Louis-Marie Yindom

Target Discovery Institute (NDM Research Building), Group: HIV Immunology and Global Health

Expertise: Immunogenetics, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Genetic Epidemiology

Dr Louis-Marie Yindom is an immunogeneticist with interest on diseases affecting humans. Dr Yindom is a Post‐doctoral Research Scientist working in the HIV immunology and Global Health group within the Nuffield Department of Medicine. He completed a PhD, focussing on the immunogenetics of HIV‐2 infection in West Africa, with the Open University in 2010, for work largely carried out in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratories in The Gambia. For the past five years, he has worked as a Post‐doctoral Researcher in Prof Sarah Rowland‐Jones’ Group in Oxford. During his post‐doctoral work, he has continued to develop his interest in immunogenetics and infectious diseases and has published extensively in this area.

Key publications

Yindom LM, James K, de Silva TI1, Rowland-Jones SL. ”A novel KIR3DL1*0150103 subtype identified in West Africa.” Tissue Antigens. 2015 Jul;86(1):70-1. doi: 10.1111/tan.12570. Epub 2015 Apr 27.

Shepherd BL, Ferrand R, Munyati S, Folkard S, Boyd K, Bandason T, Jallow S, Rowland-Jones SL, Yindom LM. “HLA Correlates of Long-Term Survival in Vertically Infected HIV-1-Positive Adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe.” AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2015 May;31(5):504-7. doi: 10.1089/AID.2014.0338. Epub 2015 Feb 9.

Olaniyan SA, Amodu OK, Yindom LM, Conway DJ, Aka P, Bakare AA, Omotade OO. “Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors and falciparum malaria in southwest Nigeria.” Hum Immunol. 2014 Aug; 75(8):816-21. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2014.06.002. Epub 2014 Jun 11.

Rai MA, Zhang Y, Yindom LM, Holmes J, Yu LM, Hao C, Rostron T, Yan H, Zhang YL, Cai C, McMichael AJ, Dong T, Rowland-Jones SL, Blais ME, Xu KY. “HLA correlates in a cohort of slow progressors from China: effects on HIV-1 disease progression.” AIDS. 2013 Nov 13;27(17):2822-4. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000011.

Dr Yindom’s publications can be found here.