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Ma Luo

ResearcherMedical MicrobiologyUniversity of Manitoba

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Ma Luo

Researcher

Medical Microbiology

Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
13 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2016.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2011.

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Research

Anti-Retroviral Drug Treatment Full Hiv Genome Mutation Analysis Hiv Disease Progression Hiv Postive Selected Mutations Before And After Art,Hiv Replication Fitness Next Generation Sequencing Technology A Hiv Vaccine Tarting Protease Cleavage Sites Low Dose Vaginal Sivmac251 Challenge

Latest papers

Viral Escape from a Candidate HIV-1 Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites Is Associated with a Dramatic Fitness Loss in SIVmac239-Infected Cynomolgus Macaques.
Viruses · 2026
Comparing CD8+ T cell ENV epitopes of two HLA class I alleles associated with different outcomes of HIV-1 infection with broadly neutralizing antibodies epitope targets discovered to date.
Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · senior author
Unique expression of genes influencing transendothelial leukocyte migration in HIV-1 resistant women in the pumwani sex worker cohort.
AIDS (London, England) · 2025 · senior author

All 77 publications

Latest funding

Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Host Immune Response and Antiretroviral Drug Interactions for Precision Patient Treatment and Care
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$100,000
The Biology of FREM1 in HIV Transmission and Its Variants in Resistance and Susceptibility to vaginal HIV Infection
CIHR · 2013 · Principal investigator
$342,474
A HIV Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites
CIHR · 2013 · Nominated PI
$100,000

All 7 grants and awards

77 publications.

Viral Escape from a Candidate HIV-1 Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites Is Associated with a Dramatic Fitness Loss in SIVmac239-Infected Cynomolgus Macaques.

Lim SY, Luo M, Whitney JB

Viruses2026

DOI: 10.3390/v18030370 PMID: 41902278

Comparing CD8+ T cell ENV epitopes of two HLA class I alleles associated with different outcomes of HIV-1 infection with broadly neutralizing antibodies epitope targets discovered to date.

Ramdoyal A, Daniuk CA, Omange RW, Kimani J, Luo M

Frontiers in immunology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1786452 PMID: 42051541

Unique expression of genes influencing transendothelial leukocyte migration in HIV-1 resistant women in the pumwani sex worker cohort.

Liebzeit CJ, Deng HY, Liang B, Li L, Songok M, Kimani J, Plummer FA, Luo M

AIDS (London, England)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000004177 PMID: 40053505

The Effect of Heparin and Other Exogenous Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Reducing IL-1β-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-8 and IL-6 mRNA Expression and the Potential Role for Reducing Inflammation.

Jafri M, Li L, Liang B, Luo M

Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/ph17030371 PMID: 38543157

A long-term stable cold-chain-friendly HIV mRNA vaccine encoding multi-epitope viral protease cleavage site immunogens inducing immunogen-specific protective T cell immunity.

Mandal S, Ghosh JS, Lohani SC, Zhao M, Cheng Y, Burrack R, Luo M, Li Q

Emerging microbes & infections2024

DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2024.2377606 PMID: 38979723

Author Correction: Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

McLaren PJ, Porreca I, Iaconis G, Mok HP, Mukhopadhyay S, Karakoc E, Cristinelli S, Pomilla C, Bartha I, Thorball CW, Tough RH, Angelino P, Kiar CS, Carstensen T, Fatumo S, Porter T, Jarvis I, Skarnes WC, Bassett A, DeGorter MK, Sathya Moorthy MP, Tuff JF, Kim EY, Walter M, Simons LM, Bashirova A, Buchbinder S, Carrington M, Cossarizza A, De Luca A, Goedert JJ, Goldstein DB, Haas DW, Herbeck JT, Johnson EO, Kaleebu P, Kilembe W, Kirk GD, Kootstra NA, Kral AH, Lambotte O, Luo M, Mallal S, Martinez-Picado J, Meyer L, Miro JM, Moodley P, Motala AA, Mullins JI, Nam K, Obel N, Pirie F, Plummer FA, Poli G, Price MA, Rauch A, Theodorou I, Trkola A, Walker BD, Winkler CA, Zagury JF, Montgomery SB, Ciuffi A, Hultquist JF, Wolinsky SM, Dougan G, Lever AML, Gurdasani D, Groom H, Sandhu MS, Fellay J

Nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06591-7 PMID: 37670157

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

Nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06370-4 PMID: 37532928

Correction: Luo, M. Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies. Viruses 2022, 14, 1243.

