COVID-19

Animal Models

Golden Syrian hamsters
BALB/c mice
hACE2 tg mice
Ferrets
Rhesus and cynomolgus macaques

Study Types

Vaccine testing
Therapeutics testing
PK/safety testing
Pathogenesis

In vitro Services

Sample processing
RT-PCR and plaque assay viral load testing
Binding antibody ELISA and PRNT

Representative Publications

Defining the determinants of protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral control in a dose-down Ad26.CoV2.S vaccine study in nonhuman primates.

Reduced SARS-CoV-2 disease outcomes in Syrian hamsters receiving immune sera: Quantitative image analysis in pathologic assessments.

mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar B cell expansion, neutralizing responses, and protection from Omicron – ScienceDirect

Vaccine protection against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in macaques: Cell

Mosaic RBD nanoparticles protect against multiple sarbecovirus challenges in animal models.

Cohen AA, van Doremalen N, Greaney AJ, Andersen H, Sharma A, Starr TN, Keeffe JR, Fan C, Schulz JE, Gnanapragasam PNP, Kakutani LM, West AP, Saturday G, Lee YE, Gao H, Jette CA, Lewis MG, Tan TK, Townsend AR, Bloom JD, Munster VJ, Bjorkman PJ.

bioRxiv. 2022 Mar 28:2022.03.25.485875. doi: 10.1101/2022.03.25.485875. Preprint.

PMID: 35378752 Free PMC article.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.03.038

SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain displayed on HBsAg virus-like particles elicits protective immunity in macaques.

Dalvie NC, Tostanoski LH, Rodriguez-Aponte SA, Kaur K, Bajoria S, Kumru OS, Martinot AJ, Chandrashekar A, McMahan K, Mercado NB, Yu J, Chang A, Giffin VM, Nampanya F, Patel S, Bowman L, Naranjo CA, Yun D, Flinchbaugh Z, Pessaint L, Brown R, Velasco J, Teow E, Cook A, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Camp DL, Silverman JM, Nagar GS, Rao HD, Lothe RR, Chandrasekharan R, Rajurkar MP, Shaligram US, Kleanthous H, Joshi SB, Volkin DB, Biswas S, Love JC, Barouch DH.

Sci Adv. 2022 Mar 18;8(11):eabl6015. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl6015. Epub 2022 Mar 16.

PMID:35294244

Reduced Pathogenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Hamsters.

McMahan K, Giffin V, Tostanoski LH, Chung B, Siamatu M, Suthar MS, Halfmann P, Kawaoka Y, Piedra-Mora C, Jain N, Ducat S, Kar S, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Martinot AJ, Barouch DH.

Med (N Y). 2022 Mar 17. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2022.03.004. Online ahead of print.

PMID:35313451 Free PMC article.

A Recombinant Subunit Vaccine Induces a Potent, Broadly Neutralizing, and Durable Antibody Response in Macaques against the SARS-CoV-2 P.1 (Gamma) Variant.

To A, Wong TAS, Lieberman MM, Thompson K, Ball AH, Pessaint L, Greenhouse J, Daham N, Cook A, Narvaez B, Flinchbaugh Z, Van Ry A, Yalley-Ogunro J, Andersen Elyard H, Lai CY, Donini O, Lehrer AT.

ACS Infect Dis. 2022 Mar 9. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00600. Online ahead of print.

PMID:35263081

A homologous or variant booster vaccine after Ad26.COV2.S immunization enhances SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses in rhesus macaques.

He X, Aid M, Chandrashekar A, Yu J, McMahan K, Wegmann F, Jacob-Dolan C, Maron JS, Atyeo C, Wan H, Sellers D, Liu J, Lifton M, Gardner S, A Bondzie E, Barrett J, Ahmad K, Anioke T, Yalley-Ogunro J, Muench J, Goode A, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Alter G, Schuitemaker H, Zahn R, Barouch DH.

Sci Transl Med. 2022 Feb 22:eabm4996. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abm4996. Online ahead of print.

