Adam Cunningham

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The research carried out by Adam Cunningham’s group addresses the following questions:

How are T and B cell immune responses regulated?
How do immune responses to infection develop?
How does infection alter immune homeostasis?
How do responses to vaccines develop?
How can the information from these studies help us to design and implement better vaccines and improve the maintenance of effective immunity?
The group uses in vivo models to study how infection and vaccination modifies immune homeostasis, with a particular emphasis on adaptive immunity. Relating these changes to bacterial clearance helps identify how infections are controlled and how vaccines function.

Professor Cunningham supervises doctoral researchers in the areas of adaptive immunity, vaccine function, immunomodulation and immunity to infection.

1996 …2024

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Doug Browning

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Amanda Rossiter

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Matthew O'Shea

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Jack Bryant

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Tim Knowles

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Jeff Cole

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Steve Watson

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Graham Anderson

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David Withers

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Sian Lax

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Manuel Banzhaf

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Lorraine Harper

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Iain Chapple

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Paul Moss

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Matthew Pugh

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Benjamin Willcox

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Carrie Willcox

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Ed Rainger

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Jessica Blair

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Thomas Dietrich

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Gary Reynolds

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Nicholas Loman

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Jorge Caamano

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Mark R Thomas

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Del Besra

  • Biosciences - Professor of Microbial Physiology and Chemistry

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Neena Kalia

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Andrew Filer

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Andrew Beggs

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Mary Clarke

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Alan McNally

  • Microbiology and Infection - Professor of Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institute Director in the Institute of Microbiology and Infection

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Ian Cadby

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Karim Raza

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Geoff Bird

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John O'Neil

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Alexander Brill

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Nadya Wall

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Joshua Quick

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Helen McGettrick

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Steve Busby

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Michelle Buckner

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Andy Clark

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Lalit Pallan

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Chris Thomas

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Janice Marshall

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Oliver Pickles

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Max Crispin

  • University of Southampton

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Joel D Allen

  • University of Southampton

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Yasunori Watanabe

  • University of Southampton
  • University of Oxford

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Francesca Micoli

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Constantino López-macías

  • Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS)

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Matthew K. O’Shea

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
  • University of Birmingham

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Thomas E Fletcher

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Frank Brombacher

  • University of Cape Town
  • International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
  • South African Medical Research Council

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Helen McShane

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
  • John Radcliffe Hospital
  • University of Oxford

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Robert A Kingsley

  • The Institute of Food Research; Norwich Research Park; Norwich UK
  • Quadram Institute Bioscience
  • University of East Anglia

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Shizuo Akira

  • Osaka University

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Emily C A Goodall

  • University of Queensland

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Erin Logan

  • University of Cape Town

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Calman A MacLennan

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
  • University of Oxford

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Matthew G Darby

  • University of Cape Town

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Satoshi Uematsu

  • Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Allan Saul

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
  • Burnet Institute

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Rachel Tanner

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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James A T Dunbar

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Friarage Hospital

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Martin J Dedicoat

  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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G Dougan

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Alisha Chetty

  • University of Cape Town

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C Lopez-Macias

  • Mexican Institute for Social Security

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Julius Muller

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Ian R. Henderson

  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Queensland

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Roberta Di Benedetto

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Gordon Dougan

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Murray E Selkirk

  • Imperial College London

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Matthew Darby

  • University of Cape Town

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Constantino López-Macías

  • Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, National Medical Center “SigloXXI,” Specialties Hospital, Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS)

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Corinna Schnoeller

  • Imperial College London

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Bernhard Ryffel

  • French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • CNRS-University of Orleans

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Nonantzin Beristain-Covarrubias

  • University of Birmingham
  • Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy

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Martin Turner

  • Babraham Institute

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Jessica L Mason

  • University of Birmingham

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Stephen Jolles

  • University Hospital of Wales

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Steven G. Smith

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan

  • Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Benjamin G Dewals

  • University of Liège

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S Chen-Kiang

  • Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
  • NCCS—National Cancer Centre Singapore

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Marisol Pérez-Toledo

  • Inst. Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal
  • Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno

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Frank Kirstein

  • University of Cape Town

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J Alexander

  • Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences

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Nicholas J Beeching

  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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S Ely

