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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2018

What Is the Predictive Value of Animal Models for Vaccine Efficacy in Humans? Consideration of Strategies to Improve the Value of Animal Models.

Ramin Sedaghat Herati, E John Wherry

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Human Organoids as a Novel Tool for Vaccine Study.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026
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  3. Lymphoid-Tissue-on-Chip Recapitulates Human Antibody Responses In Vitro.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. Improving the immunogenicity ofFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  9. Discovering vaccines: the trial tale.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ramin Sedaghat HeratiDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
E John WherryInstitute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Virus & Reservoirs CoreP30AI045008 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ROBERT GROSS · 1999 to 2026
$78.6M
Sequencing and Viral Evolution CoreU19AI117950 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WHERRY, E. JOHN · 2015 to 2019
$12.0M
P3: Chemokine-Mediated T Cell Trafficking in HIV Transmission and Immune ResponseP01AI112521 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI VON ANDRIAN, ULRICH H · 2014 to 2018
$9.8M
Effects of aging on the T follicular helper response to influenza vaccineK08AI114852 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HERATI, RAMIN · 2015 to 2019
$947k
Connecting inflammation and senescence in the T follicular helper response to vacF32AG047773 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HERATI, RAMIN · 2014 to 2014
$26k
NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201100018CNIAID NIH HHS K08 AI114852NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI112521NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI045008NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI117950NIA NIH HHS F32 AG047773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal models are an essential feature of the vaccine design toolkit. Although animal models have been invaluable in delineating the mechanisms of immune function, their precision in predicting how well specific vaccines work in humans is often suboptimal. There are, of course, many obvious species differences that may limit animal models from predicting all details of how a vaccine works in humans. However, careful consideration of which animal models may have limitations should also allow more accurate interpretations of animal model data and more accurate predictions of what is to be expected in clinical trials. In this article, we examine some of the considerations that might be relevant to cross-species extrapolation of vaccine-related immune responses for the prediction of how vaccines will perform in humans.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsDrug ApprovalDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansProof of Concept StudySpecies SpecificityVaccinesVaccines

Identifiers

PMID28348037
PMCPMC5880169
OpenAlexW2602469116

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