Luo M

Viruses2023First author

DOI: 10.3390/v15061323 PMID: 37376705

NFκB1 Polymorphisms Are Associated with Severe Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Canadian Population.

Mirzo SM, Kumar A, Sharma NK, Li L, Balshaw R, Plummer FA, Luo M, Liang B

Microorganisms2022

DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10101886 PMID: 36296162

Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies.

Luo M

Viruses2022First author

DOI: 10.3390/v14061243 PMID: 35746714

Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Host Immune Response and Antiretroviral Drug Interactions for Precision Patient Treatment and Care

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Luo, Ma; Plummer, Francis A

Keywords: Anti-Retroviral Drug Treatment; Full Hiv Genome Mutation Analysis; Hiv Disease Progression; Hiv Postive Selected Mutations Before And After Art,; Hiv Replication Fitness; Next Generation Sequencing Technology

$100,000

The Biology of FREM1 in HIV Transmission and Its Variants in Resistance and Susceptibility to vaginal HIV Infection

Principal investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant - PA: CHVI Vaccine Discovery and Social Research

Principal investigators: Plummer, Francis A; Luo, Ma

Keywords: Frem1; Frem1 Splice Variants; Hetersexual Hiv Transmission; Mechanism Of Natural Resistance To Hiv Infection; Prospective Analysis; Resistance To Hiv Infection; Rhesus Macaque Siv Early Infection Model; Vaginal Hiv Transmission

$342,474

A HIV Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites

Nominated PICIHR2013Operating Grant - PA: Bridge Funding -CHVI Vaccine Discovery and Social Research

Principal investigators: Luo, Ma

Keywords: A Hiv Vaccine Tarting Protease Cleavage Sites; Low Dose Vaginal Sivmac251 Challenge; Mice And Guinea Pigs; Nanodelivery Of Immunogens; Nonhuman Primate And Sivmac239/251 Model; Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (Vsv) Vector System

$100,000

Identification and characterization of immunologically relevant T Cell epitopes of HIV-1 Nef

SupervisorCIHR2011Doctoral Research Award - PA: Biomedical/Clinical HIV/AIDS Research

Principal investigators: Shadabi, Elnaz

Keywords: Antibody Microarray; Bioinformatics; Elispot; Exon Array; Flow Cytometry; Gene Expression; Genetics; Hiv/Aids; Immunology

$105,000

ATTACKING HIV PROTEASE CLEAVAGE SITES WITH IMMUNIZATION - Explore the rapid mutation rate of HIV-1

Nominated PICIHR2009Vaccines of the 21st Century

Principal investigators: Luo, Ma

Keywords: Hiv Protease Cleavage Sites; Hiv Vaccine Strategy; Mucosal Immunization; Nanodelivery; Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (Vsv) Vector

$100,000

The effect of the CD4 pathogenicity island on HIV susceptibility and disease progression

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative

Principal investigators: Fowke, Keith R

Keywords: Hiv Infection; Molecular Epidemiology; Protein Structure; Receptor Polymorphism; Signal Transduction

$663,050

Identification and Characterization of Immunologically Relevant T cell Epitopes of HIV-1

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Plummer, Francis A

Keywords: 454 Sequencing; Epitope Specific Gene Expression; Hiv-1; Immunologically Relevant Epitopes; Positive Selection

$358,392

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Ma Luo

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Viral Escape from a Candidate HIV-1 Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites Is Associated with a Dramatic Fitness Loss in SIVmac239-Infected Cynomolgus Macaques.

Comparing CD8+ T cell ENV epitopes of two HLA class I alleles associated with different outcomes of HIV-1 infection with broadly neutralizing antibodies epitope targets discovered to date.

