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Carolina Ilkow, PhD
613-737-8899 ext 75208
cilkow@ohri.ca

E-mail: cilkow@ohri.ca and cilkow@uottawa.ca

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3488-4062

Publications

Selected Publications

1. Jennings VA, Ilkow CS. Generation and Quantification of Cytotoxic Lymphocytes Following Oncolytic Virus Infection of Multi-cellular Tumor Spheroids. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2614:139-149.

2. Whelan JT, Singaravelu R, Wang F, Pelin A, Tamming LA, Pugliese G, Martin NT, Crupi MJF, Petryk J, Austin B, He X, Marius R, Duong J, Jones C, Fekete EEF, Alluqmani N, Chen A, Boulton S, Huh MS, Tang MY, Taha Z, Scut E, Diallo JS, Azad T, Lichty BD, Ilkow CS, Bell JC. CRISPR-mediated rapid arming of poxvirus vectors enables facile generation of the novel immunotherapeutic STINGPOX. Front Immunol. 2023 Jan 13;13:1050250.

3. Moulin C, Crupi MJF, Ilkow CS, Bell JC, Boulton S. Extracellular Vesicles and Viruses: Two Intertwined Entities. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 5;24(2):1036.

4. Lalu MM, Presseau J, Foster MK, Hunniford VT, Cobey KD, Brehaut JC, Ilkow CS, Montroy J,Cardenas A, Sharif A, Jeffers MS, Fergusson DA. Identifying barriers and enablers to rigorous conduct and reporting of preclinical laboratory studies. PLoS Biol. 2023 Jan 5;21(1).

5. Crupi MJF, Taha Z, Janssen TJA, Petryk J, Boulton S, Alluqmani N, Jirovec A, Kassas O, Khan ST, Vallati S, Lee E, Huang BZ, Huh M, Pikor L, He X, Marius R, Austin B, Duong J, Pelin A, Neault S, Azad T, Breitbach CJ, Stojdl DF, Burgess MF, McComb S, Auer R, Diallo J-S, Ilkow CS, Bell JC. Oncolytic virus driven T-cell-based combination immunotherapy platform for colorectal cancer. Front Immunol. 2022 Nov 3;13:1029269.

6. Taha Z, Arulanandam R, Maznyi G, Godbout E, Carter-Timofte ME, Kurmasheva N, Reinert LS, Chen A, Crupi MJF, Boulton S, Laroche G, Phan A, Rezaei R, Alluqmani N, Jirovec A, Acal A, Brown EEF, Singaravelu R, Petryk J, Idorn M, Potts KG, Todesco H, John JC, Mahoney DJ, Ilkow CS, Giguère P, Alain T, Côté M, Paludan SR, Olagnier D, Azad T, Diallo J-S. Identification of FDA-approved bifonazole as a SARS-CoV-2 blocking agent following a bioreporter drug screen. Molecular Therapy. 2022 May 6:S1525-0016(22)00296-9.

7. Wedge ME, Jennings VA, Pugliese G, Poutou J, Crupi MJF, Jamieson TR, Laight BJ, Boileau M, Khan ST, McKay HE, Pikor L, Pelin A, Rose E, Brown E, Crawford N, Tanese de Souza C, Alkayyal A, Surendran A, Singaravelu R, Roy D, Petryk J, Migneco G, McSweeney B, Cottee ML, Jacobus EJ, Keller B, Chatterjee A, Auer RA, Diallo J-S, Gibbings D, tenOever BR, Melcher A, Bell JC, Ilkow CS. “Virally programmed extracellular vesicles sensitize cancer cells to oncolytic virus and small molecule therapy”. Nature Communications, April 2022.

8. Rangsitratkul C, Lawson C, Bernier-Godon F, Niavarani SR, Boudaud M, Rouleau S, Gladu-Corbin AO, Surendran A, Ekindi-Ndongo N, Koti M, Ilkow CS, Richard PO, Tai LH. Intravesical immunotherapy with a GM-CSF armed oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus improves outcome in bladder cancer. Molecular Therapy Oncolytics. 2022 Feb 1;24:507-521.

9. Boulton S, Poutou J, Martin NT, Azad T, Singaravelu R, Crupi MJF, Jamieson T, He X, Marius R, Petryk J, Tanese de Souza C, Austin B, Khan ST, Pelin A, Rezaei R, Surendran A, Tucker S, Brown EMF, Dave J, Diallo J-S, Auer R, Angel JB, Cameron W, Cailhier JF, Lapointe R, Potts K, Mahoney DJ, Bell JC, Ilkow CS. “Single dose replicating poxvirus vector-based RBD vaccine drives robust humoral and T cell immune response against SARS-CoV-2 infection”. Mol Ther. 2022 May 4;30(5):1885-1896.

10. Rezaei R, Surendran A, Singaravelu R, Jamieson TR, Taklifi P, Poutou J, Azad T, Ilkow CS. “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibody using a HiBiT-based bioreporter”. Journal of visualized experiments (JoVE) Published: August 12, 2021.

11. Marchini A, Ilkow CS, and Melcher A. "Oncolytic Virus Immunotherapy".  Cancers 13, no. 15: 3672. July 27, 2021

12. Jamieson TR, Poutou J, Marius R, He X, Rezaei R, Azad T, and Ilkow CS. “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies using high throughput fluorescent imaging of pseudovirus infection”. Journal of visualized experiments (JoVE) Published: June 5, 2021.

13. Azad T, Rezaei R, Singaravelu R, Jamieson TR, Crupi MJF, Surendran A, Poutou J, Taklifi P, Cameron W, Ilkow CS. “A high-throughput NanoBiT-based serological assay detects SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion”. Nanomaterials (Basel). 2021 Mar 22;11(3):807.

14. Azad T, Singaravelu R, Brown EE, Taha Z, Arulanandam R, Boulton S, Diallo J-S, Ilkow CS, Bell JC. “SARS-CoV-2 S1 NanoBiT: a Nanoluciferase complementation-based biosensor to rapidly probe SARS-CoV-2 receptor recognition”. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021 May 15;180:113122.

15. Brown EEF, Rezaei R, Jamieson TR, Dave J, Martin NT, Singaravelu R, Crupi MJF, Boulton S, Tucker S, Duong J, Poutou J, Pelin A, Yasavoli-Sharahi H, Taha Z, Arulanandam R, Surendran A, Ghahremani M, Austin B, Matar C, Diallo J-S, Bell JC, Ilkow CS, Azad T. Characterization of Critical Determinants of ACE2–SARS CoV-2 RBD Interaction. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021; 22(5):2268.

16. Keller BA, Laight BJ, Varette O, Broom A, Wedge MÈ, McSweeney B, Cemeus C, Petryk J, Lo B, Burns B, Nessim C, Ong M, Chica RA, Atkins HL, Diallo JS, Ilkow CS, Bell JC. Personalized oncology and BRAF K601N melanoma: model development, drug discovery, and clinical correlation. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2021 May;147(5):1365-1378.

17. Azad T, Singaravelu R, Taha Z, Jamieson TR, Boulton S, Crupi MJF, Martin NT, Brown EEF, Poutou J, Ghahremani M, Pelin A, Nouri K, Rezaei R, Marshall CB, Enomoto M, Arulanandam R, Alluqmani N, Samson R, Gingras AC, Cameron DW, Greer PA, Ilkow CS, Diallo JS, Bell JC. "Nanoluciferase complementation-based bioreporter reveals the importance of N-linked glycosylation of SARS-CoV-2 S for viral entry". Mol Ther. 2021 Feb 10:S1525-0016(21)00074-5.

All Other Publications

Azad T, Singaravelu R, Crupi MJF, Jamieson T, Dave J, Brown EEF, Rezaei R, Taha Z, Boulton S, Martin NT, Surendran A, Poutou J, Ghahremani M, Nouri K, Whelan JT, Duong J, Tucker S, Diallo J-S, Bell JC and Ilkow CS. “Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Design: Fusion of Spike Glycoprotein Transmembrane Domain to Receptor-Binding Domain Induces Trimerization”. Membranes 2020 Aug 30;10(9):215.

Azad T, Rezaei R, Surendran A, Singaravelu R, Bell JC, Ilkow CS. “Hippo Signaling Pathway: One of the Main Mediator of Receptors Tyrosine Kinases in Tumorigenesis”. Cancers, 2020 Jul 24;12(8):2042.

Jamieson TR, Poutou J, Ilkow CS. “Redirecting oncolytic viruses: Engineering opportunists to take control of the tumour microenvironment”. Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews 2020 Sep 6:S1359-6101(20)30154.

Keller BA, Wedge ME, Surendran A, Ilkow CS. Generating Primary models of Human cancer to Aid in the development of clinically Relevant Oncolytic viruses. Methods Mol. Biol. 2020:2058:271-284.

Fergusson DA, Wesch NL, Leung GJ, MacNeil JL, Conic I, Presseau J, Cobey KD, Diallo J-S, Auer R, Kimmelman J, Kekre N, El-Sayes N, Krishnan R, Keller BA, Ilkow CS, Lalu MM. Assessing the completeness of reporting in preclinical oncolytic virus therapy studies. Molecular Therapy: Oncolytics 2019 May 21;14:179-187.

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