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Akiko Watanabe
Research Scientist
Integrative Immunobiology
akiko.watanabe@duke.edu
Box 3010 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
27 Alexandria Way, Durham, NC 27703
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Selected Grants
Innovations in Functional B Cell Epitope Discovery
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2024 - 2029
Structure-function analysis of infection- and vaccine-induced B-cell repertoires - Core D
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Boston Children's Hospital ·
2023 - 2026
SHIV/HIV Env-Antibody Coevolution as a Guide to Iterative Vaccine Design
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by University of Pennsylvania ·
2017 - 2026
Defining pathway to generate ADCC antibodies to prevent and treat HSV through HVEM
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Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Albert Einstein College of Medicine ·
2023 - 2025
Epitope focusing by molecular grafting of subdominant epitopes to achieve a universal-influenza vaccine.
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital ·
2020 - 2024
CIVICS A Option 18E Clonal Analysis of Rhesus Macaque Germinal Center B Cells in Response to the 20 HA mRNA Vaccine
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2022 - 2023
Immunity to novel T/F SHIVs: variability in the co-evolution of virus and host immunity
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Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2017 - 2022
Modeling affinity maturation at molecular resolution
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Boston University ·
2015 - 2020
Testing the Nearest Neighbor Approach to Active Vaccination for HIV-1
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by University of Washington ·
2014 - 2017
Culturing and isolating human B-cells using Athena technology
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Immune Tolerance Network ·
2015 - 2016
Eliciting B cells to produce anti-HIV gp41 MPER-specific neutralizing antibodies, Identifying Critical Stages in Vaccine Indcued HIV-1 Immunity - Project 4
Research
Research Scientist ·
Awarded by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ·
2010 - 2015
Commitment mechanisms in hemato/lymphopoiesis
Research
Research Associate ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2004 - 2010
