Megan Levings

PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Director, Childhood Diseases Research Theme

Research in my laboratory is focused on immune cells called T regulatory cells (Tregs) that are central to immune tolerance and that are a very promising new therapeutic tool. To exploit the natural capacity of Tregs to induce immune tolerance, and to design effective therapies to restore immune tolerance in patients with immune-mediated disease, we need to define how, when and where Tregs function in the body.

My research program has 3 major themes that aim to (i) build on our recent discoveries to understand Treg biology and (ii) apply that knowledge to develop and assess treatments designed to manipulate immune tolerance. My work integrates lab and clinical studies, applies advanced methods in the context of transplant rejection and autoimmunity, and creates outputs with broad relevance for chronic immune-mediated diseases.

• Theme 1: Understanding the molecular and cellular biology of Tregs. We are working on defining the unique mechanisms that control Treg function. The aim of this work is to discover new therapeutic targets and understand how Tregs can be manipulated to optimize their effectiveness as a cell-based therapy.

• Theme 2: To conduct first-in-man clinical trials of Treg therapy in transplantation. We have developed two approaches to generate therapeutic Tregs. As part of national networks, and with industry support, we now aim to test these approaches as a method to reduce rejection in humans undergoing transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells or a solid organ.

• Theme 3: Clinical implementation of standardized immune monitoring. Assessing the effectiveness of immune therapies requires the transfer of methods and assays from research labs to clinical immunology labs. We are implementing this approach across Canada and developing platforms using standardized methodology to measure immunity in patient cohorts and clinical trials.

Academic Affiliations

  • Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Childhood Diseases
  • Research Group(s): Childhood Cancer and Blood Research; Diabetes; Immunity in Health and Disease; Rare Diseases

Contact Information

Location

950 West 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5Z 4H4

Chronic graft-versus-host disease suppressing CD56brightPerforinneg regulatory-like NK cells inhibit CD4+ T cells via PD-1, LAG-3, and TRAIL

Cytotherapy

Madeline P. Lauener and Marie-Hlne Normand and Tracy Ngo and Sayeh Abdossamadi and Elena Ostroumov and Megan K. Levings and Karen Sherwood and Franz Fenninger and Paul Keown and Mlanie Dieud and Kirk R. Schultz

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2026.102062

05 / 2026

Beta Integrin Expression Defines Functionally Distinct CD4+ T-Cell Subsets That Are Altered in Ulcerative Colitis

Gastro Hep Advances

Kirsten A. Ward-Hartstonge and Sabine Ivison and Qing Huang and Laura Cook and Brian Bressler and Megan K. Levings and Maria Schmit and Anna Polyvyana and Pedram Tavakoli

DOI: 10.1016/j.gastha.2026.100892

An ultrasensitive and modular platform to detect Siglec ligands and control immune cell function

Science Advances

Megan K Levings and Matthew Scott Macauley and Susmita Sarkar and Jaesoo Jung and Jhon Ralph Enterina and Som Gowda Nanjappa and Maju Joe and Stacy Alyse Malaker and Jamey David Marth and Kei Takahashi-Yamashiro and Zeinab Jame-Chenarboo and Edward Schmidt and Guilherme Lima and Ratmir Derda and Madeline Crichton and Liany Luna-Dulcey and Sabine Ivison and Chris D. St. Laurent and Sung-Yao Lin and Reni John and Fahima Mozaneh

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz8096

11 / 2025

Human and mouse regenerative macrophages enhance beta cell survival, function, and proliferation

Biorxiv

Monajemi, M. and Craciun, A.S. and Huang, Q. and Dai, L. and Mojibian, M. and Crome, S.Q. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.04.668458

TYK2 inhibition enhances Treg differentiation and function while preventing Th1 and Th17 differentiation

Cell Reports Medicine

Tuomela, K. and Garcia, R.V. and Boardman, D.A. and Tavakoli, P. and Ancheta-Schmit, M. and Sham, H.P. and Cheng, L. and Struthers, M. and Bressler, B. and Vallance, B.A. and Zhao, Q. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102303

Lactic acid improves Treg manufacturing and in vivo function

Molecular Therapy Methods and Clinical Development

Tuomela, K. and Leong, E.S.Y. and Haque, M. and Mangat, S. and Fung, V.C.W. and Garcia, R.V. and Archambault, A.-S. and Boardman, D.A. and Klein Geltink, R.I. and Mojibian, M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.omtm.2025.101600

Using machine learning for personalized prediction of longitudinal coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine responses in transplant recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Azarfar, G. and Sun, Y. and Pasini, E. and Sidhu, A. and Brudno, M. and Humar, A. and Kumar, D. and Bhat, M. and Ferreira, V.H. and Delisle, J.-S. and Hosseini-Moghaddam, S. and Cardinal, H. and Dieud{\'e}, M. and Racine, N. and Top, K. and DeSerres, G. and West, L. and Cloutier, M. and Bazin, R. and Lemieux, C. and De Serres, S. and Shalhoub, S. and Kabbani, D. and H{\'e}bert, M.-J. and Gongal, P. and Stephens, K. and Belga, S. and Levings, M.K. and Turgeon, J. and Khrifi, Z. and Samson, F. and Desjardins, M. and Brown, H. and Doiron, J. and Baker, C. and Toth, T. and Luke, G. and Pinzon, N. and Hall, V.G. and Robertson, K. and Mangan, H.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.11.033

Sex-biased human thymic architecture guides T cell development through spatially defined niches

Developmental Cell

Stankiewicz, L.N. and Salim, K. and Flaschner, E.A. and Wang, Y.X. and Edgar, J.M. and Durland, L.J. and Lin, B.Z.B. and Bingham, G.C. and Major, M.C. and Jones, R.D. and Blau, H.M. and Rideout, E.J. and Levings, M.K. and Zandstra, P.W. and Rossi, F.M.V.

DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.09.011

A Germline Heterozygous Dominant Negative IKZF2 Variant Causing Syndromic Primary Immune Regulatory Disorder and ICHAD

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Lu, H.Y. and Vaseghi-Shanjani, M. and Lam, A.J. and Sharma, M. and Mohajeri, A. and Silva, L.B.R. and Gillies, J. and Yang, G.X. and Lin, S. and Fu, M.P. and Salman, A. and Rahmanian, R. and Armstrong, L. and Halparin, J. and Yang, C.L. and Chilvers, M. and Henkelman, E. and Rehmus, W. and Morrison, D. and Setiadi, A. and Mostafavi, S. and Kobor, M.S. and Kozak, F.K. and Biggs, C.M. and van Karnebeek, C. and Hildebrand, K.J. and Levings, M.K. and Turvey, S.E.

DOI: 10.1007/s10875-025-01882-2

Regulatory T cell therapies to treat autoimmune diseases and transplant rejection

Nature Immunology

Bluestone, J.A. and Burnett, B.K. and Crute, C.E. and Fellows, M.D. and Levings, M. and Lebrec, H. and Pereira Mouri{\`e}s, L. and Rice, J. and Rohan, P. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Rotrosen, D.

DOI: 10.1038/s41590-025-02154-2

Evaluating Activated Regulatory T Cells as a Biomarker of Chronic Allograft Inflammation in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Leung, M.L. and Barrett-Chan, E. and Levings, M.K. and Vercauteren, S. and Blydt-Hansen, T.D.

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70041

Armored human CAR Treg cells with PD1 promoter-driven IL-10 have enhanced suppressive function

Science Advances

Boardman, D.A. and Mangat, S. and Gillies, J.K. and Leon, L. and Fung, V.C.W. and Haque, M. and Mojibian, M. and Halvorson, T. and Huang, Q. and Tuomela, K. and Wardell, C.M. and Brown, A. and Lam, A.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adx7845

Reproducible detection of antigen-specific T cells and Tregs via standardized and automated activation-induced marker assay workflows

Biorxiv

Halvorson, T. and Boucher, G. and Yokosawa, D. and Huang, J.Q. and Garcia, R. and Sanderink, L. and Chen, L. and Liu, L. and Fajardo-Despaigne, J.E. and Halvorson, J. and Brinkman, R. and Vercauteren, S. and Lesage, S. and Bramson, J. and Rioux, J.D. and Ivison, S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.15.664847

Meeting Report: The Sixth International Sam Strober Workshop on Clinical Immune Tolerance

Transplantation

Stark, H. and Ho, Q.Y. and Cross, A. and Alessandrini, A. and Bertaina, A. and Brennan, D. and Busque, S. and Demetris, A. and Devey, L. and Fruhwirth, G. and Fuchs, E. and Friend, P. and Geissler, E. and Guillonneau, C. and Hester, J. and Isaacs, J. and Jaeckel, E. and Kawai, T. and Lakkis, F. and Leventhal, J. and Levings, M. and Levitsky, J. and Lombardi, G. and Martinez-Llordella, M. and Mathew, J. and Moreau, A. and Reinke, P. and Riella, L.V. and Sachs, D. and Fueyo, A.S. and Schreeb, K. and Sykes, M. and Tang, Q. and Thomson, A. and Tree, T. and Trzonkowski, P. and Uchida, K. and Veale, J. and Weiner, J. and Wekerle, T. and Issa, F.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005311

CCL22-expressing Stem Cell-derived Islet Grafts Recruit Regulatory T Cells in Mice

Transplantation

Filatov, E. and Sasaki, S. and Haque, M. and Kar, S. and Fung, V.C.W. and Mojibian, M. and Krentz, N.A.J. and MacDonald, K.N. and Salim, K. and Soukhatcheva, G. and Dai, D.L. and Orban, P.C. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K. and Lynn, F.C.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005463

Serum proteomic and metabolomic analyses from patients with IBD identify biological pathways associated with treatment success with anti-integrin therapy

Immunology and Cell Biology

Rioux, J.D. and Boucher, G. and Forest, A. and Bouchard, B. and Coderre, L. and Daneault, C. and Frayne, I.R. and Legault, J.T. and Bitton, A. and Ananthakrishnan, A. and Lesage, S. and Xavier, R.J. and Des Rosiers, C. and Bitton, A. and Boucher, G. and Charron, G. and Forest, A. and Goyette, P. and Ivison, S. and Joseph, L. and Kohen, R. and Lachaine, J. and Lesage, S. and Levings, M. and Rioux, J.D. and Legault, J.T. and Vachon, L. and Veilleux, S. and White-Guay, B.

DOI: 10.1111/imcb.70039

Harnessing the biology of regulatory T cells to treat disease

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Wardell, C.M. and Boardman, D.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1038/s41573-024-01089-x

Cell therapy with human interleukin 10"producing ILC2s enhances islet function and inhibits allograft rejection

American Journal of Transplantation

Colpitts, S.J. and Jegatheeswaran, S. and Oakie, A. and Mashhouri, S. and Sachewsky, N. and Murshed, H. and Mathews, J.A. and Reid, K.T. and Misra, P.S. and Fung, V.C.W. and Reichman, T.W. and Nostro, M.C. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K. and Crome, S.Q.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.05.023

CAR Treg synergy with anti-CD154 promotes infectious tolerance and dictates allogeneic heart transplant acceptance

Jci Insight

Durgam, S.S. and Rosado-S{\'a}nchez, I. and Yin, D. and Speck, M. and Mojibian, M. and Sayin, I. and Hynes, G.E. and Alegre, M.-L. and Levings, M.K. and Chong, A.S.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.188624

Pharmacotherapeutic strategies to promote regulatory T cell function in autoimmunity

Current Opinion in Immunology

Wright, R.C. and Campbell, D.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2025.102554

CAR Treg cells mediate linked suppression and infectious tolerance in islet transplantation in mice

Science Translational Medicine

Wardell, C.M. and Fung, V.C.W. and Chen, E. and Haque, M. and Tan, D.F.H. and Leca, M. and Gillies, J. and Spanier, J.A. and Mojibian, M. and Fife, B.T. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp6519

Advances in Engineering Myeloid Cells for Cell Therapy Applications

ACS Synthetic Biology

Freitas, B.F.A. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.4c00589

SARS-CoV-2 Variants Omicron BA.4/5 and XBB.1.5 Significantly Escape T Cell Recognition in Solid-organ Transplant Recipients Vaccinated Against the Ancestral Strain

Transplantation

Halvorson, T. and Ivison, S. and Huang, Q. and Ladua, G. and Yotis, D.M. and Mannar, D. and Subramaniam, S. and Ferreira, V.H. and Kumar, D. and Belga, S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004873

Improving Reliability of Immunological Assays by Defining Minimal Criteria for Cell Fitness

ImmunoHorizons

Ivison, S. and Boucher, G. and Zheng, G. and Garcia, R.V. and Kohen, R. and Bitton, A. and Rioux, J.D. and Levings, M.K. and Charron, G. and Des Rosiers, C. and Forest, A. and Goyette, P. and Joseph, L. and Lachaine, J. and Lesage, S. and Legault, J.T. and Vachon, L. and White-Guay, B. and Veilleux, S.

