Janet L. Brandsma, PhD

Associate Professor

Yale University School of Medicine
PO Box 208016
New Haven, CT 06520-8016

Phone: (203) 785-4401
Fax: (203) 785-7499
Email: janet.brandsma@yale.edu

Campus Location: FMB B02

Education

• PhD, Yale University
• Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Research Interests

Molecular biology of papillomavirus pathogenesis, development of protective and therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease.

Areas of Expertise

• Vaccines
• Virology

Publications of Note

Brandsma JL, Shlyankevich M, Zelterman D, Su Y (2007) Therapeutic vaccination of rabbits with a ubiquitin-fused papillomavirus E1, E2, E6 and E7 DNA vaccine. Vaccine. 4;25(33):6158-63.

Brandsma JL, Shylankevich M, Su Y, Roberts A, Rose JK, Zelterman D, Buonocore L (2007) Vesicular stomatitis virus-based therapeutic vaccination targeted to the E1, E2, E6, and E7 proteins of cottontail rabbit papillomavirus. J Virol. 81(11):5749-58.

Brandsma JL, Shlyankevich M, Buonocore L, Roberts A, Becker SM, Rose JK (2007) Therapeutic efficacy of vesicular stomatitis virus-based E6 vaccination in rabbits. Vaccine. 25(4):751-62.

Brandsma JL (2006) DNA vaccine design. Methods Mol Med. 127:3-10.

Weinberger PM, Yu Z, Haffty BG, Kowalski D, Harigopal M, Brandsma J, Sasaki C, Joe J, Camp RL, Rimm DL, Psyrri A (2006). Molecular classification identifies a subset of human papillomavirus--associated oropharyngeal cancers with favorable prognosis. J. Clin. Oncol. 24(5):736-47.