Standout Papers

Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infec... 1998 2026 2007 2016 3.1k
  1. Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection (2005)
    Daniel L. Barber, E. John Wherry et al. Nature
  2. Counting Antigen-Specific CD8 T Cells: A Reevaluation of Bystander Activation during Viral Infection (1998)
    Kaja Murali‐Krishna, John D. Altman et al. Immunity
  3. Viral Immune Evasion Due to Persistence of Activated T Cells Without Effector Function (1998)
    Allan Zajac, Joseph N. Blattman et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  4. Molecular Signature of CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion during Chronic Viral Infection (2007)
    E. John Wherry, Sang‐Jun Ha et al. Immunity
  5. Selective expression of the interleukin 7 receptor identifies effector CD8 T cells that give rise to long-lived memory cells (2003)
    Susan M. Kaech, Joyce T. Tan et al. Nature Immunology
  6. Lineage relationship and protective immunity of memory CD8 T cell subsets (2003)
    E. John Wherry, Volker Teichgräber et al. Nature Immunology
  7. Effector and memory T-cell differentiation: implications for vaccine development (2002)
    Susan M. Kaech, E. John Wherry et al. Nature reviews. Immunology
  8. Immunological Memory and Protective Immunity: Understanding Their Relation (1996)
    Rafi Ahmed, David Gray Science
  9. Defining CD8+ T cells that provide the proliferative burst after PD-1 therapy (2016)
    Se Jin Im, Masao Hashimoto et al. Nature
  10. Viral Persistence Alters CD8 T-Cell Immunodominance and Tissue Distribution and Results in Distinct Stages of Functional Impairment (2003)
    E. John Wherry, Joseph N. Blattman et al. Journal of Virology
  11. mTOR regulates memory CD8 T-cell differentiation (2009)
    Koichi Araki, Alexandra P. Turner et al. Nature
  12. The function of programmed cell death 1 and its ligands in regulating autoimmunity and infection (2007)
    Arlene H. Sharpe, E. John Wherry et al. Nature Immunology
  13. Molecular Signature of CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion during Chronic Viral Infection (2007)
    E. John Wherry, Sang‐Jun Ha et al. Immunity
  14. Memory CD8+ T cell differentiation: initial antigen encounter triggers a developmental program in naïve cells (2001)
    Susan M. Kaech, Rafi Ahmed Nature Immunology
  15. Effector and memory CD8+ T cell fate coupled by T-bet and eomesodermin (2005)
    Andrew M. Intlekofer, Naofumi Takemoto et al. Nature Immunology
  16. Humoral Immunity Due to Long-Lived Plasma Cells (1998)
    Mark K. Slifka, Rustom Antia et al. Immunity
  17. Systems biology approach predicts immunogenicity of the yellow fever vaccine in humans (2008)
    Troy D. Querec, Rama Akondy et al. Nature Immunology
  18. Molecular and Functional Profiling of Memory CD8 T Cell Differentiation (2002)
    Susan M. Kaech, Scott E. Hemby et al. Cell
  19. Redefining Chronic Viral Infection (2009)
    Herbert W. Virgin, E. John Wherry et al. Cell
  20. Rapid cloning of high-affinity human monoclonal antibodies against influenza virus (2008)
    Jens Wrammert, Kenneth G. C. Smith et al. Nature
  21. Immunological mechanisms of vaccination (2011)
    Bali Pulendran, Rafi Ahmed Nature Immunology
  22. Rescue of exhausted CD8 T cells by PD-1–targeted therapies is CD28-dependent (2017)
    Alice O. Kamphorst, Andreas Wieland et al. Science
  23. Memory CD8 T-Cell Differentiation during Viral Infection (2004)
    E. John Wherry, Rafi Ahmed Journal of Virology
  24. Selection of genetic variants of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in spleens of persistently infected mice. Role in suppression of cytotoxic T lymphocyte response and viral persistence. (1984)
    Rafi Ahmed, A. Salmi et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  25. Similarities and differences in CD4+ and CD8+ effector and memory T cell generation (2003)
    Robert A. Seder, Rafi Ahmed Nature Immunology
  26. Cooperation of Tim-3 and PD-1 in CD8 T-cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection (2010)
    Ana C. Anderson, Wendy G. Tan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  27. Persistence of Memory CD8 T Cells in MHC Class I-Deficient Mice (1999)
    Kaja Murali‐Krishna, Lisa L. Lau et al. Science
  28. Enhancing SIV-specific immunity in vivo by PD-1 blockade (2008)
    Vijayakumar Velu, Kehmia Titanji et al. Nature
  29. Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells in Primary and Secondary Influenza Pneumonia (1998)
    Kirsten J. Flynn, Gabrielle T. Belz et al. Immunity
  30. Systems biology of vaccination for seasonal influenza in humans (2011)
    Helder I. Nakaya, Jens Wrammert et al. Nature Immunology
  31. Interleukin 15 Is Required for Proliferative Renewal of Virus-specific Memory CD8 T Cells (2002)
    Todd C. Becker, E. John Wherry et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  32. Proliferation of PD-1+ CD8 T cells in peripheral blood after PD-1–targeted therapy in lung cancer patients (2017)
    Alice O. Kamphorst, Rathi N. Pillai et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  33. Cytotoxic T-cell memory without antigen (1994)
    Lisa L. Lau, Beth D. Jamieson et al. Nature
  34. Cutting Edge: Long-Term B Cell Memory in Humans after Smallpox Vaccination (2003)
    Shane Crotty, Phil Felgner et al. The Journal of Immunology
  35. Molecular signatures of antibody responses derived from a systems biology study of five human vaccines (2013)
    Shuzhao Li, Nadine Rouphael et al. Nature Immunology
  36. CD8 T Cell Exhaustion in Chronic Infection and Cancer: Opportunities for Interventions (2018)
    Masao Hashimoto, Alice O. Kamphorst et al. Annual Review of Medicine
  37. Immune function in mice lacking the perforin gene. (1994)
    Craig M. Walsh, Mehrdad Matloubian et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  38. Human antibody responses after dengue virus infection are highly cross-reactive to Zika virus (2016)
    Lalita Priyamvada, Kendra M. Quicke et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  39. Proliferating Transitory T Cells with an Effector-like Transcriptional Signature Emerge from PD-1+ Stem-like CD8+ T Cells during Chronic Infection (2019)
    William Henry Hudson, Masao Hashimoto et al. Immunity
  40. IgG antibodies to dengue enhanced for FcγRIIIA binding determine disease severity (2017)
    Taia T. Wang, Jaturong Sewatanon et al. Science
  41. Functional HPV-specific PD-1+ stem-like CD8 T cells in head and neck cancer (2021)
    Christiane S. Eberhardt, Haydn Kissick et al. Nature

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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rafi Ahmed 54620 14826 9838 17073 463 74.6k
Antonio Lanzavecchia 57125 9519 8013 12823 346 76.1k
Giorgio Trinchieri 46473 10147 4790 11447 431 66.6k
Ralph M. Steinman 72468 7177 4723 13598 375 88.7k
Rolf M. Zinkernagel 35209 8621 5876 6195 400 50.3k
E. John Wherry 42913 8545 4958 20172 270 57.6k
Jacques Banchereau 61797 6994 3629 14797 475 79.5k
Federica Sallusto 40897 7063 5015 10043 239 54.6k
Andrew J. McMichael 33384 11801 8276 4636 469 48.8k
Robert C. Gallo 34821 13204 18284 10601 693 76.1k
Gordon J. Freeman 53470 6730 2913 37868 418 81.0k

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