Youry Kim

The role of latency reversal in HIV cure strategies

Kiho Tanaka, Youry Kim, Michael Roche, Sharon R Lewin

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PRIMATOLOGY

One strategy to eliminate latently infected cells that persist in people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy is to activate virus t..

Evaluation of virucidal activity of residual quaternary ammonium-treated surfaces on SARS-CoV-2

Alexander G Caschera, Julie McAuley, Youry Kim, Damian Purcell, Jasper Rymenants, Daniel A Foucher

Journal article  |  2022  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health and the world's economies. Proliferation of vir..

Water-Borne Nanocoating for Rapid Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viruses

Valentin A Bobrin, Sung-Po Chen, Carlos Fitzgerald Grandes Reyes, Bing Sun, Chun Ki Ng, Youry Kim, Damian Purcell, Zhongfan Jia, Wenyi Gu, Jason W Armstrong, Julie McAuley, Michael J Monteiro

Journal article  |  2021  |  ACS NANO

The rise in coronavirus variants has resulted in surges of the disease across the globe. The mutations in the spike protein on the..

Influenza, but not SARS-CoV-2, infection induces a rapid interferon response that wanes with age and diminished tissue-resident memory CD8( ) T cells

Thi HO Nguyen, Julie L McAuley, Youry Kim, Ming ZM Zheng, Nicholas A Gherardin, Dale Godfrey, Damian FJ Purcell, Lucy C Sullivan, Glen P Westall, Patrick C Reading, Katherine Kedzierska, Linda M Wakim

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY

Older individuals exhibit a diminished ability to respond to and clear respiratory pathogens and, as such, experience a higher rat..

Limitations of dual-fluorescent HIV reporter viruses in a model of pre-activation latency

Youry Kim, Paul U Cameron, Sharon R Lewin, Jenny L Anderson

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY

INTRODUCTION: HIV latency can be established in vitro following direct infection of a resting CD4+ T cell (pre-activation latency)..

Identifying novel compounds to eliminate latent HIV infection

Youry Kim

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

There are currently an estimated 36.9 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH) worldwide. In the past ..

Getting the "Kill" into "Shock and Kill": Strategies to Eliminate Latent HIV

Youry Kim, Jenny L Anderson, Sharon R Lewin

Journal article  |  2018  |  CELL HOST & MICROBE

Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), there is currently no HIV cure and treatment is life long. HIV persists durin..