Aaron J. Wilk

18.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Aaron J. Wilk is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron J. Wilk has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Aaron J. Wilk's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Aaron J. Wilk is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Aaron J. Wilk collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Croatia. Aaron J. Wilk's co-authors include Catherine A. Blish, Rosemary Vergara, Thanmayi Ranganath, Angela J. Rogers, Jonasel Roque, Philip Grant, Giovanny J. Martínez-Colón, Julia L. McKechnie, Aruna Subramanian and Nancy Q. Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aaron J. Wilk

10 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

A single-cell atlas of the peripheral immune response in ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 250 500 750
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A single-cell atlas of the peripheral immune response in patients with severe COVID-19
    2020 915 citations Aaron J. Wilk, Arjun Rustagi et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers

Aaron J. Wilk
Rosemary Vergara United States
Arjun Rustagi United States
Lennart Koepke Germany
Lei Lei China
Nicole A. P. Lieberman United States
Cyril Planchais France
Kuan-Hsuan Chen Taiwan
María Rosa López‐Huertas Spain
Dalila Mele Italy
Kailang Wu China
Rosemary Vergara United States
Aaron J. Wilk
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron J. Wilk

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All Works

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Lee, Madeline J., Aaron J. Wilk, Andra L. Blomkalns, et al.. (2025). Interferon-mediated NK cell activation increases cytolytic activity against T follicular helper cells and limits antibody response to SARS-CoV-2. Nature Immunology. 26(12). 2201–2217.
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Lee, Madeline J., Trisha R. Barnard, Nicole H. Tobin, et al.. (2024). NK Cell–Monocyte Cross-talk Underlies NK Cell Activation in Severe COVID-19. The Journal of Immunology. 212(11). 1693–1705. 5 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Susan Canny, Thanmayi Ranganath, et al.. (2024). Premature skewing of T cell receptor clonality and delayed memory expansion in HIV-exposed infants. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4080–4080. 2 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Samuel W. Kazer, Ira Fleming, et al.. (2024). Pro-inflammatory feedback loops define immune responses to pathogenic Lentivirus infection. Genome Medicine. 16(1). 24–24. 1 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Alex K. Shalek, Susan Holmes, & Catherine A. Blish. (2023). Comparative analysis of cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution. Nature Biotechnology. 42(3). 470–483. 60 indexed citations
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Ratnasiri, Kalani, Aaron J. Wilk, Madeline J. Lee, Purvesh Khatri, & Catherine A. Blish. (2022). Single-cell RNA-seq methods to interrogate virus-host interactions. Seminars in Immunopathology. 45(1). 71–89. 31 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Nicholas M. Riley, Jessica C. Stark, et al.. (2021). Synthetic Siglec-9 Agonists Inhibit Neutrophil Activation Associated with COVID-19. ACS Central Science. 7(4). 650–657. 51 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Rosemary Vergara, Ole Audun Werner Haabeth, et al.. (2020). Charge-altering releasable transporters enable phenotypic manipulation of natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy. Blood Advances. 4(17). 4244–4255. 58 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Arjun Rustagi, Nancy Q. Zhao, et al.. (2020). A single-cell atlas of the peripheral immune response in patients with severe COVID-19. Nature Medicine. 26(7). 1070–1076. 915 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wilk, Aaron J. & Catherine A. Blish. (2018). Diversification of human NK cells: Lessons from deep profiling. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 103(4). 629–641. 29 indexed citations
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Wilk, Aaron J., Erich V. Scheller, Qing Chen, et al.. (2017). Bordetella PlrSR regulatory system controls BvgAS activity and virulence in the lower respiratory tract. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(8). E1519–E1527. 26 indexed citations

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