Publications by Sabrina Susan Vollers

Epitope-focused immunogens targeting the hepatitis C virus glycoproteins induce broadly neutralizing antibodies

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Andreas Scheck, Stéphane Rosset, Sabrina Susan Vollers

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes similar to 290,000 annual human deaths despite the highly effective antiviral treatment available. Several viral immune evasion mechanisms have hampered the development of an effective vaccine against HCV, among the ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2024

De novo protein design enables the precise induction of RSV-neutralizing antibodies

Luciano Andres Abriata, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Fabian Sesterhenn, Stéphane Rosset, Che Yang, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Sabrina Susan Vollers

De novo protein design has been successful in expanding the natural protein repertoire. However, most de novo proteins lack biological function, presenting a major methodological challenge. In vaccinology, the induction of precise antibody responses remain ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2020

A computationally designed chimeric antigen receptor provides a small-molecule safety switch for T-cell therapy

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, George Coukos, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Sabrina Susan Vollers, Sailan Shui

The activity of CAR-T cells is reversibly halted with a small-molecule drug. Approaches to increase the activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells against solid tumors may also increase the risk of toxicity and other side effects. To improve the s ...

2020

Boosting subdominant neutralizing antibody responses with a computationally designed epitope-focused immunogen

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Sai Reddy, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Fabian Sesterhenn, Stéphane Rosset, Che Yang, Patricia Corthésy Henrioud, Sabrina Susan Vollers

Throughout the last several decades, vaccination has been key to prevent and eradicate infectious diseases. However, many pathogens (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus [RSV], influenza, dengue, and others) have resisted vaccine development efforts, largely ...

2019

Rosetta FunFolDes - A general framework for the computational design of functional proteins

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Andreas Scheck, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Fabian Sesterhenn, Stéphane Rosset, Che Yang, Sarah Wehrle, Freyr Sverrisson, Sabrina Susan Vollers, Mélanie Evelyne Villard

The robust computational design of functional proteins has the potential to deeply impact translational research and broaden our understanding of the determinants of protein function and stability. The low success rates of computational design protocols an ...

2018

OFF-switch CAR T cell for safety-enhanced cancer immunotherapy

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, George Coukos, Pablo Gainza Cirauqui, Sabrina Susan Vollers, Sailan Shui

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2018