Ben Youngblood

11.2k citations

77 papers · 6.3k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Immunology top 0.2%
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Immune cells in cancer
Oncology top 0.5%
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Papers in

Immunology 59
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 54
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 33
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 25
- Immune cells in cancer 6
Virology 5
- HIV Research and Treatment 5

Co-authors: Rafi Ahmed Hazem E. Ghoneim Yiping Fan Hossam A. Abdelsamed Koichi Araki J. Scott Hale Pranay Dogra Caitlin C. Zebley
Journals: The Journal of Immunology (11 papers)Immunity (5 papers)Trends in Immunology (4 papers)Cell Reports (3 papers)Nature (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Australia

In The Last Decade

Ben Youngblood

72 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Functional T cells are capable of supernumerary cell division and longevity 2023 · 111 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature
2019 Nature
2019 Nature reviews. Immunology
2017 Cell

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1	Pyruvate kinase M2 activation reprograms mitochondria in CD8 T cells, enhancing effector functions and efficacy of anti-PD1 therapy Cell Metabolism ·Seyedeh Sahar Mortazavi Farsani, Jigar Y. Soni, Jin Lu, Anil Kumar Yadav, Shivani Bansal, Tian Mi, Leena Hilakivi‐Clarke, Robert Clarke, Ben Youngblood, Amrita K. Cheema, Vivek Verma	2025	11
2	Innate-like memory T cells rapidly emerge in humans after gene therapy for SCID-X1 Immunity ·Anoop Babu Vasandan, Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Shannon K. Boi, Grace Ward, Shanta Alli, Tian Mi, Xin Lan, Xusheng Zhang, Morton J. Cowan, Jennifer M. Puck, Aleksandra Petrović, David J. Rawlings, Albert E Zhou, Ewelina Mamcarz, Stephen Gottschalk, Caitlin C. Zebley, Ben Youngblood	2025	0
3	T-cell receptor/CD28-targeted immunotherapeutics selectively drive naive T-cell expansion to generate functional HIV-specific responses Journal of Virology ·April L. Mueller, Sara Lamcaj, S. Garforth, Christopher Hiner, Darien Woodley, Kitt Paraiso, Mi Tian, Simon Low, Ben Youngblood, Steven C. Almo, Harris Goldstein	2025	0
4	Conserved epigenetic hallmarks of T cell aging during immunity and malignancy Nature Aging ·Mi Tian, Andrew G. Soerens, Shanta Alli, Tae Gun Kang, Anoop Babu Vasandan, Zhaoming Wang, Vaiva Vezys, Shunsuke Kimura, Ilaria Iacobucci, Stephen B. Baylin, Peter A. Jones, Christopher Hiner, April L. Mueller, Harris Goldstein, Charles G. Mullighan, Caitlin C. Zebley, David Masopust, Ben Youngblood	2024	15
5	Chronic viral infection alters PD-1 locus subnuclear localization in cytotoxic CD8+ T cells Cell Reports ·Catarina Sacristán, Ben Youngblood, Peiyuan Lu, Alexander P. R. Bally, Jean Xu, Katelyn McGary, Susannah L. Hewitt, Jeremy M. Boss, Jane A. Skok, Rafi Ahmed, Michael L. Dustin	2024	1
6	Functional T cells are capable of supernumerary cell division and longevity Nature ·Andrew G. Soerens, Marco Künzli, Clare F. Quarnstrom, Milcah C. Scott, Lee Swanson, JJ. Locquiao, Hazem E. Ghoneim, Dietmar Zehn, Ben Youngblood, Vaiva Vezys, David Masopust Hit paper breakdown →	2023	111
7	Antigen cross-presentation in young tumor-bearing hosts promotes CD8 ⁺ T cell terminal differentiation Science Immunology ·Ardiana Moustaki, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Shanta Alli, Yiping Fan, Shannon K. Boi, Anthony E. Zamora, Natalie McDonald, Gang Wu, Joy Nakitandwe, Scott Newman, Scott G. Foy, Antonina Silkov, Paul G. Thomas, Alberto S. Pappo, Michael A. Dyer, Elizabeth Stewart, Sara M. Federico, Ben Youngblood	2022	12
8	Mechanisms of T cell exhaustion guiding next-generation immunotherapy Trends in cancer ·Caitlin C. Zebley, Ben Youngblood	2022	36
