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Alba Grifoni

La Jolla Institute for Immunology ·
Area of research
Infectious Diseases · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.
h-index
56
citations
25,837
works
295
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Identification of immunogenic and cross-reactive chikungunya virus epitopes for CD4+ T cells in chronic chikungunya disease
Nature Communications 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Post-pandemic memory T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 is durable, broadly targeted, and cross-reactive to the hypermutated BA.2.86 variant
Cell Host & Microbe 2024cited by 62position: middledoi
Memory T cells effectively recognize the SARS-CoV-2 hypermutated BA.2.86 variant
Cell Host & Microbe 2024cited by 37position: middledoi
Maintenance and functional regulation of immune memory to COVID-19 vaccines in tissues
Immunity 2024cited by 29position: middledoi
Immune responses associated with mpox viral clearance in men with and without HIV in Spain: a multisite, observational, prospective cohort study
The Lancet Microbe 2024cited by 29position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections enhance T cell response magnitude, breadth, and epitope repertoire
Cell Reports Medicine 2024cited by 28position: middledoi
Targets of influenza human T-cell response are mostly conserved in H5N1
mBio 2024cited by 20position: middledoi
A trivalent mucosal vaccine encoding phylogenetically inferred ancestral RBD sequences confers pan-Sarbecovirus protection in mice
Cell Host & Microbe 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
Profiling the SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell response
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Booster COVID-19 mRNA vaccination ameliorates impaired B-cell but not T-cell responses in older adults
Frontiers in Immunology 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Prior vaccination promotes early activation of memory T cells and enhances immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection
Nature Immunology 2023cited by 106position: middledoi
Durability of immune responses to mRNA booster vaccination against COVID-19
Journal of Clinical Investigation 2023cited by 96position: middledoi
Multi-omics analysis of mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after birth
Cell 2023cited by 65position: middledoi
Memory profiles distinguish cross-reactive and virus-specific T cell immunity to mpox
Cell Host & Microbe 2023cited by 46position: middledoi
The MegaPool Approach to Characterize Adaptive CD4+ and CD8+ T Cell Responses
Current Protocols 2023cited by 44position: middledoi
Targets and cross-reactivity of human T cell recognition of common cold coronaviruses
Cell Reports Medicine 2023cited by 35position: lastdoi
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination enhances the effector qualities of spike-specific T cells induced by COVID-19
Science Immunology 2023cited by 35position: middledoi
Evaluation of Cross-Immunity to the Mpox Virus Due to Historic Smallpox Vaccination
Vaccines 2023cited by 33position: middledoi
Systems biological assessment of the temporal dynamics of immunity to a viral infection in the first weeks and months of life
medRxiv 2023cited by 2position: middledoi
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces immunological T cell memory able to cross-recognize variants from Alpha to Omicron
Cell 2022cited by 917position: middledoi
T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike cross-recognize Omicron
Nature 2022cited by 621position: middledoi
Humoral and cellular immune memory to four COVID-19 vaccines
Cell 2022cited by 591position: middledoi
Divergent SARS-CoV-2 Omicron–reactive T and B cell responses in COVID-19 vaccine recipients
Science Immunology 2022cited by 438position: middledoi
Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection
Nature 2022cited by 180position: middledoi
Omicron-Specific Cytotoxic T-Cell Responses After a Third Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Ocrelizumab
JAMA Neurology 2022cited by 86position: middledoi
Immunodeficiency syndromes differentially impact the functional profile of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells elicited by mRNA vaccination
Immunity 2022cited by 77position: middledoi
Defining antigen targets to dissect vaccinia virus and monkeypox virus-specific T cell responses in humans
Cell Host & Microbe 2022cited by 68position: firstdoi
Memory CD8+ T cell diversity and B cell responses correlate with protection against SARS-CoV-2 following mRNA vaccination
Nature Immunology 2022cited by 61position: middledoi
Durable protection against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is induced by an adjuvanted subunit vaccine
Science Translational Medicine 2022cited by 59position: middledoi
Inactivated whole-virion vaccine BBV152/Covaxin elicits robust cellular immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern
Nature Microbiology 2022cited by 57position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Alessandro Sette · University of California System49 papers (2018–2025)Daniela Weiskopf · La Jolla Institute for Immunology32 papers (2018–2025)Bjoern Peters · La Jolla Institute for Immunology13 papers (2018–2024)Shane Crotty · La Jolla Institute for Immunology13 papers (2020–2024)Jennifer M. Dan · University of California System13 papers (2020–2024)April Frazier · La Jolla Alcohol Research12 papers (2020–2024)John Sidney · La Jolla Institute for Immunology11 papers (2018–2024)José Mateus · Pontificia Universidad Javeriana10 papers (2020–2022)Alison Tarke · University of Genoa9 papers (2021–2024)Ricardo da Silva Antunes · University of California San Diego9 papers (2021–2024)Esther Dawen Yu · La Jolla Institute for Immunology8 papers (2020–2022)Stephen A. Rawlings · MaineHealth8 papers (2020–2022)Sydney I. Ramirez · Center for Global Health7 papers (2020–2022)Davey M. Smith · Imperial College London7 papers (2020–2022)Massimo Ciccozzi · Materials Research Group (United States)6 papers (2014–2016)Silvia Angeletti · Università Campus Bio-Medico5 papers (2015–2016) · 5 papers (2015–2016) · 5 papers (2014–2016)Gilberto Filaci · Martin University5 papers (2022–2023)Benjamin Goodwin · Cal Poly Corporation5 papers (2021–2024)