Rachel Higgins
Rachel Higgins
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Senior Research Assistant
Research area
Infection, Immunity and Global Health
Group
New Vaccines
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Rachel Higgins is a Senior Research Assistant in the Vaccine Immunology Group. Her research primarily focuses on pneumococcal reduced vaccine schedules to improve affordability and vaccine uptake in low to middle-income countries. Rachel specialises in Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) as well as Opsonophagocytosis assays (OPA). She has been involved in several pneumococcal vaccine clinical trials as well as SARS-CoV-2 research.
Rachel Higgins is a Senior Research Assistant in the Vaccine Immunology Group. Her research primarily focuses on pneumococcal reduced vaccine schedules to improve affordability and vaccine uptake in low to middle-income countries. Rachel specialises...
Rachel Higgins is a Senior Research Assistant in the Vaccine Immunology Group. Her research primarily focuses on pneumococcal reduced vaccine schedules to improve affordability and vaccine uptake in low to middle-income countries. Rachel specialises in Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) as well as Opsonophagocytosis assays (OPA). She has been involved in several pneumococcal vaccine clinical trials as well as SARS-CoV-2 research.
Top Publications
- Higgins, RA, Temple, B, Dai, VTT, Phan, TV, Toan, NT, Spry, L, Toh, ZQ, Nation, ML, Ortika, BD, Uyen, DY, et al. IMMUNOGENICITY AND IMPACT ON NASOPHARYNGEAL CARRIAGE OF A SINGLE DOSE OF PCV10 GIVEN TO VIETNAMESE CHILDREN AT 18 MONTHS OF AGE.. Lancet Reg Health West Pac 16: 100273 2021 view publication
- Licciardi, PV, Temple, B, Dai, VTT, Toan, NT, Uyen, D, Nguyen, CD, Phan, TV, Bright, K, Marimla, RA, Balloch, A, et al. Immunogenicity of alternative ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedules in infants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: results from a single-blind, parallel-group, open-label, randomised, controlled trial.. Lancet Infect Dis 21(10) : 1415 -1428 2021 view publication
- Temple, B, Toan, NT, Dai, VTT, Bright, K, Licciardi, PV, Marimla, RA, Nguyen, CD, Uyen, DY, Balloch, A, Huu, TN, et al. Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of ten-valent versus 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines among infants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a randomised controlled trial.. Lancet Infect Dis 19(5) : 497 -509 2019 view publication
- Balloch, A, Roalfe, L, Ekstrom, N, Nguyen, CD, Spry, L, Marimla, RA, Licciardi, PV, Goldblatt, D, Mulholland, EK. Interlaboratory Comparison of the Pneumococcal Multiplex Opsonophagocytic Assays and Their Level of Agreement for Determination of Antibody Function in Pediatric Sera.. mSphere 3(2) : 2018 view publication
- Burton, RL, Kim, HW, Lee, S, Kim, H, Seok, J-H, Lee, SH, Balloch, A, Licciardi, P, Marimla, R, Bae, S, et al. Creation, characterization, and assignment of opsonic values for a new pneumococcal OPA calibration serum panel (Ewha QC sera panel A) for 13 serotypes.. Medicine (Baltimore) 97(17) : e0567 2018 view publication
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