Damron

F. Heath Damron, PhD

Professor and Director of the Vaccine Development Center WVU-Health Sciences Center

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Positions

Associate Professor and Director of the Vaccine Development center WVU-Health Sciences Center

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School of Medicine
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Faculty

Director, MD-PhD Program

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Health Sciences Center
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Admin

Publications

  1. Natrajan MS, Hall JM, Weigand MR, Peng Y, Williams MM, Momin M, Damron FH, Dubey P, Tondella ML, Pawloski LC. Genome-based prediction of cross-protective, HLA-DR-presented epitopes as putative vaccine antigens for multiple Bordetella species. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Dec 6;:e0352723. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03527-23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38054724.
  2. Weaver KL, Bitzer GJ, Wolf MA, Pyles GM, DeJong MA, Dublin SR, huckaby, AB, Gutierrez MP, Hall, JM, Wong TW, Warden M, Petty JE, Witt WT, Cunningham C, Sen-Kilic E, Damron FH, Barbier MB. Intranasal challenge with B. pertussis leads to more severe disease manifestations in mice than aerosol challenge. Intranasal challenge with B. pertussis leads to more severe disease manifestations in mice than aerosol challenge. PLOS ONE 18(11): 2023 e0286925. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286925
  3. Lee KS, Rader NA, Miller-Stump OA, Cooper M, Wong TY, Shahrier Amin M, Barbier M, Bevere JR, Ernst RK, Damron FH. Intranasal VLP-RBD vaccine adjuvanted with BECC470 confers immunity against Delta SARS-CoV-2 challenge in K18-hACE2-mice Vaccine. 2023 Jul 31;41(34):5003-5017. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.06.080. Epub 2023 Jun 28.
  4. Kang J, Mateu-Borrás M, Monroe HL, Sen-Kilic E, Miller SJ, Dublin SR, Huckaby AB, Yang E, Pyles GM, Nunley MA, Chapman JA, Amin MS, Damron FH, Barbier M. Monoclonal antibodies against lipopolysaccharide protect against Pseudomonas aeruginosa challenge in mice. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 Jun 22;13:1191806. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1191806. eCollection 2023. PMID: 37424774
  5. Diallo BK, Ní Chasaide C, Wong TY, Schmitt P, Lee KS, Weaver K, Miller O, Cooper M, Jazayeri SD, Damron FH, Mills KHG. Intranasal COVID-19 vaccine induces respiratory memory T cells and protects K18-hACE mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection. NPJ Vaccines. 2023 May 13;8(1):68. doi: 10.1038/s41541-023-00665-3. PMID: 37179389
  6. Horspool AM, Sen-Kilic E, Malkowski AC, Breslow SL, Mateu-Borras M, Hudson MS, Nunley MA, Elliott S, Ray K, Snyder GA, Miller SJ, Kang J, Blackwood CB, Weaver KL, Witt WT, Huckaby AB, Pyles GM, Clark T, Al Qatarneh S, Lewis GK, Damron FH, Barbier M. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 Apr 14;13:1117844. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1117844. eCollection 2023. PMID: 37124031
  7. Bitzer G, Weaver K, Barbier M, Damron FH. Protocol for aerosolization challenge of mice with Bordetella pertussis STAR Protoc. 2023 Jan 3;4(1):101979. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101979. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36598856
  8. Rodriguez-Aponte SA, Dalvie NC, Wong TY, Johnston RS, Naranjo CA, Bajoria S, Kumru OS, Kaur K, Russ BP, Lee KS, Cyphert HA, Barbier M, Rao HD, Rajurkar MP, Lothe RR, Shaligram US, Batwal S, Chandrasekaran R, Nagar G, Kleanthous H, Biswas S, Bevere JR, Joshi SB, Volkin DB, Damron FH, Love JC. Vaccine. 2023 Jan 27;41(5):1108-1118. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.12.062. Epub 2022 Dec 29. PMID: 36610932

