Ignacio Mena

Scripps Research Institute — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

34h-index5.1kcitations111works8.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Influenza Virus Research Studies(37), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research(31), Respiratory viral infections research(23), Virology and Viral Diseases(21), Virus-based gene therapy research(17)

Publications111 total

Lymphangiogenesis driven by VEGF-C reshapes tumor immune landscape and enables tumor eradication by viral immunotherapy
2025Open Access
Coronavirus protein interaction mapping in bat and human cells identifies molecular and genetic switches for immune evasion and replication
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Global siRNA screen identifies human host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 replication and late stages of infection
PLoS Biology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Addressing SARS-CoV-2 evolution: neutralization of emerging variants of concern by the AVX/COVID-12 ‘Patria’ vaccine based on HexaPro-S ancestral Wuhan spike or its updated BA.2.75.2 version
Frontiers in Immunology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Addressing SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: Neutralization of Emerging Variants of Concern by the AVX/COVID-12 ‘Patria’ Vaccine Based on HexaPro-S Ancestral Wuhan Spike or Its Updated BA.2.75.2 Version
2025
Sequential immunization with chimeric hemagglutinin ΔNS1 attenuated influenza vaccines induces broad humoral and cellular immunity
npj Vaccines·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Generation of antigen-specific memory CD4 T cells by heterologous immunization enhances the magnitude of the germinal center response upon influenza infection
PLoS Pathogens·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Generation of antigen-specific memory CD4 T cells by heterologous immunization enhances the magnitude of the germinal center response upon influenza infection
immuneACCESS·2024
Sarbecovirus programmed ribosome frameshift RNA element folding studied by NMR spectroscopy and comparative analyses
Nucleic Acids Research·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Global siRNA Screen Reveals Critical Human Host Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Multicycle Replication
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
H19 influenza A virus exhibits species-specific MHC class II receptor usage
Cell Host & Microbe·2024· 76 citedOpen Access
Inhibition of mRNA nuclear export promotes SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 17 citedOpen Access
Visualization of Early RNA Replication Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 by Using Single Molecule RNA-FISH Combined with Immunofluorescence
Viruses·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Visualization of Early RNA Replication Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 by Using Single Molecule RNA-Fish Combined with Immunofluorescence
Preprints.org·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Breakthrough infections by SARS-CoV-2 variants boost cross-reactive hybrid immune responses in mRNA-vaccinated Golden Syrian hamsters
PLoS Pathogens·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Surface-modified measles vaccines encoding oligomeric, prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins boost neutralizing antibody responses to Omicron and historical variants, independent of measles seropositivity
mBio·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Rescue of Recombinant Newcastle Disease Virus Expressing Heterologous Genes
Methods in molecular biology·2023
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 and its variant polymorphisms on host responses and viral pathogenesis
Cell Host & Microbe·2023· 74 citedOpen Access
SARS-CoV-2 variants evolve convergent strategies to remodel the host response
Cell·2023· 109 citedOpen Access
Generation of antigen-specific memory CD4 T cells by heterologous immunization enhances the magnitude of the germinal center response upon influenza infection
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Adolfo Garcı́a-Sastre(29), Florian Krammer(12), Sadaf Aslam(9), Raveen Rathnasinghe(9), Thomas Kehrer(8), Harm van Bakel(7), Viviana Simon(7), Michael Schotsaert(7), Lisa Miorin(7), J. Lindsay Whitton(7), Anastasija Čupić(6), Nevan J. Krogan(6), Randy A. Albrecht(6), Ana S. Gonzalez‐Reiche(5), Emilia Mia Sordillo(5), Sonia Jangra(5), Jüergen A. Richt(5), José R. Castón(5), Juan Bárcena(5), Gagandeep Singh(4)