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Albert C Shaw, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
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Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

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Dr. Shaw is a graduate of Harvard College who completed his M.D. training at Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Philip Leder. After completing his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Fred Alt. Dr. Shaw joined the faculty at Yale in 2001, and is currently Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases. His research focuses on the immunology of aging, and his laboratory has interests in age-associated alterations in innate immune function and vaccine response in humans, as well as circadian regulation of immune response and mechanisms of inflammatory dysregulation in medication-associated treatment of opioid use disorder. He was a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Physician Research Fellow, Brookdale National Fellow, and T. Franklin Williams Scholar, and he is a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and member of the Interurban Clinical Club.

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Education & Training

Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital (1997)
Intern and Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital (1994)
PhD
Harvard University (1991)
MD
Harvard Medical School (1991)
AB
Harvard College (1983)

Research

Overview

Medical Research Interests

Aging; DNA Repair; Immune System; Immunity, Innate; Infectious Disease Medicine; Influenza Vaccines; Toll-Like Receptors

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Albert C Shaw's published research.

Publications

2024

  • The human CD47 checkpoint is targeted by an immunosuppressive Aedes aegypti salivary factor to enhance arboviral skin infectivity
    Marin-Lopez A, Huck J, Esterly A, Azcutia V, Rosen C, Garcia-Milian R, Sefik E, Vidal-Pedrola G, Raduwan H, Chen T, Arora G, Halene S, Shaw A, Palm N, Flavell R, Parkos C, Thangamani S, Ring A, Fikrig E. The human CD47 checkpoint is targeted by an immunosuppressive Aedes aegypti salivary factor to enhance arboviral skin infectivity. Science Immunology 2024, 9: eadk9872. PMID: 39121194, DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adk9872.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • IgM N-glycosylation correlates with COVID-19 severity and rate of complement deposition
    Ozonoff A, Ehrlich L, Melamed E, Sesma A, Simon V, Pulendran B, Nadeau K, Davis M, McCoey G, Sekaly R, Baden L, Levy O, Schaenman J, Reed E, Shaw A, Hafler D, Montgomery R, Kleinstein S, Becker P, Augustine A, Calfee C, Erle D, DeBakey M, Corry D, Kheradmand F, Atkinson M, Brakenridge S, Higuita N, Metcalf J, Hough C, Messer W, Kraft M, Bime C, Peters B, Milliren C, Syphurs C, McEnaney K, Barton B, Lentucci C, Saluvan M, Chang A, Hoch A, Albert M, Shaheen T, Kho A, Liu S, Thomas S, Chen J, Murphy M, Cooney M, Hayati A, Bryant R, Abraham J, Jayavelu N, Presnell S, Jancsyk T, Maguire C, Qi J, Lee B, Fourati S, Esserman D, Guan L, Gygi J, Pawar S, Brito A, Fragiadakis G, Patel R, Overton J, Vita R, Westendorf K, Shannon C, Tebbutt S, Thyagarajan R, Rousseau J, Wylie D, Triplett T, Kojic E, Chinthrajah S, Ahuja N, Rogers A, Artandi M, Geng L, Yendewa G, Powell D, Kim J, Simmons B, Goonewardene I, Smith C, Martens M, Sherman A, Walsh S, Issa N, Salehi-Rad R, Dela Cruz C, Farhadian S, Iwasaki A, Ko A, Anderson E, Mehta A, Sevransky J, Seyfert-Margolis V, Leligdowicz A, Matthay M, Singer J, Kangelaris K, Hendrickson C, Krummel M, Langelier C, Woodruff P, Corry D, Kheradmand F, Anderson M, Guirgis F, Drevets D, Brown B, Siegel S, Lu Z, Mosier J, Kimura H, Khor B, van Bakel H, Rahman A, Stadlbauer D, Dutta J, Xie H, Kim-Schulze S, Gonzalez-Reiche A, van de Guchte A, Carreño J, Singh G, Raskin A, Tcheou J, Bielak D, Kawabata H, Kelly G, Patel M, Nie K, Yellin T, Fried M, Sullivan L, Morris S, Sieg S, Steen H, van Zalm P, Fatou B, Mendez K, Lasky-Su J, Hutton S, Michelotti G, Wong K, Jha M, Viode A, Kanarek N, Petrova B, Zhao Y, Bosinger S, Boddapati A, Tharp G, Pellegrini K, Beagle E, Cowan D, Hamilton S, Ribeiro S, Hodder T, Rosen L, Lee S, Wilson M, Dandekar R, Alvarenga B, Rajan J, Eckalbar W, Schroeder A, Tsitsiklis A, Mick E, Guerrero Y, Love C, Maliskova L, Adkisson M, Siles N, Geltman J, Hurley K, Saksena M, Altman D, Srivastava K, Eaker L, Bermúdez-González M, Beach K, Sominsky L, Azad A, Mulder L, Kleiner G, Lee A, Do E, Fernandes A, Manohar M, Hagan T, Blish C, Din H, Roque J, Yang S, Sigal N, Chang I, Tribout H, Harris P, Consolo M, Edwards C, Lee E, Lin E, Croen B, Semenza N, Rogowski B, Melnyk N, Bell M, Furukawa S, McLin R, Schearer P, Sheidy J, Tegos G, Nagle C, Smolen K, Desjardins M, van Haren S, Mitre X, Cauley J, Li X, Tong A, Evans B, Montesano C, Licona J, Krauss J, Chang J, Izaguirre N, Rooks R, Elashoff D, Brook J, Ramires-Sanchez E, Llamas M, Rivera A, Perdomo C, Ward D, Magyar C, Fulcher J, Pickering H, Sen S, Chaudhary O, Coppi A, Fournier J, Mohanty S, Muenker C, Nelson A, Raddassi K, Rainone M, Ruff W, Salahuddin S, Schulz W, Vijayakumar P, Wang H, Wunder E, Young H, Rothman J, Konstorum A, Chen E, Cotsapas C, Grubaugh N, Wang X, Xu L, Asashima H, Bristow L, Hussaini L, Hellmeister K, Samaha H, Wimalasena S, Cheng A, Spainhour C, Scherer E, Johnson B, Bechnak A, Ciric C, Hewitt L, Carter E, Mcnair N, Panganiban B, Huerta C, Usher J, Vaysman T, Holland S, Abe-Jones Y, Asthana S, Beagle A, Bhide S, Carrillo S, Chak S, Ghale R, Gonzalez A, Jauregui A, Jones N, Lea T, Lee D, Lota R, Milush J, Nguyen V, Pierce L, Prasad P, Rao A, Samad B, Shaw C, Sigman A, Sinha P, Ward A, Willmore A, Zhan J, Rashid S, Rodriguez N, Tang K, Altamirano L, Betancourt L, Curiel C, Sutter N, Paz M, Tietje-Ulrich G, Leroux C, Thakur N, Vasquez J, Santhosh L, Song L, Nelson E, Moldawer L, Borresen B, Roth-Manning B, Ungaro R, Oberhaus J, Booth J, Sinko L, Brunton A, Sullivan P, Strnad M, Lyski Z, Coulter F, Micheleti C, Conway M, Francisco D, Molzahn A, Erickson H, Wilson C, Schunk R, Sierra B, Hughes T. IgM N-glycosylation correlates with COVID-19 severity and rate of complement deposition. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 404. PMID: 38195739, PMCID: PMC10776791, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44211-0.
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  • Infectious Disease

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2018
    Original Certification Date
    1997

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