DOI: 10.4049/immunohorizons.2300095

Immune phenotyping in a pediatric multicenter transplant study: Suitability of a preformulated dry-antibody panel system

Human Immunology

Ionescu, L.I. and Blydt-Hansen, T. and Foster, B.J. and Allen, U. and Birk, P.E. and Hamiwka, L. and Phan, V. and Min, S. and Ivison, S. and Levings, M. and West, L.J. and Mital, S. and Urschel, S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2024.110837

A pilot study to identify blood-based markers associated with response to treatment with Vedolizumab in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Medrxiv

Rioux, J.D. and Boucher, G. and Forest, A. and Bouchard, B. and Coderre, L. and Daneault, C. and Frayne, I.R. and Legault, J.T. and Bitton, A. and Ananthakrishnan, A. and Lesage, S. and Xavier, R.J. and Rosiers, C.D. and Charron, G. and Goyette, P. and Ivison, S. and Joseph, L. and Kohen, R. and Lachaine, J. and Levings, M. and Vachon, L. and Veilleux, S. and White-Guay, B.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.19.24314034

Fourth generation CAR Tregs with PDCD1-driven IL-10 have enhanced suppressive function

Biorxiv

Boardman, D.A. and Mangat, S. and Gillies, J.K. and Fung, V.C.W. and Haque, M. and Mojibian, M. and Tuomela, K. and Wardell, C.M. and Brown, A. and Lam, A.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.01.616177

CAR Tregs mediate linked suppression and infectious tolerance in islet transplantation

bioRxiv

Wardell, C.M. and Fung, V.C.W. and Chen, E. and Haque, M. and Gillies, J. and Spanier, J.A. and Mojibian, M. and Fife, B.T. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.06.588414

YK2 inhibi.on enhances Treg differen.a.on and func.on while preven.ng Th1 and Th17 differen.a.on

Biorxiv

Tuomela, K. and Garcia, R.V. and Boardman, D.A. and Tavakoli, P. and Ancheta-Schmit, M. and Sham, H.P. and Cheng, L. and Struthers, M. and Bressler, B. and Vallance, B.A. and Zhao, Q. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.01.616157

Dysregulated Immunity to Clostridioides difficile in IBD Patients Without a History of Recognized Infection

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Cook, L. and Wong, M.Q. and Rees, W.D. and Schick, A. and Lisko, D.J. and Lunken, G.R. and Wang, X. and Peters, H. and Oliveira, L. and Lau, T. and Mah, R. and Bressler, B. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izad238

3D chromatin-based variant-to-gene maps across 57 human cell types reveal the cellular and genetic architecture of autoimmune disease susceptibility

Medrxiv

Trang, K.B. and Sharma, P. and Cook, L. and Mount, Z. and Thomas, R.M. and Kulkarni, N.N. and Cabrera, E.C. and Rachimi, S. and Pahl, M.C. and Pippin, J.A. and Su, C. and Kaestner, K.H. and O?Brien, J.M. and Wagley, Y. and Hankenson, K.D. and Jermusyk, A. and Hoskins, J.W. and Amundadottir, L.T. and Xu, M. and Brown, K.M. and Anderson, S.A. and Yang, W. and Titchenell, P.M. and Seale, P. and Zemel, B.S. and Chesi, A. and Romberg, N. and Levings, M.K. and Grant, S.F.A. and Wells, A.D.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.12.24311676

Ustekinumab for type 1 diabetes in adolescents: a multicenter, double-blind, randomized phase 2 trial

Nature Medicine

Tatovic, D. and Marwaha, A. and Taylor, P. and Hanna, S.J. and Carter, K. and Cheung, W.Y. and Luzio, S. and Dunseath, G. and Hutchings, H.A. and Holland, G. and Hiles, S. and Fegan, G. and Williams, E. and Yang, J.H.M. and Domingo-Vila, C. and Pollock, E. and Wadud, M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K. and Marques-Jones, S. and Bowen-Morris, J. and Stenson, R. and Levings, M.K. and Gregory, J.W. and Tree, T.I.M. and Dayan, C. and Gevers, E. and Kanumakala, S. and Nair, S. and Gardner, C. and Ajzensztejn, M. and Wei, C. and Mouditis, C. and Campbell, F. and Greening, J. and Webb, E. and Chen, M. and Amin, R. and White, B. and Shetty, A. and Bidder, C. and Conway, N. and Mayo, A. and Christakou, E. and Sychowska, K. and Shahrabi, Y. and Robinson, M. and Ahmed, S. and Dutz, J. and Cook, L.

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03115-2

Genetic engineering of regulatory T cells for treatment of autoimmune disorders including type 1 diabetes

Diabetologia

Tuomela, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/s00125-023-06076-2

Adaptive immune responses to two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series in healthy Canadian adults = 50years: a prospective, observational cohort study

Scientific Reports

Gaultier, G.N. and McMillan, B. and Poloni, C. and Lo, M. and Cai, B. and Zheng, J.J. and Baer, H.M. and Shulha, H.P. and Simmons, K. and Mrquez, A.C. and Bartlett, S.R. and Cook, L. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T. and Sekirov, I. and Zlosnik, J.E.A. and Morshed, M. and Skowronski, D.M. and Krajden, M. and Jassem, A.N. and Sadarangani, M.

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59535-0

CAR Treg synergy with anti-CD154 mediates infectious tolerance to dictate heart transplant outcomes

Biorxiv

Durgam, S.S. and Rosado-S{\'a}nchez, I. and Yin, D. and Speck, M. and Mojibian, M. and Sayin, I. and Hynes, G.E. and Alegre, M.L. and Levings, M.K. and Chong, A.S.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.20.614149

Tunable differentiation of human CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from pluripotent stem cells

Biorxiv

Jones, R.D. and Salim, K. and Stankiewicz, L.N. and Edgar, J.M. and Leon, L. and Gillies, J.K. and Murtaza, A. and Durland, L.J. and Raval, D. and Taberna, T.P. and Hsu, H.H. and Zimmerman, C. and Michaels, Y.S. and Rossi, F.M.V. and Levings, M.K. and Zandstra, P.W.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.29.620998

Adaptive immune responses to two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series in healthy Canadian adults > 50 years: a prospective, observational cohort study

Research Square

Gaultier, G.N. and McMillan, B. and Poloni, C. and Lo, M. and Cai, B. and Zheng, J.J. and Baer, H.M. and Shulha, H. and Simmons, K. and Mrquez, A.C. and Bartlett, S.R. and Cook, L. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T. and Sekirov, I. and Zlosnik, J.E.A. and Morshed, M. and Skowronski, D.M. and Krajden, M. and Jassem, A.N. and Sadarangani, M.

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3214357

Tonic-signaling chimeric antigen receptors drive human regulatory T cell exhaustion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Lamarche, C. and Ward-Hartstonge, K. and Mi, T. and Lin, D.T.S. and Huang, Q. and Brown, A. and Edwards, K. and Novakovsky, G.E. and Qi, C.N. and Kobor, M.S. and Zebley, C.C. and Weber, E.W. and Mackall, C.L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219086120

Human A2-CAR T Cells Reject HLA-A2+Human Islets Transplanted into Mice Without Inducing Graft-versus-host Disease

Transplantation

Ellis, C.E. and Mojibian, M. and Ida, S. and Fung, V.C.W. and Skovs?, S?. and McIver, E. and O'Dwyer, S. and Webber, T.D. and Braam, M.J.S. and Saber, N. and Sasaki, S. and Lynn, F.C. and Kieffer, T.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004709

A Century-long Journey From the Discovery of Insulin to the Implantation of Stem Cell"derived Islets

Endocrine Reviews

Ramzy, A. and Belmonte, P.J. and Braam, M.J.S. and Ida, S. and Wilts, E.M. and Levings, M.K. and Rezania, A. and Kieffer, T.J.

DOI: 10.1210/endrev/bnac021

Targeting regulatory T cell metabolism in disease: Novel therapeutic opportunities

European Journal of Immunology

Halvorson, T. and Tuomela, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202250002

Strategies for optimizing CITE-seq for human islets and other tissues

Frontiers in Immunology

Colpitts, S.J. and Budd, M.A. and Monajemi, M. and Reid, K.T. and Murphy, J.M. and Ivison, S. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K. and Crome, S.Q.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1107582

Flagellin-specific human CAR Tregs for immune regulation in IBD

Journal of Autoimmunity

Boardman, D.A. and Wong, M.Q. and Rees, W.D. and Wu, D. and Himmel, M.E. and Orban, P.C. and Vent-Schmidt, J. and Zachos, N.C. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2022.102961

3D genomic features across >50 diverse cell types reveal insights into the genomic architecture of childhood obesity

Medrxiv

Trang, K.B. and Pahl, M.C. and Pippin, J.A. and Su, C. and Littleton, S.H. and Sharma, P. and Kulkarni, N.N. and Ghanem, L.R. and Terry, N.A. and O?Brien, J.M. and Wagley, Y. and Hankenson, K.D. and Jermusyk, A. and Hoskins, J.W. and Amundadottir, L.T. and Xu, M. and Brown, K.M. and Anderson, S.A. and Yang, W. and Titchenell, P.M. and Seale, P. and Cook, L. and Levings, M.K. and Zemel, B.S. and Chesi, A. and Wells, A.D. and Grant, S.F.A.

DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.30.23294092

T-cell activation"induced marker assays in health and disease

Immunology and Cell Biology

Poloni, C. and Schonhofer, C. and Ivison, S. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S. and Cook, L.

DOI: 10.1111/imcb.12636

Regulatory T Cell Biomarkers Identify Patients at Risk of Developing Acute Cellular Rejection in the First Year Following Heart Transplantation

Transplantation

Kim, J.-Y.V. and Assadian, S. and Hollander, Z. and Burns, P. and Shannon, C.P. and Lam, K. and Toma, M. and Ignaszewski, A. and Davies, R.A. and Delgado, D. and Haddad, H. and Isaac, D. and Kim, D. and Mui, A. and Rajda, M. and West, L. and White, M. and Zieroth, S. and Keown, P.A. and McMaster, W.R. and Ng, R.T. and McManus, B.M. and Levings, M.K. and Tebbutt, S.J.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004607

First-in-human therapy with Treg produced from thymic tissue (thyTreg) in a heart transplant infant

The Journal of experimental medicine

Bernaldo-de-Quirs, E. and Camino, M. and Martnez-Bonet, M. and Gil-Jaurena, J.M. and Gil, N. and Hernndez-Flrez, D. and Fernndez-Santos, M.E. and Butragueo, L. and Dijke, I.E. and Levings, M.K. and West, L.J. and Pion, M. and Correa-Rocha, R.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.20231045

Alleviating graft-versus-host disease by directing regulatory T cells to the gut It is all about location, location, location

American Journal of Transplantation

Haque, M. and Boardman, D.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.04.010

Omicron BA.4/5 Neutralization and T-Cell Responses in Organ Transplant Recipients after Booster Messenger RNA Vaccine: A Multicenter Cohort Study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Ferreira, V.H. and Ierullo, M. and Mavandadnejad, F. and Kurtesi, A. and Hu, Q. and Hardy, W.R. and Hall, V.G. and Pinzon, N. and Yotis, D. and Gingras, A.-C. and Belga, S. and Shalhoub, S. and Hbert, M.-J. and Humar, A. and Kabbani, D. and Kumar, D. and Delisle, J.-S. and Hosseini-Moghaddam, S. and Cardinal, H. and Dieud, M. and Racine, N. and Top, K. and DeSerres, G. and West, L. and Levings, M. and Cloutier, M. and Bazin, R. and Lemieux, C. and De Serres, S. and Gongal, P. and Stephens, K. and Turgeon, J. and Khrifi, Z. and Samson, F. and Desjardins, T.M. and Brown, T.H. and Doiron, T.J. and Ladua, T.G. and Baker, C. and Toth, T. and Luke, G. and Robertson, K. and Mangan, H.

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciad175

Human A2-CAR T cells reject HLA-A2+ human islets transplanted into mice without inducing graft versus host disease

bioRxiv

Ellis, C.E. and Mojibian, M. and Ida, S. and Fung, V.C.W. and Skovs?, S. and McIver, E. and O'Dwyer, S. and Webber, T.D. and Braam, M.J.S. and Saber, N. and Kieffer, T.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.23.529741

Eras of designer Tregs: Harnessing synthetic biology for immune suppression

Immunological Reviews

Tuomela, K. and Salim, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/imr.13254

Tregs with an MHC class II peptide-specific chimeric antigen receptor prevent autoimmune diabetes in mice

The Journal of clinical investigation

Spanier, J.A. and Fung, V. and Wardell, C.M. and Alkhatib, M.H. and Chen, Y. and Swanson, L.A. and Dwyer, A.J. and Weno, M.E. and Silva, N. and Mitchell, J.S. and Orban, P.C. and Mojibian, M. and Verchere, C.B. and Fife, B.T. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI168601

SARS-CoV-2 variants Omicron BA.4/5 and XBB.1.5 significantly escape T cell recognition in solid organ transplant recipients vaccinated against the ancestral strain

medRxiv

Halvorson, T. and Ivison, S. and Huang, Q. and Ladua, G. and Yotis, D.M. and Mannar, D. and Subramaniam, S. and Ferreira, V.H. and Kumar, D. and Belga, S. and Levings, M.K. and Delisle, J.-S. and Hosseini-Moghaddam, S. and Cardinal, H. and Dieud, M. and Racine, N. and Top, K. and DeSerres, G. and West, L. and Cloutier, M. and Bazin, R. and Lemieux, C. and De Serres, S. and Humar, A. and Shalhoub, S. and Kabbani, D. and Hbert, M.-J. and Gongal, P. and Stephens, K. and Turgeon, J. and Khrifi, Z. and Samson, F. and Desjardins, M. and Brown, H. and Doiron, J. and Baker, C. and Toth, T. and Luke, G. and Pinzon, N. and Hall, V.G. and Robertson, K. and Mangan, H.

DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.14.23293991

Insulin B peptide-MHC class II-specific chimeric antigen receptor-Tregs prevent autoimmune diabetes

bioRxiv

Spanier, J.A. and Fung, V. and Wardell, C.M. and Alkhatib, M.H. and Chen, Y. and Swanson, L.A. and Dwyer, A.J. and Weno, M.E. and Silva, N. and Mitchell, J.S. and Orban, P.C. and Mojibian, M. and Verchere, C.B. and Fife, B.T. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.23.529737

Tregs integrate native and CAR-mediated costimulatory signals for control of allograft rejection

JCI Insight

Rosado-Snchez, I. and Haque, M. and Salim, K. and Speck, M. and Fung, V.C.W. and Boardman, D.A. and Mojibian, M. and Raimondi, G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.167215

Sex biased human thymic architecture guides T cell development through spatially defined niches

bioRxiv

Stankiewicz, L.N. and Salim, K. and Flaschner, E.A. and Wang, Y.X. and Edgar, J.M. and Lin, B.Z.B. and Bingham, G.C. and Major, M.C. and Jones, R.D. and Blau, H.M. and Rideout, E.J. and Levings, M.K. and Zandstra, P.W. and Rossi, F.M.V.

DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.13.536804

Preclinical assessment of antigen-specific chimeric antigen receptor regulatory T cells for use in solid organ transplantation

Gene Therapy

Proics, E. and David, M. and Mojibian, M. and Speck, M. and Lounnas-Mourey, N. and Govehovitch, A. and Baghdadi, W. and Desnouveaux, J. and Bastian, H. and Freschi, L. and Privat, G. and Pouzet, C. and Grossi, M. and Heimendinger, P. and Abel, T. and Fenard, D. and Levings, M.K. and Meyer, F. and Dumont, C.

DOI: 10.1038/s41434-022-00358-x

CD56brightCD16- natural killer cells as an important regulatory mechanism in chronic graft-versus-host disease

Haematologica

Lauener, M.P. and AzadPour, S. and Abdossamadi, S. and Parthasarathy, V. and Ng, B. and Ostroumov, E. and Cuvelier, G.D.E. and Levings, M.K. and MacDonald, K.N. and Kariminia, A. and Schultz, K.R.

DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2022.280653

Acidity promotes the differentiation of immunosuppressive regulatory T cells

European Journal of Immunology

Tuomela, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202350511

A phase 1b open-label dose-finding study of ustekinumab in young adults with type 1 diabetes

Immunotherapy Advances

Marwaha, A.K. and Chow, S. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Cook, L. and Sun, A. and Long, S.A. and Yang, J.H.M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Williams, E. and Domingo-Vila, C. and Halani, K. and Harris, K.M. and Tree, T.I.M. and Levings, M.K. and Elliott, T. and Tan, R. and Dutz, J.P.

DOI: 10.1093/immadv/ltab022

Emerging strategies for treating autoimmune disorders with genetically modified Treg cells

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Boardman, D.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.11.007

Modelling Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Mice Using Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

Bio-protocol

Haque, M. and Boardman, D.A. and Lam, A.J. and MacDonald, K.N. and Sanderink, L. and Huang, Q. and Fung, V.C.W. and Ivison, S. and Mojibian, M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4566

PTEN is required for human Treg suppression of costimulation

bioRxiv

Lam, A.J. and Haque, M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Uday, P. and Wardell, C.M. and Gillies, J.K. and Speck, M. and Mojibian, M. and Klein Geltink, R.I. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.06.483188

PHLPP Signaling in Immune Cells

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Lordn, G. and Lam, A.J. and Levings, M.K. and Newton, A.C.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06566-8_5

The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies

Frontiers in Immunology

Reed, E.F. and Chong, A.S. and Levings, M.K. and Mutrie, C. and Laufer, T.M. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Sykes, M.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.816535

Consequences of adjusting cell density and feed frequency on serum-free expansion of thymic regulatory T cells

Cytotherapy

MacDonald, K.N. and Hall, M.G. and Ivison, S. and Gandhi, S. and Klein Geltink, R.I. and Piret, J.M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2022.06.006

Serum Analyte Profiles Associated with Crohn's Disease and Disease Location

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Boucher, G. and Paradis, A. and Chabot-Roy, G. and Coderre, L. and Hillhouse, E.E. and Bitton, A. and Des Rosiers, C. and Levings, M.K. and Philip Schumm, L. and Lazarev, M. and Brant, S.R. and Duerr, R. and McGovern, D. and Silverberg, M.S. and Cho, J. and Lesage, S. and Rioux, J.D. and Charron, G. and Forest, A. and Goyette, P. and Ivinson, S. and Joseph, L. and Kohen, R. and Lachaine, J. and Levings, M. and Thompson-Legault, J. and Vachon, L. and Veilleux, S. and White-Guay, B. and Bajpai, M. and Birch, S. and Borowski, K. and Botwin, G. and Brant, S.R. and Chen, W. and Cho, J.H. and Cordero, R. and Ct-Daigneault, J. and Daly, M.J. and Datta, L. and Duerr, R.H. and Filice, M. and Fleshner, P. and Gettler, K. and Giri, M. and Goytte, P. and Hao, K. and Haritunians, T. and Itan, Y. and Johnston, E. and Konnikova, L. and Landers, C. and Li, D. and McGovern, D.P.B. and Mengesha, E. and Merad, M. and Miladinova, V. and Nayeri, S. and Proksell, S. and Raquel, M. and Rymaszewski, K. and Sabic, K. and Sands, B. and Schumm, L.P. and Schwartz, M.B. and Simpson, C.L. and Stempak, J.M. and Stevens, C. and Targan, S.R. and Xavier, R.

DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izab123

Integration of exogenous and endogenous co-stimulatory signals by CAR-Tregs

bioRxiv

Rosado-S{\'a}nchez, I. and Haque, M. and Salim, K. and Speck, M. and Fung, V. and Boardman, D. and Mojibian, M. and Raimondi, G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.10.516049

PTEN is required for human Treg suppression of costimulation in vitro

European Journal of Immunology

Lam, A.J. and Haque, M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Uday, P. and Wardell, C.M. and Gillies, J.K. and Speck, M. and Mojibian, M. and Klein Geltink, R.I. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202249888

Manufacturing next-generation regulatory T-cell therapies

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

MacDonald, K.N. and Salim, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102822

Guidelines for standardizing T-cell cytometry assays to link biomarkers, mechanisms, and disease outcomes in type 1 diabetes

European journal of immunology

Yang, J.H.M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Perry, D.J. and Blanchfield, J.L. and Posgai, A.L. and Wiedeman, A.E. and Diggins, K. and Rahman, A. and Tree, T.I.M. and Brusko, T.M. and Levings, M.K. and James, E.A. and Kent, S.C. and Speake, C. and Homann, D. and Long, S.A.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202049067

mRNA vaccines take on immune tolerance

Nature Biotechnology

Christine M. Wardell and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1038/s41587-021-00880-0

04 / 2021

Helios is a marker, not a driver, of human Treg stability

Avery J. Lam and Prakruti Uday and Jana K. Gillies and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.27.441702

04 / 2021

Identifying the Achilles heel of type 1 diabetes

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

M Battaglia and J H Buckner and M K Levings and S J Richardson and F S Wong and T I Tree

DOI: 10.1111/cei.13570

04 / 2021

Fecal microbiota transplant treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection enhances adaptive immunity to TcdB.

Gastroenterology

Cook L and Rees WD and Wong MQ and Peters H and Levings MK and Steiner TS

DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.01.009 PubMed: 33444574

01 / 2021

Optimized CRISPR-mediated gene knock-in reveals FOXP3-independent control of human Treg identity

Avery J. Lam and David T.S. Lin and Jana K. Gillies and Prakruti Uday and Anne M. Pesenacker and Michael S. Kobor and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.16.426937

01 / 2021

Cross talk between human regulatory T cells and antigen-presenting cells: Lessons for clinical applications

European Journal of Immunology

Christine M Wardell and Katherine N MacDonald and Megan K Levings and Laura Cook

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202048746

01 / 2021

Functional screen of inflammatory bowel disease genes reveals key epithelial functions

Genome Medicine

Ntunzwenimana, J.C. and Boucher, G. and Paquette, J. and Gosselin, H. and Alikashani, A. and Morin, N. and Beauchamp, C. and Thauvette, L. and Rivard, M.-?. and Dupuis, F. and Desch{\^e}nes, S. and Foisy, S. and Latour, F. and Lavall{\'e}e, G. and Daly, M.J. and Xavier, R.J. and Bitton, A. and Rosiers, C.D. and Forest, A. and Ivison, S. and Joseph, L. and Kohen, R. and Lachaine, J. and Lesage, S. and Levings, M.K. and Rioux, J.D. and Legault, J.T. and Vachon, L. and Veilleux, S. and White-Guay, B. and Charron, G. and Goyette, P. and Rioux, J.D.

DOI: 10.1186/s13073-021-00996-7

Optimized CRISPR-mediated gene knockin reveals FOXP3-independent maintenance of human Treg identity

Cell Reports

Lam, A.J. and Lin, D.T.S. and Gillies, J.K. and Uday, P. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Kobor, M.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109494

Lasting changes to circulating leukocytes in people with mild SARS-CoV-2 infections

medRxiv

Kennedy, A.E. and Cook, L. and Breznik, J.A. and Cowbrough, B. and Wallace, J.G. and Huynh, A. and Smith, J.W. and Son, K. and Stacey, H. and Ang, J. and McGeer, A. and Coleman, B.L. and Larch{\'e}, M. and Larch{\'e}, M. and Hambly, N. and Nair, P. and Ask, K. and Miller, M.S. and Bramson, J. and Levings, M.K. and Nazy, I. and Svenningsen, S. and Mukherjee, M. and Bowdish, D.M.E.

DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.25.21264117

Interactions between islets and regulatory immune cells in health and type 1 diabetes

Diabetologia

Budd, M.A. and Monajemi, M. and Colpitts, S.J. and Crome, S.Q. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/s00125-021-05565-6

Induction of stable human FOXP3+ Tregs by a parasite-derived TGF- mimic

Immunology and Cell Biology

Cook, L. and Reid, K.T. and Hkkinen, E. and de Bie, B. and Tanaka, S. and Smyth, D.J. and White, M.P.J. and Wong, M.Q. and Huang, Q. and Gillies, J.K. and Ziegler, S.F. and Maizels, R.M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/imcb.12475

The parasite cytokine mimic Hp-TGM potently replicates the regulatory effects of TGF- on murine CD4+ T cells

Immunology and Cell Biology

White, M.P.J. and Smyth, D.J. and Cook, L. and Ziegler, S.F. and Levings, M.K. and Maizels, R.M.

