
Dimitra Peppa
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Associate Professor in HIV Immunology/Honorary Consultant in HIV Medicine. Passionate about NK cells and viral infections. Opinions my own
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infection-immunity/people/dr-dimitra-peppa 18-10-2017 21:23:47
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š¢ Thrilled to see this amazing study from a wonderful collegue and dear friend, Aura Muntasell, from HMar Research Institute and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona finally published in Nat Immunologyšš„³. they describe a new strategy for improving NK cell-based cancer immunotherapy!



In chronic hepatitis B patients continue to test positive for viral components. Chloe Thio Ashwin Balagopal & team Johns Hopkins Medicine now show how the main source of hepatitis B surface mRNAs shifts with treatment: jci.org/articles/view/ā¦




Excited to see this out; nicely summarised by Mayo Florida AutoImmune Neurology Group. Itās a privilege to work with such great collaborators. Iām excited to now be applying these principles to cancer, with the aim of finding better biomarkers and treatments for one of the toughest challenges: brain cancer.

CMV is associated with improved survival and delayed toxicity onset following anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade nature.com/articles/s4159⦠Nature Medicine Gusztav Milotay



Paradoxical link of HLA-Bā35 to posttreatment control of HIV in combination with Bw4 and C2 KIR ligands favoring education of NK cells Asier Saez-Cirion cell.com/med/fulltext/Sā¦



Review: Peptide-specific NK cell receptors Malcolm Sim academic.oup.com/ooim/article/6ā¦


T cell exhaustion limits antiviral response. Xu et al. Tsinghua University show that targeting BCOR & ZC3H12A potently enhances the stemness & functionality of CD8 T cells in chronic viral infections, reversing T cell exhaustion and improving antiviral immunity. hubs.la/Q03lfG4y0


BCOR and ZC3H12A suppress a core stemness program in exhausted CD8+ T cells Journal of Experimental Medicine rupress.org/jem/article/22ā¦



The innate power of NK cells in cancer therapy MalmbergLab Nature Medicine on Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D trial nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦




Targeting lactylation reinforces NK cell cytotoxicity within the tumor microenvironment Nature Immunology nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦
