D. Gray Heppner

10.6k citations

80 papers · 5.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 41

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health top 0.1%
- Malaria Research and Control
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Virology top 1%
- HIV Research and Treatment

Papers in

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 63
- Malaria Research and Control 62
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control 30
Immunology 19
- Complement system in diseases 8
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 7

Co-authors: Kent E. Kester (27 shared papers)Joe Cohen (21 shared papers)Urszula Krzych (13 shared papers)W. Ripley Ballou (14 shared papers)José A. Stoute (5 shared papers)Nathalie Garçon (5 shared papers)Christian F. Ockenhouse (11 shared papers)V. Ann Stewart (13 shared papers)
Journals: Vaccine (14 papers)American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (10 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (9 papers)Infection and Immunity (6 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Belgium Thailand

In The Last Decade

D. Gray Heppner

80 papers receiving 5.8k citations

D. Gray Heppner's Hit Papers

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Randomized, Double‐Blind, Phase 2a Trial of Falciparum Malaria Vaccines RTS,S/AS01B and RTS,S/AS02A in Malaria‐Naive Adults: Safety, Efficacy, and Immunologic Associates of Protection 2009 · 370 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 The Journal of Infectious Diseases
2002 The Journal of Infectious Diseases
1997 New England Journal of Medicine

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1	A Preliminary Evaluation of a Recombinant Circumsporozoite Protein Vaccine againstPlasmodium falciparumMalaria New England Journal of Medicine ·José A. Stoute, M. Slaoui, D. Gray Heppner, P. Momin, Kent E. Kester, Pierre Desmons, B. T. Wellde, Nathalie Garçon, Urszula Krzych, Martine Marchand, W. Ripley Ballou, Joe Cohen Hit paper breakdown →	1997	654
2	Protection of Humans against Malaria by Immunization with Radiation‐AttenuatedPlasmodium falciparumSporozoites The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Stephen L. Hoffman, Lucy M. L. Goh, Thomas Luke, Imogene Schneider, Thong P. Le, Denise L. Doolan, John B. Sacci, Patricia De La Vega, Megan Dowler, Chris Paul, Daniel M. Gordon, José A. Stoute, L. W. Preston Church, Martha Sedegah, D. Gray Heppner, W. Ripley Ballou, Thomas L. Richie Hit paper breakdown →	2002	527
3	Randomized, Double‐Blind, Phase 2a Trial of Falciparum Malaria Vaccines RTS,S/AS01B and RTS,S/AS02A in Malaria‐Naive Adults: Safety, Efficacy, and Immunologic Associates of Protection The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Kent E. Kester, James F. Cummings, Opokua Ofori‐Anyinam, Christian F. Ockenhouse, Urszula Krzych, Philippe Moris, Robert Schwenk, Robin A. Nielsen, Zufan Debebe, Evgeny Pinelis, Laure Juompan, Jack Williams, Megan Dowler, V. Ann Stewart, Robert A. Wirtz, Marie‐Claude Dubois, Marc Lievens, Joe Cohen, W. Ripley Ballou, D. Gray Heppner, (unknown) Hit paper breakdown →	2009	370
4	Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of a Recombinantly Produced Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein-Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Subunit Vaccine The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Daniel M. Gordon, Thomas W. McGovern, Urszula Krzych, Joe Cohen, Imogene Schneider, R. LaChance, D. Gray Heppner, (unknown), Michael R. Hollingdale, M. Slaoui, Philippe M. Hauser, Pierre Voet, Jerald Sadoff, W R Ballou	1995	238