DOI: 10.1111/imcb.12479

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (third edition)

European Journal of Immunology

Cossarizza, A. and Chang, H.-D. and Radbruch, A. and Abrignani, S. and Addo, R. and Akdis, M. and Andr, I. and Andreata, F. and Annunziato, F. and Arranz, E. and Bacher, P. and Bari, S. and Barnaba, V. and Barros-Martins, J. and Baumjohann, D. and Beccaria, C.G. and Bernardo, D. and Boardman, D.A. and Borger, J. and Bttcher, C. and Brockmann, L. and Burns, M. and Busch, D.H. and Cameron, G. and Cammarata, I. and Cassotta, A. and Chang, Y. and Chirdo, F.G. and Christakou, E. and ?i?in-?ain, L. and Cook, L. and Corbett, A.J. and Cornelis, R. and Cosmi, L. and Davey, M.S. and De Biasi, S. and De Simone, G. and del Zotto, G. and Delacher, M. and Di Rosa, F. and Santo, J.D. and Diefenbach, A. and Dong, J. and Drner, T. and Dress, R.J. and Dutertre, C.-A. and Eckle, S.B.G. and Eede, P. and Evrard, M. and Falk, C.S. and Feuerer, M. and Fillatreau, S. and Fiz-Lopez, A. and Follo, M. and Foulds, G.A. and Frbel, J. and Gagliani, N. and Galletti, G. and Gangaev, A. and Garbi, N. and Garrote, J.A. and Geginat, J. and Gherardin, N.A. and Gibellini, L. and Ginhoux, F. and Godfrey, D.I. and Gruarin, P. and Haftmann, C. and Hansmann, L. and Harpur, C.M. and Hayday, A.C. and Heine, G. and Hernndez, D.C. and Herrmann, M. and Hoelsken, O. and Huang, Q. and Huber, S. and Huber, J.E. and Huehn, J. and Hundemer, M. and Hwang, W.Y.K. and Iannacone, M. and Ivison, S.M. and Jck, H.-M. and Jani, P.K. and Keller, B. and Kessler, N. and Ketelaars, S. and Knop, L. and Knopf, J. and Koay, H.-F. and Kobow, K. and Kriegsmann, K. and Kristyanto, H. and Krueger, A. and Kuehne, J.F. and Kunze-Schumacher, H. and Kvistborg, P. and Kwok, I. and Latorre, D. and Lenz, D. and Levings, M.K. and Lino, A.C. and Liotta, F. and Long, H.M. and Lugli, E. and MacDonald, K.N. and Maggi, L. and Maini, M.K. and Mair, F. and Manta, C. and Manz, R.A. and Mashreghi, M.-F. and Mazzoni, A. and McCluskey, J. and Mei, H.E. and Melchers, F. and Melzer, S. and Mielenz, D. and Monin, L. and Moretta, L. and Multhoff, G. and Muoz, L.E. and Muoz-Ruiz, M. and Muscate, F. and Natalini, A. and Neumann, K. and Ng, L.G. and Niedobitek, A. and Niemz, J. and Almeida, L.N. and Notarbartolo, S. and Ostendorf, L. and Pallett, L.J. and Patel, A.A. and Percin, G.I. and Peruzzi, G. and Pinti, M. and Pockley, A.G. and Pracht, K. and Prinz, I. and Pujol-Autonell, I. and Pulvirenti, N. and Quatrini, L. and Quinn, K.M. and Radbruch, H. and Rhys, H. and Rodrigo, M.B. and Romagnani, C. and Saggau, C. and Sakaguchi, S. and Sallusto, F. and Sanderink, L. and Sandrock, I. and Schauer, C. and Scheffold, A. and Scherer, H.U. and Schiemann, M. and Schildberg, F.A. and Schober, K. and Schoen, J. and Schuh, W. and Schler, T. and Schulz, A.R. and Schulz, S. and Schulze, J. and Simonetti, S. and Singh, J. and Sitnik, K.M. and Stark, R. and Starossom, S. and Stehle, C. and Szelinski, F. and Tan, L. and Tarnok, A. and Tornack, J. and Tree, T.I.M. and van Beek, J.J.P. and van de Veen, W. and van Gisbergen, K. and Vasco, C. and Verheyden, N.A. and von Borstel, A. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Warnatz, K. and Waskow, C. and Wiedemann, A. and Wilharm, A. and Wing, J. and Wirz, O. and Wittner, J. and Yang, J.H.M. and Yang, J.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.202170126

Suppression of human dendritic cells by regulatory t cells

Bio-protocol

Huang, Q. and Lam, A.J. and Boardman, D.A. and Dawson, N.A.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4217

Implanted pluripotent stem-cell-derived pancreatic endoderm cells secrete glucose-responsive C-peptide in patients with type 1 diabetes

Cell Stem Cell

Ramzy, A. and Thompson, D.M. and Ward-Hartstonge, K.A. and Ivison, S. and Cook, L. and Garcia, R.V. and Loyal, J. and Kim, P.T.W. and Warnock, G.L. and Levings, M.K. and Kieffer, T.J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.10.003

Transduction of human T cell subsets with lentivirus

Methods in Molecular Biology

Fung, V.C.W. and Rosado-Snchez, I. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1311-5_19

Prevention of vascular-allograft rejection by protecting the endothelial glycocalyx with immunosuppressive polymers

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Siren, E.M.J. and Luo, H.D. and Tam, F. and Montgomery, A. and Enns, W. and Moon, H. and Sim, L. and Rey, K. and Guan, Q. and Wang, J.-J. and Wardell, C.M. and Monajemi, M. and Mojibian, M. and Levings, M.K. and Zhang, Z.J. and Du, C. and Withers, S.G. and Choy, J.C. and Kizhakkedathu, J.N.

DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00777-y

Novel T regulatory cells come of age: The curious incident of a mouse in Tennessee, delayed thymectomy and chimeric receptors!

Cellular immunology

Scott DW and Levings MK

DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2020.104253 PubMed: 33307362

12 / 2020

Building a CAR-Treg: Going from the basic to the luxury model

Cellular Immunology

Isaac Rosado-Snchez and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2020.104220

12 / 2020

A method for expansion and retroviral transduction of mouse regulatory T cells.

Journal of immunological methods

Wu D and Wong MQ and Vent-Schmidt J and Boardman DA and Steiner TS and Levings MK

DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2020.112931 PubMed: 33221458

11 / 2020

Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection is associated with impaired Th17 immunity to TcdB.

Gastroenterology

Cook L and Rees WD and Wong MQ and Kwok WW and Levings MK and Steiner TS

DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.11.043 PubMed: 33253683

11 / 2020

What is the Optimal Design-Build-Test Cycle for Clinically Relevant Synthetic CAR T Cell Therapies?

Cell systems

Chen YY and Lim W and Levings M and Blazar B and Krenciute G and Wong W and Lehner M

DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2020.08.017 PubMed: 32970992

09 / 2020

Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human regulatory T cells.

Science translational medicine

Dawson NAJ and Rosado-Snchez I and Novakovsky GE and Fung VCW and Huang Q and McIver E and Sun G and Gillies J and Speck M and Orban PC and Mojibian M and Levings MK

DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz3866 PubMed: 32817364

08 / 2020

Impaired Th17 immunity in recurrent C. difficile infection is ameliorated by fecal microbial transplantation

Cook L and Rees WD and Wong MQ and Wang X and Peters H and Oliveira L and Lau T and Mah R and Bressler B and Gomez R and Chow I and James EA and Kwok WW and Levings MK and Steiner TS

DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.05.20114876

06 / 2020

Repeated stimulation or tonic-signaling chimeric antigen receptors drive regulatory T cell exhaustion

Caroline Lamarche and German E. Novakovsky and Christopher N. Qi and Evan W. Weber and Crystal L. Mackall and Megan K Levings

DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.27.175158

06 / 2020

Ectopic germline recombination activity of the widely used Foxp3-YFP-Cre mouse: a case report

Immunology

Wu, D. and Huang, Q. and Orban, P.C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/imm.13153

T-Cell Specificity Matters in IBD: Impaired IL10 Production Revealed by OmpC-Tetramers

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Cook, L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2020.06.007

Analysis of Flagellin-Specific Adaptive Immunity Reveals Links to Dysbiosis in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Cook, L. and Lisko, D.J. and Wong, M.Q. and Garcia, R.V. and Himmel, M.E. and Seidman, E.G. and Bressler, B. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2019.11.012

Pharmacological inhibition of RORC2 enhances human Th17-Treg stability and function

European Journal of Immunology

Boardman, D.A. and Garcia, R.V. and Ivison, S.M. and Bressler, B. and Dhar, T.G.M. and Zhao, Q. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201948435

T reg"specific insulin receptor deletion prevents diet-induced and age-associated metabolic syndrome

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Wu, D. and Wong, C.K. and Han, J.M. and Orban, P.C. and Huang, Q. and Gillies, J. and Mojibian, M. and Gibson, W.T. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.20191542

Donor-specific chimeric antigen receptor Tregs limit rejection in naive but not sensitized allograft recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Sicard, A. and Lamarche, C. and Speck, M. and Wong, M. and Rosado-Snchez, I. and Blois, M. and Glaichenhaus, N. and Mojibian, M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15787

Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human Tregs

Dawson NA and Rosado-Snchez I and Novakovsky GE and Fung VC and Huang Q and McIver E and Sun G and Gillies J and Speck M and Orban PC and Mojibian M and Levings MK

DOI: 10.1101/749721

08 / 2019

Evaluating the role of Tregs in the progression of multiple myeloma.

Leukemia & lymphoma

Lad D and Huang Q and Hoeppli R and Garcia R and Xu L and Levings M and Song K and Broady R

DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2019.1579324 PubMed: 30773086

02 / 2019

Cancer immunotherapies repurposed for use in autoimmunity

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Boardman, D.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1038/s41551-019-0359-6

Characterization of regulatory T cells in obese omental adipose tissue in humans

European Journal of Immunology

Wu, D. and Han, J.M. and Yu, X. and Lam, A.J. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Huang, Q. and Chen, V. and Speake, C. and Yorke, E. and Nguyen, N. and Sampath, S. and Harris, D. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201847570

Tailoring the homing capacity of human Tregs for directed migration to sites of Th1-inflammation or intestinal regions

American Journal of Transplantation

Hoeppli, R.E. and MacDonald, K.N. and Leclair, P. and Fung, V.C.W. and Mojibian, M. and Gillies, J. and Rahavi, S.M.R. and Campbell, A.I.M. and Gandhi, S.K. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Reid, G. and Lim, C.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14936

A New Mechanism of Action in Human and Mouse Treg Cells: The Ke(y)to Suppression

Immunity

Wu, D. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.04.008

A composite immune signature parallels disease progression across T1D subjects

JCI Insight

Speake, C. and Skinner, S.O. and Berel, D. and Whalen, E. and Dufort, M.J. and Young, W.C. and Odegard, J.M. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Gorus, F.K. and James, E.A. and Levings, M.K. and Linsley, P.S. and Akirav, E.M. and Pugliese, A. and Hessner, M.J. and Nepom, G.T. and Gottardo, R. and Alice Long, S.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.126917

Treg gene signatures predict and measure type 1 diabetes trajectory

JCI Insight

Pesenacker, A.M. and Chen, V. and Gillies, J. and Speake, C. and Marwaha, A.K. and Sun, A. and Chow, S. and Tan, R. and Elliott, T. and Dutz, J.P. and Tebbutt, S.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.123879

Suppressive and Gut-Reparative Functions of Human Type 1 T Regulatory Cells

Gastroenterology

Cook, L. and Stahl, M. and Han, X. and Nazli, A. and MacDonald, K.N. and Wong, M.Q. and Tsai, K. and Dizzell, S. and Jacobson, K. and Bressler, B. and Kaushic, C. and Vallance, B.A. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2019.09.002

Cryopreservation timing is a critical process parameter in a thymic regulatory T-cell therapy manufacturing protocol

Cytotherapy

MacDonald, K.N. and Ivison, S. and Hippen, K.L. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Hall, M. and Zheng, G. and Dijke, I.E. and Aklabi, M.A. and Freed, D.H. and Rebeyka, I. and Gandhi, S. and West, L.J. and Piret, J.M. and Blazar, B.R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2019.10.011

Systematic testing and specificity mapping of alloantigen-specific chimeric antigen receptors in regulatory T cells

JCI Insight

Dawson, N.A.J. and Lamarche, C. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Bergqvist, P. and Fung, V.C.W. and McIver, E. and Huang, Q. and Gillies, J. and Speck, M. and Orban, P.C. and Bush, J.W. and Mojibian, M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.123672

Methods to manufacture regulatory T cells for cell therapy

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

MacDonald, K.N. and Piret, J.M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/cei.13297

Innate control of tissue-reparative human regulatory T cells

Journal of Immunology

Lam, A.J. and MacDonald, K.N. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Juvet, S.C. and Morishita, K.A. and Bressler, B. and Pan, J.G. and Sidhu, S.S. and Rioux, J.D. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801330

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

European Journal of Immunology

Cossarizza, A. and Chang, H.-D. and Radbruch, A. and Acs, A. and Adam, D. and Adam-Klages, S. and Agace, W.W. and Aghaeepour, N. and Akdis, M. and Allez, M. and Almeida, L.N. and Alvisi, G. and Anderson, G. and Andr, I. and Annunziato, F. and Anselmo, A. and Bacher, P. and Baldari, C.T. and Bari, S. and Barnaba, V. and Barros-Martins, J. and Battistini, L. and Bauer, W. and Baumgart, S. and Baumgarth, N. and Baumjohann, D. and Baying, B. and Bebawy, M. and Becher, B. and Beisker, W. and Benes, V. and Beyaert, R. and Blanco, A. and Boardman, D.A. and Bogdan, C. and Borger, J.G. and Borsellino, G. and Boulais, P.E. and Bradford, J.A. and Brenner, D. and Brinkman, R.R. and Brooks, A.E.S. and Busch, D.H. and Bscher, M. and Bushnell, T.P. and Calzetti, F. and Cameron, G. and Cammarata, I. and Cao, X. and Cardell, S.L. and Casola, S. and Cassatella, M.A. and Cavani, A. and Celada, A. and Chatenoud, L. and Chattopadhyay, P.K. and Chow, S. and Christakou, E. and ?i?in-?ain, L. and Clerici, M. 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Wilkinson, R.J. and Willimsky, G. and Wing, J.B. and Winkelmann, R. and Winkler, T.H. and Wirz, O.F. and Wong, A. and Wurst, P. and Yang, J.H.M. and Yang, J. and Yazdanbakhsh, M. and Yu, L. and Yue, A. and Zhang, H. and Zhao, Y. and Ziegler, S.M. and Zielinski, C. and Zimmermann, J. and Zychlinsky, A.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201970107

Megadose Bone Marrow and Regulatory T cells for the Induction of Immune Tolerance in Non-Human Primates Through Durable Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism Across MHC-barriers

Transplantation

Paula Alonso-Guallart and Raimon Duran-Struuck and Jeffrey Stern and Erik Berglund and Nathaly Llore and Jonah Zitsman and Genevieve Pierre and Sigal Kofman and Makenzie Danton and Samanta Gokova and Emily Lopes and Alicia McMurchy and Qizhi Tang and Megan Levings and Megan Sykes and Adam Griesemer

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000542954.80179.6b

07 / 2018

Guiding regulatory T cells to the allograft

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Lamarche, C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000483

Regulatory T-cells drive immune dysfunction in CLL

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Lad, D. and Hoeppli, R. and Huang, Q. and Garcia, R. and Xu, L. and Toze, C. and Broady, R. and Levings, M.

DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2017.1330475

An optimized method to measure human FOXP3 + regulatory Tcells from multiple tissue types using mass cytometry

European Journal of Immunology

Dawson, N.A.J. and Lam, A.J. and Cook, L. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Broady, R. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201747407

The outstanding questions in transplantation: It's about time

American Journal of Transplantation

Azzi, J. and Raimondi, G. and Mas, V. and Riella, L.V. and Elfadawy, N. and Safa, K. and Wojciechowski, D. and Kanak, M. and Nog, R. and Maltzman, J.S. and Ford, M.L. and Pober, J.S. and Luo, X.-R. and Rothstein, D. and Miller, M.L. and Matthews, D. and Burlingham, W. and Levings, M. and Heeger, P. and Higdon, L. and Gill, J. and Gill, R.G. and Alegre, M.-L.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14450

A standardized immune phenotyping and automated data analysis platform for multicenter biomarker studies

JCI insight

Ivison, S. and Malek, M. and Garcia, R.V. and Broady, R. and Halpin, A. and Richaud, M. and Brant, R.F. and Wang, S.-I. and Goupil, M. and Guan, Q. and Ashton, P. and Warren, J. and Rajab, A. and Urschel, S. and Kumar, D. and Streitz, M. and Sawitzki, B. and Schlickeiser, S. and Bijl, J.J. and Wall, D.A. and Delisle, J.-S. and West, L.J. and Brinkman, R.R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.121867

Engineering therapeutic T cells to suppress alloimmune responses using TCRs, CARs, or BARs

American Journal of Transplantation

Sicard, A. and Levings, M.K. and Scott, D.W.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14747

Taking regulatory T-cell therapy one step further

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Sicard, A. and Boardman, D.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000566

Minimum information about T regulatory cells: A step toward reproducibility and standardization

Frontiers in Immunology

Fuchs, A. and Gliwinski, M. and Grageda, N. and Spiering, R. and Abbas, A.K. and Appel, S. and Bacchetta, R. and Battaglia, M. and Berglund, D. and Blazar, B. and Bluestone, J.A. and Bornhuser, M. and Brinke, A. and Brusko, T.M. and Cools, N. and Cuturi, M.C. and Geissler, E. and Giannoukakis, N. and Golab, K. and Hafler, D.A. and van Ham, S.M. and Hester, J. and Hippen, K. and Di Ianni, M. and Ilic, N. and Isaacs, J. and Issa, F. and Iwaszkiewicz-Grzes, D. and Jaeckel, E. and Joosten, I. and Klatzmann, D. and Koenen, H. and Kooten, C. and Korsgren, O. and Kretschmer, K. and Levings, M. and Marek-Trzonkowska, N.M. and Martinez-Llordella, M. and Miljkovic, D. and Mills, K.H.G. and Miranda, J.P. and Piccirillo, C.A. and Putnam, A.L. and Ritter, T. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Sakaguchi, S. and Snchez-Ramn, S. and Sawitzki, B. and Sofronic-Milosavljevic, L. and Sykes, M. and Tang, Q. and Vives-Pi, M. and Waldmann, H. and Witkowski, P. and Wood, K.J. and Gregori, S. and Hilkens, C.M.U. and Lombardi, G. and Lord, P. and Martinez-Caceres, E.M. and Trzonkowski, P.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01844

CD4+ T Cells Specific for C.difficile Toxins are a Marker of Patients with Active Relapsing Disease.

Open forum infectious diseases

Cook L and Wong M and Rees W and Lau T and Levings M and Steiner T

10 / 2017

OR42 Expanded thymic regulatory T cells (Tregs) have low class I HLA expression levels and are HLA-DR negative " Potential for Off-The-Shelf Cellular Therapy?

Human Immunology

Esme Dijke and Romy Hoeppli and Ingrid Larsen and Ivan Rebeyka and David Ross and Megan Levings and Lori West

DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2017.06.048

09 / 2017

Development of GMP-Compatible Protocols for Thymus-Derived Regulatory T Cell Expansion

Transplantation

Katherine MacDonald and Romy Hoeppli and James Piret and Esm Dijke and Lori West and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000520303.10595.5e

05 / 2017

Migration Capacity of Thymic Regulatory T Cells can be Tuned by Expansion in Cytokine-Enriched Culture Conditions

Transplantation

Romy E. Hoeppli and Esm Dijke and Andrew Campbell and Lori J. West and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000520352.47820.13

05 / 2017

Standardized Immunophenotyping in the Canadian National Transplant Research Program

Transplantation

Sabine Ivison and Salima Janmohamed and Mehrnoush Malek and Rosa Garcia and Raewyn Broady and Anne Halpin and Manon Richaud and Rollin Brant and Jean-Sebastien Delisle and Lori West and Ryan R. Brinkman and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000520396.84839.9b

05 / 2017

Thymus-Derived Treg Infusion to Prevent Graft Rejection in Heart-Transplanted Children

Transplantation

Esther Bernaldo de Quirs and Vernica A. Prez and Maribel Clemente and Juan Miguel Gil-Jaurena and Mara Teresa Gonzlez and Marjorie Pion and Giovanna Lombardi and Lori J. West and Megan Levings and Rafael Correa-Rocha

DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000520350.40197.6b

05 / 2017

A Novel Whole Blood Assay Detects Flagellin-Specific CD4 + T Cells in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Gastroenterology

Laura Cook and May Q. Wong and Rosa Garcia and Megan E. Himmel and Brian Bressler and Ernest G. Seidman and Theodore S. Steiner and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1016/s0016-5085(17)32185-6

04 / 2017

Evaluating the Role of Tregs in the Progression of Multiple Myeloma

Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma and Leukemia

Deeepesh Lad and Raewyn Broady and Jessica Huang and Romy Hoeppli and Anne Pesenacker and Rosa Garcia and Lixin Xu and Megan Levings and Kevin Song

DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2017.03.075

02 / 2017

Adipose-tissue regulatory T cells: Critical players in adipose-immune crosstalk

European Journal of Immunology

Becker, M. and Levings, M.K. and Daniel, C.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201646739

Effect of Ex Vivo-Expanded Recipient Regulatory T Cells on Hematopoietic Chimerism and Kidney Allograft Tolerance Across MHC Barriers in Cynomolgus Macaques

Transplantation

Duran-Struuck, R. and Sondermeijer, H.P. and Bhler, L. and Alonso-Guallart, P. and Zitsman, J. and Kato, Y. and Wu, A. and McMurchy, A.N. and Woodland, D. and Griesemer, A. and Martinez, M. and Boskovic, S. and Kawai, T. and Cosimi, A.B. and Wuu, C.-S. and Slate, A. and Mapara, M.Y. and Baker, S. and Tokarz, R. and D'Agati, V. and Hammer, S. and Pereira, M. and Lipkin, W.I. and Wekerle, T. and Levings, M.K. and Sykes, M.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001559

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

European Journal of Immunology

Cossarizza, A. and Chang, H.-D. and Radbruch, A. and Akdis, M. and Andr, I. and Annunziato, F. and Bacher, P. and Barnaba, V. and Battistini, L. and Bauer, W.M. and Baumgart, S. and Becher, B. and Beisker, W. and Berek, C. and Blanco, A. and Borsellino, G. and Boulais, P.E. and Brinkman, R.R. and Bscher, M. and Busch, D.H. and Bushnell, T.P. and Cao, X. and Cavani, A. and Chattopadhyay, P.K. and Cheng, Q. and Chow, S. and Clerici, M. and Cooke, A. and Cosma, A. and Cosmi, L. and Cumano, A. and Dang, V.D. and Davies, D. and De Biasi, S. and Del Zotto, G. and Della Bella, S. and Dellabona, P. and Deniz, G. and Dessing, M. and Diefenbach, A. and Di Santo, J. and Dieli, F. and Dolf, A. and Donnenberg, V.S. and Drner, T. and Ehrhardt, G.R.A. and Endl, E. and Engel, P. and Engelhardt, B. and Esser, C. and Everts, B. and Dreher, A. and Falk, C.S. and Fehniger, T.A. and Filby, A. and Fillatreau, S. and Follo, M. and Frster, I. and Foster, J. and Foulds, G.A. and Frenette, P.S. and Galbraith, D. and Garbi, N. and Garca-Godoy, M.D. and Geginat, J. and Ghoreschi, K. and Gibellini, L. and Goettlinger, C. and Goodyear, C.S. and Gori, A. and Grogan, J. and Gross, M. and Grtzkau, A. and Grummitt, D. and Hahn, J. and Hammer, Q. and Hauser, A.E. and Haviland, D.L. and Hedley, D. and Herrera, G. and Herrmann, M. and Hiepe, F. and Holland, T. and Hombrink, P. and Houston, J.P. and Hoyer, B.F. and Huang, B. and Hunter, C.A. and Iannone, A. and Jck, H.-M. and Jvega, B. and Jonjic, S. and Juelke, K. and Jung, S. and Kaiser, T. and Kalina, T. and Keller, B. and Khan, S. and Kienhfer, D. and Kroneis, T. and Kunkel, D. and Kurts, C. and Kvistborg, P. and Lannigan, J. and Lantz, O. and Larbi, A. and LeibundGut-Landmann, S. and Leipold, M.D. and Levings, M.K. and Litwin, V. and Liu, Y. and Lohoff, M. and Lombardi, G. and Lopez, L. and Lovett-Racke, A. and Lubberts, E. and Ludewig, B. and Lugli, E. and Maecker, H.T. and Martrus, G. and Matarese, G. and Mauerder, C. and McGrath, M. and McInnes, I. and Mei, H.E. and Melchers, F. and Melzer, S. and Mielenz, D. and Mills, K. and Mirrer, D. and Mjsberg, J. and Moore, J. and Moran, B. and Moretta, A. and Moretta, L. and Mosmann, T.R. and Mller, S. and Mller, W. and Mnz, C. and Multhoff, G. and Munoz, L.E. and Murphy, K.M. and Nakayama, T. and Nasi, M. and Neudrfl, C. and Nolan, J. and Nourshargh, S. and O'Connor, J.-E. and Ouyang, W. and Oxenius, A. and Palankar, R. and Panse, I. and Peterson, P. and Peth, C. and Petriz, J. and Philips, D. and Pickl, W. and Piconese, S. and Pinti, M. and Pockley, A.G. and Podolska, M.J. and Pucillo, C. and Quataert, S.A. and Radstake, T.R.D.J. and Rajwa, B. and Rebhahn, J.A. and Recktenwald, D. and Remmerswaal, E.B.M. and Rezvani, K. and Rico, L.G. and Robinson, J.P. and Romagnani, C. and Rubartelli, A. and Ruckert, B. and Ruland, J. and Sakaguchi, S. and Sala-de-Oyanguren, F. and Samstag, Y. and Sanderson, S. and Sawitzki, B. and Scheffold, A. and Schiemann, M. and Schildberg, F. and Schimisky, E. and Schmid, S.A. and Schmitt, S. and Schober, K. and Schler, T. and Schulz, A.R. and Schumacher, T. and Scotta, C. and Shankey, T.V. and Shemer, A. and Simon, A.-K. and Spidlen, J. and Stall, A.M. and Stark, R. and Stehle, C. and Stein, M. and Steinmetz, T. and Stockinger, H. and Takahama, Y. and Tarnok, A. and Tian, Z. and Toldi, G. and Tornack, J. and Traggiai, E. and Trotter, J. and Ulrich, H. and van der Braber, M. and van Lier, R.A.W. and Veldhoen, M. and Vento-Asturias, S. and Vieira, P. and Voehringer, D. and Volk, H.-D. and von Volkmann, K. and Waisman, A. and Walker, R. and Ward, M.D. and Warnatz, K. and Warth, S. and Watson, J.V. and Watzl, C. and Wegener, L. and Wiedemann, A. and Wienands, J. and Willimsky, G. and Wing, J. and Wurst, P. and Yu, L. and Yue, A. and Zhang, Q. and Zhao, Y. and Ziegler, S. and Zimmermann, J.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201646632

Engineered tolerance: Tailoring development, function, and antigen-specificity of regulatory T cells

Frontiers in Immunology

Dawson, N.A.J. and Vent-Schmidt, J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01460

Thymic progenitors of TCRa+ CD8aa intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes require RasGRP1 for development

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Golec, D.P. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Caviedes, L.M.H. and McCann, J. and Levings, M.K. and Baldwin, T.A.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.20170844

Biomarker-guided stratification of autoimmune patients for biologic therapy

Current Opinion in Immunology

Ivison, S. and des Rosiers, C. and Lesage, S. and Rioux, J.D. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2017.09.006

Erratum to Filgrastim-Stimulated Bone Marrow Compared with Filgrastim-Mobilized Peripheral Blood in Myeloablative Sibling Allografting for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: A Randomized Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group Study [Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2016 22 (1410"1415)] (S1083879116300362)(10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.04.017)

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Couban, S. and Aljurf, M. and Lachance, S. and Walker, I. and Toze, C. and Rubinger, M. and Lipton, J.H. and Lee, S.J. and Szer, J. and Doocey, R. and Lewis, I.D. and Huebsch, L. and Howson-Jan, K. and Lalancette, M. and Almohareb, F. and Chaudhri, N. and Ivison, S. and Broady, R. and Levings, M. and Fairclough, D. and Devins, G. and Szwajcer, D. and Foley, R. and Smith, C. and Panzarella, T. and Kerr, H. and Kariminia, A. and Schultz, K.R.

