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Universidad del Norte: Barranquilla, Atlantico, CO

2003-02-01 to present | Professor (Medicine)
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University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, US

1999 to 2004 | PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Medicine)
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Universidad de Cartagena: Cartagena, Bolivar, CO

1995 to 1997 | MSc in Immunology (Instituto de Investigaciones Inmunologicas)
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Universidad del Norte: Barranquilla, Atlantico, CO

1985 to 1991 | MD (Medicine)
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Professional activities (3)

Fulbright Colombia: Bogota, CO

2019 | Investigador Visitante (Research Scholar)
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University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, US

2008 to 2010 | Assistant Professor (Medicine)
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Fulbright Colombia: Bogota, CO

1999 | Predoctoral grant
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Funding (3)

Major Cell Culture Improvements Needed for a Live Attenuated RSV Vaccine to be Economically Feasible

2019-02-01 to 2019-06-01 | Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington D.C., US)
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Mechanism of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Entry in Normal Human Bronchial Epitheli

2014-03-15 to 2020-02-29 | Grant
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3536538
GRANT_NUMBER: R01AI110385
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Respiratory syncytial virus targets rafts for penetration and immunomodulation

2007-07-15 to 2013-03-30 | Grant
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bethesda, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.2458093
GRANT_NUMBER: R01AI075523
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Works (41)

Exploring the secrets of virus entry: the first respiratory syncytial virus carrying beta lactamase

Frontiers in Microbiology
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1339569
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2-s2.0-85186908387

Part of ISSN: 1664302X
Contributors: De Ávila-Arias, M.; Villarreal-Camacho, J.L.; Cadena-Cruz, C.; Hurtado-Gómez, L.; Costello, H.M.; Rodriguez, A.; Burgos-Florez, F.; Bettin, A.; Kararoudi, M.N.; Muñoz, A. et al.
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Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, Theoretical Studies, and Living Cancer Cell Imaging Applications of New 7-(Diethylamino)quinolone Chalcones

ACS Omega
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07242
EID:

2-s2.0-85190720135

Part of ISSN: 24701343
Contributors: Insuasty, D.; Mutis, M.; Trilleras, J.; Illicachi, L.A.; Rodríguez, J.D.; Ramos-Hernández, A.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.G.; Cadena-Cruz, C.; Mora, J.R.; Paz, J.L. et al.
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Respiratory syncytial virus entry mechanism in host cells: A general overview

Molecular Microbiology
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15133
EID:

2-s2.0-85166642155

Part of ISSN: 13652958 0950382X
Contributors: Cadena-Cruz, C.; Villarreal Camacho, J.L.; De Ávila-Arias, M.; Hurtado-Gomez, L.; Rodriguez, A.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.
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A Novel Approach to Visualize a Complete Spectrum of Alpha Diversity: Richness, Evenness and Abundance

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
2022 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_42
EID:

2-s2.0-85130216853

Part of ISBN: 9783031048258
Part of ISSN: 23673389 23673370
Contributors: Amaya-Tejera, N.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Zurek, E.
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Epigenetic Modulators as Treatment Alternative to Diverse Types of Cancer

Current Medicinal Chemistry
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2174/0929867329666211228111036
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2-s2.0-85128155037

Part of ISSN: 1875533X 09298673
Contributors: Gutiérrez, J.R.; Salgado, A.R.M.; Arias, M.D.Á.; San-Juan-vergara, H.; Rada, W.R.; Gómez, C.M.M.
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A new pipeline for structural characterization and classification of RNA-Seq microbiome data

BioData Mining
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s13040-021-00266-7
EID:

2-s2.0-85109673222

Part of ISSN: 17560381
Contributors: Racedo, S.; Portnoy, I.; Vélez, J.I.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Sanjuan, M.; Zurek, E.
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Electrochemical immunosensor for the quantification of s100b at clinically relevant levels using a cysteamine modified surface

Sensors
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s21061929
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2-s2.0-85102148437

Part of ISSN: 14248220
Contributors: Rodríguez, A.; Burgos-Flórez, F.; Posada, J.D.; Cervera, E.; Zucolotto, V.; Sanjuán, H.; Sanjuán, M.; Villalba, P.J.
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Synchronization temperature determines the location of RSV fusion during entry in cultured cells

bioRxiv
2021 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.09.434545
EID:

2-s2.0-85105140149

Part of ISSN: 26928205
Contributors: Cadena-Cruz, C.; De-Avila-Arias, M.; Costello, H.M.; Hurtado-Gomez, L.; Martínez-De-La-Rosa, W.; Macchia-Ceballos, G.; Rosales-Rada, W.; Valencia-Villa, G.; Villalba-Amarís, P.; Kararoudi, M.N. et al.
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Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of new 12-substituted-14-deoxy-andrographolide derivatives as apoptosis inducers

Chemical Papers
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11696-019-00718-9
EID:

2-s2.0-85065584081

Part of ISSN: 13369075 03666352
Contributors: Kandanur, S.G.S.; Kundu, S.; Cadena, C.; Juan, H.S.; Bajaj, A.; Guzman, J.D.; Nanduri, S.; Golakoti, N.R.
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Split and merge watershed: A two-step method for cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy images

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2019.101575
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2-s2.0-85066481864

Part of ISSN: 17468108 17468094
Contributors: Gamarra, M.; Zurek, E.; Escalante, H.J.; Hurtado, L.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.
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Study of medical image processing techniques applied to lung cancer

Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.23919/CISTI.2019.8760888
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2-s2.0-85070060147

Part of ISBN: 9789899843493
Part of ISSN: 21660735 21660727
Contributors: Moreno, S.; Bonfante, M.; Zurek, E.; Juan, H.S.
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Seroprevalence of Zika virus among blood donors before the epidemic in Barranquilla, Colombia, 2015-2016.

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
2019-09-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201920180860
PMID: 31553367
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Evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for rapid detection of human respiratory syncytial virus in children with acute respiratory infection

Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud
2019-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v39i2.4428
PMID: 31529826
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Importance of Virus Characteristics in Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Induced Disease.

Immunology and allergy clinics of North America
2019-05-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.iac.2019.04.001
PMID: 31284923
PMC: PMC6879194
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A Lachnospiraceae-dominated bacterial signature in the fecal microbiota of HIV-infected individuals from Colombia, South America

Scientific Reports
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22629-7
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2-s2.0-85044231483

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Zurek, E.; Ajami, N.J.; Mogollon, C.; Peña, M.; Portnoy, I.; Vélez, J.I.; Cadena-Cruz, C.; Diaz-Olmos, Y.; Hurtado-Gómez, L. et al.
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Gut microbiota components are associated with fixed airway obstruction in asthmatic patients living in the tropics

Scientific Reports
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27964-3
EID:

2-s2.0-85049177386

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Buendía, E.; Zakzuk, J.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Zurek, E.; Ajami, N.J.; Caraballo, L.
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Cell identification using image analysis: A literature survey

Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.23919/CISTI.2017.7975973
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2-s2.0-85027229319

Part of ISBN: 9789899843479
Part of ISSN: 21660735 21660727
Contributors: Gamarra, M.; Zurek, E.; Juan, H.S.
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Diarylethenes Display In Vitro Anti-TB Activity and Are Efficient Hits Targeting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis HU Protein.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
2017-07-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/molecules22081245
PMID: 28757569
PMC: PMC6151991
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Chikungunya virus: Viral features and genetic evolution,Virus chikungunya: Características virales y evolución genética

Salud Uninorte
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14482/sun.32.2.8834
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2-s2.0-85003591349

Part of ISSN: 20117531 01205552
Contributors: Cervantes-Acosta, G.; Sanjuán-Vergara, H.
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Fatal cases of Chikungunya virus infection in Colombia: Diagnostic and treatment challenges.

Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
2015-05-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.05.021
PMID: 26209372
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Characterization of treatment failure in HIV positive patients in the Colombian Caribbean region,Caracterización del fracaso terapéutico en pacientes VIH positivos en la región del Caribe Colombiano

Colombia Medica
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.25100/cm.v45i4.1566
EID:

2-s2.0-84921927660

Part of ISSN: 16579534 01208322
Contributors: de La Hoz, J.M.; Bolaño, L.; Cárdenas, O.; González, R.; Sabbag, J.; Palacio, L.; Alonso, L.M.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Cervantes-Acosta, G.
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Characterization of treatment failure in HIV positive patients in the Colombian Caribbean region.

Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia)
2014-10-01 | Journal article
PMID: 25767304
PMC: PMC4350381
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Cholesterol-rich microdomains as docking platforms for respiratory syncytial virus in normal human bronchial epithelial cells

Journal of Virology
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00558-12
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2-s2.0-84861308374

Part of ISSN: 0022538X 10985514
Contributors: San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Sampayo-Escobar, V.; Reyes, N.; Cha, B.; Pacheco-Lugo, L.; Wong, T.; Peeples, M.E.; Collins, P.L.; Castaño, M.E.; Mohapatra, S.S.
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Respiratory syncytial virus NS1 protein colocalizes with mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein MAVS following infection.

