Tobias Kollmann MD, PhD

Dr. Kollmann is a Clinician Scientist at Vancouver’s Child & Family Research Institute, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Evaluation Centre; University of British Columbia. Dr. Kollmann directs UBC’s training program in Global Pediatric Infectious Diseases (GpID) and the Vancouver Immune and Vaccine Analysis Research Center (VIVArc). He has received numerous awards, including the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Investigator Award, Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Career Development Award, and the Burroughs Welcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences. His work focuses on the development of the immune system, with the special focus on vaccines for early life.

His publications are as follows:
K. Smolen, C. Ruck, E.S. Fortuno III, K. Ho, P. Dimitriu, W. Mohn, D.P. Speert, P.J. Cooper, M. Esser, T. Goetghebuer, A. Marchant, T.R. Kollmann. Pattern recognition receptor-mediated cytokine response in infants across four continents. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; accepted (D-13-00597R1).
M. Pettengill, S. Robson, M. Tresenriter, J. Millán, A. Usheva, T. Bingham, M. Belderbos, I. Bergelson, S. Burl, B. Kampmann, L. Gelinas, T. Kollmann, L. Bont, O. Levy. Soluble ecto-5?-nucleotidase (5?NT), alkaline phosphatase, and adenosine deaminase (ADA1) activities in neonatal blood favor elevated extracellular adenosine. J. Biol. Chem.; Epub. 2013. PMID: 23897810.
A.M. Sherrid & T.R. Kollmann. Age-dependent Differences in Systemic and Cell-autonomous Immunity to L. monocytogenes. Clinical & Developmental Immunology Epub April 2013. PMID: 23653659.
P. Cho, L. Gelinas, N.P. Corbett, S.J. Tebbutt, S.E. Turvey, E.S. Fortuno III, and T.R. Kollmann. Association of common single nucleotide polymorphisms in innate immune genes with differences in TLR-induced cytokine production in neonates. Genes & Immunity Epub. March 2013. PMID: 23466493.
S. Dobson, S. McNeil, M. Dionne, M. Dawar, G. Ogilvie, M. Krajden, C. Sauvageau, D.W. Scheifele, T.R. Kollmann, S.A. Halperin, J.M. Langley, J.A. Bettinger, J. Singer, D. Money, D. Miller, M. Naus, F. Marra, E. Young. Immunogenicity of 2 doses of human papillomavirus vaccine in younger adolescents versus 3 doses in young women. JAMA 309:1793; 2013. PMID: 22048171.
T.R. Kollmann. Variation between populations in the innate immune response to vaccine adjuvants.Frontiers in Immunology 4:81; 2013. PMID: 23565115.
M. Azad, et al. Gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants: profiles by mode of delivery and infant diet at 4 months. CMAJ 185:385-94; 2013. PMID: 23401405.