  • Syracuse University

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Sarah E Bell

  • Babraham Institute

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Fernanda L. S. França

  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Anthony De Soyza

  • Newcastle University

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Peter Nightingale

  • Institute of Translational Medicine Birmingham (ITM)
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Alykhan Vira

  • University of Cape Town

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Delphine Sedda

  • CNRS-University of Orleans

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CI Perez-Shibayama

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

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Elizabeth Jones

  • Bexley Care Trust

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Simon R Andrews

  • Babraham Institute

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Jon L. Hobman

  • University of Nottingham

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Duncan R Wilson

  • University of Aberdeen
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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S. Beck

  • University of Duisburg-Essen

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David Plans

  • BioBeats Group Ltd
  • University of Exeter
  • Huma Therapeutics Limited
  • University of Oxford

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Y Xiong

  • Fudan University

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Wee Boon Tan

  • National University of Singapore

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Gavin C K W Koh

  • Northwick Park Hospital

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Francesca Necchi

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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P. Ferentinos

  • Leeds Beckett University

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Donald G. Catanzaro

  • University of Arkansas

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Simona Rondini

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Sonia Ponzo

  • BioBeats Group Ltd
  • Huma Therapeutics Limited

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Lucy E M Lamb

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Ruth Price

  • University of Nottingham

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Wenjun Wang

  • Leiden University Medical Centre

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Claire MacKowiak

  • CNRS-University of Orleans

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Tracy Palmer

  • University of Dundee

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Ari Waisman

  • Johannes Gutenberg University

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Benjamin Dewals

  • Université de Liege

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Daniel J. Hodson

  • University of Cambridge

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Waldemar Vollmer

  • Newcastle University

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Dunja Mrjden

  • University of Cape Town
  • Stanford University

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Susan M. Jack

  • McMaster University

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Jeremy Saklatvala

  • Imperial College London
  • Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
  • St Mark's NHS Trust

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Robert G. Parton

  • University of Queensland

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Isabel Warner

  • University of Queensland

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Donald D Nyangahu

  • University of Cape Town

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Jessica L Teeling

  • University of Southampton

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M. Arcuri

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Rochelle Da Costa

  • University of Queensland

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Jayne Jones

  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Magali Matsumiya

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Andrew N J McKenzie

  • Medical Research Council

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Alberto Bravo-Blas

  • University of Glasgow

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suren kanagasundaram

  • Newcastle University

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Heather B Jaspan

  • University of Cape Town
  • University of Washington

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Marc Veldhoen

  • Babraham Institute

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Danny Wright

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Yun Shan Goh

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Jack C Leo

  • Coventry University
  • Open University

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Karine Serre

  • Universidade de Lisboa

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Iain T Parsons

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Jonathan L E Dean

  • University of Oxford
  • Imperial College London
  • Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
  • St Mark's NHS Trust

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F. Micoli

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Elena Stylianou

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Megan Fahy

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Verena Kästele

  • University of Glasgow

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Robert M Gifford

  • Western General Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Isabel Delany

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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James W. Donald

  • University of Dundee

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D Yu

  • University of Nottingham
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University

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C. A. MavLennan

  • University of Oxford

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J. Wendi Bailey

  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Tobit D. Steinmetz

  • University Hospital Erlangen

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Serafina Guadagnuolo

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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Sebastian L Johnston

  • Imperial College London

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Olga Krysko

  • Ghent University

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David A. Gray

  • University of Edinburgh

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Oliver Koberling

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health

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John P O'Hara

  • Leeds Beckett University

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Fiona Culley

  • Imperial College London

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Valérie F J Quesniaux

  • Université d'Orléans
  • CNRS-University of Orleans

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Davide Morelli

  • BioBeats Group Ltd
  • University of Oxford
  • Huma Therapeutics Limited

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Zihao Yang

  • University of Queensland

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Daniel Snape

  • Leeds Beckett University

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Jessica L. Rooke

  • University of Queensland

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Liz Ratcliffe

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Jürgen Wess

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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Juan Carlos Yam-puc

  • Deparamento de Biologia Celular. CINVESTAV. Mexico; D.F. Mexico

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Stephanie A Harris

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Stephen Harding

  • Binding Site Group Ltd

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A Nicholson-Little

  • Leeds Beckett University

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M Chen

  • Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Esther Youd

  • University of Glasgow

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Marion Rolot

  • University of Liège

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Andrew S MacDonald

  • University of Edinburgh

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