PMID:35191769

A combination of two human neutralizing antibodies prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection in cynomolgus macaques.
Cobb RR, Nkolola J, Gilchuk P, Chandrashekar A, Yu J, House RV, Earnhart CG, Dorsey NM, Hopkins SA, Snow DM, Chen RE, VanBlargan LA, Hechenblaickner M, Hoppe B, Collins L, Tomic MT, Nonet GH, Hackett K, Slaughter JC, Lewis M, Andersen H, Cook A, Diamond MS, Carnahan RH, Barouch DH, Crowe JE Jr.
Med (N Y). 2022 Feb 3. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2022.01.004. Online ahead of print.
PMID:35132398Free PMC article.

The SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody combination, AZD7442, is protective in non-human primates and has an extended half-life in humans.
Loo YM, McTamney PM, Arends RH, Abram ME, Aksyuk AA, Diallo S, Flores DJ, Kelly EJ, Ren K, Roque R, Rosenthal K, Streicher K, Tuffy KM, Bond NJ, Cornwell O, Bouquet J, Cheng LI, Dunyak J, Huang Y, Rosenbaum AI, Reddy VP, Andersen H, Carnahan RH, Crowe JE Jr, Kuehne AI, Herbert AS, Dye JM, Bright H, Kallewaard NL, Pangalos MN, Esser MT.
Sci Transl Med. 2022 Jan 25:eabl8124. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abl8124. Online ahead of print.
PMID:35076282

Synthetic multiantigen MVA vaccine COH04S1 protects against SARS-CoV-2 in Syrian hamsters and non-human primates.
Chiuppesi F, Nguyen VH, Park Y, Contreras H, Karpinski V, Faircloth K, Nguyen J, Kha M, Johnson D, Martinez J, Iniguez A, Zhou Q, Kaltcheva T, Frankel P, Kar S, Sharma A, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Shostak Y, Wussow F, Diamond DJ.
NPJ Vaccines. 2022 Jan 21;7(1):7. doi: 10.1038/s41541-022-00436-6.
PMID:35064109

Passive transfer of Ad26.COV2.S-elicited IgG from humans attenuates SARS-CoV-2 disease in hamsters.
Tostanoski LH, Chandrashekar A, Patel S, Yu J, Jacob-Dolan C, Chang A, Powers OC, Sellers D, Gardner S, Barrett J, Sanborn O, Stephenson KE, Ansel JL, Jaegle K, Seaman MS, Porto M, Lok M, Spence B, Cayer K, Nase D, Holman S, Bradette H, Kar S, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Cox F, Tolboom JTBM, de Groot AM, Heerwegh D, Le Gars M, Sadoff J, Wegmann F, Zahn RC, Schuitemaker H, Barouch DH.
NPJ Vaccines. 2022 Jan 10;7(1):2. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00427-z.
PMID:35013325 Free PMC article.

Development of an In Vivo Probe to Track SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Rhesus Macaques.
Madden PJ, Arif MS, Becker ME, McRaven MD, Carias AM, Lorenzo-Redondo R, Xiao S, Midkiff CC, Blair RV, Potter EL, Martin-Sancho L, Dodson A, Martinelli E, Todd JM, Villinger FJ, Chanda SK, Aye PP, Roy CJ, Roederer M, Lewis MG, Veazey RS, Hope TJ.
Front Immunol. 2021 Dec 24;12:810047. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.810047. eCollection 2021.
PMID:35003140 Free PMC article.

Comparison of Subgenomic and Total RNA in SARS-CoV-2 Challenged Rhesus Macaques.
Dagotto G, Mercado NB, Martinez DR, Hou YJ, Nkolola JP, Carnahan RH, Crowe JE Jr, Baric RS, Barouch DH.
J Virol. 2021 Jan 20;95(8):e02370-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02370-20. Online ahead of print.
PMID:33472939 Free PMC article.

Coronavirus-Specific Antibody Cross Reactivity in Rhesus Macaques Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Infection.
Jacob-Dolan C, Feldman J, McMahan K, Yu J, Zahn R, Wegmann F, Schuitemaker H, Schmidt AG, Barouch DH.
J Virol. 2021 Mar 10;95(11):e00117-21. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00117-21. Online ahead of print.
PMID:33692201 Free PMC article.

