Charles Peter DeLisi (born 1941) - Nearly 30 shared research papers between Dr. Jay Arthur Berzofsky (born 1946) and Charles Peter DeLisi (born 1941)
Dr. David B. Weiner (born 1955) - ( 2 papers in 1990 ... not sure if this is a strong connection or not ... )
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RESEARCH ARTICLE| JUNE 15 1989
W V Williams; S D London; D B Weiner; S Wadsworth; J A Berzofsky; F Robey; D H Rubin; M I Greene
Author & Article Information
J Immunol (1989) 142 (12): 4392–4400.
https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.142.12.4392
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1989-journal-of-immunology-immune-response-to-a-molecularly-defined-internal-image-idiotope.pdf
and again in 1990 ...
Jay Berzofsky - Curriculum Vitae
Weiner, D.B., W.V. William, M.J. Merva, K. Huebner, J.A. Berzofsky, and M.I. Greene.
1990. HIV Infectivity analysis of viral envelope determinants and target cell requirements
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for infectivity by HIV-1. In Vaccines 90. F. Brown, R.M. Chanock, H.S. Ginsberg, and
R.A. Lerner, editors. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor. 339-345.
By Deseret News Jun 23, 1990, 2:00am EDT
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Mentioned : Dr. Murray Briggs Gardner (born 1945) / Dr. Wayne C. Koff (born 1952) /
Large-scale testing of AIDS vaccines could begin in two years and a vaccine could be widely available by the middle of the 1990s, researchers said Friday.
In an address at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, Dr. Jay A. Berzofsky of the National Cancer Institute said the most effective vaccines will probably be synthetic - made through recombinant DNA technology, or genetic engineering."We're now in a position to take advantage of recent advantages in immunology to design an artificial vaccine," Berzofsky said. "And it should be possible to develop such a vaccine in the near future."
The AIDS vaccine group led by Dr. Jonas Salk reported that the Salk AIDS vaccine has so far produced beneficial blood changes in some of the 19 patients with AIDS-related complex who received it. The significance of those changes is still being studied, said Alexandra M. Levine of the University of Southern California.
[Dr. Wayne C. Koff (born 1952)], chief of the AIDS vaccine research branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the most promising human vaccines should be ready for large-scale testing in two or three years, and it will take two or three more years to determine their effectiveness.
"So, we're still looking at the mid-to-late 1990s as a minimal time frame for selection of a vaccine for general use," Koff said.
Some 30 approaches toward the development of vaccines are now being studied, Koff said. Half a dozen vaccines are already being tested or are about to be tested in humans, he said.
Optimism about an AIDS vaccine is spurred by recent successes with vaccines in animals, said [Dr. Murray Briggs Gardner (born 1945)] of the University of California, Davis.
A San Francisco community research group reported improvement in AIDS patients given a drug called compound Q, derived from a Chinese herb. Before getting the drug, patients suffered a steady decline in immune system cells called CD4 cells. Afterward, 38 of the patients showed either a stabilization of CD4 cells or an increase , said the study's director, Martin Delaney.
"At this stage, we have seen a major and dramatic change in what happens to these patients," Delaney said. But he said he could not yet recommend that the drug be taken widely because of potentially dangerous side effects.
Near the Moscone Center convention hall, more than 200 protesters, mostly woman, gathered in the latest of a string of daily demonstrations sponsored by ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.
Friday's demonstration focused on what ACT UP contends is the exclusion of women, children and minorities from research, treatment and other services.
Many protesters bound themselves to metal barricades with symbolic red paper chains, chanting, "Women die faster, this is a disaster," and waved signs reading "Health Care Now," Women Gets AIDS Too."
By Philip J. Hilts, Special To the New York Times / June 24, 1990 / Source : [HN01VI][GDrive]
Mentioned : MicroGeneSys, Incorporated / Dr. Jay A. Levy (born 1938) / Dr. Wayne C. Koff (born 1952) / Dr. Jay Arthur Berzofsky (born 1946) /
Optimistic after a string of laboratory successes, researchers are assembling potential vaccines against AIDS and may start preliminary testing within a year, scientists at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS said today.
In sessions so crowded that some people were turned away, researchers on Friday reviewed their most hopeful work, steps they have taken toward creating a vaccine that could prevent spread of the human immunodeficiency virus.
''In the past year, we've cracked open the door in our optimism about a vaccine,'' said [Dr. Wayne C. Koff (born 1952)], chief of vaccine research at the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. ''And I think in the next two or three years we will knock it down.''
