Research Summary

I have studied natural killer (NK) cells in humans and mice since 1981. My lab has identified many of the activating and inhibitory NK receptors, their ligands, and signaling pathways and defined their role in innate and adaptive immune responses to pathogens and cancer.

Research Funding

  • August 5, 1999 - May 31, 2023 - Cancer Center Support Grant , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P30CA082103
  • August 1, 2018 - June 30, 2022 - Hypo-immunogenic cardiomyocytes for myocardial repair , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01HL140236
  • January 9, 2001 - March 31, 2021 - NK Memory , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01AI068129
  • March 1, 2001 - February 28, 2017 - NK and T Cell Costimulation by NKG2D/DAP10 , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R37AI066897

Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U., Blacksburg, VA, B.S. (honors), 1975, Microbiology
Univ. North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC, Ph.D., 1978, Immunology
Univ. North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC, Postdoc, 1978-79, Immunology
Univ. New Mexico Med Sch, Albuquerque, NM, Postdoc, 1979-81, Immunology

Honors & Awards

  • 1971
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Freshman Science Scholarship
  • 1978-1979
    National Research Service Award Fellowship, University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill Cancer Research Center
  • 1979-1981
    Damon Runyon - Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2001
    American Association of Immunologists Distinguished Service Award
  • 2002
    William B Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, New York
  • 2003
    American Cancer Society Research Professorship
  • 2005
    American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Rose Payne Award
  • 2006
    NIH Merit Grant Award
  • 2010
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011
    Member, National Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011
    Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
  • 2013
    J. Michael Bishop Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
  • 2017
    American Association of Immunologists Excellence in Mentoring Award
  • 2019
    American Association of Immunologists Distinguished Fellow
  • 2023
    American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award

