Luis J. Montaner, DVM, DPhil
Sees patients age 18 and up
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  • Wistar Institute Professor of Pediatrics (Allergy/Immunology)

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Tcyganov EN, Kwak T, Yang X, Poli ANR, Hart C, Bhuniya A, Cassel J, Kossenkov AV, Auslander N, Lu L, Sharma P, Cauti Mendoza MG, Zhigarev D, Cramer GM, Cadungog MG, Jean S, Chatterjee-Paer S, Weiner DB, Donthireddy L, Bristow B, Zhang R, Tyurin VA, Tyurina YY, Bayir H, Kagan VE, Salvino JM, Montaner LJ. Targeting LxCxE Cleft Pocket of Retinoblastoma Protein in Immunosuppressive Macrophages Inhibits Ovarian Cancer Progression , Cancer Immunol Res.: 2025


Wei Y, Ma HK, Wong ME, Back H, Papasavvas E, Mounzer K, Aberra F, Morgenstern R, Tebas P, Konnikova L, Montaner LJ, Ho YC. Transcription factor BACH2 shapes tissue-resident memory T cell programs to promote HIV-1 persistence , Immunity., 58(11): 2025,2878-2898


Pastorio C, Richard K, Usmani S, Kissmann AK, Bolotnikov G, Gosálbez G, Hayn M, Koepke L, Sauertnik A, Preising A, Preising N, Ständker L, Fair M, Morris J, Papasavvas E, Liu Q, Sun H, Rodríguez A, Mounzer K, Wiese S, Tebas P, Du Y, Laird GM, Jaritz M, Rosenau F, Gaidt MM, Sparrer KMJ, Montaner LJ, Kirchhoff F Retinol Binding Protein 4 reactivates latent HIV-1 by triggering canonical NF-κB, JAK/STAT5 and JNK signalling , Signal Transduct Target Ther.: 2025


Reeves DB, Rigau DN, Romero A, Zhang H, Simonetti FR, Varriale J, Hoh R, Zhang L, Smith KN, Montaner LJ, Rubin LH, Gange SJ, Roan NR, Tien PC, Margolick JB, Peluso MJ, Deeks SG, Schiffer JT, Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF, Antar AAR Mild HIV-specific selective forces overlaying natural CD4+ T cell dynamics explain the clonality and decay dynamics of HIV reservoir cells , Cell Systems: 2025


Casimir-Montán VM, Matos-Hernández ML, González-Bravo A, Hernández-Delgado EA, Dyer G, Salvino JM, Montaner LJ, Cassel JA, Messick TE, Tietjen I, Caro-Diaz EJE. Bioassay-guided Isolation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Entry Inhibitors From the Brown Algae Lobophora variegata Identifies Fucoxanthin as a Selective ACE-2/Spike Inhibitor , Chem Biodivers: 2025


Wu F, Moskovljevic M, Dragoni F, Jayaraman S, Board NL, Camilo-Contreras A, Bernal S, Hariharan V, Zhang H, Lai J, Singhal A, Poulin S, Chano F, Chamberland A, Tremblay C, Zoltick M, Hoffmann CJ, Jones JL, Larman HB, Montaner LJ, Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF, Simonetti FR. Proviruses in CD4+ T cells reactive to autologous antigens contribute to nonsuppressible HIV-1 viremia , Sci Transl Med, 17(811): 2025


Dai Y, Knisely A, Yano M, Dang M, Hinchcliff EM, Lee S, Welp A, Chelvanambi M, Lastrapes M, Liu H, Yuan Z, Wang C, Nie H, Jean S, Montaner LJ, Hou J, Patel A, Patel S, Fellman B, Yuan Y, Sun B, Pandurengan RK, Cuentas ERP, Celestino J, Liu Y, Liu J, Hillman RT, Westin SN, Sood AK, Soliman PT, Shafer A, Meyer LA, Gershenson DM, Vining D, Ganeshan D, Lu K, Wargo JA, Peng W, Zhang R, Wang L, Jazaeri AA. PPP2R1A mutations portend improved survival after cancer immunotherapy , Nature.: 2025,537–546


McMyn NF, Varriale J, Wu HWS, Hariharan V, Moskovljevic M, Tan TS, Lai J, Singhal A, Lynn K, Mounzer K, Tebas P, Montaner LJ, Hoh R, Yu XG, Lichterfeld M, Simonetti FR, Kovacs C, Deeks SG, Siliciano JM, Siliciano RF. Factors associated with resistance of HIV-1 reservoir viruses to neutralization by autologous IgG antibodies , J Clin Invest., 135(19): 2025


Cramer GM, Davis RW 4th, Papasavvas E, Klampatsa A, Miller JM, Carter S, Ikpe R, Yuan M, Widura S, Majumdar RS, McNulty S, Putt M, Kossenkov AV, Montaner LJ, Singhal S, Moon EK, Albelda SM, Cengel KA, Busch TM. PD-1 Blockade Mitigates Surgery-Induced Immunosuppression and Increases the Efficacy of Photodynamic Therapy for Pleural Mesothelioma , Cancer Res Commun.: 2025


Richard K, Yuan Z, Tang H-Y, Goldman AR, Kuthu R, Raphane B, Register ET, Sharma P, Ross BN, Morris J, Williams DE, Cheney C, Wu G, Mounzer K, Laird GM, Zuck P, Andersen RJ, Simonambango S, Andrae-Marobela K, Tietjen I, Montaner LJ. Ex vivo and in vivo HIV-1 latency reversal by "Mukungulu," a protein kinase C-activating African medicinal plant extract , mBio: 2025


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