PloS one
2012-02-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029386
PMID: 22383950
PMC: PMC3288005
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Global health,Salud global

Salud Uninorte
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80053189527

Part of ISSN: 20117531 01205552
Contributors: Sanjuán, H.; Latorre, H.B.; Lechuga, E.N.
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Cholesterol-rich microdomains as docking platforms for respiratory syncytial virus in normal human bronchial epithelial cells.

Journal of virology
2011-11-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.06274-11
PMID: 22090136
PMC: PMC3264380
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Modeling and dynamic control of a bioreactor for glycerin conversion to 1, 3 propanediol

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings
2010 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2009-13043
EID:

2-s2.0-77954246844

Part of ISBN: 9780791843758
Contributors: Villalba, P.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Sanjuan, M.
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Designer monoclonal antibodies as drugs: The state of the art

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.4.3.305
EID:

2-s2.0-46249088950

Part of ISSN: 1744666X
Contributors: Mohapatra, S.; San Juan, H.
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Experimental forms of allergen immunotherapy with modified allergens and adjuvants

Allergens and Allergen Immunotherapy, Fourth Edition
2008 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-58149463805

ISBN: 9781420061987 1420061976 9781420061970
Contributors: Mohapatra, S.S.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.; Wopfner, N.; Ferreira, F.
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Kinetics of African palm olein transesterification with ethanol,Cinética de la transesterificación de la oleína de palma Africana con etanol

Interciencia
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-44949196638

Part of ISSN: 03781844
Contributors: Ávila, A.; Bula, A.; Sanjuán, H.
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Experimental forms of allergen immunotherapy with modified allergens and adjuvants.

Clinical allergy and immunology
2008-01-01 | Journal article
PMID: 18828519
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Erratum: Inhibition of respiratory syncytial virus infection with intranasal siRNA nanoparticles targeting the viral NS1 gene (Nature Medicine (2005) 11 (56-62))

Nature Medicine
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nm0205-233b
EID:

2-s2.0-20044387934

Part of ISSN: 10788956
Contributors: Zhang, W.; Yang, H.; Kong, X.; Mohapatra, S.; San Juan-Vergara, H.; Hellermann, G.; Behera, S.; Singam, R.; Lockey, R.F.; Mohapatra, S.S.
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Attenuation of dengue virus infection by adeno-associated virus-mediated siRNA delivery

Genetic Vaccines and Therapy
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/1479-0556-2-8
EID:

2-s2.0-13444272367

Part of ISSN: 14790556
Contributors: Zhang, W.; Singam, R.; Hellermann, G.; Kong, X.; San Juan, H.; Lockey, R.F.; Wu, S.-J.; Porter, K.; Mohapatra, S.S.
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Inhibition of respiratory syncytial virus infection with intranasal siRNA nanoparticles targeting the viral NS1 gene.

Nature medicine
2004-12-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nm1174
PMID: 15619625
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Protein kinase C-alpha activity is required for respiratory syncytial virus fusion to human bronchial epithelial cells.

Journal of virology
2004-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.24.13717-13726.2004
PMID: 15564481
PMC: PMC533893
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ERK-1/2 activity is required for efficient RSV infection.

FEBS letters
2004-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(04)00002-x
PMID: 14960303
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Mechanism of bronchoprotective effects of a novel natriuretic hormone peptide.

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology
2004-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2003.10.009
PMID: 14713911
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Mite and cockroach proteases activate p44/p42 MAP kinases in human lung epithelial cells

Clinical and Molecular Allergy
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7961-1-1
EID:

2-s2.0-4243120850

Part of ISSN: 14767961
Contributors: Kuderer, N.M.; San-Juan-Vergara, H.G.; Kong, X.; Esch, R.; Lockey, R.F.; Mohapatra, S.S.
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Respiratory syncytial virus infection activates STAT signaling in human epithelial cells.

Biochemical and biophysical research communications
2003-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)01008-8
PMID: 12804610
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Vaccine development against HIV-1: current perspectives and future directions.

Immunologic research
2002-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1385/ir:25:1:53
PMID: 11868934
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Novel immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of allergic diseases

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America
2000 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8561(05)70170-3
EID:

2-s2.0-0033821185

Part of ISSN: 08898561
Contributors: Mohapatra, S.S.; Juan, H.S.
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