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Fiachra Emanuel Humphries PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentMedicine
Phone508-856-6940
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentMedicine
    DivisionInnate Immunity

    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentNeuroNexus Institute

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentBiochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentCancer Biology

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentImmunology and Microbiology Program

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Program

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentMD/PhD Program

    InstitutionMorningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    DepartmentNeuroscience


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    National University of Ireland, Maynooth, KLDARE, IrelandBSBiotechnology
    National University of Ireland, Maynooth, KLDARE, IrelandPHDImmunology

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    1. Shmuel-Galia L, Jiang Z, Stine L, Cahill S, Ng SL, Wilson R, Kandasamy RK, Kurt-Jones EA, Ramanjulu JM, Bertin J, Kasparcova V, Pesiridis GS, Fitzgerald KA, Humphries F. Alternative cGAS signaling promotes herpes simplex encephalitis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jun 03; 122(22):e2423873122. PMID: 40424128.
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    2. Cahill S, Humphries F. Inflammasomopathies: mechanisms and disease signatures. Trends Immunol. 2025 May; 46(5):372-385. PMID: 40263090.
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    3. Tse-Kang SY, Wani KA, Peterson ND, Page A, Humphries F, Pukkila-Worley R. Intestinal immunity in C.?elegans is activated by pathogen effector-triggered aggregation of the guard protein TIR-1 on lysosome-related organelles. Immunity. 2024 10 08; 57(10):2280-2295.e6. PMID: 39299238.
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    4. Stine L, Humphries F. Gasdermin D palmitoylation: to cleave or not to cleave? Trends Immunol. 2024 Jun; 45(6):403-405. PMID: 38760304.
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    5. Chen Y, Lei X, Jiang Z, Humphries F, Parsi KM, Mustone NJ, Ramos I, Mutetwa T, Fernandez-Sesma A, Maehr R, Caffrey DR, Fitzgerald KA. Cellular nucleic acid-binding protein restricts SARS-CoV-2 by regulating interferon and disrupting RNA-protein condensates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Nov 21; 120(47):e2308355120. PMID: 37963251.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    6. Humphries F. cGAS-like receptors: back to the future. Trends Immunol. 2023 Oct; 44(10):760-762. PMID: 37718174.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    
    7. Barasa L, Chaudhuri S, Zhou JY, Jiang Z, Choudhary S, Green RM, Wiggin E, Cameron M, Humphries F, Fitzgerald KA, Thompson PR. Development of LB244, an Irreversible STING Antagonist. J Am Chem Soc. 2023 09 20; 145(37):20273-20288. PMID: 37695732.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Humphries F, Shmuel-Galia L, Jiang Z, Zhou JY, Barasa L, Mondal S, Wilson R, Sultana N, Shaffer SA, Ng SL, Pesiridis GS, Thompson PR, Fitzgerald KA. Targeting STING oligomerization with small-molecule inhibitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 08 15; 120(33):e2305420120. PMID: 37549268.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    9. Shmuel-Galia L, Humphries F, Vierbuchen T, Jiang Z, Santos N, Johnson J, Shklyar B, Joannas L, Mustone N, Sherman S, Ward D, Houghton J, Baer CE, O'Hara A, Henao-Mejia J, Hoebe K, Fitzgerald KA. The lncRNA HOXA11os regulates mitochondrial function in myeloid cells to maintain intestinal homeostasis. Cell Metab. 2023 08 08; 35(8):1441-1456.e9. PMID: 37494932.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Sciaudone A, Corkrey H, Humphries F, Koupenova M. Platelets and SARS-CoV-2 During COVID-19: Immunity, Thrombosis, and Beyond. Circ Res. 2023 05 12; 132(10):1272-1289. PMID: 37167360.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Hariharan VN, Shin M, Chang CW, O'Reilly D, Biscans A, Yamada K, Guo Z, Somasundaran M, Tang Q, Monopoli K, Krishnamurthy PM, Devi G, McHugh N, Cooper DA, Echeverria D, Cruz J, Chan IL, Liu P, Lim SY, McConnell J, Singh SP, Hildebrand S, Sousa J, Davis SM, Kennedy Z, Ferguson C, Godinho BMDC, Thillier Y, Caiazzi J, Ly S, Muhuri M, Kelly K, Humphries F, Cousineau A, Parsi KM, Li Q, Wang Y, Maehr R, Gao G, Korkin D, McDougall WM, Finberg RW, Fitzgerald KA, Wang JP, Watts JK, Khvorova A. Divalent siRNAs are bioavailable in the lung and efficiently block SARS-CoV-2 infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 03 14; 120(11):e2219523120. PMID: 36893269.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    12. Humphries F. Biochemical Methods for Assessing Gasdermin D Inactivation in Macrophages. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2641:125-133. PMID: 37074646.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Cells
    13. Li Q, Humphries F, Girardin RC, Wallace A, Ejemel M, Amcheslavsky A, McMahon CT, Schiller ZA, Ma Z, Cruz J, Dupuis AP, Payne AF, Maryam A, Yilmaz NK, McDonough KA, Pierce BG, Schiffer CA, Kruse AC, Klempner MS, Cavacini LA, Fitzgerald KA, Wang Y. Mucosal nanobody IgA as inhalable and affordable prophylactic and therapeutic treatment against SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:995412. PMID: 36172366.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    14. Fitzgerald K, Chen Y, Lei X, Jiang Z, Humphries F, Mustone N, Ramos I, Mutetwa T, Fernandez-Sesma A. CNBP restricts SARS-CoV2 by regulating IFN and disrupting RNA-protein condensates. Res Sq. 2022 May 02. PMID: 35547851.
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    15. Humphries F, Fitzgerald KA. Igniting the firestorm: The inflammasome in autoinflammatory syndromes. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 12; 148(6):1470-1472. PMID: 34403657.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    16. Shmuel-Galia L, Humphries F, Lei X, Ceglia S, Wilson R, Jiang Z, Ketelut-Carneiro N, Foley SE, Pechhold S, Houghton J, Muneeruddin K, Shaffer SA, McCormick BA, Reboldi A, Ward D, Marshak-Rothstein A, Fitzgerald KA. Dysbiosis exacerbates colitis by promoting ubiquitination and accumulation of the innate immune adaptor STING in myeloid cells. Immunity. 2021 06 08; 54(6):1137-1153.e8. PMID: 34051146.
      Citations: 24     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    17. Humphries F, Fitzgerald KA. Loosening the grip on nuclear cGAS. Nat Genet. 2020 12; 52(12):1269-1270. PMID: 33230301.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Cells
    18. Humphries F, Shmuel-Galia L, Ketelut-Carneiro N, Li S, Wang B, Nemmara VV, Wilson R, Jiang Z, Khalighinejad F, Muneeruddin K, Shaffer SA, Dutta R, Ionete C, Pesiridis S, Yang S, Thompson PR, Fitzgerald KA. Succination inactivates gasdermin D and blocks pyroptosis. Science. 2020 09 25; 369(6511):1633-1637. PMID: 32820063.
      Citations: 198     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    19. Humphries F, Fitzgerald KA. hnRNPA2B1: Fueling Antiviral Immunity from the Nucleus. Mol Cell. 2019 10 03; 76(1):8-10. PMID: 31585104.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Cells
    20. Humphries F, Fitzgerald KA. Assembling the Inflammasome, Piece by Piece. J Immunol. 2019 09 01; 203(5):1093-1094. PMID: 31427397.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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