Brian Barber, University of Toronto

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Latest papers

Humanization of Pan-HLA-DR mAb 44H10 Hinges on Critical Residues in the Antibody Framework.
Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
Modular adjuvant-free pan-HLA-DR-immunotargeting subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 elicits broad sarbecovirus-neutralizing antibody responses.
Cell reports · 2023
Lipoprotein-Like Nanoparticle Carrying Small Interfering RNA Against Spalt-Like Transcription Factor 4 Effectively Targets Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells and Decreases Tumor Burden.
Hepatology communications · 2020

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Intellectual Property Mobilization 2005 Competition - BioDiscovery Toronto, Group Award
NSERC · 2005 · Co-investigator
$421,875

All 1 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Humanization of Pan-HLA-DR mAb 44H10 Hinges on Critical Residues in the Antibody Framework.

Kassardjian A, Ivanochko D, Barber B, Jetha A, Julien JP

Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland)20244 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/antib13030057 PMID: 39051333

02

Modular adjuvant-free pan-HLA-DR-immunotargeting subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 elicits broad sarbecovirus-neutralizing antibody responses.

Kassardjian A, Sun E, Sookhoo J, Muthuraman K, Boligan KF, Kucharska I, Rujas E, Jetha A, Branch DR, Babiuk S, Barber B, Julien JP

Cell reports202319 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112391 PMID: 37053069

03

Lipoprotein-Like Nanoparticle Carrying Small Interfering RNA Against Spalt-Like Transcription Factor 4 Effectively Targets Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells and Decreases Tumor Burden.

Cruz W, Huang H, Barber B, Pasini E, Ding L, Zheng G, Chen J, Bhat M

Hepatology communications202017 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/hep4.1493 PMID: 32363325

Intellectual Property Mobilization 2005 Competition - BioDiscovery Toronto, Group Award

Co-investigatorNSERC2005Intellectual Property Mobilization - Infrastructure

Principal investigators: McTiernan, Tim

$421,875

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Immunology
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Status
Department of Medicine
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Jean-Philippe Julien

Department of Biochemistry

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Donald Branch

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Gang Zheng

Status

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Mamatha Bhat

Department of Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Shawn Babiuk

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Barber, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Humanization of Pan-HLA-DR mAb 44H10 Hinges on Critical Residues in the Antibody Framework." (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]