Cara C. Wilson, M.D.
Title(s): Associate Professor of Medicine, Secondary appointment in Immunology Department
Primary Department:
Medicine – Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology
Education:
Duke University, BS, Psychology/Zoology (1984)
University of Virginia SOM, MD (1988)
Email: cara.wilson@uchsc.edu
 
 

Research Program:

Dr. Wilson’s research interests involve the immunology of HIV-1 infection, in particular HIV-specific T cell function in both early and chronic disease and the role of dendritic cells in immune responses to HIV. She is also actively involved in the development of vaccines and immune-based therapies for treating HIV-1 infection.

Selected Publications:

  • Stubbs AC, Martin KS, Coeshott C, Skaates SV, Kuritzkes DR, Bellgrau D, Franzusoff A, Duke RC, Wilson CC. Whole recombinant yeast vaccine activates dendritic cells and elicits protective cell-mediated immunity. Nat Med 2001;7:625-9.
  • Palmer, B., Boritz, E., Blyveis, N., and C.C. Wilson. Discordance between frequency of HIV-1-specific IFN--producing CD4+ T cells and HIV-1-specific lymphoproliferation in HIV-1-infected subjects with active viral replication. J Virol 2002;76(12):5925-5936.
  • MA. Barron, N Blyveis, B Palmer, S MaWhinney, and C.C. Wilson. Defects in Number and Surface Expression of Co-stimulatory Molecules in Both CD11c+ and CD11c- Blood DCs in HIV-1-Infected Individuals. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2003, Jan. 1; 187(1):26-37.
  • Eli Andrew Boritz, Brent Palmer, Brian Livingston, and Cara C. Wilson. Diversity of HIV-p24-specific CD4+ T Cell Clones in the setting of Immune Reconstitution after Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART). Journal of Immunology 2003, Jan. 15; 170(2):1106-16.
  • Cara C. Wilson, Denise McKinney, Michelle Anders, Samantha MaWhinney, Jeri Forster, Claire Crimi, Scott Southwood, Alessandro Sette, Robert Chesnut, Mark J. Newman and Brian D. Livingston. Development of a DNA Vaccine Designed to Induce Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Responses to Multiple Conserved Epitopes in HIV-1. J Immunol. 2003, Nov 15;171(10):5611-23.
  • Brent Palmer, Eli Boritz, and Cara Wilson. Effects of sustained HIV-1 plasma viremia on HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cell maturation and function. J Immunology 2004, 172: 3337-3347.
  • Eli Boritz, Brent E. Palmer, and Cara C. Wilson. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-specific CD4+ T Cells that Proliferate In Vitro Detected from Most Viremic Subjects and Associated with Lower Plasma HIV-1 Loads. J. Virology 2004, Nov;78(22):12638-46.
  • Brent E. Palmer, Naomi Blyveis, Andrew P. Fontenot, and Cara C. Wilson. Functional and phenotypic characterization of CD57+ T cells and their association with HIV-1-induced T cell dysfunction. J Immunol. 2005, 175(12):8415-23.
  • John R. Koeppe, Thomas P. Campbell, Richard Rapaport, and Cara C. Wilson. HIV-1 specific CD4+ T cell responses are not associated with significant viral epitope variation in persons with persistent plasma viremia. J AIDS. 2006 41(2):140-8.
  • Michelle A. Barron, Naomi Blyveis, Samuel C. Pan, and Cara C. Wilson. Human Dendritic Cell Interactions with Whole Recombinant Yeast: Implications for HIV-1 Vaccine Development. J Clin Immunology. 2006, May 13.

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