Roozendaal R, Solforosi L, Stie SARS-CoV-2 binding and neutralizing antibody levels after Ad26.COV2.S vaccination predict durable protection in rhesus macaques.h DJ, Serroyen J, Straetemans R, Dari A, Boulton M, Wegmann F, Rosendahl Huber SK, van der Lubbe JEM, Hendriks J, Le Gars M, Dekking L, Czapska-Casey DN, Guimera N, Janssen S, Tete S, Chandrashekar A, Mercado NB, Yu J, Koudstaal W, Perez-Ruixo JJ, Sadoff J, Barouch DH, Schuitemaker H, Zahn R.
Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 7;12(1):5877. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26117-x.
PMID:34620860 Free PMC article.

A SARS-CoV-2 ferritin nanoparticle vaccine elicits protective immune responses in nonhuman primates

Recombinant protein subunit SARS-CoV-2 vaccines formulated with CoVaccine HT adjuvant induce broad, Th1 biased, humoral and cellular immune responses in mice.

Lai CY, To A, Ann S Wong T, Lieberman MM, Clements DE, Senda JT, Ball AH, Pessaint L, Andersen H, Furuyama W, Marzi A, Donini O, Lehrer AT.

Vaccine X. 2021 Nov 5:100126. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2021.100126.

Optimization of Non-Coding Regions for a Non-Modified mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine

A SARS-CoV-2 spike ferritin nanoparticle vaccine protects hamsters against Alpha and Beta virus variant challenge.

Development of an IgG-Fc fusion COVID-19 subunit vaccine, AKS-452.
Alleva DG, Delpero AR, Scully MM, Murikipudi S, Ragupathy R, Greaves EK, Sathiyaseelan T, Haworth JR, Shah NJ, Rao V, Nagre S, Lancaster TM, Webb SS, Jasa AI, Ronca SE, Green FM, Elyard HA, Yee J, Klein J, Karnes L, Sollie F, Zion TC.
Vaccine. 2021 Oct 5;39(45):6601-13. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.09.077. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34642088

One dose of COVID-19 nanoparticle vaccine REVC-128 provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge at two weeks post immunization.
Gu M, Torres JL, Li Y, Ry AV, Greenhouse J, Wallace S, Chiang CI, Pessaint L, Jackson AM, Porto M, Kar S, Li Y, Ward AB, Wang Y.
Emerg Microbes Infect. 2021 Oct 15:1-35. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2021.1994354. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34651563

Control of SARS-CoV-2 infection after Spike DNA or Spike DNA+Protein co-immunization in rhesus macaques.
Rosati M, Agarwal M, Hu X, Devasundaram S, Stellas D, Chowdhury B, Bear J, Burns R, Donohue D, Pessaint L, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Terpos E, Dimopoulos MA, Wlodawer A, Mullins JI, Venzon DJ, Pavlakis GN, Felber BK.
PLoS Pathog. 2021 Sep 22;17(9):e1009701. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009701. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34551020

Prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 WA1/2020 partially protects rhesus macaques against re-infection with B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants.
Chandrashekar A, Liu J, Yu J, McMahan K, Tostanoski LH, Jacob-Dolan C, Mercado NB, Anioke T, Chang A, Gardner S, Giffin VM, Hope DL, Nampanya F, Patel S, Sanborn O, Sellers D, Wan H, Martinot AJ, Baczenas JJ, O’Connor SL, Pessaint L, Valentin D, Espina B, Wattay L, Ferrari MG, Brown R, Cook A, Bueno-Wilkerson D, Teow E, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Barouch DH.
Sci Transl Med. 2021 Sep 21:eabj2641. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj2641. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34546094

Synthetic Multiantigen MVA Vaccine COH04S1 Protects Against SARS-CoV-2 in Syrian Hamsters and Non-Human Primates.
Chiuppesi F, Nguyen VH, Park Y, Contreras H, Karpinski V, Faircloth K, Nguyen J, Kha M, Johnson D, Martinez J, Iniguez A, Zhou Q, Kaltcheva T, Frankel P, Kar S, Sharma A, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Shostak Y, Wussow F, Diamond DJ.
bioRxiv. 2021 Sep 15:2021.09.15.460487. doi: 10.1101/2021.09.15.460487. Preprint.
PMID: 34545366 Free PMC article.