5	Malaria Blood Stage Parasites Activate Human Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Murine Dendritic Cells through a Toll-Like Receptor 9-Dependent Pathway The Journal of Immunology ·Sathit Pichyangkul, Kosol Yongvanitchit, Utaiwan Kum-Arb, Hiroaki Hemmi, Shizuo Akira, Arthur Μ. Krieg, D. Gray Heppner, V. Ann Stewart, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Sornchai Looareesuwan, G. Dennis Shanks, R. Scott Miller	2004	218
6	Efficacy of Recombinant Circumsporozoite Protein Vaccine Regimens against ExperimentalPlasmodium falciparumMalaria The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Kent E. Kester, Denise McKinney, Nadia Tornieporth, Christian F. Ockenhouse, D. Gray Heppner, Ted Hall, Urszula Krzych, Martine Delchambre, Gérald Voss, Megan Dowler, Jolie Palensky, Janet Wittes, Joe Cohen, W. Ripley Ballou, (unknown)	2001	200
7	Protective Immunity Induced with Malaria Vaccine, RTS,S, Is Linked to Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein-Specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells Producing IFN-γ The Journal of Immunology ·Peifang Sun, Robert Schwenk, Katherine White, José A. Stoute, Joe Cohen, W. Ripley Ballou, Gérald Voss, Kent E. Kester, D. Gray Heppner, Urszula Krzych	2003	183
8	Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial drug susceptibility on the north-western border of Thailand during five years of extensive use of artesunate-mefloquine Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·A Brockman, Ric N. Price, M. van Vugt, D. Gray Heppner, Douglas S. Walsh, P Sookto, T Wimonwattrawatee, S. Looareesuwan, Nicholas J. White, François Nosten	2000	152
9	Towards an RTS,S-based, multi-stage, multi-antigen vaccine against falciparum malaria: progress at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Vaccine ·D. Gray Heppner, Kent E. Kester, Christian F. Ockenhouse, Nadia Tornieporth, Opokua Ofori, Jeffrey A. Lyon, V. Ann Stewart, Patrice Dubois, David E. Lanar, Urszula Krzych	2005	133
10	Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of SPf66 malaria vaccine in children in northwestern Thailand The Lancet ·François Nosten, Christine Luxemburger, Dennis E. Kyle, W. Ripley Ballou, Janet Wittes, Eh Wah, T Chongsuphajaisiddhi, Daniel M. Gordon, Nicholas J. White, Jerald Sadoff, D. Gray Heppner	1996	130
11	Safety and immunogenicity of single-dose live oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR in 5-9-year-old Indonesian children The Lancet ·Suharyono Suharyono, C. H. Simanjuntak, H. Totosudirjo, N D Witham, Narain H. Punjabi, D H Burr, K Graae Sørenson, D. Gray Heppner, G Losonsky, John D. Clemens, Y. L. Lim, Steven S. Wasserman, James B. Kaper, Myron M. Levine, A. R. Rifai, Stanley J. Cryz	1992	121
12	Common and Divergent Immune Response Signaling Pathways Discovered in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Gene Expression Patterns in Presymptomatic and Clinically Apparent Malaria Infection and Immunity ·Christian F. Ockenhouse, Wan‐Chung Hu, Kent E. Kester, James F. Cummings, Ann Stewart, D. Gray Heppner, Anne Jedlicka, Alan L. Scott, Nathan Wolfe, Maryanne Vahey, Donald S. Burke	2006	105
13	UPDATE ON THE CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CANDIDATE MALARIA VACCINES American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·W. Ripley Ballou, Myriam Arévalo‐Herrera, Daniel J. Carucci, Thomas L. Richie, Giampietro Corradin, Carter L. Diggs, Pierre Druilhe, Birgitte Giersing, Allan Saul, D. Gray Heppner, Kent E. Kester, David E. Lanar, Jeff Lyon, Adrian V. S. Hill, Weiqing Pan, Joe Cohen	2004	104
14	Salmonella typhi Vaccine Strain CVD 908 Expressing the Circumsporozoite Protein of Plasmodium falciparum: Strain Construction and Safety and Immunogenicity in Humans The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·César González-Bonilla, David M. Hone, Fernando Noriega, Carol O. Tacket, Jonathan R. Davis, G Losonsky, James P. Nataro, S L Hoffman, A K Malik, Elizabeth Nardin, Marcelo B. Sztein, D. Gray Heppner, Timothy Fouts, Armando Isibasi, Myron M. Levine	1994	102