Selected Publications

  1. Calabrese DR, Chong T, Singer JP, Rajalingam R, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Leard L, Golden JA, Lanier LL, Greenland JR. CD16+ natural killer cells in bronchoalveolar lavage are associated with antibody-mediated rejection and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. Am J Transplant. 2023 Jan; 23(1):37-44.  View on PubMed
  2. Aguilar OA, Gonzalez-Hinojosa MDR, Arakawa-Hoyt JS, Millan AJ, Gotthardt D, Nabekura T, Lanier LL. The CD16 and CD32b Fc-gamma receptors regulate antibody-mediated responses in mouse natural killer cells. J Leukoc Biol. 2023 Jan 10; 113(1):27-40.  View on PubMed
  3. Calabrese DR, Tsao T, Magnen M, Valet C, Gao Y, Mallavia B, Tian JJ, Aminian EA, Wang KM, Shemesh A, Punzalan EB, Sarma A, Calfee CS, Christenson SA, Langelier CR, Hays SR, Golden JA, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Shah R, Venado A, Lanier LL, Greenland JR, Sayah DM, Ardehali A, Kukreja J, Weigt SS, Belperio JA, Singer JP, Looney MR. NKG2D receptor activation drives primary graft dysfunction severity and poor lung transplantation outcomes. JCI Insight. 2022 12 22; 7(24).  View on PubMed
  4. Deuse T, Hu X, Gravina A, Wang D, Tediashvili G, De C, Thayer WO, Wahl A, Garcia JV, Reichenspurner H, Davis MM, Lanier LL, Schrepfer S. Author Correction: Hypoimmunogenic derivatives of induced pluripotent stem cells evade immune rejection in fully immunocompetent allogeneic recipients. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 Nov; 40(11):1690.  View on PubMed
  5. Vallejo J, Saigusa R, Gulati R, Suthahar SSA, Suryawanshi V, Alimadadi A, Durant CP, Ghosheh Y, Roy P, Ehinger E, Pattarabanjird T, Hanna DB, Landay AL, Tracy RP, Lazar JM, Mack WJ, Weber KM, Adimora AA, Hodis HN, Tien PC, Ofotokun I, Heath SL, Shemesh A, McNamara CA, Lanier LL, Hedrick CC, Kaplan RC, Ley K. Author Correction: Combined protein and transcript single-cell RNA sequencing in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. BMC Biol. 2022 Oct 20; 20(1):237.  View on PubMed
  6. Shemesh A, Su Y, Calabrese DR, Chen D, Arakawa-Hoyt J, Roybal KT, Heath JR, Greenland JR, Lanier LL. Diminished cell proliferation promotes natural killer cell adaptive-like phenotype by limiting FcεRIγ expression. J Exp Med. 2022 11 07; 219(11).  View on PubMed
  7. Vallejo J, Saigusa R, Gulati R, Armstrong Suthahar SS, Suryawanshi V, Alimadadi A, Durant CP, Ghosheh Y, Roy P, Ehinger E, Pattarabanjird T, Hanna DB, Landay AL, Tracy RP, Lazar JM, Mack WJ, Weber KM, Adimora AA, Hodis HN, Tien PC, Ofotokun I, Heath SL, Shemesh A, McNamara CA, Lanier LL, Hedrick CC, Kaplan RC, Ley K. Combined protein and transcript single-cell RNA sequencing in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. BMC Biol. 2022 09 01; 20(1):193.  View on PubMed
  8. Saigusa R, Vallejo J, Gulati R, Suthahar SSA, Suryawanshi V, Alimadadi A, Makings J, Durant CP, Freuchet A, Roy P, Ghosheh Y, Pandori W, Pattarabanjird T, Drago F, Taylor A, McNamara CA, Shemesh A, Lanier LL, Hedrick CC, Ley K. Sex Differences in Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes Revealed by scRNA-Seq and CITE-Seq of Human CD4+ T Cells. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Aug 30; 23(17).  View on PubMed
  9. Shemesh A, Pickering H, Roybal KT, Lanier LL. Differential IL-12 signaling induces human natural killer cell activating receptor-mediated ligand-specific expansion. J Exp Med. 2022 08 01; 219(8).  View on PubMed
  10. Potempa M, Aguilar OA, Gonzalez-Hinojosa MDR, Tenvooren I, Marquez DM, Spitzer MH, Lanier LL. Influence of Self-MHC Class I Recognition on the Dynamics of NK Cell Responses to Cytomegalovirus Infection. J Immunol. 2022 04 01; 208(7):1742-1754.  View on PubMed
  11. Aguilar OA, Fong LK, Ishiyama K, DeGrado WF, Lanier LL. The CD3? adaptor structure determines functional differences between human and mouse CD16 Fc receptor signaling. J Exp Med. 2022 05 02; 219(5).  View on PubMed
  12. Ishiyama K, Arakawa-Hoyt J, Aguilar OA, Damm I, Towfighi P, Sigdel T, Tamaki S, Babdor J, Spitzer MH, Reed EF, Sarwal MM, Lanier LL, CMV Systems Immunobiology Group. Mass cytometry reveals single-cell kinetics of cytotoxic lymphocyte evolution in CMV-infected renal transplant patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 02 22; 119(8).  View on PubMed
  13. Su Y, Yuan D, Chen DG, Ng RH, Wang K, Choi J, Li S, Hong S, Zhang R, Xie J, Kornilov SA, Scherler K, Pavlovitch-Bedzyk AJ, Dong S, Lausted C, Lee I, Fallen S, Dai CL, Baloni P, Smith B, Duvvuri VR, Anderson KG, Li J, Yang F, Duncombe CJ, McCulloch DJ, Rostomily C, Troisch P, Zhou J, Mackay S, DeGottardi Q, May DH, Taniguchi R, Gittelman RM, Klinger M, Snyder TM, Roper R, Wojciechowska G, Murray K, Edmark R, Evans S, Jones L, Zhou Y, Rowen L, Liu R, Chour W, Algren HA, Berrington WR, Wallick JA, Cochran RA, Micikas ME, ISB-Swedish COVID-19 Biobanking Unit, Wrin T, Petropoulos CJ, Cole HR, Fischer TD, Wei W, Hoon DSB, Price ND, Subramanian N, Hill JA, Hadlock J, Magis AT, Ribas A, Lanier LL, Boyd SD, Bluestone JA, Chu H, Hood L, Gottardo R, Greenberg PD, Davis MM, Goldman JD, Heath JR. Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae. Cell. 2022 03 03; 185(5):881-895.e20.  View on PubMed
  14. Good CR, Aznar MA, Kuramitsu S, Samareh P, Agarwal S, Donahue G, Ishiyama K, Wellhausen N, Rennels AK, Ma Y, Tian L, Guedan S, Alexander KA, Zhang Z, Rommel PC, Singh N, Glastad KM, Richardson MW, Watanabe K, Tanyi JL, O'Hara MH, Ruella M, Lacey SF, Moon EK, Schuster SJ, Albelda SM, Lanier LL, Young RM, Berger SL, June CH. An NK-like CAR T�cell transition in CAR T�cell dysfunction. Cell. 2021 12 09; 184(25):6081-6100.e26.  View on PubMed
  15. Pickering H, Sen S, Arakawa-Hoyt J, Ishiyama K, Sun Y, Parmar R, Ahn RS, Sunga G, Llamas M, Hoffmann A, Deng M, Bunnapradist S, Schaenman JM, Gjertson DW, Rossetti M, Lanier LL, Reed EF, CMV Systems Immunobiology Group. NK and CD8+ T cell phenotypes predict onset and control of CMV viremia after kidney transplant. JCI Insight. 2021 11 08; 6(21).  View on PubMed
  16. Kang E, Kadoch C, Rubenstein JL, Lanier LL, Wells JA. A functional mammalian display screen identifies rare antibodies that stimulate NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 08 03; 118(31).  View on PubMed
  17. Deuse T, Tediashvili G, Hu X, Gravina A, Tamenang A, Wang D, Connolly A, Mueller C, Mallavia B, Looney MR, Alawi M, Lanier LL, Schrepfer S. Hypoimmune induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cell therapeutics treat cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases in immunocompetent allogeneic mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 07 13; 118(28).  View on PubMed
  18. Deuse T, Hu X, Agbor-Enoh S, Jang MK, Alawi M, Saygi C, Gravina A, Tediashvili G, Nguyen VQ, Liu Y, Valantine H, Lanier LL, Schrepfer S. The SIRPa-CD47 immune checkpoint in NK cells. J Exp Med. 2021 03 01; 218(3).  View on PubMed
  19. Calabrese DR, Aminian E, Mallavia B, Liu F, Cleary SJ, Aguilar OA, Wang P, Singer JP, Hays SR, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Dugger D, Nakamura M, Lanier LL, Looney MR, Greenland JR. Natural killer cells activated through NKG2D mediate lung ischemia-reperfusion injury. J Clin Invest. 2021 02 01; 131(3).  View on PubMed
  20. Adams NM, Diaz-Salazar C, Dang C, Lanier LL, Sun JC. Cutting Edge: Heterogeneity in Cell Age Contributes to Functional Diversity of NK Cells. J Immunol. 2021 02 01; 206(3):465-470.  View on PubMed

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