Immune correlates of protection by mRNA-1273 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates.
Corbett KS, Nason MC, Flach B, Gagne M, O’Connell S, Johnston TS, Shah SN, Edara VV, Floyd K, Lai L, McDanal C, Francica JR, Flynn B, Wu K, Choi A, Koch M, Abiona OM, Werner AP, Moliva JI, Andrew SF, Donaldson MM, Fintzi J, Flebbe DR, Lamb E, Noe AT, Nurmukhambetova ST, Provost SJ, Cook A, Dodson A, Faudree A, Greenhouse J, Kar S, Pessaint L, Porto M, Steingrebe K, Valentin D, Zouantcha S, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, van de Wetering R, Boyoglu-Barnum S, Leung K, Shi W, Yang ES, Zhang Y, Todd JM, Wang L, Alvarado GS, Andersen H, Foulds KE, Edwards DK, Mascola JR, Moore IN, Lewis MG, Carfi A, Montefiori D, Suthar MS, McDermott A, Roederer M, Sullivan NJ, Douek DC, Graham BS, Seder RA.
Science. 2021 Sep 17;373(6561):eabj0299. doi: 10.1126/science.abj0299. Epub 2021 Sep 17.
PMID: 34529476 Free PMC article.

Engineered SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain improves manufacturability in yeast and immunogenicity in mice.
Dalvie NC, Rodriguez-Aponte SA, Hartwell BL, Tostanoski LH, Biedermann AM, Crowell LE, Kaur K, Kumru OS, Carter L, Yu J, Chang A, McMahan K, Courant T, Lebas C, Lemnios AA, Rodrigues KA, Silva M, Johnston RS, Naranjo CA, Tracey MK, Brady JR, Whittaker CA, Yun D, Brunette N, Wang JY, Walkey C, Fiala B, Kar S, Porto M, Lok M, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Love KR, Camp DL, Silverman JM, Kleanthous H, Joshi SB, Volkin DB, Dubois PM, Collin N, King NP, Barouch DH, Irvine DJ, Love JC.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Sep 21;118(38):e2106845118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106845118.
PMID: 34493582

mRNA-1273 protects against SARS-CoV-2 beta infection in nonhuman primates.
Corbett KS, Werner AP, Connell SO, Gagne M, Lai L, Moliva JI, Flynn B, Choi A, Koch M, Foulds KE, Andrew SF, Flebbe DR, Lamb E, Nurmukhambetova ST, Provost SJ, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Ry AV, Flinchbaugh Z, Johnston TS, Mokhtari EB, Mudvari P, Henry AR, Laboune F, Chang B, Porto M, Wear J, Alvarado GS, Boyoglu-Barnum S, Todd JM, Bart B, Cook A, Dodson A, Pessaint L, Steingrebe K, Elbashir S, Sriparna M, Pekosz A, Andersen H, Wu K, Edwards DK, Kar S, Lewis MG, Boritz E, Moore IN, Carfi A, Suthar MS, McDermott A, Roederer M, Nason MC, Sullivan NJ, Douek DC, Graham BS, Seder RA.
Nat Immunol. 2021 Aug 20. doi: 10.1038/s41590-021-01021-0. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34417590

SARS-CoV-2 variant prediction and antiviral drug design are enabled by RBD in vitro evolution.
Zahradník J, Marciano S, Shemesh M, Zoler E, Harari D, Chiaravalli J, Meyer B, Rudich Y, Li C, Marton I, Dym O, Elad N, Lewis MG, Andersen H, Gagne M, Seder RA, Douek DC, Schreiber G.
Nat Microbiol. 2021 Sep;6(9):1188-1198. doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00954-4. Epub 2021 Aug 16.
PMID: 34400835