Some of the experiments came after dozens of failed experiments in animals since 1986, failures that produced a deep pessimism about whether a vaccine would ever be possible.
Reports given at the meeting demonstrated that monkeys, chimpanzees, cats and cells in an artificial human immune system can be protected against infection. These early experiments will continue, Dr. Koff said at a news conference after the Friday session, but it is also urgent to begin tests as soon as possible.
He said that within a year, researchers may begin experiments in which a vaccine will be used to treat pregnant women already infected with the virus. The researchers hope the vaccine may retard the development of disease in the women and may prevent them from passing the infection to their babies, Dr. Koff said. About one-third of the babies born to infected women acquire the disease in the womb.
Tests of the more conventional use of a vaccine, to protect the population against infection, are not likely to begin for two to four years. Researchers said how long it would take to create a working vaccine depended on success at each step along the way, though there is now hope that one may be on the market in 10 years.
Vaccine research was the topic of several sessions at the conference over three days ending today. [Dr. Jay Arthur Berzofsky (born 1946)], chief of immunogenetics and vaccine research at the National Cancer Institute, outlined the progress and difficulties to those at the conference Friday and elaborated on those points in an interview today.
The recent successes demonstrate that a vaccine in humans is at least feasible, Dr. Berzofsky said.
Results from three successful chimpanzee experiments and three successful monkey experiments were reported at the meeting, but Dr. Berzofsky said the success was limited. In each experiment, the animals were given a vaccine, then given doses of the live virus, and the researchers found that the animals were protected against infection by the virus.
Dr. Berzofsky said that the doses of live virus given to the animals were low and that the virus was given in shots, whereas actual human infection occurs through the skin of the genitals or elsewhere.
Also, he said, only the virus itself was given to the animals, while humans are infected by such free virus as well as virus hidden inside infected cells in the blood or sperm. The body has different means of responding to each type of infection.
It is not known if the animal tests would be successful if they were given both free virus and cell-carried virus, Dr. Berzofsky said.
[Dr. Jay A. Levy (born 1938)], a virologist at the University of California at San Francisco, said, ''That will be one of the most important experiments to do now. When animals are protected from cell-associated virus, that will be a real breakthrough,'' he said.
One series of experiments reported here explored the difference between the failed experiments of previous years and the successful ones of the past year.
Researchers from Genentech, a California biotechnology company, reported that in 1986 they had taken a portion of the outer shell of the virus and injected it to make the chimpanzees' immune system produce antibodies and killer cells as if a viral attack was under way.
But after the vaccination, when live virus was given to the chimp, the protection failed and the animal quickly became infected.
Beginning in 1989, the group changed its approach. Researchers around the country began to report that a crucial segment of the viral shell, called the Third Variable region, or V3 loop, is the most powerful in creating defenses against the virus.
The Genentech group found that in its earlier experiments that region had been snipped in half by enzyme, and was disabled. In the new experiments they made sure the V3 loop was intact. The experiments succeeded, and two chimpanzees were protected by the new vaccine.
Researchers at a competing company, [MicroGeneSys, Incorporated] of Boston, say there are other important active sites. In addition, each different strain of the virus has slightly different versions of these active sites, so that it will probably be necessary to assemble a vaccine that includes bits of active sites from five or six different strains.
The Genentech team also noted a potential danger in the vaccine work in general: When the immune system makes antibodies to protect itself, some antibodies, ''enhancing antibodies,'' actually do the opposite and may dramatically speed up the progession of disease.
In a chimpanzee experiment that failed to protect the animals, Genentech researchers saw that the animals became infected twice as fast as might normally be expected.
In order to overcome the problem, the researchers say, a vaccine must not include bits of the shell that will elicit ''enhancing antibodies.''
There are now about 30 vaccine candidates being tested in laboratories around the world, and about $180 million is being expended on the work, Dr. Koff said, including $150 million for research and $30 million for preliminary safety tests being done in humans.
At the meeting, two groups, one led by Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the Salk polio vaccine, and Dr. Alexandra Levine of the University of Southern California, and the other led by Dr. Robert Redfield of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, reported that giving vaccines to humans produces a substantial immune response without significant side effects.
In the work presented by Dr. Levine, 82 patients already infected with the virus were given a vaccine created from a live but disabled AIDS virus. Among the 82, given the vaccine at various times over the past two years, only one has developed an infection characteristic of AIDS, and five have developed Kaposi's sarcoma, the cancer associated with AIDS.
