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Dr. César López-Camacho
Vaccine development for infectious diseases and immunopathogenesis
PROFILE
César López-Camacho holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and has held four postdoctoral positions in molecular biology, fidelity of gene expression, and vaccinology at UMASS Medical School-USA, University of Vermont College of Medicine-USA and the Jenner Institute at University of Oxford, respectively. He is currently a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher working with Prof. Gavin Screaton at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, here at Oxford.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, his current scientific activity encompasses the design and protein production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens to be utilised as diagnostic tools and for coronavirus research applications and the exploration of the immune responses in COVID-19 convalescent individuals.
He is part of the COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database for the UK parliament; part of the National COVID Testing Scientific Advisory Panel and joined the College of Experts to Support the Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO), as grant applications reviewer.
In the pre-COVID era, his main research aims are the immunopathogenesis of Dengue virus and vaccine development of novel antigen candidates, to induce specific anti-flavivirus antibody responses against functional and conformational epitopes.
Doctor López-Camacho joined the Jenner Institute in 2014 as a postdoctoral researcher in Reyes-Sandoval’s group and worked on vaccine development for several arboviruses (Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya and Mayaro viruses). During this time he extensively published scientific work, both as first author and as co-author, in relation to arboviral, parasitic (malaria and chagas disease) and Papillomavirus vaccine developments.
In terms of intellectual property activities, he is an inventor and collaborator in vaccine-related Patents.
Recent publications
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Thompson CP. et al, (2020), Eurosurveillance, 25
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Kim YC. et al, (2020), Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2142, 93 - 102
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Kroon Campos R. et al, (2019), Pathogens, 8, 231 - 231
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Slon-Campos JL. et al, (2019), Nature immunology, 20, 1291 - 1298
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Kim YC. et al, (2019), Viruses, 11, 407 - 407
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López-Camacho C. et al, (2019), Viruses, 11, 322 - 322
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Matos ADS. et al, (2019), Frontiers in Immunology, 10
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Kim YC. et al, (2018), Virology Journal, 15
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López-Camacho C. et al, (2018), Nature Communications, 9
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Salman AM. et al, (2017), Scientific Reports, 7
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Alves E. et al, (2017), Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 24