Protective antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein vaccination are boosted in the lung after challenge in nonhuman primates.
Francica JR, Flynn BJ, Foulds KE, Noe AT, Werner AP, Moore IN, Gagne M, Johnston TS, Tucker C, Davis RL, Flach B, O’Connell S, Andrew SF, Lamb E, Flebbe DR, Nurmukhambetova ST, Donaldson MM, Todd JM, Zhu AL, Atyeo C, Fischinger S, Gorman MJ, Shin S, Edara VV, Floyd K, Lai L, Boyoglu-Barnum S, Van De Wetering R, Tylor A, McCarthy E, Lecouturier V, Ruiz S, Berry C, Tibbitts T, Andersen H, Cook A, Dodson A, Pessaint L, Van Ry A, Koutsoukos M, Gutzeit C, Teng IT, Zhou T, Li D, Haynes BF, Kwong PD, McDermott A, Lewis MG, Fu TM, Chicz R, van der Most R, Corbett KS, Suthar MS, Alter G, Roederer M, Sullivan NJ, Douek DC, Graham BS, Casimiro D, Seder RA.
Sci Transl Med. 2021 Aug 18;13(607):eabi4547. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abi4547. Epub 2021 Jul 27.
PMID: 34315825

In vitro and in vivo functions of SARS-CoV-2 infection-enhancing and neutralizing antibodies.
Li D, Edwards RJ, Manne K, Martinez DR, Schäfer A, Alam SM, Wiehe K, Lu X, Parks R, Sutherland LL, Oguin TH 3rd, McDanal C, Perez LG, Mansouri K, Gobeil SMC, Janowska K, Stalls V, Kopp M, Cai F, Lee E, Foulger A, Hernandez GE, Sanzone A, Tilahun K, Jiang C, Tse LV, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Cronin K, Gee-Lai V, Deyton M, Barr M, Von Holle T, Macintyre AN, Stover E, Feldman J, Hauser BM, Caradonna TM, Scobey TD, Rountree W, Wang Y, Moody MA, Cain DW, DeMarco CT, Denny TN, Woods CW, Petzold EW, Schmidt AG, Teng IT, Zhou T, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, Graham BS, Moore IN, Seder R, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Montefiori DC, Sempowski GD, Baric RS, Acharya P, Haynes BF, Saunders KO.
Cell. 2021 Aug 5;184(16):4203-4219.e32. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.021. Epub 2021 Jun 18.
PMID: 34242577 Free PMC article.

Protective efficacy of Ad26.COV2.S against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 in macaques.
Yu J, Tostanoski LH, Mercado NB, McMahan K, Liu J, Jacob-Dolan C, Chandrashekar A, Atyeo C, Martinez DR, Anioke T, Bondzie EA, Chang A, Gardner S, Giffin VM, Hope DL, Nampanya F, Nkolola J, Patel S, Sanborn O, Sellers D, Wan H, Hayes T, Bauer K, Pessaint L, Valentin D, Flinchbaugh Z, Brown R, Cook A, Bueno-Wilkerson D, Teow E, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Martinot AJ, Baric RS, Alter G, Wegmann F, Zahn R, Schuitemaker H, Barouch DH.
Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7872):423-427. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03732-8. Epub 2021 Jun 23.
PMID: 34161961 Free PMC article.

Cell-mimicking nanodecoys neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and mitigate lung injury in a non-human primate model of COVID-19.
Li Z, Wang Z, Dinh PC, Zhu D, Popowski KD, Lutz H, Hu S, Lewis MG, Cook A, Andersen H, Greenhouse J, Pessaint L, Lobo LJ, Cheng K.
Nat Nanotechnol. 2021 Aug;16(8):942-951. doi: 10.1038/s41565-021-00923-2. Epub 2021 Jun 17.
PMID: 34140674

A Human-Immune-System (HIS) humanized mouse model (DRAGA: HLA-A2. HLA-DR4. Rag1 KO.IL-2Rγc KO. NOD) for COVID-19.
Brumeanu TD, Vir P, Karim AF, Kar S, Benetiene D, Lok M, Greenhouse J, Putmon-Taylor T, Kitajewski C, Chung KK, Pratt KP, Casares SA.
bioRxiv. 2021 Jan 29:2020.08.19.251249. doi: 10.1101/2020.08.19.251249. Preprint.
PMID: 32839773 Free PMC article.