The experiment had no comparison group, so no conclusions may be drawn, but it appears that rate of progression to disease is about a fifth of the rate found in other experimental groups.
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Beth Elise Anisman and Alexander Eric Berzofsky were married Monday afternoon at the Black Point Inn in Scarborough, Me. Rabbi Kopi Saltman, the stepfather of the bride, officiated.
The bride, 35, is the senior real estate lawyer for Lehman Brothers in New York, where she is also the chief administrative officer of the corporate advisory division, which deals with legal compliance and audit matters. She is on the executive committee of the board of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. She graduated cum laude from Barnard and received her law degree from Northwestern University.
Her father, Martin Anisman of Amherst, N.Y., is the president of Daemen College in Amherst. Her mother, Joyce Saltman of Delray Beach, Fla., and Clinton, Conn., is a professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, where she teaches graduate students how to teach special education. The bride's mother also lectures on the therapeutic value of laughter. The bride's stepfather, an ordained rabbi, retired as the principal of the Rock Hill Elementary School in Wallingford, Conn. He is now an adjunct instructor at Southern Connecticut State; he also teaches how to teach special education, but to undergraduates.
The bridegroom, 32, is a vice president of Warburg Pincus, the venture capital and investment firm in Manhattan; he handles investments in software and business services companies. He graduated cum laude from Harvard.
He is a son of Sharon M. Berzofsky and Dr. Jay A. Berzofsky of Bethesda, Md. His mother retired as a program manager there for a computer software unit of I.B.M. His father is the chief of the vaccine branch of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, also in Bethesda.
Major sponsors include: AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation
Speakers :
Dr. Jay Arthur Berzofsky (born 1946) ( Keynote speaker )
Dr. Robert Wallace Malone (born 1959) (Keynote speaker)
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche ( On the Committee for the 2015 Vaccines R&D Symposium )
2015 Program : [HI004E][GDrive] / Conference Book PDF : [HI004H][GDrive]
Jay A. Berzofsky : "Cancer Vaccines: Translation from Mice to Human Clinical Trials"
Abstract : Both the humoral and cellular immune systems can be elicited by cancer vaccines to target cancer, but antibodies can detect only surface antigens on tumor cells whereas T cells can detect fragments of any protein made in the cell, presented by HLA molecules. I will describe examples of both types of vaccines that we have translated from preclinical discovery in mice to human clinical trials. For T cell recognition, many cancer epitopes may be of too low affinity to induce a T cell response, so we developed an epitope enhancement approach to increase affinity for HLA molecules. TARP is an antigen discovered by Ira Pastan’s lab expressed in about 95% of prostate cancers of all types and stages as well as 50% of breast cancers. We mapped epitopes presented by HLA-A2, the most common human class I HLA molecule, and then modified the sequence of one with intermediate affinity to make it more immunogenic (“epitope enhancement”). The enhanced epitope induced T cells in HLA-A2 transgenic mice reactive with the natural sequence more effectively than the natural sequence itself, and induced human T cells that killed human tumor cells expressing TARP and HLA-A2. Two peptides were translated into a clinical trial in stage D0 prostate cancer, the stage in which the primary tumor has been removed but a rising PSA indicates microscopic recurrence. In this setting, in which no tumor can be measured radiographically, the rate of change of PSA has been validated as a measure of clinical outcome. In patients receiving the TARP peptide vaccine, nearly three-fourths had a statistically significantly decreased PSA slope at 6 and 12 months, and the median tumor growth rate constant was reduced in half. A follow-up randomized, placebo-controlled phase II trial is underway. The vaccine targeting antibodies is a recombinant adenovirus expressing the extracellular and transmembrane domains of HER2. In mice, such a vaccine cured virtually 100% of large established murine mammary carcinomas, and cured mice of large established lung metastases. In mice, the therapeutic effect was independent of CD8 T cells but completely dependent on antibodies. However, the mechanism was different from that of trastuzumab in that it was not FcR-dependent. A human version was used to transduce autologous dendritic cells to treat patients with any type of HER2-positive tumor not previously treated with HER2-directed therapy. Early results show several objective clinical responses. Thus, cancer vaccines eliciting either T cells or antibodies have great promise to treat cancer and may be amplified by synergy with other agents such as checkpoint inhibitors.