9	A Future Outlook on Molecular Mechanisms of Immunity Trends in Immunology ·Amy S. Weinmann, Ben Youngblood, Stephen T. Smale, Robert Brink, David G. Schatz, Michael G. McHeyzer‐Williams	2020	1
10	Rewriting History: Epigenetic Reprogramming of CD8+ T Cell Differentiation to Enhance Immunotherapy Trends in Immunology ·Caitlin C. Zebley, Stephen Gottschalk, Ben Youngblood	2020	47
11	Pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia generate abundant and functional neoantigen-specific CD8 ⁺ T cell responses Science Translational Medicine ·Anthony E. Zamora, Jeremy Chase Crawford, E. Kaitlynn Allen, Xi-zhi J. Guo, Jesse Bakke, Robert Carter, Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Ardiana Moustaki, Yongjin Li, Ti‐Cheng Chang, Walid Awad, Mari Dallas, Charles G. Mullighan, James R. Downing, Terrence L. Geiger, Taosheng Chen, Douglas R. Green, Ben Youngblood, Jinghui Zhang, Paul G. Thomas	2019	59
12	Stem, Effector, and Hybrid States of Memory CD8+ T Cells Trends in Immunology ·Enrico Lugli, Giovanni Galletti, Shannon K. Boi, Ben Youngblood	2019	70
13	Maintenance of PD‐1 on brain‐resident memory CD8 T cells is antigen independent Immunology and Cell Biology ·Shwetank, Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Elizabeth L. Frost, Heather Schmitz, Taryn E. Mockus, Ben Youngblood, Aron E. Lukacher	2017	57
14	Demethylation of the PD-1 Promoter Is Imprinted during the Effector Phase of CD8 T Cell Exhaustion Journal of Virology ·Eunseon Ahn, Ben Youngblood, Junghwa Lee, Judong Lee, Surojit Sarkar, Rafi Ahmed	2016	73
15	Using epigenetics to define vaccine-induced memory T cells Current Opinion in Virology ·Ben Youngblood, J. Scott Hale, Rama Akondy	2013	13
16	CIITA promoter I CARD-deficient mice express functional MHC class II genes in myeloid and lymphoid compartments Genes and Immunity ·Wendy M. Zinzow-Kramer, Alyssa B. Long, Ben Youngblood, Kristen Rosenthal, R C Butler, A-U-R Mohammed, Ioanna Skountzou, Rizwan Ahmed, Brian D. Evavold, Jeremy M. Boss	2012	12
17	Tight Regulation of Memory CD8+ T Cells Limits Their Effectiveness during Sustained High Viral Load Immunity ·Erin E. West, Ben Youngblood, Wendy G. Tan, Hyun‐Tak Jin, Koichi Araki, Gabriela Alexe, Bogumila T. Konieczny, Silvia Calpe, Gordon J. Freeman, Cox Terhorst, W. Nicholas Haining, Rafi Ahmed	2011	111
18	Making memories that last a lifetime: heritable functions of self-renewing memory CD8 T cells International Immunology ·Ben Youngblood, Carl W. Davis, Rafi Ahmed	2010	34
19	The role of mTOR in memory CD8⁺ T‐cell differentiation Immunological Reviews ·Koichi Araki, Ben Youngblood, Rafi Ahmed	2010	146
20	Residues Distal from the Active Site that Alter Enzyme Function in M.HhaI DNA Cytosine Methyltransferase Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics ·Vyas Sharma, Ben Youngblood, Norbert O. Reich	2005	11

About Ben Youngblood

Ben Youngblood is a scholar working on Immunology, Virology, Oncology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, having authored 77 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (54 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (33 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (25 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (23 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (14 papers), Immune cells in cancer (6 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (4.4k citations), Oncology (2.8k citations), Virology (257 citations), Molecular Biology (1.7k citations) and Transplantation (56 citations). Ben Youngblood has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Rafi Ahmed, Hazem E. Ghoneim, Yiping Fan, Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Koichi Araki, J. Scott Hale, Pranay Dogra, Caitlin C. Zebley, Dietmar Zehn and Jeremy M. Boss. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Immunology, Immunity, Trends in Immunology, Cell Reports and Nature.

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