Protective efficacy of Ad26.COV2.S against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 in macaques.
Yu J, Tostanoski LH, Mercado NB, McMahan K, Liu J, Jacob-Dolan C, Chandrashekar A, Atyeo C, Martinez DR, Anioke T, Bondzie EA, Chang A, Gardner S, Giffin VM, Hope DL, Nampanya F, Nkolola J, Patel S, Sanborn O, Sellers D, Wan H, Hayes T, Bauer K, Pessaint L, Valentin D, Flinchbaugh Z, Brown R, Cook A, Bueno-Wilkerson D, Teow E, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Martinot AJ, Baric RS, Alter G, Wegmann F, Zahn R, Schuitemaker H, Barouch DH.
Nature. 2021 Jun 23. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03732-8. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34161961

Cell-mimicking nanodecoys neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and mitigate lung injury in a non-human primate model of COVID-19.
Li Z, Wang Z, Dinh PC, Zhu D, Popowski KD, Lutz H, Hu S, Lewis MG, Cook A, Andersen H, Greenhouse J, Pessaint L, Lobo LJ, Cheng K.
Nat Nanotechnol. 2021 Jun 17. doi: 10.1038/s41565-021-00923-2. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34140674

A cautionary perspective regarding the isolation and serial propagation of SARS-CoV-2 in Vero cells.
Funnell SGP, Afrough B, Baczenas JJ, Berry N, Bewley KR, Bradford R, Florence C, Duff YL, Lewis M, Moriarty RV, Connor SLO, Osman KL, Pullan S, Rashid S, Richards KS, Stemple KJ, Knezevic I.
NPJ Vaccines. 2021 Jun 17;6(1):83. doi: 10.1038/s41541-021-00346-z.
PMID: 34140522

Low-dose Ad26.COV2.S protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge in rhesus macaques.
He X, Chandrashekar A, Zahn R, Wegmann F, Yu J, Mercado NB, McMahan K, Martinot AJ, Piedra-Mora C, Beecy S, Ducat S, Chamanza R, Huber SR, van Heerden M, van der Fits L, Borducchi EN, Lifton M, Liu J, Nampanya F, Patel S, Peter L, Tostanoski LH, Pessaint L, Van Ry A, Finneyfrock B, Velasco J, Teow E, Brown R, Cook A, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Schuitemaker H, Barouch DH.
Cell. 2021 Jun 1:S0092-8674(21)00693-0. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.05.040. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 34133941 Free PMC article.

Evaluation of mRNA-1273 against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 Infection in Nonhuman Primates.
Corbett KS, Werner AP, O’ Connell S, Gagne M, Lai L, Moliva JI, Flynn B, Choi A, Koch M, Foulds KE, Andrew SF, Flebbe DR, Lamb E, Nurmukhambetova ST, Provost SJ, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Van Ry A, Flinchbaugh Z, Johnston TS, Mokhtari EB, Mudvari P, Henry AR, Laboune F, Chang B, Porto M, Wear J, Alvarado GS, Boyoglu-Barnum S, Todd JM, Bart B, Cook A, Dodson A, Pessaint L, Steingrebe K, Elbashir S, Andersen H, Wu K, Edwards DK, Kar S, Lewis MG, Bortiz E, Moore IN, Carfi A, Suthar MS, McDermott A, Roederer M, Nason MC, Sullivan NJ, Douek DC, Graham BS, Seder RA.
bioRxiv. 2021 May 24:2021.05.21.445189. doi: 10.1101/2021.05.21.445189. Preprint.
PMID: 34075375 Free PMC article.

