Afam A. Okoye

Also affiliated with Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute

Immunology and MicrobiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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Driven by 16 papers. Top paper: “CD8+ T cells fail to limit SIV reactivation following ART withdrawal until after viral amplification”.

CD8+ T cells fail to limit SIV reactivation following ART withdrawal until after viral amplification

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2021)10.1172/jci141677

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0.553DataRank · unranked

39 citations

Derick D. Duell, Yoshinori Fukazawa, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Alejandra Marenco, Hannah Michaela Behrens +19 more

Enhanced interpretation of immune cell phenotype and function through a rhesus macaque single-cell atlas

Cell Genomics(2025)10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100849

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0.292DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Gregory Boggy, GW McElfresh, Maanasa Kaza, Sebastian Benjamin, Benjamin Varco-Merth +17 more

The identity of human tissue-emigrant CD8 + T cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.11.236372

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0.269DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Laura A. Vella, Son Nguyen, Vincent H. Wu, Takuya Sekine, André Perez‐Potti +31 more

The ingenol-based protein kinase C agonist GSK445A is a potent inducer of HIV and SIV RNA transcription

PLoS Pathogens(2022)10.1371/journal.ppat.1010245

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22 citations

Rémi Fromentin, Hiroshi Takata, Jessica H. Brehm, Yoshinori Fukazawa, Bryan E. Randall +11 more

Rapamycin limits CD4+ T cell proliferation in simian immunodeficiency virus–infected rhesus macaques on antiretroviral therapy

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2022)10.1172/jci156063

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19 citations

William Brantley, Alejandra Marenco, Derick D. Duell, Devin N. Fachko, Brian Richardson +17 more

Effects of Early Antiretroviral Therapy on the Composition and Diversity of the Fecal Microbiome of SIV-infected Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Comparative Medicine(2022)10.30802/aalas-cm-22-000020

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2 citations

Devin N. Fachko, Jeffrey M. Stanton, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Jeremy Smedley, Afam A. Okoye +2 more

Timing of initiation of anti-retroviral therapy predicts post-treatment control of SIV replication

PLoS Pathogens(2023)10.1371/journal.ppat.1011660

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17 citations

Steffen S. Docken, Afam A. Okoye, Christine M. Fennessey, Gregory Q. Del Prete, María Pino +6 more

Highlights from the Tenth International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy, December 13-16, 2022, Miami, Florida-USA

Journal of Virus Eradication(2023)10.1016/j.jve.2023.100315

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4 citations

Katharine J. Bar, T. Burdo, Marina Caskey, Ann Chahroudi, M. Farzan +10 more

Anti–PD-1 chimeric antigen receptor T cells efficiently target SIV-infected CD4+ T cells in germinal centers

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2024)10.1172/jci169309

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21 citations

Yoshinori Fukazawa, Christopher W. Peterson, Françoise Haeseleer, Manuel Medina, Shelby Hoffmeister +17 more

Early antiretroviral therapy in SIV-infected rhesus macaques reveals a multiphasic, saturable dynamic accumulation of the rebound competent viral reservoir

PLoS Pathogens(2024)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012135

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20 citations

Afam A. Okoye, Christine M. Fennessey, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Taina T. Immonen, Emek Köse +23 more

Impact of alemtuzumab-mediated lymphocyte depletion on SIV reservoir establishment and persistence

PLoS Pathogens(2024)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012496

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3 citations

Morgan Chaunzwa, Derick M. Duell, Alejandra Marenco, William Goodwin, Rachel Dannay +24 more

Identification of initial sites of SIV rebound after treatment cessation

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-6814218/v1

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2 citations

Brandon F. Keele, Afam A. Okoye, Taina T. Immonen, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Derick M. Duell +23 more

The Identity of Human Tissue-Emigrant CD8+ T Cells

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.019

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109 citations

Laura A. Vella, Son Nguyen, Vincent H. Wu, Zeyu Chen, Takuya Sekine +35 more

An immune-focused supplemental alignment pipeline captures information missed from dominant single-cell RNA-seq analyses, including allele-specific MHC-I regulation

Frontiers in Immunology(2025)10.3389/fimmu.2025.1596760

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0 citations

GW McElfresh, Maanasa Kaza, Gregory Boggy, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Sohita Ojha +22 more

Evaluating a New Class of AKT/mTOR Activators for HIV Latency-Reversing Activity Ex Vivo and In Vivo

Journal of Virology(2021)10.1128/jvi.02393-20

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25 citations

Roland Schwarzer, William Brantley, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Hannah S. Sperber, Philip A. Hull +27 more

Immune inactivation of anti-simian immunodeficiency virus chimeric antigen receptor T cells in rhesus macaques

Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development(2021)10.1016/j.omtm.2021.06.008

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8 citations

Yoshinori Fukazawa, Haesun Park, Benjamin Varco-Merth, Blake J. Rust, Jeremy Smedley +9 more