Email

neima.briggs@bcm.edu

Positions

MD/PhD Candidate

The National School of Tropical Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Laboratory of Peter Hotez, MD, PhD

MD/PhD Candidate

Immunology
UTHealth & MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas United States
Laboratory of Jagannadha Sastry, PhD

Addresses

TX Childs Feigin Ctr (Office)

Room: TXFC-C.550
Houston, TX 77030
United States

TX Childs Feigin Ctr (Lab)

Room: TXFC-C.550
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

BS from The University of Texas at Austin

05/2011 - Austin, Texas United States

Biology Honors

MD from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

05/2019 - Houston, Texas United States

Global Health Scholarly Concentration

PhD from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

06/2018 - Houston, Texas United States

Immunology

Graduate Certificate at Baylor College of Medicine, National School of Tropical Medicine

04/2018 - Houston, Texas United States

Diploma of Tropical Medicine

Honors & Awards

Fulbright Fellow and Research Scholar

Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública

Benjamin H. Kean Fellow in Tropical Medicine

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Dean's Scholars Honors Program

University of Texas at Austin

Investing in Students Future Scholarship

GSBS

Websites

Videos

Selected Publications

• Briggs N*, Zhan B*, Beaumier CM*, Jones KM, Keegan BP, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ. "Advancing a multivalent 'Pan-anthelmintic' vaccine against soil-transmitted nematode infections.." Expert Rev Vaccines. 2014 Mar;13(3):321-333. Pubmed PMID: 24392641
• Chen X, Briggs N, McLain JR, Ellington AD. "Stacking nonenzymatic circuits for high signal gain.." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 2;110(14):5386-91. Pubmed PMID: 23509255
• Rushworth D, Jena B, Olivares S, Maiti S, Briggs N, Somanchi S, Dai J, Lee D, Cooper LJ. "Universal artificial antigen presenting cells to selectively propagate T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptor independent of specificity.." J Immunother. 2014 May;37(4):204-13. Pubmed PMID: 24714354
• Briggs N, Weatherhead J, Sastry J, and Hotez PJ "The Hygiene Hypothesis and Its Inconvenient Truths about Helminth Infections." 2016 Sep 15; Pubmed PMID: 27632204

Memberships

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine

Member

The American Association of Immunologists

Member

The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Member

The American Physician Scientists Association

Member

The Fulbright Association

Member

Funding

NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award - #5TL1TR000369-09

(12/01/2015 Grant funding from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Graduate Research Grant

Houston Global Health Collaborative

Languages

Spanish