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Investigators and Program Directors
Jeffrey S. Kennedy
Research Physician, Wadsworth Center, Immunology
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences
M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, 1987 Fellowships: Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center, (1991-95), Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Harvard School of Public Health (1998-99).
Email: jsk07@health.state.ny.us
Select Publications
- Frey, SE, Newman, FK, Cruz, J, Shelton, B, Tennant, JM, Polach, T, Rothman, AL, Kennedy, JS, Wolff, M, Belshe, RB, Ennis, FA. Dose-related effects of smallpox vaccine. New England J Medicine 346(17):1275-80, 2002.
- Terajima, M., Cruz, JC, Raines, G., Kilpatrick, ED., Kennedy, JS, Rothman, AL., Ennis, FA. Quantitation of CD8+ T cell Responses to Newly Identified HLA-A*0201-restricted T Cell Epitopes Conserved Among Vaccinia and Variola (Smallpox) Viruses. J. Exp. Med. 197(7):927-932, 2003.
- Weltzin R., Liu, J., Pugachev, KV, Myers, G., Coughlin, B., Nichols, R., Johnson, C., Cruz, J., Kennedy, JS, Ennis, FA, Monath, TP. Clonal cell culture-grown vaccinia virus (New York City Board of Health strain) as a second-generation smallpox vaccine. Nature Medicine 9(9):1125-1130, 2003.
- Kennedy, JS., Frey, SE., Yan, L., Rothman, AL., Cruz, J., Newman, FK., Orphin, L., Belshe, RB., and Ennis, FA. Induction of Human T-Cell-mediated Immune Responses after Primary and Secondary Smallpox Vaccination. Journal of Infectious Disease 190(7):1286-94, 2004.
- Greenberg, RN, Kennedy, JS, Clanton, DJ, Plummer, EA, Hague, L, Cruz, J, Ennis, FA, Blackwelder, WC, and Hopkins, RJ. Evaluation of Safety and Immunogenicity of a New Cell-Cultured Smallpox Vaccine (CCSV) Compared with a Calf Lymph Derived Smallpox Vaccine (Dryvax). Lancet 365: 398-409, 2005.
- Monath, TP, Liu, J, Kanesa-Thasan, N, Myers, G, Nichols, R, Deary, A, McCarthy, K, Johnson, C, Ermak, T, Sunheang, S, Guirakhoo, F, Kennedy, JS, Ennis, FA, Green, S, Bedford, P. A live, attenuated vaccine against West Nile virus. PNAS 2006; 103(17): 6694-6699.
- Terajima M, Cruz J, Leporati AM, Demkowicz WE Jr, Kennedy JS, Ennis FA. Identification of vaccinia CD8+ T-cell epitopes conserved among vaccinia and variola viruses restricted by common MHC class molecules, HLA-A2 or HLA-B7.Hum Immunol. 2006; 67(7):512-20
- Sivapalasingam, S, Kennedy, JS, Borkowsky, W, Valentine, F, Zhan, M-X, Pazoles, P, Paolino, A, Ennis, FA, Steigbigel, N. Immunological Memory following exposure to variola virus, monkeypox virus and vaccinia (Dryvax). J Infect Dis 2007; 195(8):1151-9.
- Wang S, Kennedy JS, West K, Montefiori DC, Coley S, Lawrence J, Shen S, Green S, Rothman AL, Ennis FA, Arthos J, Pal R, Markham P, Lu S. Cross-subtype antibody and cellular immune responses induced by a polyvalent DNA prime-protein boost HIV-1 vaccine in healthy human volunteers. Vaccine. 2008, 23; 26(31):3947-57.
- Bansal, A, Jackson, B, West, K, Wang, S, Lu, S, Kennedy, JS, Goepfert, PA. Multifunctional T cell characteristics induced by a polyvalent DNA prime/ protein boost HIV-1 vaccine regimen given to healthy adults are dependant upon the route and dose of administration. J Virol. 2008; 82(13):6458-69.
- Kennedy JS and Lawrence DA. Coincidental associations do not provide proof for the etiology of autism. Journal Immunotoxicology 2:1-6, 2011
- Kennedy JS, Gurwith M, Dekker CL, Frey SE, Edwards KM, Kenner J, Lock M, Empig C, Morikawa S, Saijo M, Yokote H, Karem K, Damon I, Perlroth M, Greenberg RN. Safety and Immunogenicity of LC16m8, an Attenuated Smallpox Vaccine in Vaccinia-Naïve Adults. J Infect Dis. 2011; 204(9):1395-402.
Contact Information
Phone: 518-486-4395 Fax: 518-473-2900 Email: jsk07@health.state.ny.us