2022

  1. Blackwood CB, Borras MM, Sen-Kilic E, Pyles GM, Miller SJ, Weaver KL, Witt WT, Huckaby AB, Kang J, Chandler CE, Ernst RK, Damron FH, Barber M. Bordetella pertussis whole cell immunization protects against Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. 2022 npj Vaccines volume 7, Article number: 143 PMID: 36357402
  2. Lee KS, Russ BP, Wong TY, Horspool AM, Winters MT, Barbier M, Bevere J, Martinez I, Damron FH, Cyphert HA. Obesity and metabolic dysfunction drive sex-associated differential disease profiles in hACE2-mice challenged with SARS-CoV-2 iScience. 2022 Oct 21;25(10):105038. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105038. Epub 2022 Sep 2. PMID: 36068847
  3. Barbier M, Lee KS, Vikharankar MS, Rajpathak NS, Kadam N, Wong TY, Russ BP, Cyphert HA, Miller OM, Rader NA, Cooper M, Kang J, Sen-Kilic E, Wong ZY, Winters MT, Bevere JR, Martinez I, Devarumath R, Shaligram US, Damron, FH. Passive immunization with equine RBD-specific Fab protects K18-hACE2-mice against Alpha or Beta variants of SARS-CoV-2 Front Immunol. 2022 Aug 15;13:948431. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.948431. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36091051
  4. Lee KS, Wong TY, Russ BP, Horspool AM, Miller OA, Rader NA, Givi JP, Winters MT, Wong ZYA, Cyphert HA, Denvir J, Stoilov P, Barbier M, Roan NA, Amin MS, Martinez I, Bevere J, Damron FH. SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant induces enhanced pathology and inflammatory responses in K18-hACE2 mice PLoS One 2022 Aug 29;17(8):e0273430. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273430. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36037222
  5. Wong TY, Russ BP, Lee KS, Miller OA, Kang J, Cooper M, Winters MT, Rodriguez-Aponte SA, Dalvie C Neil, Johnston RS, Rader NA, Wong ZY, Cyphert HA, Martinez I, Shaligram U, Batwal Saurabh Batwal, Lothe R, Chandrasekaran R, Nagar G, Rajurkar Meghraj, Rao H, Bevere JR, Barbier M, Love JC, Damron FH. RBD-VLP Vaccines Adjuvanted with Alum or SWE Protect K18-hACE2 Mice against SARS-CoV-2 VOC Challenge mSphere 2022 Aug 31;7(4):e0024322. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00243-22. Epub 2022 Aug 15. PMID: 35968964
  6. DeJong MA, Wolf MA, Bitzer GJ, Hall JM, Sen-Kilic E, Blake JM, Petty JE, Wong TY, Barbier M, Campbell JD, Bevere JR, Damron FH. CpG 1018® adjuvant enhances Tdap immune responses against Bordetella pertussis in mice Vaccine 2022 Aug 19;40(35):5229-5240. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.07.030. Epub 2022 Aug 1. PMID: 35927132
  7. Peppers BP, Shmookler A, Stanley J, Sutton LG, Perrotta PL, Kieffer T, Skoner D, Mahady Stacey, Lewandrowski, Damron FH, Horspool A, Sakhjua A, McCarthy P, Hostoffer, RW.  Serial Convalescent Plasma Infusions for the Initial COVID-19 Infections in the Appalachian Region of West Virginia Allergy Rhinol (Providence) 2022 Jun 30;13:21526575221110488. doi: 10.1177/21526575221110488. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec. PMID: 35795339
  8. Gutierrez MP, Wong TY, Damron FH, Fernández, J, Sisti F. Cyclic di-GMP Regulates the Type III Secretion System and Virulence in Bordetella bronchiseptica Infect Immun; 2022 Jun 16;90(6):e0010722. doi: 10.1128/iai.00107-22. Epub 2022 May 25. PMID: 35612302
  9. Sen-Kilic E, Huckaby AB, Damron FH, Barbier M.  P. aeruginosa type III and type VI secretion systems modulate early response gene expression in type II pneumocytes in vitro BMC Genomics 2022 May 4;23(1):345. doi: 10.1186/s12864-022-08554-0. PMID: 35508983

 

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