Rachel Lai

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rachel Lai is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Lai has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Infectious Diseases, 16 papers in Epidemiology and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Rachel Lai's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (13 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (10 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers). Rachel Lai is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (13 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (10 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (9 papers). Rachel Lai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Rachel Lai's co-authors include Robert J. Wilkinson, Graeme Meintjes, Katalin A. Wilkinson, Aimin Li, Jeya Nadarajah, Venkata R. Duvvuri, Alireza Eshaghi, Donald E. Low, Samir Patel and Jonathan B. Gubbay and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Lai

37 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Poly(carboxybetaine) lipids enhance mRNA therapeutics efficacy and reduce their immunogenicity

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Hannah P. Gideon United States

Craig Fenwick Switzerland

Ajit Chande India

Douglas G. Mack United States

Linfang Cheng China

Kevin Visconti United States

S. Garforth United States

Marianna Orlova Canada

Judith Howard Switzerland

Smriti Mehra United States

Hannah P. Gideon United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

Salas‐Ambrosio, Pedro, Rachel Lai, Abigail G. Doyle, et al.. (2025). Biosourced Functional Hydroxybenzoate-co-Lactide Polymers with Antimicrobial Activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(22). 19230–19238. 3 indexed citations

Pedretti, Sarah, Rama Gangula, Muki Shey, et al.. (2025). The association of class II HLA alleles with tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. PLoS Pathogens. 21(9). e1013497–e1013497.

Yu, Yuanhong, Xianyu Song, Ying Wang, et al.. (2025). Defect-mediated permeation of deep eutectic solvents in cellulose crystals: A combined experimental and molecular dynamics study. Carbohydrate Polymers. 369. 124331–124331.

Frainay, Clément, Nathalie Poupin, Russell P. Bowler, et al.. (2024). PathIntegrate: Multivariate modelling approaches for pathway-based multi-omics data integration. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(3). e1011814–e1011814. 8 indexed citations

Lai, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Single sample pathway analysis in metabolomics: performance evaluation and application. BMC Bioinformatics. 23(1). 481–481. 14 indexed citations

Frainay, Clément, Nathalie Poupin, Pablo Rodríguez-Mier, et al.. (2021). Pathway analysis in metabolomics: Recommendations for the use of over-representation analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1009105–e1009105. 89 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Katalin A., Deborah Schneider-Luftman, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2021). Antiretroviral Treatment-Induced Decrease in Immune Activation Contributes to Reduced Susceptibility to Tuberculosis in HIV-1/Mtb Co-infected Persons. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 645446–645446. 5 indexed citations

Lerner, Thomas R., Christophe J. Queval, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2020). Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords within lymphatic endothelial cells to evade host immunity. JCI Insight. 5(10). 31 indexed citations

Shenje, Justin, Rachel Lai, Ian Louis Ross, et al.. (2017). Effect of prednisolone on inflammatory markers in pericardial tuberculosis: A pilot study. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 18. 104–108. 8 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Angela, Urška Repnik, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2017). A Rab20-Dependent Membrane Trafficking Pathway Controls M. tuberculosis Replication by Regulating Phagosome Spaciousness and Integrity. Cell Host & Microbe. 21(5). 619–628.e5. 75 indexed citations

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Esmail, Hanif, Rachel Lai, Maia Lesosky, et al.. (2016). Characterization of progressive HIV-associated tuberculosis using 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission and computed tomography. Nature Medicine. 22(10). 1090–1093. 128 indexed citations

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Marais, Suzaan, Rachel Lai, Katalin A. Wilkinson, et al.. (2016). Inflammasome activation underlies central nervous system deterioration in HIV-associated tuberculosis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 215(5). jiw561–jiw561. 45 indexed citations

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Lai, Rachel, Graeme Meintjes, & Robert J. Wilkinson. (2015). HIV-1 tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Seminars in Immunopathology. 38(2). 185–198. 69 indexed citations

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Lai, Rachel, Graeme Meintjes, Katalin A. Wilkinson, et al.. (2015). HIV–tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is characterized by Toll-like receptor and inflammasome signalling. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8451–8451. 66 indexed citations

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Lai, Rachel, M. Benjamin Hock, Jens Radzimanowski, et al.. (2014). A Fusion Intermediate gp41 Immunogen Elicits Neutralizing Antibodies to HIV-1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(43). 29912–29926. 29 indexed citations

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Varela, Mariana, Ernst J. Verschoor, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2013). Genetic Imprint of Vaccination on Simian/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transmitted Viral Genomes in Rhesus Macaques. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70814–e70814. 1 indexed citations

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Eshaghi, Alireza, Venkata R. Duvvuri, Rachel Lai, et al.. (2012). Genetic Variability of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus A Strains Circulating in Ontario: A Novel Genotype with a 72 Nucleotide G Gene Duplication. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32807–e32807. 266 indexed citations

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Lai, Rachel, Michael S. Seaman, Paul Tonks, et al.. (2012). Mixed Adjuvant Formulations Reveal a New Combination That Elicit Antibody Response Comparable to Freund's Adjuvants. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35083–e35083. 45 indexed citations

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Lai, Rachel, Jonathan L. Heeney, Myra O. McClure, et al.. (2011). Nef Decreases HIV-1 Sensitivity to Neutralizing Antibodies that Target the Membrane-proximal External Region of TMgp41. PLoS Pathogens. 7(12). e1002442–e1002442. 34 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiao-Ping, et al.. (2007). Syntheses, structures and luminescent properties of new lanthanide-based coordination polymers based on 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate (bdc). Dalton Transactions. 3936–3936. 65 indexed citations

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