science.1183021

  • Inflammasome recognition of influenza virus is essential for adaptive immune responses

    The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2009 · 10.1084/jem.20081667

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Autophagy · 2008 · 10.4161/auto.5338

  • Autophagy-Dependent Viral Recognition by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

    Science · 2007 · 10.1126/science.1136880

  • Toll-like receptor control of the adaptive immune responses

    Nature Immunology · 2004 · 10.1038/ni1112

  • Recognition of single-stranded RNA viruses by Toll-like receptor 7

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · 10.1073/pnas.0400937101

  • Toll-like Receptor 9–mediated Recognition of Herpes Simplex Virus-2 by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells

    The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2003 · 10.1084/jem.20030162

  • Freshly Isolated Peyer's Patch, but Not Spleen, Dendritic Cells Produce Interleukin 10 and Induce the Differentiation of T Helper Type 2 Cells

    The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1999 · 10.1084/jem.190.2.229

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