Sara Suliman, PhD, MPH

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address2540 23rd Street, #3703
San Francisco CA 94110
PronounsShe/Her/Hers
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    University of Guelph, Guelph, CanadaBSc06/2006Biomedical Sciences
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaPhD06/2013Immunology
    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CanadaMPH10/2017Public Health

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    Tuberculosis (TB) disease, caused by infection with the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a leading cause of mortality globally. Interestingly, only 5-10% of Mtb-exposed individuals are estimated to develop active TB in their lifetime, thus posing host-specific factors as mediators of risk of progression to disease. These host factors include several defects in innate and adaptive immunity, metabolic dysregulation, co-infections and comorbidities, and genetic polymorphisms that could mediate susceptibility to TB disease. The focus of the Suliman laboratory is to generate hypotheses from systems biology approaches, such as genome-wide association studies, transcriptional and metabolomic profiling, and expression quantitative trait loci, to identify candidate TB risk pathways and functionally evaluate their roles in TB progression.

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    1. The promise and reality of new immune profiling technologies. Nat Immunol. 2024 Oct; 25(10):1765-1769. Suliman S, Maison DP, Henrich TJ. PMID: 39242838.
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    2. Unmasking the hidden impact of viruses on tuberculosis risk. Trends Immunol. 2024 Sep; 45(9):649-661. Darboe F, Reijneveld JF, Maison DP, Martinez L, Suliman S. PMID: 39181733.
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    3. Predicting Pediatric Tuberculosis: The Need for Age-Specific Host Biosignatures. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 08 14; 77(3):450-452. Suliman S, Jaganath D, DiNardo A. PMID: 37144361; PMCID: PMC10425193.
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    4. BCG: From veins to correlates. Cell Host Microbe. 2023 06 14; 31(6):921-923. Suliman S. PMID: 37321176.
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    5. Evaluation of the Access Bio CareStart rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen test in asymptomatic individuals tested at a community mass-testing program in Western Massachusetts. Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 09; 12(1):21338. Suliman S, Matias WR, Fulcher IR, Molano FJ, Collins S, Uceta E, Zhu J, Paxton RM, Gonsalves SF, Harden MV, Fisher M, Meldrim J, Gabriel S, Franke MF, Hung DT, Smole SC, Madoff LC, Ivers LC. PMID: 36494424; PMCID: PMC9734130.
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    6. Dual TCR-α Expression on Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells as a Potential Confounder of TCR Interpretation. J Immunol. 2022 03 15; 208(6):1389-1395. Suliman S, Kjer-Nielsen L, Iwany SK, Lopez Tamara K, Loh L, Grzelak L, Kedzierska K, Ocampo TA, Corbett AJ, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J, León SR, Calderon R, Lecca-Garcia L, Murray MB, Moody DB, Van Rhijn I. PMID: 35246495; PMCID: PMC9359468.
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    7. Evaluation of serological lateral flow assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 16; 21(1):580. Trombetta BA, Kandigian SE, Kitchen RR, Grauwet K, Webb PK, Miller GA, Jennings CG, Jain S, Miller S, Kuo Y, Sweeney T, Gilboa T, Norman M, Simmons DP, Ramirez CE, Bedard M, Fink C, Ko J, De León Peralta EJ, Watts G, Gomez-Rivas E, Davis V, Barilla RM, Wang J, Cunin P, Bates S, Morrison-Smith C, Nicholson B, Wong E, El-Mufti L, Kann M, Bolling A, Fortin B, Ventresca H, Zhou W, Pardo S, Kwock M, Hazra A, Cheng L, Ahmad QR, Toombs JA, Larson R, Pleskow H, Luo NM, Samaha C, Pandya UM, De Silva P, Zhou S, Ganhadeiro Z, Yohannes S, Gay R, Slavik J, Mukerji SS, Jarolim P, Walt DR, Carlyle BC, Ritterhouse LL, Suliman S. PMID: 34134647; PMCID: PMC8206878.
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    8. Multimodally profiling memory T cells from a tuberculosis cohort identifies cell state associations with demographics, environment and disease. Nat Immunol. 2021 06; 22(6):781-793. Nathan A, Beynor JI, Baglaenko Y, Suliman S, Ishigaki K, Asgari S, Huang CC, Luo Y, Zhang Z, Lopez K, Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Ernst JD, Jimenez J, Calderón RI, Lecca L, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S. PMID: 34031617; PMCID: PMC8162307.
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    9. Peripheral Blood Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells in Tuberculosis Patients and Healthy Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Exposed Controls. J Infect Dis. 2020 08 17; 222(6):995-1007. Suliman S, Gela A, Mendelsohn SC, Iwany SK, Tamara KL, Mabwe S, Bilek N, Darboe F, Fisher M, Corbett AJ, Kjer-Nielsen L, Eckle SBG, Huang CC, Zhang Z, Lewinsohn DM, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J, Hatherill M, León SR, Calderon RI, Lecca L, Murray M, Scriba TJ, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB. PMID: 32267943; PMCID: PMC7430171.
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    10. MR1-Independent Activation of Human Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells by Mycobacteria. J Immunol. 2019 12 01; 203(11):2917-2927. Suliman S, Murphy M, Musvosvi M, Gela A, Meermeier EW, Geldenhuys H, Hopley C, Toefy A, Bilek N, Veldsman A, Hanekom WA, Johnson JL, Boom WH, Obermoser G, Huang H, Hatherill M, Lewinsohn DM, Nemes E, Scriba TJ. PMID: 31611259; PMCID: PMC6859375.
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    11. Early progression to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians. Nat Commun. 2019 08 21; 10(1):3765. Luo Y, Suliman S, Asgari S, Amariuta T, Baglaenko Y, Martínez-Bonet M, Ishigaki K, Gutierrez-Arcelus M, Calderon R, Lecca L, León SR, Jimenez J, Yataco R, Contreras C, Galea JT, Becerra M, Nejentsev S, Nigrovic PA, Moody DB, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S. PMID: 31434886; PMCID: PMC6704092.
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    12. Four-Gene Pan-African Blood Signature Predicts Progression to Tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 May 01; 197(9):1198-1208. Suliman S, Thompson EG, Sutherland J, Weiner J, Ota MOC, Shankar S, Penn-Nicholson A, Thiel B, Erasmus M, Maertzdorf J, Duffy FJ, Hill PC, Hughes EJ, Stanley K, Downing K, Fisher ML, Valvo J, Parida SK, van der Spuy G, Tromp G, Adetifa IMO, Donkor S, Howe R, Mayanja-Kizza H, Boom WH, Dockrell HM, Ottenhoff THM, Hatherill M, Aderem A, Hanekom WA, Scriba TJ, Kaufmann SHE, Zak DE, Walzl G, GC6-74 cohort study team, The ACS cohort study team. PMID: 29624071; PMCID: PMC6019933.
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    13. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Revaccination of Adults with Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Induces Long-Lived BCG-Reactive NK Cell Responses. J Immunol. 2016 08 15; 197(4):1100-1110. Suliman S, Geldenhuys H, Johnson JL, Hughes JE, Smit E, Murphy M, Toefy A, Lerumo L, Hopley C, Pienaar B, Chheng P, Nemes E, Hoft DF, Hanekom WA, Boom WH, Hatherill M, Scriba TJ. PMID: 27412415; PMCID: PMC4976036.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 82     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsCTClinical Trials
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