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.09.021

Circulating gluten-specific FOXP3+CD39+ regulatory T cells have impaired suppressive function in patients with celiac disease

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Cook, L. and Munier, C.M.L. and Seddiki, N. and van Bockel, D. and Ontiveros, N. and Hardy, M.Y. and Gillies, J.K. and Levings, M.K. and Reid, H.H. and Petersen, J. and Rossjohn, J. and Anderson, R.P. and Zaunders, J.J. and Tye-Din, J.A. and Kelleher, A.D.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.02.015

CD56 bright natural killer regulatory cells in filgrastim primed donor blood or marrow products regulate chronic graft-versus-host disease: The Canadian blood and marrow transplant group randomized 0601 study results

Haematologica

Kariminia, A. and Ivison, S. and Ng, B. and Rozmus, J. and Sung, S. and Varshney, A. and Aljurf, M. and Lachance, S. and Walker, I. and Toze, C. and Lipton, J. and Lee, S.J. and Szer, J. and Doocey, R. and Lewis, I. and Smith, C. and Chaudhri, N. and Levings, M.K. and Broady, R. and Devins, G. and Szwajcer, D. and Foley, R. and Mostafavi, S. and Pavletic, S. and Wall, D.A. and Couban, S. and Panzarella, T. and Schultz, K.R.

DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2017.170928

CD4+ T Cells Specific for C.difficile Toxins are a Marker of Patients with Active Relapsing Disease

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Laura Cook and May Wong and William Rees and Torey Lau and Megan Levings and Theodore Steiner

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx163.948

Antigen-specific regulatory T cells: are police CARs the answer?

Translational Research

Dawson, N.A.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2017.06.009

Harnessing Advances in T Regulatory Cell Biology for Cellular Therapy in Transplantation

Transplantation

Lam, A.J. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001757

Discarded human thymus is a novel source of stable and long-lived therapeutic regulatory T cells

American Journal of Transplantation

Dijke, I.E. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Ellis, T. and Pearcey, J. and Huang, Q. and McMurchy, A.N. and Boer, K. and Peeters, A.M.A. and Aubert, G. and Larsen, I. and Ross, D.B. and Rebeyka, I. and Campbell, A. and Baan, C.C. and Levings, M.K. and West, L.J.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13456

Heterogeneity of chronic graft-versus-host disease biomarkers: Association with CXCL10 and CXCR3+ NK cells

Blood

Kariminia, A. and Holtan, S.G. and Ivison, S. and Rozmus, J. and Hebert, M.-J. and Martin, P.J. and Lee, S.J. and Wolff, D. and Subrt, P. and Abdossamadi, S. and Sung, S. and Storek, J. and Levings, M. and Aljurf, M. and Arora, M. and Cutler, C. and Gallagher, G. and Kuruvilla, J. and Lipton, J. and Nevill, T.J. and Newell, L.F. and Panzarella, T. and Pidala, J. and Popradi, G. and Szwajcer, D. and Tay, J. and Toze, C.L. and Walker, I. and Couban, S. and Storer, B.E. and Schultz, K.R.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-09-668251

Filgrastim-Stimulated Bone Marrow Compared with Filgrastim-Mobilized Peripheral Blood in Myeloablative Sibling Allografting for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: A Randomized Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group Study

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Couban, S. and Aljurf, M. and Lachance, S. and Walker, I. and Toze, C. and Rubinger, M. and Lipton, J.H. and Lee, S.J. and Szer, R. and Doocey, R. and Lewis, I.D. and Huebsch, L. and Howson-Jan, K. and Lalancette, M. and Almohareb, F. and Chaudhri, N. and Ivison, S. and Broady, R. and Levings, M. and Fairclough, D. and Devins, G. and Szwajcer, D. and Foley, R. and Smith, C. and Panzarella, T. and Kerr, H. and Kariminia, A. and Schultz, K.R.

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.04.017

The role of FOXP3 in autoimmunity

Current Opinion in Immunology

Pesenacker, A.M. and Cook, L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2016.07.004

How antigen specificity directs regulatory T-cell function: Self, foreign and engineered specificity

HLA

Hoeppli, R.E. and Macdonald, K.G. and Levings, M.K. and Cook, L.

DOI: 10.1111/tan.12822

Alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells generated with a chimeric antigen receptor

Journal of Clinical Investigation

MacDonald, K.G. and Hoeppli, R.E. and Huang, Q. and Gillies, J. and Luciani, D.S. and Orban, P.C. and Broady, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI82771

Obesity-Associated Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation

Wu, D. and Dawson, N.A.J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13578

T regulatory cell chemokine production mediates pathogenic T cell attraction and suppression

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Patterson, S.J. and Pesenacker, A.M. and Wang, A.Y. and Gillies, J. and Mojibian, M. and Morishita, K. and Tan, R. and Kieffer, T.J. and Verchere, C.B. and Panagiotopoulos, C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI83987

A Regulatory T-cell gene signature is a specific and sensitive biomarker to identify children with new-onset type 1 diabetes

Diabetes

Pesenacker, A.M. and Wang, A.Y. and Singh, A. and Gillies, J. and Kim, Y. and Piccirillo, C.A. and Nguyen, D. and Haining, W.N. and Tebbutt, S.J. and Panagiotopoulos, C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.2337/db15-0572

Induction of Durable Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism and Immune Tolerance in Monkeys

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Paula Alonso Guallart and Jonah Zitsman and Hugo Sondermeijer and David Woodland and Yojiro Kato and Joshua Weiner and Adam Griesemer and Leo Bhler and Alicia McMurchy and Megan Levings and Megan Sykes and Raimon Duran-Struuck

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.11.040

02 / 2015

Phenotype, Function and Expansion of Regulatory T Cells in the Cynomolgus Macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Paula Alonso Guallart and Jonah Zitsman and Hugo Sondermeijer and Leo Bhler and Christopher Ovanez and Alicia McMurchy and Megan Levings and Megan Sykes and Raimon Duran-Struuck

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.11.445

02 / 2015

Restimulation After Cryopreservation and Thawing Preserves the Phenotype and Function of Expanded Baboon Regulatory T Cells

Transplantation Direct

Joshua Weiner and Raimon Duran-Struuck and Jonah Zitsman and Leo Buhler and Hugo Sondermeijer and Alicia N. McMurchy and Megan K. Levings and Megan Sykes and Adam Griesemer

DOI: 10.1097/txd.0000000000000511

02 / 2015

CCL22 prevents rejection of mouse islet allografts and induces donor-specific tolerance

Cell Transplantation

Montane, J. and Obach, M. and Alvarez, S. and Bischoff, L. and Dai, D.L. and Soukhatcheva, G. and Priatel, J.J. and Hardenberg, G. and Levings, M.K. and Tan, R. and Orban, P.C. and Verchere, C.B.

DOI: 10.3727/096368914X685249

Tr1 cells, but not foxp3+ regulatory T cells, suppress NLRP3 inflammasome activation via an IL-10-dependent mechanism

Journal of Immunology

Yao, Y. and Vent-Schmidt, J. and McGeough, M.D. and Wong, M. and Hoffman, H.M. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1403225

The environment of regulatory T cell biology: Cytokines, metabolites, and the microbiome

Frontiers in Immunology

Hoeppli, R.E. and Wu, D. and Cook, L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00061

IL-33 reverses an obesity-induced deficit in visceral adipose tissue ST2+ T regulatory cells and ameliorates adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance

Journal of Immunology

Han, J.M. and Wu, D. and Denroche, H.C. and Yao, Y. and Verchere, C.B. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500020

Regulatory T cells produce profibrotic cytokines in the skin of patients with systemic sclerosis

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Macdonald, K.G. and Dawson, N.A.J. and Huang, Q. and Dunne, J.V. and Levings, M.K. and Broady, R.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.12.1932

Control of tissue-localized immune responses by human regulatory T cells

European Journal of Immunology

Pesenacker, A.M. and Broady, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201344205

The role of FOXP3 in regulating immune responses

International Reviews of Immunology

Vent-Schmidt, J. and Han, J.M. and Macdonald, K.G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.3109/08830185.2013.811657

Insulin inhibits IL-10-mediated regulatory T cell function: Implications for obesity

Journal of Immunology

Han, J.M. and Patterson, S.J. and Speck, M. and Ehses, J.A. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302181

Methyltransferase G9A regulates T cell differentiation during murine intestinal inflammation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Antignano, F. and Burrows, K. and Hughes, M.R. and Han, J.M. and Kron, K.J. and Penrod, N.M. and Oudhoff, M.J. and Wang, S.K.H. and Min, P.H. and Gold, M.J. and Chenery, A.L. and Braam, M.J.S. and Fung, T.C. and Rossi, F.M.V. and McNagny, K.M. and Arrowsmith, C.H. and Lupien, M. and Levings, M.K. and Zaph, C.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI69592

Autologous transplant for autoimmune disease: optimizing the regulatory T cells

Cytotherapy

T.D. Prestidge and J.H. Davis and J. Huang and M. Himmel and M. Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2013.01.161

04 / 2013

Pediatric thymic tissue as a source of CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) for cellular therapy

Cytotherapy

E. Dijke and M. Levings and A. McMurchy and I. Larsen and I. Rebeyka and D. Ross and L. West

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2013.01.160

04 / 2013

In vitro generation of human T regulatory cells: Generation, culture, and analysis of FOXP3-transduced t cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

McMurchy, A.N. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-128-8-8

Th-2 cytokine producing Tregs in the skin of patients with systemic sclerosis

Frontiers in Immunology

Broady Raewyn and Huang Qing and MacDonald Katherine and Dunne James and Levings Megan

DOI: 10.3389/conf.fimmu.2013.02.01011

Immune regulation in obesity-associated adipose inflammation

Journal of Immunology

Jonathan M, H. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301035

Helios+ and Helios- cells coexist within the natural Foxp3+ T regulatory cell subset in humans

Journal of Immunology

Himmel, M.E. and MacDonald, K.G. and Garcia, R.V. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201379

Insulin impairs regulatory T cell function: implications for obesity

Frontiers in Immunology

Han Jonathan and Patterson Scott and Ehses Jan and Levings Megan

DOI: 10.3389/conf.fimmu.2013.02.00587

Erratum: Transcriptome analysis reveals markers of aberrantly activated innate immunity in vitiligo lesional and non-lesional skin (PLoS ONE (2013) 8:7 DOI:10.1371/annotation/fbf9e317-e3ab-4f9a-b317-3de6abff890f)

PLoS ONE

Yu, R. and Broady, R. and Huang, Y. and Wang, Y. and Yu, J. and Gao, M. and Levings, M. and Wei, S. and Zhang, S. and Xu, A. and Su, M. and Dutz, J. and Zhang, X. and Zhou, Y.

