About us
The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University has assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists to respond to serious viral disease threats, including AIDS, chronic viral infection-associated diseases, newly emerging viral diseases and infectious diseases of the elderly. Our programs are intended to span the continuum between basic and clinical science, in which discoveries are rapidly advanced from the level of molecular and cellular biology through animal models and ultimately into clinical testing. Learn more
Upcoming seminars
VGTI Seminar Series and Virology Journal Club is now streamed online. Please reach out to Chad (sixkille@ohsu.edu) if you would like a link to the live stream.
Recent publications
J Virol. December 16, 2020
Membrane-associated and secreted forms of the Rhesus macaque Rhadinovirus-encoded CD200 homologue and cellular CD200 demonstrate differential effects on Rhesus Macaque CD200 receptor signaling and regulation of myeloid cell activation
PLoS Pathog. November 24, 2020
In vitro and in vivo characterization of a recombinant rhesus cytomegalovirus containing a complete genome
PLoS Pathog. November 19, 2020
Rat cytomegalovirus virion-associated proteins R131 and R129 are necessary for infection of macrophages and dendritic cells
Transpl Infect Dis. November 18, 2020
Macrophage depletion of CMV latently infected donor hearts ameliorates recipient accelerated chronic rejection
J Virol. November 11, 2020
CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cell subsets exhibit differential ability to maintain HCMV latency and persistence
Cell. November 10, 2020
Baricitinib treatment resolves lower-airway macrophage inflammation and neutrophil recruitment in SARS-CoV-2-infected rhesus macaques
Int J Infect Dis. November 10, 2020
CCR5 inhibition in critical COVID-19 patients decreases inflammatory cytokines, increases CD8 T-cells, and decreases SARS-CoV2 RNA in plasma by day 14
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