Margaret Feeney, MD

Professor
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Dr. Feeney is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health at UCSF. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded projects focused on the immune response to malaria and CMV in infants and children. Dr. Feeney is board certified in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and provides clinical care for children with complex infections at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, where she also teaches students and housestaff. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine (Division of Experimental Medicine) where her laboratory is based. She is active in mentoring programs for medical students, residents, and junior faculty, and is the recipient of an NIH K24 Mentoring Award entitled “Mentoring Translational Researchers for Careers in Pediatric Global Health”.

Dr. Feeney’s research interests encompass the host response to infection and age-based differences in the immune response during early life. Her laboratory conducted key studies of the infant antiviral immune response following mother-to-child transmission of HIV, in collaboration with pediatric clinicians South Africa and Jamaica. More recently, her lab has focused on understanding natural immunity to malaria, identifying correlates of protective antimalarial immunity to guide vaccine design, and investigating the impact of in utero antigen exposure on the fetal immune response to malaria and other perinatal pathogens. A major current emphasis in the lab is the role of gamma delta T cells (gdT), a unique population of semi-innate cells that play a major role in immunity in the fetus and infant. Gamma delta T cells have been shown to play a role in protective immunity to both P. falciparum and CMV.

Dr. Feeney is a member of the NIH IDEaL (Immune Development in Early Life) consortium and leads an ImmunoX Co-Project. Dr. Feeney was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2016 and has received several research awards including the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award from the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and the William F. Friedman Pediatric Research Award. She holds the Edward B. Shaw Chair in Pediatrics.

Publications

Broadly inhibitory antibodies to severe malaria virulence proteins.

Nature

Reyes RA, Raghavan SSR, Hurlburt NK, Introini V, Bol S, Kana IH, Jensen RW, Martinez-Scholze E, Gestal-Mato M, López-Gutiérrez B, Sanz S, Bancells C, Fernández-Quintero ML, Loeffler JR, Ferguson JA, Lee WH, Martin GM, Theander TG, Lusingu JPA, Minja DTR, Ssewanyana I, Feeney ME, Greenhouse B, Ward AB, Bernabeu M, Pancera M, Turner L, Bunnik EM, Lavstsen T

Post Artesunate Delayed Hemolysis in Pediatric Patients in the United States.

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Sesh A Sundararaman, Karen L Hanze Villavicencio, Brianne Roper, Ziyi Wang, Amy K F Davis, Jonathan A Mayhew, Michelle L Wang, Nina L Tang, Vijaya L Soma, Gail F Shust, Margaret E Feeney, Indi Trehan, Jill E Weatherhead, Chandy C John, Jeffrey S Gerber, Audrey O John

Broadly inhibitory antibodies against severe malaria virulence proteins.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Reyes RA, Raghavan SSR, Hurlburt NK, Introini V, Kana IH, Jensen RW, Martinez-Scholze E, Gestal-Mato M, Bau CB, Fernández-Quintero ML, Loeffler JR, Ferguson JA, Lee WH, Martin GM, Theander TG, Ssewanyana I, Feeney ME, Greenhouse B, Bol S, Ward AB, Bernabeu M, Pancera M, Turner L, Bunnik EM, Lavstsen T

Malaria-driven expansion of adaptive-like functional CD56-negative NK cells correlates with clinical immunity to malaria.

Science translational medicine

Ty M, Sun S, Callaway PC, Rek J, Press KD, van der Ploeg K, Nideffer J, Hu Z, Klemm S, Greenleaf W, Donato M, Tukwasibwe S, Arinaitwe E, Nankya F, Musinguzi K, Andrew D, de la Parte L, Mori DM, Lewis SN, Takahashi S, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Blish C, Utz PJ, Khatri P, Dorsey G, Kamya M, Boyle M, Feeney M, Ssewanyana I, Jagannathan P

Mutually exclusive T-cell receptor induction and differential susceptibility to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 mutational escape associated with a two-amino-acid difference between HLA class I subtypes.

Journal of virology

Yu XG, Lichterfeld M, Chetty S, Williams KL, Mui SK, Miura T, Frahm N, Feeney ME, Tang Y, Pereyra F, Labute MX, Pfafferott K, Leslie A, Crawford H, Allgaier R, Hildebrand W, Kaslow R, Brander C, Allen TM, Rosenberg ES, Kiepiela P, Vajpayee M, Goepfert PA, Altfeld M, Goulder PJ, Walker BD

HIV evolution: CTL escape mutation and reversion after transmission.

Nature medicine

Leslie AJ, Pfafferott KJ, Chetty P, Draenert R, Addo MM, Feeney M, Tang Y, Holmes EC, Allen T, Prado JG, Altfeld M, Brander C, Dixon C, Ramduth D, Jeena P, Thomas SA, St John A, Roach TA, Kupfer B, Luzzi G, Edwards A, Taylor G, Lyall H, Tudor-Williams G, Novelli V, Martinez-Picado J, Kiepiela P, Walker BD, Goulder PJ

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