DOI: 10.1371/annotation/fbf9e317-e3ab-4f9a-b317-3de6abff890f

Anovel function for FOXP3 in humans: Intrinsic regulation of conventional T cells

Blood

McMurchy, A.N. and Gillies, J. and Gizzi, M.C. and Riba, M. and Garcia-Manteiga, J.M. and Cittaro, D. and Lazarevic, D. and Di Nunzio, S. and Piras, I.S. and Bulfone, A. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Stupka, E. and Bacchetta, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-05-431023

Response to Comment on "helios+ and helios- cells coexist within the natural FOXP31 T regulatory cell subset in humans"

Journal of Immunology

MacDonald, K.G. and Han, J.M. and Himmel, M.E. and Huang, Q. and Kan, B. and Campbell, A.I.M. and Lavoie, P.M. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1390019

Expansion of Highly Suppressive FOXP3+ Regulatory T Cells from Pediatric Thymic Tissue

Transplantation Journal

E. Dijke and A. McMurchy and M. Levings and I. Larsen and I. Rebeyka and D. Ross and L. West

DOI: 10.1097/00007890-201211271-02368

11 / 2012

Chemokine Induced Tolerance in Mouse Islet Allografts

Canadian Journal of Diabetes

Joel Montane and Merce Obach and Loraine Bischoff and Galina Soukhatcheva and Paul C. Orban and Gijs Hardenberg and Megan K. Levings and Rusung Tan and C. Bruce Verchere

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2012.07.468

10 / 2012

ATP conditions intestinal epithelial cells to an inflammatory state that promotes components of DC maturation

European Journal of Immunology

Yao, Y. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201142213

TH17 cells in autoimmunity and immunodeficiency : Protective orpathogenic?

Frontiers in Immunology

Marwaha, A.K. and Leung, N.J. and McMurchy, A.N. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00129

T regulatory cell therapy in transplantation: Stability, localization and functional specialization

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

MacDonald, K.G. and Orban, P.C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e328355aaaf

Suppression assays with human T regulatory cells: A technical guide

European Journal of Immunology

Mcmurchy, A.N. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201141651

Inflammation-driven reprogramming of CD4 +foxp3 + regulatory T cells into pathogenic Th1/Th17 t effectors is abrogated by mTOR inhibition in vivo

Plos One

Yurchenko, E. and Shio, M.T. and Huang, T.C. and da Silva Martins, M. and Szyf, M. and Levings, M.K. and Olivier, M. and Piccirillo, C.A.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035572

Active vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3) increases host susceptibility to Citrobacter rodentium by suppressing mucosal Th17 responses

American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Ryz, N.R. and Patterson, S.J. and Zhang, Y. and Ma, C. and Huang, T. and Bhinder, G. and Wu, X. and Chan, J. and Glesby, A. and Sham, H.P. and Dutz, J.P. and Levings, M.K. and Jacobson, K. and Vallance, B.A.

DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00320.2012

Toll-like receptor 5 deficiency protects from wasting disease in a T cell transfer colitis model in T cell receptor--deficient mice

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Hardenberg, G. and Yao, Y. and Piccirillo, C.A. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21738

The Role of the PI3K Signaling Pathway in CD4+ T Cell Differentiation and Function

Frontiers in Immunology

Jonathan M. Han and Scott J. Patterson and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00245

Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Markers of Aberrantly Activated Innate Immunity in Vitiligo Lesional and Non-Lesional Skin

PLoS ONE

Yu, R. and Broady, R. and Huang, Y. and Wang, Y. and Yu, J. and Gao, M. and Levings, M. and Wei, S. and Zhang, S. and Xu, A. and Su, M. and Dutz, J. and Zhang, X. and Zhou, Y.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051040

Regulatory T-cell therapy for inflammatory bowel disease: More questions than answers

Immunology

Himmel, M.E. and Yao, Y. and Orban, P.C. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2012.03572.x

CD4 +Foxp3 + regulatory T cells suppress d T-cell effector functions in a model of T-cell-induced mucosal inflammation

European Journal of Immunology

Yurchenko, E. and Levings, M.K. and Piccirillo, C.A.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201141814

Cellular magnetic resonance imaging of monocyte-derived dendritic cell migration from healthy donors and cancer patients as assessed in a scid mouse model

Cytotherapy

Zhang, X. and De Chickera, S.N. and Willert, C. and Economopoulos, V. and Noad, J. and Rohani, R. and Wang, A.Y. and Levings, M.K. and Scheid, E. and Foley, R. and Foster, P.J. and Dekaban, G.A.

DOI: 10.3109/14653249.2011.605349

Ship-deficient dendritic cells, unlike wild type dendritic cells, suppress t cell proliferation via a nitric oxide-independent mechanism

PLoS ONE

Antignano, F. and Hamilton, M. and Patterson, S. and Ho, V. and Cohen, C. and Levings, M.K. and Krystal, G.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021893

Moving to tolerance: Clinical application of T regulatory cells

Seminars in Immunology

McMurchy, A.N. and Bushell, A. and Levings, M.K. and Wood, K.J.

DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2011.04.001

Human CD4+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells produce CXCL8 and recruit neutrophils

European Journal of Immunology

Himmel, M.E. and Crome, S.Q. and Ivison, S. and Piccirillo, C. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.201040459

Prevention of murine autoimmune diabetes by CCL22-mediated Treg recruitment to the pancreatic islets

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Montane, J. and Bischoff, L. and Soukhatcheva, G. and Dai, D.L. and Hardenberg, G. and Levings, M.K. and Orban, P.C. and Kieffer, T.J. and Tan, R. and Verchere, C.B.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI43048

Adenoviral-transduced dendritic cells are susceptible to suppression by T regulatory cells and promote interleukin 17 production

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Wang, A.Y. and Crome, S.Q. and Jenkins, K.M. and Medin, J.A. and Bramson, J.L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/s00262-010-0948-4

T regulatory cells and cancer immunotherapy

Experimental and Applied Immunotherapy

Wang, A.Y. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-980-2_10

Human Th1 and Th17 cells exhibit epigenetic stability at signature cytokine and transcription factor loci

Journal of Immunology

Cohen, C.J. and Crome, S.Q. and MacDonald, K.G. and Dai, E.L. and Mager, D.L. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101058

Environmental influences on T regulatory cells in inflammatory bowel disease

Seminars in Immunology

Hardenberg, G. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2011.01.012

Cutting edge: PHLPP regulates the development, function, and molecular signaling pathways of regulatory T cells

Journal of Immunology

Patterson, S.J. and Han, J.M. and Garcia, R. and Assi, K. and Gao, T. and O'Neill, A. and Newton, A.C. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002126

The Stress signal extracellular ATP modulates antiflagellin immune responses in intestinal epithelial cells

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Ivison, S.M. and Himmel, M.E. and Mayer, M. and Yao, Y. and Kifayet, A. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21428

Role of epithelial integrin-linked kinase in promoting intestinal inflammation: Effects on CCL2, fibronectin and the T cell repertoire

BMC Immunology

Assi, K. and Patterson, S. and Dedhar, S. and Owen, D. and Levings, M. and Salh, B.

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-12-42

The Inflammatory Effects of ex vivo Human T Helper 17 Cells are Suppressed by T Regulatory Cells

Clinical Immunology

Sarah Crome and Breanna Clive and Adele Wang and Christine Kang and Vickie Chow and Jessie Yiu and Raewyn Broady and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.03.361

01 / 2010

PHLPP Regulates the Development, Function and Molecular Signaling Pathways of T Regulatory Cells

Clinical Immunology

Scott Patterson and Rosa Garcia and Audrey O'Neill and Tianyan Gao and Alexandra Newton and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.03.025

01 / 2010

Constitutive Expression of CD25 on the Surface of Neonatal (invariant) Natural Killer T Cells Primes Them to Proliferate with Lower Antigenic Stimulation

Clinical Immunology

Ashish Sharma and Mihoko Whalen and Qing Huang and Adele Wang and Lixin Xu and Indira Genowati and Meghan Levings and Pascal Lavoie

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.03.151

01 / 2010

Increased Fraction of IL-17 Secreting Cells in Type 1 Diabetes

Clinical Immunology

Ashish Marwaha and Megan Levings and Sarah Crome and Constadina Panagiotopoulos and John Priatel and Rusung Tan

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.03.398

01 / 2010

CD161 is a marker of all human IL-17-producing T-cell subsets and is induced by RORC

European Journal of Immunology

Maggi, L. and Santarlasci, V. and Capone, M. and Peired, A. and Frosali, F. and Crome, S.Q. and Querci, V. and Fambrini, M. and Liotta, F. and Levings, M.K. and Maggi, E. and Cosmi, L. and Romagnani, S. and Annunziato, F.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.200940257

TLR5 is not required for flagellin-mediated exacerbation of DSS colitis

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Ivison, S.M. and Himmel, M.E. and Hardenberg, G. and Wark, P.A.J. and Kifayet, A. and Levings, M.K. and Steiner, T.S.

DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21097

Deconvolution and chromatic aberration corrections in quantifying colocalization of a transcription factor in three-dimensional cellular space

Micron

Abraham, T. and Allan, S.E. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.03.005

Point mutants of forkhead box P3 that cause immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked have diverse abilities to reprogram T cells into regulatory T cells

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Mcmurchy, A.N. and Gillies, J. and Allan, S.E. and Passerini, L. and Gambineri, E. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.09.001

Natural killer T cells constitutively expressing the interleukin-2 receptor a chain early in life are primed to respond to lower antigenic stimulation

Immunology

Ladd, M. and Sharma, A. and Huang, Q. and Wang, A.Y. and Xu, L. and Genowati, I. and Levings, M.K. and Lavoie, P.M.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2010.03304.x

Cutaneous GVHD is associated with the expansion of tissue-localized Th1 and not Th17 cells

Blood

Broady, R. and Yu, J. and Chow, V. and Tantiworawit, A. and Kang, C. and Berg, K. and Martinka, M. and Ghoreishi, M. and Dutz, J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-07-295436

Cutting edge: Increased IL-17-secreting T cells in children with new-onset type 1 diabetes

Journal of Immunology

Marwaha, A.K. and Crome, S.Q. and Panagiotopoulos, C. and Berg, K.B. and Qin, H. and Ouyang, Q. and Xu, L. and Priatel, J.J. and Levings, M.K. and Tan, R.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1001860

Translational mini-review series on Th17 cells: Function and regulation of human T helper 17 cells in health and disease

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Crome, S.Q. and Wang, A.Y. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2009.04037.x

Inflammatory effects of ex vivo human Th17 cells are suppressed by regulatory T cells

Journal of Immunology

Crome, S.Q. and Clive, B. and Wang, A.Y. and Kang, C.Y. and Chow, V. and Yu, J. and Lai, A. and Ghahary, A. and Broady, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000557

Leishmania exosomes modulate innate and adaptive immune responses through effects on monocytes and dendritic cells

Journal of Immunology

Silverman, J.M. and Clos, J. and Horakova, E. and Wang, A.Y. and Wiesgigl, M. and Kelly, I. and Lynn, M.A. and McMaster, W.R. and Foster, L.J. and Levings, M.K. and Reiner, N.E.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000541

Molecular regulation of cellular immunity by FOXP3.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

McMurchy AN and Di Nunzio S and Roncarolo MG and Bacchetta R and Levings MK

PubMed: 20429414

01 / 2009

ATG-induced expression of FOXP3 in human CD4+ T cells in vitro is associated with T-cell activation and not the induction of FOXP3+ T regulatory cells

Blood

Broady, R. and Yu, J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-04-214437

SHIP regulates the reciprocal development of T regulatory and Th17 cells

Journal of Immunology

Locke, N.R. and Patterson, S.J. and Hamilton, M.J. and Sly, L.M. and Krystal, G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0803749

3rd Keystone Symposium on T regulatory cells: 1-6 March 2009, Keystone, CO, USA

Immunotherapy

McMurchy, A.N. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.2217/IMT.09.33

Wild-type FOXP3 is selectively active in CD4+CD25hi regulatory T cells of healthy female carriers of different FOXP3 mutations

Blood

Di Nunzio, S. and Cecconi, M. and Passerini, L. and McMurchy, A.N. and Baron, U. and Turbachova, I. and Vignola, S. and Valencic, E. and Tommasini, A. and Junker, A. and Cazzola, G. and Olek, S. and Levings, M.K. and Perroni, L. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-04-214593

Molecular regulation of cellular immunity by FOXP3

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

McMurchy, A.N. and Di Nunzio, S. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1599-3_3

Quantifying colocalization of a conditionally active transcription factor foxp3 in three-dimensional cellular space

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Abraham, T. and Allanb, S.E. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1117/12.808049

The role of retinoic acid-related orphan receptor variant 2 and IL-17 in the development and function of human CD4+ T cells

European Journal of Immunology

Crome, S.Q. and Wang, A.Y. and Kang, C.Y. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.200838908

Editorial: MASTering treg function to promote tolerance

American Journal of Transplantation

Levings, M.K. and Thomson, A.W.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02810.x

Molecular and Functional Studies in T Cells from Healthy Carriers of FOXP3 Mutations

Clinical Immunology

Rosa Bacchetta and Sara Di Nunzio and Lucia Beatrice Perroni and Laura Passerini and Sarah Allan and Alicia Alstad and Anne Junker and Megan Levings and Maria Grazia Roncarolo

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2008.03.187

01 / 2008

Expression of RORC2 Controls the Development of Human Th17 Cells

Clinical Immunology

Sarah Crome and Adele Wang and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2008.03.043

01 / 2008

CD4+ T-regulatory cells: Toward therapy for human diseases

Immunological Reviews

Allan, S.E. and Broady, R. and Gregori, S. and Himmel, M.E. and Locke, N. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2008.00634.x

Pro-tolerogenic effects of photodynamic therapy with TH9402 on dendritic cells

Journal of Clinical Apheresis

Broady, R. and Yu, J. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/jca.20162

STAT5-signaling cytokines regulate the expression of FOXP3 in CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and CD4+ CD25- effector T cells

International Immunology

Passerini, L. and Allan, S.E. and Battaglia, M. and Di Nunzio, S. and Alstad, A.N. and Levings, M.K. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R.

DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxn002

Generation of potent and stable human CD4+ T regulatory cells by activation-independent expression of FOXP3

Molecular Therapy

Allan, S.E. and Alstad, A.N. and Merindol, N. and Crellin, N.K. and Amendola, M. and Bacchetta, R. and Naldini, L. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Soudeyns, H. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1038/sj.mt.6300341

Molecular Signalling in T Regulatory Cells

Regulatory T Cells and Clinical Application

Natasha R. Locke and Natasha K. Crellin and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77909-6_8

Graft versus host disease: Suppression by statins

Nature Medicine

Broady, R. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1038/nm1108-1155

Inducible reprogramming of human T cells into Treg cells by a conditionally active form of FOXP3

European Journal of Immunology

Allan, S.E. and Song-Zhao, G.X. and Abraham, T. and McMurchy, A.N. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1002/eji.200838373

The role of T-regulatory cells and Toll-like receptors in the pathogenesis of human inflammatory bowel disease

Immunology

Himmel, M.E. and Hardenberg, G. and Piccirillo, C.A. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02939.x

27 Effects of IL-17 On Effector and Regultory T Cell Subsets

Cytokine

Sarah Q. Crome and Adele Wang and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2007.07.032

07 / 2007

Altered activation of AKT is required for the suppressive function of human CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells

Blood

Crellin, N.K. and Garcia, R.V. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-07-035279

Flow cytometry-based methods for studying signaling in human CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ T regulatory cells

Journal of Immunological Methods

Crellin, N.K. and Garcia, R.V. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2007.05.008

Activation-induced FOXP3 in human T effector cells does not suppress proliferation or cytokine production

International Immunology

Allan, S.E. and Crome, S.Q. and Crellin, N.K. and Passerini, L. and Steiner, T.S. and Bacchetta, R. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxm014

Isolation, expansion, and characterization of human natural and adaptive regulatory T cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Gregori, S. and Bacchetta, R. and Passerini, L. and Levings, M.K. and Roncarolo, M.G.

DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-395-1:83

Foxp3 Mutations in Children: Different Degrees of Impairment in Regulatory and Effector T-Cell Functions in Patients with Distinct Genotypes and Phenotypes

Clinical Immunology

Rosa Bacchetta and Laura Passerini and Eleonora Gambineri and Sarah Allan and Lucia Perroni and Susan Matthes-Martin and Anita Lawitschka and Steven Ziegler and Megan Levings and Maria Grazia Roncarolo

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2006.04.196

01 / 2006

Human CD4+CD25+ T Regulatory Cells Have Altered PKB Signalling Which Correlates with Suppressive Function

Clinical Immunology

Natasha Crellin and Rosa Garcia and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2006.04.009

01 / 2006

Defining a Role for FOXP3 in Human Cd4+ T-Cells

Clinical Immunology

Sarah Allan and Laura Passerini and Rosa Bacchetta and Mario Amendola and Luigi Naldini and Maria Grazia Roncarolo and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2006.04.525

01 / 2006

Interleukin-10-secreting type 1 regulatory T cells in rodents and humans

Immunological Reviews

Roncarolo, M.G. and Gregori, S. and Battaglia, M. and Bacchetta, R. and Fleischhauer, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2006.00420.x

Gliadin-specific type 1 regulatory T cells from the intestinal mucosa of treated celiac patients inhibit pathogenic T cells

Journal of Immunology

Gianfrani, C. and Levings, M.K. and Sartirana, C. and Mazzarella, G. and Barba, G. and Zanzi, D. and Camarca, A. and Iaquinto, G. and Giardullo, N. and Auricchio, S. and Troncone, R. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.6.4178

Erratum: Interleukin-10- secreting type 1 regulatory T cells in rodents and humans (Immunological Reviews (2006) 212, (28-50))

Immunological Reviews

Roncarolo, M.G. and Gregori, S. and Battaglia, M. and Bacchetta, R. and Fleischhauer, K. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2006.00448.x

Defective regulatory and effector T cell functions in patients with FOXP3 mutations

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Bacchetta, R. and Passerini, L. and Gambineri, E. and Dai, M. and Allan, S.E. and Perroni, L. and Dagna-Bricarelli, F. and Sartirana, C. and Matthes-Martin, S. and Lawitschka, A. and Azzari, C. and Ziegler, S.F. and Levings, M.K. and Roncarolo, M.G.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI25112

Functional Dynamics of Naturally Occurring Regulatory T Cells in Health and Autoimmunity

Advances in Immunology

Levings, M.K. and Allan, S. and d'Hennezel, E. and Piccirillo, C.A.

DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(06)92003-3

The role of 2 FOXP3 isoforms in the generation of human CD4+ Tregs

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Allan, S.E. and Passerini, L. and Bacchetta, R. and Crellin, N. and Dai, M. and Orban, P.C. and Ziegler, S.F. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1172/JCI24685

Recombinant human interleukin 10 suppresses gliadin dependent T cell activation in ex vivo cultured coeliac intestinal mucosa

Gut

Salveti, V.M. and Mazzarella, G. and Gianfrani, C. and Levings, M.K. and Stefanile, R. and De Giulio, B. and Iaquinto, G. and Giardullo, N. and Auricchio, S. and Roncarolo, M.G. and Troncone, R.

DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.023150

Differentiation of Tr1 cells by immature dendritic cells requires IL-10 but not CD25+CD4+ Tr cells

Blood

Levings, M.K. and Gregori, S. and Tresoldi, E. and Cazzaniga, S. and Bonini, C. and Roncarolo, M.G.

DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-03-1211

Phenotypic and functional differences between human CD4 +CD25+ and type 1 regulatory T cells

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Levings, M.K. and Roncarolo, M.G.

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27702-1_14

Human CD4+ T cells express TLR5 and its ligand flagellin enhances the suppressive capacity and expression of FOXP3 in CD4 +CD25+ T regulatory cells

Journal of Immunology

Crellin, N.K. and Garcia, R.V. and Hadisfar, O. and Allan, S.E. and Steiner, T.S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.12.8051

Can we throw the master-switch in autoimmune disease?

Clinical Genetics

Paul C Orban and Megan K Levings

DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2003.t01-2-00121.x

06 / 2003

Discoveries in sphingolipid metabolism, spinocerebellar ataxia and autoimmune disease

Clinical Genetics

Liam R Brunham and Edmond YW Chan and Paul C Orban and Megan K Levings

DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2003.00121.x

06 / 2003

Type 1 T regulatory cells and their relationship with CD4 +CD25+ T regulatory cells

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Roncarolo, M.G. and Gregori, S. and Levings, M. and Bluestone and Shevach and Hafler

The role of IL-10 and TGF-beta in the differentiation and effector function of T regulatory cells.

International archives of allergy and immunology

Levings, M.K. and Bacchetta, R. and Schulz, U. and Roncarolo, M.G.

DOI: 10.1159/000067596

Human CD25+CD4+ T suppressor cell clones produce transforming growth factor , but not interleukin 10, and are distinct from type 1 T regulatory cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Levings, M.K. and Sangregorio, R. and Sartirana, C. and Moschin, A.L. and Battaglia, M. and Orban, P.C. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021139

Growth and expansion of human T regulatory type 1 cells are independent from TCR activation but require exogenous cytokines

European Journal of Immunology

Bacchetta, R. and Sartirana, C. and Levings, M.K. and Bordignon, C. and Narula, S. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200208)32:8u003C2237::AID-IMMU2237u003E3.0.CO;2-2

Human CD25+CD4+ T regulatory cells suppress naive and memory T cell proliferation and can be expanded in vitro without loss of function

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Levings, M.K. and Sangregorio, R. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.11.1295

Type 1 T regulatory cells

Immunological Reviews

Roncarolo, M.G. and Bacchetta, R. and Bordignon, C. and Narula, S. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2001.1820105.x

Ifn-a and il-10 induce the differentiation of human type 1 t regulatory cells1

Journal of Immunology

Levings, M.K. and Sangregorio, R. and Galbiati, F. and Squadrone, S. and De Waal Malefyt, R. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.9.5530

Differentiation of T regulatory cells by immature dendritic cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Roncarolo, M.-G. and Levings, M.K. and Traversari, C.

DOI: 10.1084/jem.193.2.f5

T-regulatory 1 cells: A novel subset of CD4+T cells with immunoregulatory properties

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Levings, M.K. and Roncarolo, M.-G.

DOI: 10.1067/mai.2000.106635

The role of different subsets of T regulatory cells in controlling autoimmunity

Current Opinion in Immunology

Roncarolo, M.-G. and Levings, M.K.

DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(00)00162-X

Interleukin-4 synergizes with Raf-1 to promote long-term proliferation and activation of c-jun N-terminal kinase

Blood

Levings, M.K. and Bessette, D.C. and Schrader, J.W.

DOI: 10.1182/blood.v93.11.3694

Heterodimerization of the a and chains of the interleukin-3 (IL-3) receptor is necessary and sufficient for IL-3-induced mitogenesis

Blood

Orban, P.C. and Levings, M.K. and Schrader, J.W.

DOI: 10.1182/blood.v94.5.1614.417k22_1614_1622

IL-4 inhibits the production of TNF-a and IL-12 by STAT6-dependent and -independent mechanisms

Journal of Immunology

Levings, M.K. and Schrader, J.W.

Interleukin-4 synergizes with the raf kinase cascade to stimulate proliferation

Experimental Hematology

Levings, M.K.

Insulin receptor substrate-2 is the major 170-kDa protein phosphorylated on tyrosine in response to cytokines in murine lymphohemopoietic cells

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Welham, M.J. and Bone, H. and Levings, M. and Learmonth, L. and Wang, L.-M. and Leslie, K.B. and Pierce, J.H. and Schrader, J.W.

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.2.1377

Type 1 T Regulatory Cells and Their Relationship with CD4+CD25+ T Regulatory Cells

Generation and Effector Functions of Regulatory Lymphocytes

Maria Grazia Roncarolo and Silvia Gregori and Megan Levings

DOI: 10.1002/0470871628.ch9

Current Projects

• Engineering Tregs to tailor their antigen specificity and function
• Developing methods to use Tregs as a cellular therapy in transplantation
• Studying unique cell-signaling pathways in human and mouse Tregs
• Developing biomakers to track Treg function
• Studying the interaction between Tregs and IL-17-producing cells
• Studying tissue-derived Tregs in health versus disease

Grants

1. Helmsley Trust: Engineering antigen-specific regulatory T cells for use in type 1 diabetes: Phase 3 (2024)

2. CIHR: Use of CAR Tregs to induce transplantation tolerance (2023)

3. US Dept of Defense: Engineering an effective CAR Treg combination therapy to control VCA rejection (2023)

4. Stem Cell Network: Genetic engineering of hESC-derived insulin-producing cells to improve graft outcomes in type 1 diabetes (2023)

5. CIHR Team Grant: Immunometabolism in diabetes: Harnessing metabolic crosstalk between islets and immune cells for therapy (2022)

6. Stem Cell Network: Clinical trial of the first gene-edited cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes (2022)

7. Public Health Agency of Canada: Understanding Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination in Children Aged 5-11 years: Expansion of Existing CITF-Supported Pediatric Studies (2021)

8. JDRF Canada: JDRF Centre of Excellence at UBC (2021)

9. CIHR Team Grant: Allogeneic thymus-derived Tregs to prevent chronic inflammation in transplantation (2021)

10. Wellcome Leap: Building immunity from stem cells for translational disease models (2021)

11. CIHR-JDRF Team Grant: Generation of a functionally robust stem cell based therapy for type 1 diabetes (2021)

12. CIHR Team Grant - Human Immunology Initiative: Innate and adaptive immune regulation in human type 1 diabetes (2019)

13. CIHR: Canadian autoimmunity standardization core (CAN-ASC) (2018)

14. JDRF International: Harmonizing biomarkers in clinical trials of ustekinumab (2018)

15. CIHR: Molecular and cellular biology of T regulatory cells (2017)

Honours & Awards

1. Outstanding Alumni Award, Simon Fraser University (2022)

2. Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Researcher Award, University of British Columbia (2022)

3. Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Engineered Immune Tolerance, Government of Canada (2021-2027)

4. Distinguished Achievement, Overall Excellence – Senior Faculty, University of British Columbia (2020)

5. Woman of Distinction, Research, Sciences & Technology, YWCA Metro Vancouver (2020)

6. Recipient of Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship (2019)

7. Killam Research Prize in Applied Science & Sciences, University of British Columbia (2016)

8. Genome Canada-CIHR Competition in Personalized Health (2012)

9. Canada Research Chairs in Transplantation Tier II, Government of Canada (2003-2013)

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