Biography : Dr. Jay A. Berzofsky, National Cancer Institute, USA, Chief of the Vaccine Branch, CCR, NCI, former president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and former Chair of the Medical Sciences Section of AAAS, who won the NIH Director’s Award and NCI Merit Award in 2008 and a Merit Award in 2011.
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Comparative therapeutic efficacy of remdesivir and combination lopinavir, ritonavir, and interferon beta against MERS-CoV.
Sheahan TP, Sims AC, Leist SR, Schäfer A, Won J, Brown AJ, Montgomery SA, Hogg A, Babusis D, Clarke MO, Spahn JE, Bauer L, Sellers S, Porter
D, Feng JY, Cihlar T, Jordan R, Denison MR, Baric RS.
Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 10;11(1):222. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13940-6.
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More papers .. https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Alison-Hogg-15095694 ... "Alison E. Hogg"
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March 22, 2023
The concept of cancer vaccination has generated excitement in the scientific community for decades.
Preventive vaccines, such as those against HPV and hepatitis B virus, have helped to reduce rates of virus-associated malignancies, such as cervical and liver cancer. In January, American Cancer Society researchers credited HPV vaccination with a 65% decline in cervical cancer incidence among women aged 20 to 24 years between 2012 and 2019.
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By Sophia Solano
May 5, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
Sharon Berzofsky was working in her garden when a group of Russians showed up with an interpreter and asked if they could buy her Bethesda house. She told them that it wasn’t for sale, but gave them a tour of the property anyway.
“They called me back, and they made me an offer,” Berzofsky said. “They wanted to give me a suitcase full of money.”
Another time, she recalled, she was approached by the president of the National Audubon Society, who was interested in the property because “this is the ideal house for birdwatching.”
Berzofsky understands the attraction to her home of 26 years. The Tudor-style house has unusual architectural features, and natural areas on and around the property buffer it from the hustle of nearby downtown Bethesda.
The family gave her husband a tree a year for his birthday, and many now tower over the nearly one-acre property. There are also rhododendrons and other perennials that Berzofsky said return every year “like old friends coming for a visit.” A pond on a neighboring property is home to ducks, turtles, koi and great blue herons.
The property, priced at nearly $2.5 million, has had some prominent owners. Architect Harry Edwards, known for high-end apartment complexes and single-family houses like those in Bethesda’s Greenwich Forest neighborhood, built this house in 1939 for his own home.
“He put his personality into it,” Berzofsky said. “Almost every place you look, there is something a little bit special and a little bit surprising.” She was referring to such details as the twisting back staircase and the entryway turret with a skylight, “flooding the front hallway with sunlight.”
The house was later owned by Michael Whitney Straight, a member of the philanthropic Whitney family and a confessed KGB spy, and Nina Auchincloss, stepsister to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Notes :
Michael Whitney Straight (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Straight
Nina Gore Auchincloss was born in 1937[4] to [Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (born 1897)] (1897–1976) and Nina (née Gore) Auchincloss (1903–1978).
The stone-and-brick house’s front door opens to a foyer in the turret with the skylight. The foyer provides access to the rest of the first floor and to stairs to the second floor (with its eye-catching curved landing) and the lower level.
The first floor has the kitchen, dining room, family room and powder room — also a sunroom, a den and a guest suite. The family room has exposed chestnut beams, an oak floor and a fireplace. The sunroom has three walls of windows and looks out on the pond. The renovated kitchen has new appliances, new custom cabinetry and a new butler’s pantry. It’s attached to a breakfast space with a floor-to-ceiling window looking out on the garden.
The guest suite on this floor has two bedrooms, a bathroom and a sitting room.
The primary bedroom suite, on the second floor, has two walk-in closets and two en suite full bathrooms. Three more bedrooms, three more bathrooms and a sitting room are on this floor. There is attic storage space on the third floor. The finished lower level has a laundry room, a bathroom and an office (or library) with a slate fireplace, built-in shelves and access to a patio.
The lower-level office (or library) has floor-to-ceiling windows. (Will Hinostroza)
The house is shaped like a Y, a feature that allows for more windows. “That’s why we have these wonderful views of the gardens,” Berzofsky said. “Outside every window is a landscaping focal point, so your attention is drawn from inside the house to the outside of the house.”
Berzofsky said the property is well suited for indoor and outdoor entertaining. “I can’t tell you how difficult it is both to leave the house and pack up everything,” Berzofsky said. “We’re secretly hoping that it doesn’t sell and that we get to stay here.”
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