Unique expression of genes influencing transendothelial leukocyte migration in HIV-1 resistant women in the pumwani sex worker cohort.

The Effect of Heparin and Other Exogenous Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Reducing IL-1β-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-8 and IL-6 mRNA Expression and the Potential Role for Reducing Inflammation.

A long-term stable cold-chain-friendly HIV mRNA vaccine encoding multi-epitope viral protease cleavage site immunogens inducing immunogen-specific protective T cell immunity.

Author Correction: Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

Correction: Luo, M. Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies. Viruses 2022, 14, 1243.

NFκB1 Polymorphisms Are Associated with Severe Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Canadian Population.

Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies.

Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Host Immune Response and Antiretroviral Drug Interactions for Precision Patient Treatment and Care

The Biology of FREM1 in HIV Transmission and Its Variants in Resistance and Susceptibility to vaginal HIV Infection

A HIV Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites

Identification and characterization of immunologically relevant T Cell epitopes of HIV-1 Nef

ATTACKING HIV PROTEASE CLEAVAGE SITES WITH IMMUNIZATION - Explore the rapid mutation rate of HIV-1

The effect of the CD4 pathogenicity island on HIV susceptibility and disease progression

Identification and Characterization of Immunologically Relevant T cell Epitopes of HIV-1

Frequent collaborators

Joshua Kimani

Anand Kumar

David Safronetz

Paul Sandstrom

Derek Stein

Francis Lin

Catherine Card

Lyle Mckinnon

Nicole Bernard

Yoav Keynan

Deborah Cook

Hani El-Gabalawy

Nicole Bernard

Francis Plummer

Ma Luo

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Viral Escape from a Candidate HIV-1 Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites Is Associated with a Dramatic Fitness Loss in SIVmac239-Infected Cynomolgus Macaques.

Comparing CD8+ T cell ENV epitopes of two HLA class I alleles associated with different outcomes of HIV-1 infection with broadly neutralizing antibodies epitope targets discovered to date.

Unique expression of genes influencing transendothelial leukocyte migration in HIV-1 resistant women in the pumwani sex worker cohort.

The Effect of Heparin and Other Exogenous Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Reducing IL-1&#x3b2;-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-8 and IL-6 mRNA Expression and the Potential Role for Reducing Inflammation.

A long-term stable cold-chain-friendly HIV mRNA vaccine encoding multi-epitope viral protease cleavage site immunogens inducing immunogen-specific protective T cell immunity.

Author Correction: Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load.

Correction: Luo, M. Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies. Viruses 2022, 14, 1243.

NF&#x3ba;B1 Polymorphisms Are Associated with Severe Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Canadian Population.

Natural Immunity against HIV-1: Progression of Understanding after Association Studies.

Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Host Immune Response and Antiretroviral Drug Interactions for Precision Patient Treatment and Care

The Biology of FREM1 in HIV Transmission and Its Variants in Resistance and Susceptibility to vaginal HIV Infection

A HIV Vaccine Targeting Protease Cleavage Sites

Identification and characterization of immunologically relevant T Cell epitopes of HIV-1 Nef

ATTACKING HIV PROTEASE CLEAVAGE SITES WITH IMMUNIZATION - Explore the rapid mutation rate of HIV-1

The effect of the CD4 pathogenicity island on HIV susceptibility and disease progression

Identification and Characterization of Immunologically Relevant T cell Epitopes of HIV-1

Frequent collaborators

Joshua Kimani

Anand Kumar

David Safronetz

Paul Sandstrom

Derek Stein

Francis Lin

Catherine Card

Lyle Mckinnon

Nicole Bernard

Yoav Keynan

Deborah Cook

Hani El-Gabalawy

Nicole Bernard

Francis Plummer

The Effect of Heparin and Other Exogenous Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Reducing IL-1β-Induced Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine IL-8 and IL-6 mRNA Expression and the Potential Role for Reducing Inflammation.

NFκB1 Polymorphisms Are Associated with Severe Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Canadian Population.