Dr Iart Luca Shytaj
BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Ex Vivo Profiling and Targeting of Metabolic Dysregulation in HIV-1 Infected Lymph Node Organoids
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
01/07/2024 to 30/06/2026
Integrating subcellular multi-omics to identify druggable metabolic markers of latent HIV infection in CD4 T-cells
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
17/06/2024 to 16/06/2027
Establishing a biobank of blood samples from people living with HTLV-1 to assess druggable metabolic determinants of adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
31/03/2024 to 31/03/2027
In vitro study of the role and therapeutic modulation of mitochondrial glutathione in HTLV-1 induced malignancies
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
31/03/2023 to 30/03/2024
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2024Broad-spectrum antiviral activity of two structurally analogous CYP3A inhibitors against pathogenic human coronaviruses in vitro
Antiviral Research
A scalable workflow to test "shock and kill" therapeutic approaches against the HIV-1 latent reservoir in blood cells ex vivo
STAR Protocols
Genomic profiling of HIV-1 integration in microglia links viral insertions to TAD organization
Immunogenicity of personalized dendritic-cell therapy in HIV-1 infected individuals under suppressive antiretroviral treatment
AIDS research and therapy
The FDA-Approved Drug Cobicistat Synergizes with Remdesivir To Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Replication In Vitro and Decreases Viral Titers and Disease Progression in Syrian Hamsters
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