15	Phase 2a trial of 0, 1, and 3 month and 0, 7, and 28 day immunization schedules of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02 in malaria-naïve adults at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Vaccine ·Kent E. Kester, James F. Cummings, Christian F. Ockenhouse, Robin Nielsen, B. Ted Hall, Daniel M. Gordon, Robert Schwenk, Urszula Krzych, Carolyn A. Holland, Gregory Richmond, Megan Dowler, Jackie Williams, Robert A. Wirtz, Nadia Tornieporth, Laurence Vigneron, Martine Delchambre, Marie‐Ange Demoitié, W. Ripley Ballou, Joe Cohen, D. Gray Heppner	2008	100
16	Evaluation of RTS,S/AS02A and RTS,S/AS01B in Adults in a High Malaria Transmission Area PLoS ONE ·Mark E. Polhemus, Shon Remich, Bernhards Ogutu, John Waitumbi, Lucas Otieno, Stella Apollo, James F. Cummings, Kent E. Kester, Christian F. Ockenhouse, Ann Stewart, Opokua Ofori‐Anyinam, Isabelle Ramboer, Conor P. Cahill, Marc Lievens, Marie‐Claude Dubois, Marie‐Ange Demoitié, Amanda Leach, Joe Cohen, W. Ripley Ballou, D. Gray Heppner	2009	95
17	Purification, Characterization, and Immunogenicity of the Refolded Ectodomain of the Plasmodium falciparum Apical Membrane Antigen 1 Expressed in Escherichia coli Infection and Immunity ·Sheetij Dutta, P.V. Lalitha, Lisa A. Ware, Arnoldo Barbosa, J. Kathleen Moch, Meredith A. Vassell, Bader B. Fileta, Svetlana Kitov, Nelly Kolodny, D. Gray Heppner, J. David Haynes, David E. Lanar	2002	88
18	Development of RTS,S/AS02: a purified subunit-based malaria vaccine candidate formulated with a novel adjuvant Expert Review of Vaccines ·Nathalie Garçon, D. Gray Heppner, Joe Cohen	2003	88
19	Expression of Genes Associated with Immunoproteasome Processing of Major Histocompatibility Complex Peptides Is Indicative of Protection with Adjuvanted RTS,S Malaria Vaccine The Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Maryanne Vahey, Zhining Wang, Kent E. Kester, James F. Cummings, D. Gray Heppner, Martin E. Nau, Opokua Ofori‐Anyinam, Joe Cohen, Thierry Coche, W. Ripley Ballou, Christian F. Ockenhouse	2010	86
20	Randomized Trial of 3-Dose Regimens of Tafenoquine (WR238605) versus Low-Dose Primaquine for Preventing Plasmodium vivax Malaria Relapse Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Douglas S. Walsh, Polrat Wilairatana, D. B. Tang, D. Gray Heppner, Thomas G. Brewer, S. Krudsood, Udomsak Silachamroon, Weerapong Phumratanaprapin, Duangsuda Siriyanonda, Sornchai Looareesuwan	2004	81

About D. Gray Heppner

D. Gray Heppner is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, having authored 80 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Malaria Research and Control (62 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (30 papers), vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches (13 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (10 papers), Complement system in diseases (8 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (8 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (7 papers) and Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (3.9k citations), Virology (568 citations), Parasitology (521 citations), Immunology (1.6k citations) and Infectious Diseases (757 citations). D. Gray Heppner has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Thailand. Frequent co-authors include Kent E. Kester, Joe Cohen, Urszula Krzych, W. Ripley Ballou, José A. Stoute, Nathalie Garçon, Christian F. Ockenhouse, V. Ann Stewart, Daniel M. Gordon and M. Slaoui. Their work appears in journals such as Vaccine, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Infection and Immunity and PLoS ONE.

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