About me
- Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Education and training
- Medical School: McGill University
- Residency: Jewish Hospital
- Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Infectious Disease, 1976
- Internal Medicine, 1975
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, International
- American Society for Microbiology, International
- American Society of Clinical Investigation, National
- Association of American Physicians, National
- Association of Subspecialty Professors, National
- Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, International
- Interurban Clinical Club, National
- National Institutes of Health, National
Treatments and Conditions
My research
Awasthi S, Hook LM, Swaminathan G, Cairns TM, Brooks B, Smith JS, Ditto NT, Gindy ME, Bett AJ, Espeseth AS, Cohen GH, Friedman HM. Antibody responses to crucial functional epitopes as a novel approach to assess immunogenicity of vaccine adjuvants. , Vaccine, 37: 2019,3770-3778
Lauren M Hook, Sita Awasthi, Jonathan Dubin, Jessica Flechtner, Deborah Long, Harvey M. Friedman A trivalent gC2/gD2/gE2 vaccine for herpes simplex virus generates antibody responses that block immune evasion domains on gC2 better than natural infection , Vaccine, 37: 2019,664-669
D. Bernstein, R. Cardin, F. Bravo, S. Awasthi, P. Lu, D. Pullum, D. Dixon, A. Iwasaki, H. Friedman Successful application of prime and pull strategy for a therapeutic HSV vaccine. , npj Vaccines: 2019,DOI. 10.1038/s41541-019-0129-1
Hook LM, Cairns TM, Awasthi S, Brooks BD, Ditto NT, Eisenberg RJ, Cohen GH, Friedman HM Vaccine-induced antibodies to herpes simplex virus glycoprotein D epitopes involved in virus entry and cell-to-cell spread correlate with protection against genital disease in guinea pigs , PLOS Pathogens: 2018
Awasthi S, Hook LM, Shaw CE, Pahar B, Stagray JA, Liu D, Veazey RS, Friedman HM An HSV-2 trivalent vaccine is immunogenic in rhesus macaques and highly efficacious in guinea pigs , PLOS Pathogens: 2017
S. Awasthi, L. M. Hook, C. E. Shaw, H. M. Friedman A trivalent subunit antigen glycoprotein vaccine as immunotherapy for genital herpes in the guinea pig genital infection model. , Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 13(12): 2017,2785-2793
Awasthi, S and Friedman, HM Molecular association of herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein E with membrane protein Us9 , Archives of Virology, 161(11): 2016,3203-13
Michael JA Reid, Andrew P Steenhoff, James Thompson, Lesgo Gabaitiri, Mark S Cary, Katherine Steele, Susan Mayisela, Diana Dickinson, Peter Ehrenkranz, Harvey M Friedman, Daren R Linkin Evaluation of effect of cellular SMS reminders on consistency of antiretroviral therapy pharmacy pick-ups in HIV-infected adults in Botswana: a randomized control trial , Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 5(1): 2017,101-109
Gersh JK, Feldman Z, Greenberger E, Chandra A, Friedman HM, Lere T, Ho-Foster A, Haas MK Tuberculosis among individuals with community-acquired pneumonia presenting to emergency in Gaborone, Botswana , Journal of Public Health in Africa, 21(9): 2018,25-28
T.E. Major, B. Koyabe, M. Narashmhamurthy, O. Nkomazana, H.M. Friedman Research mentoring plan involving North-South collaborations. , Journal of Global Oncology , in press: 2019