M. Gordon Joyce, PhD
Chief, Structural Biology
PhD U of Leicester, UK; B.Sc. (Hons) U of Galway, Ireland
Dr. Joyce uses structural biology to focus on structure-based vaccine design, small molecule inhibitor design, and viral antigen-antibody structures. His group utilizes X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to study and understand immune responses and vaccine-host-virus interactions, leveraging this information to develop medical countermeasures. Most recently, the group has focused on the design and development of a protective pan-sarbecovirus vaccine, and understanding the development of broadly protective immune responses following infection or vaccination.
| Shark nanobodies with potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing activity and broad sarbecovirus reactivity. Chen WH, Hajduczki A, Martinez EJ, Bai H, Matz H, Hill TM, Lewitus E, Chang WC, Dawit L, Peterson CE, Rees PA, Ajayi AB, Golub ES, Swafford I, Dussupt V, David S, Mayer SV, Soman S, Kuklis C, Corbitt C, King J, Choe M, Sankhala RS, Thomas PV, Zemil M, Wieczorek L, Hart T, Duso D, Kummer L, Yan L, Sterling SL, Laing ED, Broder CC, Williams JK, Davidson E, Doranz BJ, Krebs SJ, Polonis VR, Paquin-Proulx D, Rolland M, Reiley WW, Gromowski GD, Modjarrad K, Dooley H, Joyce MG. Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 3;14(1):580. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36106-x. PMID: 36737435. |
| Prefusion coronavirus spike proteins and their use. WO2018/081318 A1, Oct 25, 2016. US Patent 10,960,070 (Mar 30, 2021), US Patent 11964010 (Apr 23, 2024), US Patent 11,964,010 (May 8, 2024). |
| SARS-CoV-2 recombinant spike ferritin nanoparticle vaccine adjuvanted with Army Liposome Formulation containing monophosphoryl lipid A and QS-21: a phase 1, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, first-in-human clinical trial. Ober Shepherd BL, Scott PT, Hutter JN, Lee C, McCauley MD, Guzman I, Bryant C, McGuire S, Kennedy J, Chen WH, Hajduczki A, Mdluli T, Valencia-Ruiz A, Amare MF, Matyas GR, Rao M, Rolland M, Mascola JR, De Rosa SC, McElrath MJ, Montefiori DC, Serebryannyy L, McDermott AB, Peel SA, Collins ND, Joyce MG., Robb ML, Michael NL, Vasan S, Modjarrad K; EID-030 Study Group. Lancet Microbe. 2024 Jun;5(6):e581-e593. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00410-X. Epub 2024 May 15. PMID: 38761816. |
| Joyce MG., King HAD, Elakhal-Naouar I, Ahmed A, Peachman KK, Macedo Cincotta C, Subra C, Chen RE, Thomas PV, Chen WH, Sankhala RS, Hajduczki A, Martinez EJ, Peterson CE, Chang WC, Choe M, Smith C, Lee PJ, Headley JA, Taddese MG, Elyard HA, Cook A, Anderson A, McGuckin Wuertz K, Dong M, Swafford I, Case JB, Currier JR, Lal KG, Molnar S, Nair MS, Dussupt V, Daye SP, Zeng X, Barkei EK, Staples HM, Alfson K, Carrion R, Krebs SJ, Paquin-Proulx D, Karasavva N, Polonis VR, Jagodzinski LL, Amare MF, Vasan S, Scott PT, Huang Y, Ho DD, de Val N, Diamond MS, Lewis MG, Rao M, Matyas GR, Gromowski GD, Peel SA, Michael NL, Bolton DL, Modjarrad K. A SARS-CoV-2 ferritin nanoparticle vaccine elicits protective immune responses in nonhuman primates. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Feb 16;14(632):eabi5735. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abi5735. Epub 2022 Feb 16. PMID: 34914540. |
| Joyce MG., Wheatley AK, Thomas PV, Chuang GY, Soto C, Bailer RT, Druz A, Georgiev IS, Gillespie RA, Kanekiyo M, Kong WP, Leung K, Narpala SN, Prabhakaran MS, Yang ES, Zhang B, Zhang Y, Asokan M, Boyington JC, Bylund T, Darko S, Lees CR, Ransier A, Shen CH, Wang L, Whittle JR, Wu X, Yassine HM, Santos C, Matsuoka Y, Tsybovsky Y, Baxa U; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program; Mullikin JC, Subbarao K, Douek DC, Graham BS, Koup RA, Ledgerwood JE, Roederer M, Shapiro L, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, McDermott AB. Vaccine-Induced Antibodies that Neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses. Cell. 2016 Jul 28;166(3):609-623. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.043. Epub 2016 Jul 21. PMID: 27453470; PMCID: PMC4978566. |
| Joyce MG., Zhang B, Ou L, Chen M, Chuang GY, Druz A, Kong WP, Lai YT, Rundlet EJ, Tsybovsky Y, Yang Y, Georgiev IS, Guttman M, Lees CR, Pancera M, Sastry M, Soto C, Stewart-Jones GBE, Thomas PV, Van Galen JG, Baxa U, Lee KK, Mascola JR, Graham BS, Kwong PD. Iterative structure-based improvement of a fusion-glycoprotein vaccine against RSV. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2016 Sep;23(9):811-820. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.3267. Epub 2016 Aug 1. PMID: 27478931; PMCID: PMC5016229. |
| McLellan JS, Chen M, Joyce MG., Sastry M, Stewart-Jones GB, Yang Y, Zhang B, Chen L, Srivatsan S, Zheng A, Zhou T, Graepel KW, Kumar A, Moin S, Boyington JC, Chuang GY, Soto C, Baxa U, Bakker AQ, Spits H, Beaumont T, Zheng Z, Xia N, Ko SY, Todd JP, Rao S, Graham BS, Kwong PD. Structure-based design of a fusion glycoprotein vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158): |
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Institution Affiliations
Chief, Structural Biologist, in support of the VDP and MHRP, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)