Peter Doherty, PhD

Peter C. Doherty, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Nobel Laureate
Michael F. Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research

Departments

Immunology

Contact Information

Peter Doherty, PhD
Immunology
MS 351, Room E7062
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: peter.doherty@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-3470
FAX: (901) 595-3107

Education

PhD - University of Edinburgh, Scotland


Research Interests

  • Cell-mediated immunity
  • T cell recognition and repertoire
  • Immunological tolerance
  • Viral immunology
  • Immunopathology
  • Immune memory

Analysis of HIV-specific responses

Immunity to RNA viruses


Selected Publications

Thomas PG, Doherty PC. Rules to 'prime' by. Nat Immunol. Jan;10(1):14-6, 2009.

Mintern J, Guillonneau C, Turner S, Doherty P. The immune response to influenza A viruses. Influenza Vaccines for the Future. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, pp. 113-138, 2008.

Doherty PC, Kelso A. Toward a broadly protective influenza vaccine. J Clin Invest Oct;118(10):3273-3275, 2008.

Stambas J, Guillonneau C, Kedzierska K, Mintern JD, Doherty PC, La Gruta NL. Killer T cells in influenza. Pharmacol Ther Nov;120(2):186-96, 2008.

Doherty PC. Burnet, chick embryos, viruses, clones and quantitative biology. Immunol Cell Biol Feb;86(2): 119-123, 2008.

Doherty, PC. A Light History of Hot Air, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, September, 2007.

Doherty PC, Turner SJ. The Challenge of viral immunity. Immun Sep;27(3):363-5, 2007.

Kedzierska K, LaGruta NL, Stambas J, Turner SJ, Doherty PC. Tracking phenotypically and functionally distinct T cell subsets via T cell repertoire diversity. Mol Immunol Feb;45(3):607-18, 2008.

Mintern JD, Guillonneau C, Turner SJ, Doherty PC. Influenza Vaccines for the Future. Immunity to Influenza. Birkhauser Publishers Ltd. Editors: Rino Rappuoli & Giuseppe Del Giudice, 2007.

Doherty PC. Endings and beginnings. Cell Mol Life Sci 64(1):1-2, 2007.

Brent L, Cohen IR, Doherty PC, Feldmann M, Matzinger P, Ghost Lab, Holgate ST, Lachmann P, Mitchison NA, Nossal G, Rose NR, Zinkernagel R. Crystal-ball gazing--the future of immunological research viewed from the cutting edge. Clin Exp Immunol 147(1):1-10, 2007.

Doherty PC. Challenged by complexity: my twentieth century in immunology. Annu Rev Imm 25:1-19, 2007.

La Gruta NL, Kedzierska K, Stambas J, Doherty PC. A question of self-preservation: immunopathology in influenza virus infection. Immunol Cell Biol 85(2):85-92, 2007.

Doherty, PC. The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize. Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, September, 2005; Columbia University Press, NY, May 2006.

Turner SJ, Doherty PC, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J. Structural determinants of T-cell receptor bias in immunity. Nat Rev Immunol 6:883-94, Review 2006.

Thomas PG, Keating R, Hulse-Post DJ, Doherty PC. Cell-mediated protection in influenza infection. Emerg Infect Dis 12:48-54, 2006.

Doherty PC, Turner SJ, Webby RG, Thomas PG. Influenza and the challenge for Immunology Nature Immunol 7:449-455, 2006.

Slobod KS, Coleclough C, Bonsignori, M, Brown SA, Zhan X, Surman S, Zirkel A, Jones BG, Sealy RE, Stambas J, Brown B, Lockey TD, Freiden PJ, Doherty PC, Blanchard JL, Martin LN, Hurwitz JL. HIV vaccine rationale, design and testing. Curr HIV Res 3:107-112, 2005.

Doherty PC, Turner SJ. The virus-immunity ecosystem. Arch Virol Suppl 17-32, 2005.

Brown SA, Hurwitz JL, Zhan X, Doherty PC, Slobod KS. CD8+ T-cells: are they sufficient to prevent, contain or eradicate HIV-1 infection? Curr Drug Targets Infect Disord Jun;592):113-9, Review, 2005.

Turner SJ, Turner, SJ, Kedzierska, K, La Gruta NJ, Webby R, Doherty PC. Characterization of CD8(+) T cell repertoire diversity and persistence in the influenza A virus model of localized, transient infection. Semin Immunol Jun;16(3):179-184, Review, 2004.

Doherty PC, Turner SJ. Memories of virus-specific CD8+ T Cells. Immunol Cell Biol 82(2):136-140, Review 2004.

Modlin RL, Doherty PC. Host-pathogen interactions. Host defense against microbial pathogens – the immune system’s weapons of mass destruction. Curr Opin Immunol 15:393-394, 2003.

Doherty PC. On the nose: shared themes for the sensory and immune self. Nat Immunol Nov;4(11):1043-5, 2003.

Last update: June 2009

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