Faculty profile
Nargis Khan
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Research
Latest papers
Differential disease tolerance mediates sex-biased illness severity in sepsis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
Nociceptor neurons suppress alveolar macrophage-induced Siglec-F+ neutrophil-mediated inflammation to protect against pulmonary fibrosis.
Immunity · 2025
Author Correction: β-Glucan reprograms neutrophils to promote disease tolerance against influenza A virus.
Nature immunology · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $1,128,376
Harnessing Trained Immunity to Enhance Innate Host Defence in Aging
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
- $979,200
Early life BCG vaccination interplay with gut microbiota and trained immunity to suppress colitis
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $44,000
Role of mitochondrial dynamics in inducing trained immunity
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Differential disease tolerance mediates sex-biased illness severity in sepsis.
Dobson B, Strayer K, Wijesinghe A, Schlechte J, Tejada O, Bartlett A, Stephens M, Changirwa D, Cho NA, Yu IL, Khan N, McDonald B
Nociceptor neurons suppress alveolar macrophage-induced Siglec-F+ neutrophil-mediated inflammation to protect against pulmonary fibrosis.
Hiroki CH, Hassanabad MF, Defaye M, Sarden N, Bartlett A, Farias R, Nguyen AP, Guerrero-Fonseca IM, Yoon G, Brown L, Ma C, Yang H, Belke D, Fatehi Hassanabad A, McCoy C, Rosin NL, Orton DJ, Fedak PWM, Vallance BA, Yu H, Jacobson K, Khan N, Altier C, Kelly MM, Yipp BG
Author Correction: β-Glucan reprograms neutrophils to promote disease tolerance against influenza A virus.
Khan N, Tran KA, Chevre R, Locher V, Richter M, Sun S, Sadeghi M, Pernet E, Herrero-Cervera A, Grant A, Saif A, Downey J, Kaufmann E, Khader SA, Joubert P, Barreiro LB, Yipp BG, Soehnlein O, Divangahi M
β-Glucan reprograms neutrophils to promote disease tolerance against influenza A virus.
Khan N, Tran KA, Chevre R, Locher V, Richter M, Sun S, Sadeghi M, Pernet E, Herrero-Cervera A, Grant A, Saif A, Downey J, Kaufmann E, Khader SA, Joubert P, Barreiro LB, Yipp BG, Soehnlein O, Divangahi M
Deciphering KDM8 dysregulation and CpG methylation in hepatocellular carcinoma using multi-omics and machine learning.
Ahmed F, Mishra NK, Alghamdi OA, Khan MI, Ahmad A, Khan N, Rehan M
Novel approaches to preventing phagosomal infections: timing is key.
Peters NC, Khan N, Mody CH
Quantitative proteomics and biological activity of extracellular vesicles engineered to express SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
Choi D, Khan N, Montermini L, Tawil N, Meehan B, Kim DK, Roth FP, Divangahi M, Rak J
Harnessing Trained Immunity to Enhance Innate Host Defence in Aging
Principal investigators: Khan, Nargis
Keywords: Aging; Trained Immunity; Tuberculosis
Early life BCG vaccination interplay with gut microbiota and trained immunity to suppress colitis
Principal investigators: Khan, Nargis
Keywords: Colitis, Trained Immunity, Gamma Delta T Cell, Hematopoiesis
Role of mitochondrial dynamics in inducing trained immunity
Principal investigators: Khan, Nargis
Keywords: innate memory; trained immunity; mitochondrial dynamics; macrophages; innate immune cells; metabolism
Role of mitochondrial dynamics in inducing trained immunity
Principal investigators: Khan, Nargis
Keywords: innate memory; trained immunity; mitochondrial dynamics; macrophages; innate immune cells; metabolism
Mechanisms of sex-biased illness severity in sepsis and implications for treatment
Principal investigators: McDonald, Braedon A
Keywords: Biological Sex; Infection Resistance; Mouse Models; Sepsis
Unraveling the role of extracellular matrix dysregulation in age-related fibrotic and inflammatory pulmonary disease
Principal investigators: Kai, FuiBoon
Keywords: Actomyosin Network; Age-Related Diseases; Biophysical Properties Of Cells; Extracellular Matrix; Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Inflammation; Mechanosignaling; Tissue Stiffness
Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
Principal investigators: Khan, Nargis
Keywords: Crc
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Medicine
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
- Physiology and Pharmacology
- Pediatrics
- Other
Co-authors at University of Calgary, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Maziar Divangahi
Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Eva Kaufmann
Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Philippe Joubert
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Eva Kaufmann
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Christophe Altier
Physiology and Pharmacology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Janusz Rak
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Braedon McDonald
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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