Neutralizing antibody vaccine for pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses.
Saunders KO, Lee E, Parks R, Martinez DR, Li D, Chen H, Edwards RJ, Gobeil S, Barr M, Mansouri K, Alam SM, Sutherland LL, Cai F, Sanzone AM, Berry M, Manne K, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Kapingidza AB, Azoitei M, Tse LV, Scobey TD, Spreng RL, Rountree RW, DeMarco CT, Denny TN, Woods CW, Petzold EW, Tang J, Oguin TH 3rd, Sempowski GD, Gagne M, Douek DC, Tomai MA, Fox CB, Seder R, Wiehe K, Weissman D, Pardi N, Golding H, Khurana S, Acharya P, Andersen H, Lewis MG, Moore IN, Montefiori DC, Baric RS, Haynes BF.
Nature. 2021 May 10. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03594-0. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 33971664

Protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection by a mucosal vaccine in rhesus macaques.
Sui Y, Li J, Zhang R, Prabhu SK, Andersen H, Venzon D, Cook A, Brown R, Teow E, Velasco J, Greenhouse J, Putman-Taylor T, Campbell TA, Pessaint L, Moore IN, Lagenaur L, Talton J, Breed MW, Kramer J, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Lewis MG, Wang LX, Berzofsky JA.
JCI Insight. 2021 Apr 28;6(10):148494. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.148494.
PMID: 33908897

Immune Correlates of Protection by mRNA-1273 Immunization against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Nonhuman Primates.
Corbett KS, Nason MC, Flach B, Gagne M, O’ Connell S, Johnston TS, Shah SN, Edara VV, Floyd K, Lai L, McDanal C, Francica JR, Flynn B, Wu K, Choi A, Koch M, Abiona OM, Werner AP, Alvarado GS, Andrew SF, Donaldson MM, Fintzi J, Flebbe DR, Lamb E, Noe AT, Nurmukhambetova ST, Provost SJ, Cook A, Dodson A, Faudree A, Greenhouse J, Kar S, Pessaint L, Porto M, Steingrebe K, Valentin D, Zouantcha S, Bock KW, Minai M, Nagata BM, Moliva JI, van de Wetering R, Boyoglu-Barnum S, Leung K, Shi W, Yang ES, Zhang Y, Todd JM, Wang L, Andersen H, Foulds KE, Edwards DK, Mascola JR, Moore IN, Lewis MG, Carfi A, Montefiori D, Suthar MS, McDermott A, Sullivan NJ, Roederer M, Douek DC, Graham BS, Seder RA.
bioRxiv. 2021 Apr 23:2021.04.20.440647. doi: 10.1101/2021.04.20.440647. Preprint.
PMID: 33907752 Free PMC article.

Efficacy and breadth of adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain nanoparticle vaccine in macaques.
King HAD, Gordon Joyce M, Naouar IE, Ahmed A, Cincotta CM, Subra C, Peachman KK, Hack HH, Chen RE, Thomas PV, Chen WH, Sankhala RS, Hajduczki A, Martinez EJ, Peterson CE, Chang WC, Choe M, Smith C, Headley JA, Elyard HA, Cook A, Anderson A, Wuertz KM, Dong M, Swafford I, Case JB, Currier JR, Lal KG, Amare MF, Dussupt V, Molnar S, Daye SP, Zeng X, Barkei EK, Alfson K, Staples HM, Carrion R, Krebs SJ, Paquin-Proulx D, Karasavvas N, Polonis VR, Jagodzinski LL, Vasan S, Scott PT, Huang Y, Nair MS, Ho DD, de Val N, Diamond MS, Lewis MG, Rao M, Matyas GR, Gromowski GD, Peel SA, Michael NL, Modjarrad K, Bolton DL.
bioRxiv. 2021 Apr 10:2021.04.09.439166. doi: 10.1101/2021.04.09.439166. Preprint.
PMID: 33851155 Free PMC article.

Efficacy of a Broadly Neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 Ferritin Nanoparticle Vaccine in Nonhuman Primates.
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