Saoirse Healy
s.healy@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: CVR MRC PhD Programme
Research Summary
My research focuses on developing and optimizing Phage Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (PhIP-Seq) to identify and characterize immune responses to emerging viruses in bushmeat hunters. This study will further compare such responses from hunters in East and West Africa, specifically in Uganda and Guinea, using the combination of PhIP-Seq and conventional serological methods.
Publications
Yeong, Jer Lim. et al. (2024) Immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with follicular lymphoma receiving frontline chemoimmunotherapy. British Journal of Haematology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.19562
Murray, Sam M. et al. (2024) Immune responses and clinical outcomes after COVID-19 vaccination in patients with liver disease and liver transplant recipients. Journal of Hepatology. 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.10.009
Barnes, E. et al. (2023) SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses and clinical outcomes after COVID-19 vaccination in patients with immune-suppressive disease. Nature Medicine. 10.1038/s41591-023-02414-4
Longet, S. et al. (2022) mRNA vaccination drives differential mucosal neutralizing antibody profiles in naïve and SARS-CoV-2 previously-infected individuals. Frontiers Immunology. 10.3389/fimmu.2022.953949
Supervisors
- Professor Emma Thomson
- Professor Miles Carroll
- Dr Shirin Ashraf
External supervisors
Professor Miles Carroll, University of Oxford
Grants
MRC-funded CVR PhD Programme
