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Ben Murrell

Karolinska Institutet · SE
Area of research
Infectious Diseases · Virology
Research interest
Research interests include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, HIV Research and Treatment, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.
h-index
49
citations
18,502
works
182
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Antigen affinity and site of immunization dictate B cell recall responses
Cell Reports 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
Spike deep mutational scanning helps predict success of SARS-CoV-2 clades
Nature 2024cited by 118position: middledoi
Structural basis of broad SARS-CoV-2 cross-neutralization by affinity-matured public antibodies
Cell Reports Medicine 2024cited by 30position: middledoi
Three immunizations with Novavax’s protein vaccines increase antibody breadth and provide durable protection from SARS-CoV-2
npj Vaccines 2024cited by 26position: middledoi
Optimized SMRT-UMI protocol produces highly accurate sequence datasets from diverse populations—Application to HIV-1 quasispecies
Virus Evolution 2024cited by 25position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era
Nature Microbiology 2023cited by 133position: middledoi
Sensitivity of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 variant to prevailing neutralising antibody responses
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2023cited by 85position: lastdoi
Emergence and antibody evasion of BQ, BA.2.75 and SARS-CoV-2 recombinant sub-lineages in the face of maturing antibody breadth at the population level
EBioMedicine 2023cited by 55position: middledoi
Phenotypic characterization of single CD4+ T cells harboring genetically intact and inducible HIV genomes
Nature Communications 2023cited by 45position: middledoi
Vaccine-induced correlate of protection against fatal COVID-19 in older and frail adults during waves of neutralization-resistant variants of concern: an observational study
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2023cited by 28position: middledoi
Vaccination of SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals expands a broad range of clonally diverse affinity-matured B cell lineages
Nature Communications 2023cited by 20position: middledoi
Frequent use of IGHV3-30-3 in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses
Frontiers in Virology 2023cited by 13position: middledoi
Selection Analysis Identifies Clusters of Unusual Mutational Changes in Omicron Lineage BA.1 That Likely Impact Spike Function
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2022cited by 120position: middledoi
Omicron sublineage BA.2.75.2 exhibits extensive escape from neutralising antibodies
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 106position: lastdoi
Neutralisation sensitivity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) variant: a cross-sectional study
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 93position: lastdoi
A bispecific monomeric nanobody induces spike trimer dimers and neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in vivo
Nature Communications 2022cited by 86position: middledoi
Evasion of neutralising antibodies by omicron sublineage BA.2.75
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 86position: lastdoi
Immunoglobulin germline gene polymorphisms influence the function of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies
Immunity 2022cited by 49position: middledoi
Multivariate mining of an alpaca immune repertoire identifies potent cross-neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies
Science Advances 2022cited by 41position: lastdoi
Longitudinal single-cell analysis of SARS-CoV-2–reactive B cells uncovers persistence of early-formed, antigen-specific clones
JCI Insight 2022cited by 26position: middledoi
The emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 N501Y lineages
Cell 2021cited by 274position: middledoi
Rhesus and cynomolgus macaque immunoglobulin heavy-chain genotyping yields comprehensive databases of germline VDJ alleles
Immunity 2021cited by 108position: middledoi
Single-cell analysis pinpoints distinct populations of cytotoxic CD4 <sup>+</sup> T cells and an IL-10 <sup>+</sup> CD109 <sup>+</sup> T <sub>H</sub> 2 cell population in nasal polyps
Science Immunology 2021cited by 78position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 protein subunit vaccination of mice and rhesus macaques elicits potent and durable neutralizing antibody responses
Cell Reports Medicine 2021cited by 51position: lastdoi
Adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 spike protein elicits neutralizing antibodies and CD4 T cell responses after a single immunization in mice
EBioMedicine 2021cited by 47position: middledoi
RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets
Virus Evolution 2020cited by 670position: lastdoi
An alpaca nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by blocking receptor interaction
Nature Communications 2020cited by 359position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 exposure, symptoms and seroprevalence in healthcare workers in Sweden
Nature Communications 2020cited by 327position: middledoi
Selection, biophysical and structural analysis of synthetic nanobodies that effectively neutralize SARS-CoV-2
Nature Communications 2020cited by 163position: middledoi
Vaccine elicitation of HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies from engineered B cells
Nature Communications 2020cited by 80position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Daniel J. Sheward · Karolinska Institutet19 papers (2013–2024)Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam · Science for Life Laboratory12 papers (2020–2024)Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond · Temple University12 papers (2012–2021)Leo Hanke · Karolinska Institutet9 papers (2020–2024)Gerald M. McInerney · Karolinska Institutet9 papers (2020–2024)Chang-Il Kim · Korean Academy of Science and Technology8 papers (2021–2024)Konrad Scheffler · Illumina (United States)7 papers (2012–2017)Joel O. Wertheim · Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias7 papers (2012–2021)Xaquín Castro Dopico · Aarhus University7 papers (2021–2025)Martin Corcoran · Karolinska Institutet6 papers (2020–2024)Davey M. Smith · Imperial College London5 papers (2012–2018)Dennis R. Burton · Scripps Research Institute5 papers (2017–2020)Jan Albert · Karolinska University Hospital5 papers (2022–2024)Darren P. Martin · University of Cape Town5 papers (2015–2022)B.M. Hallberg · Institute for Biomedicine5 papers (2020–2024)Hrishikesh Das · Karolinska Institutet5 papers (2020–2024)Laura Perez Vidakovics · Karolinska Institutet5 papers (2020–2022)Thomas P. Peacock · The Pirbright Institute5 papers (2022–2024)Pradeepa Pushparaj · Karolinska Institutet4 papers (2021–2024)Steven Weaver · Temple University4 papers (2015–2021)