Alan Barrett, PhD

Director, The Sealy Institute of Vaccine Sciences

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1979 …2023

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Research interests

Our laboratory is undertaking basic research on the development of vaccines against the flavivirus diseases. This includes West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue. We undertake studies on the excellent yellow fever 17D vaccine as a model to understand the molecular basis of attenuation of this vaccine. This is of major importance as the 17D vaccine virus is being used as an attenuated backbone to generate chimeric vaccine viruses against other flavivirus diseases, including dengue and Japanese encephalitis. In addition, recombinant DNA technology and infectious clone technology/reverse genetics are being used to identify molecular determinants of virulence of yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses with the aim of mutating these virulence determinants to develop candidate attenuated vaccine strains. We also investigate the molecular epidemiology of various flaviviruses (yellow fever, West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, and St Louis encephalitis viruses).

Education/Academic qualification

Virology, PhD, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K

… → 1983

Virology, MS, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K

… → 1980

Microbiology & Virology, BS, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K

… → 1978

Virology, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Arbovirus Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Research interests

  • Drug Discovery

Research Strategic Pillar Keywords

  • Infectious/ Immunological Health
  • Brain Health
  • Specialized Health
  • Life Span Health
  • Public (Social/ Physical) Health

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  • Blocking NS3–NS4B interaction inhibits dengue virus in non-human primates

    Goethals, O., Kaptein, S. J. F., Kesteleyn, B., Bonfanti, J. F., Van Wesenbeeck, L., Bardiot, D., Verschoor, E. J., Verstrepen, B. E., Fagrouch, Z., Putnak, J. R., Kiemel, D., Ackaert, O., Straetemans, R., Lachau-Durand, S., Geluykens, P., Crabbe, M., Thys, K., Stoops, B., Lenz, O., Tambuyzer, L., & 24 othersDe Meyer, S., Dallmeier, K., McCracken, M. K., Gromowski, G. D., Rutvisuttinunt, W., Jarman, R. G., Karasavvas, N., Touret, F., Querat, G., de Lamballerie, X., Chatel-Chaix, L., Milligan, G. N., Beasley, D. W. C., Bourne, N., Barrett, A. D. T., Marchand, A., Jonckers, T. H. M., Raboisson, P., Simmen, K., Chaltin, P., Bartenschlager, R., Bogers, W. M., Neyts, J. & Van Loock, M., Mar 23 2023, In: Nature. 615, 7953, p. 678-686 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    6 Scopus citations
  • Differences in Genetic Diversity of Mammalian Tick-Borne Flaviviruses

    Carpio, K. L., Thompson, J. K., Widen, S. G., Smith, J. K., Juelich, T. L., Clements, D. E., Freiberg, A. N. & Barrett, A. D. T., Feb 2023, In: Viruses. 15, 2, 281.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations
  • Polio endgame finish is in sight

    Barrett, A. D. T., Jul 6 2023, In: Nature. 619, 7968, p. 36-38 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

    1 Scopus citations
  • Vaccine value profile for Chikungunya

    Flandes, X., Hansen, C. A., Palani, S., Abbas, K., Bennett, C., Caro, W. P., Hutubessy, R., Khazhidinov, K., Lambach, P., Maure, C., Marshall, C., Rojas, D. P., Rosewell, A., Sahastrabuddhe, S., Tufet, M., Wilder-Smith, A., Beasley, D. W. C., Bourne, N. & Barrett, A., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Vaccine.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Arthropod-borne flaviviruses

    Petersen, L. R. & Barrett, A. D. T., Jun 1 2022, Clinical Virology: Third Edition. wiley, p. 1173-1214 42 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter