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Garnett H. Kelsoe

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Immunology
Integrative Immunobiology
Room 2243 Duke@RTP, 27 Alexandria Way, Durham, NC 27703
Room 2243 Duke@RTP, 27 Alexandria Way, Durham, NC 27703

Selected Grants


Characterizing olfactory plasma cell dynamics and survival niche within the upper airway

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Innovations in Functional B Cell Epitope Discovery

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NIAID

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2029

Advanced Immunobiology Traning Program for Surgeons

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029

Targeting the B Cell Response to Treat Antibody-Mediated Rejection

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2028

Overcoming humoral rejection after xenotransplantation in sensitized nonhuman primate recipients

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2028

Structure-function analysis of infection- and vaccine-induced B-cell repertoires - Core D

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Boston Children's Hospital · 2023 - 2026

SHIV/HIV Env-Antibody Coevolution as a Guide to Iterative Vaccine Design

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2017 - 2026

Structure-function analysis of infection- and vaccine-induced B-cell repertoires - Project 2

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Boston Children's Hospital · 2014 - 2026

Novel Immunogens to Elicit Broadly Cross-reactive Antibodies That Target the Hemagglutinin Head Trimer Interface

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2021 - 2025

Defining pathway to generate ADCC antibodies to prevent and treat HSV through HVEM

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Albert Einstein College of Medicine · 2023 - 2025

Basic Immunology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

The Effect of a Desensitization Protocol in Highly Sensitized Renal Transplant Recipients on T Follicular Helper Cells

FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2024

Epitope focusing by molecular grafting of subdominant epitopes to achieve a universal-influenza vaccine.

ResearchInvestigator · 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

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023

Immunity to novel T/F SHIVs: variability in the co-evolution of virus and host immunity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2022

Complement and CR2/CD21 in the Immune Pathogenesis of HIT(R01)

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2022

Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Modeling affinity maturation at molecular resolution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Boston University · 2015 - 2020

Attenuated HSV Vaccines That Induce Protective Mucosal Antibodies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Albert Einstein College of Medicine · 2016 - 2020

Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscope

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018

Testing the Nearest Neighbor Approach to Active Vaccination for HIV-1

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2014 - 2017

Training Program in Inflammatory and Immunological Diseases

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1980 - 2017

Quantifying poly- and autoreactivity in therapeutic chimeric proteins

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Scripps Research Institute · 2017 - 2017

Immunity to novel T/F SHIVs: variability in the co-evolution of virus and host immunity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Quality Biological, Inc. · 2016 - 2017

Culturing and isolating human B-cells using Athena technology

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Immune Tolerance Network · 2015 - 2016

Multiscale Systems Immunology

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015

BAFF Pathology: Novel Therapeutic Targets in Chronic Graft versus Host Disease

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2015

T cell function in asthma depends on a novel signaling pathway

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2014

Microsimulation of anthracis-immune system interaction

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2007

External Relationships


  • Japanese Society of Immunologists
  • Korean Association of Immunologists
  • Moderna Therapeutics, Inc.

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