Bita Sahaf

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Bita Sahaf is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bita Sahaf has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Immunology, 26 papers in Oncology and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bita Sahaf's work include CAR-T cell therapy research (24 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (14 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Bita Sahaf is often cited by papers focused on CAR-T cell therapy research (24 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (14 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Bita Sahaf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Taiwan. Bita Sahaf's co-authors include Leonore A. Herzenberg, Leonard A. Herzenberg, Anders Rosén, David B. Miklos, David R. Parks, Kartoosh Heydari, Mario Roederer, Omar D. Perez, Anita Söderberg and Carol D. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bita Sahaf

58 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Risk of Second Tumors and T-Cell Lymphoma after CAR T-Cell Therapy

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bita Sahaf United States	25	1.2k	994	507	387	316	67	2.8k
Ali Bettaı̈eb France	39	2.2k 1.8×	727 0.7×	733 1.4×	665 1.7×	170 0.5×	132	4.0k
Jeff Holst Australia	37	3.0k 2.4×	827 0.8×	987 1.9×	191 0.5×	218 0.7×	79	4.8k
Rubén Pı́o Spain	44	2.8k 2.3×	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 2.6×	208 0.5×	167 0.5×	132	5.7k
Wolfram E. Samlowski United States	34	1.5k 1.2×	848 0.9×	1.6k 3.1×	239 0.6×	145 0.5×	154	3.7k
Alan J. Schroit United States	36	3.2k 2.7×	1.7k 1.7×	421 0.8×	711 1.8×	261 0.8×	63	5.4k
Martijn F.B.G. Gebbink Netherlands	34	2.4k 2.0×	770 0.8×	424 0.8×	506 1.3×	69 0.2×	60	4.0k
Mamoru Harada Japan	37	1.2k 1.0×	2.0k 2.0×	1.4k 2.9×	320 0.8×	106 0.3×	165	3.6k
Anping Li China	35	2.7k 2.2×	1.2k 1.2×	1.9k 3.7×	161 0.4×	227 0.7×	54	4.9k
James W. Jacobberger United States	35	2.0k 1.6×	563 0.6×	769 1.5×	274 0.7×	82 0.3×	103	3.4k

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Sahaf, Bita, Lekha Mikkilineni, Sebastian Fernandez‐Pol, et al.. (2025). Fatal recurrence of IEC-HS after autologous stem cell boost in patients receiving BCMA-CAR T-cell therapy. Blood Advances. 9(15). 3832–3836.

Srinagesh, Hrishikesh K., Anne Marijn Kramer, John H. Baird, et al.. (2025). Clinical and Cytokine Features of Immune Effector Cell–Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis–Like Syndrome. Blood Cancer Discovery. 7(2). 225–233.

Hosoya, Hitomi, Sebastian Fernandez‐Pol, John Gubatan, et al.. (2025). Long-term follow-up of gastrointestinal CAR T-cell lymphoma: homing, clonal expansion, and response to cyclosporine. Blood. 147(11). 1191–1198.

Kennedy, Vanessa E., Bita Sahaf, Fang Wu, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Clinical Outcomes and B Cell Immune Reconstitution Following Allo-HCT With Prophylactic, Post-Transplant Rituximab. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 30(5). 518.e1–518.e13. 1 indexed citations

Goyal, Anmol, Dasom Lee, Eric S. H. Lau, et al.. (2023). Impact of Obesity on Efficacy, Safety, and Expansion Kinetics of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T (CAR T) Therapy in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Large B Cell Lymphoma (LBCL). Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 3783–3783.

Lo, Yu‐Chen, Timothy Keyes, Astraea Jager, et al.. (2022). CytofIn enables integrated analysis of public mass cytometry datasets using generalized anchors. Nature Communications. 13(1). 934–934. 11 indexed citations

Domizi, Pablo, Jolanda Sarno, Astraea Jager, et al.. (2021). Ikaros Mediates Antigen Escape Following CD19 CAR T Cell Therapy in r/r B-ALL. Blood. 138(Supplement 1). 613–613. 6 indexed citations

Hartmann, Felix J., Joël Babdor, Pier Federico Gherardini, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive Immune Monitoring of Clinical Trials to Advance Human Immunotherapy. Cell Reports. 28(3). 819–831.e4. 72 indexed citations

Good, Zinaida, Luciene Borges, Bita Sahaf, et al.. (2019). Proliferation tracing with single-cell mass cytometry optimizes generation of stem cell memory-like T cells. Nature Biotechnology. 37(3). 259–266. 38 indexed citations

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Hossain, Nasheed, Bita Sahaf, Jay Y. Spiegel, et al.. (2018). Phase I Experience with a Bi-Specific CAR Targeting CD19 and CD22 in Adults with B-Cell Malignancies. Blood. 132(Supplement 1). 490–490. 48 indexed citations

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Johnston, Laura, Randall Armstrong, Jeanette Baker, et al.. (2016). A Phase I Study of Donor Regulatory T Cells As Treatment for Steroid Dependent/Refractory Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease. Blood. 128(22). 385–385. 7 indexed citations

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Nakasone, Hideki, Mats Remberger, Lü Tian, et al.. (2015). Risks and benefits of sex-mismatched hematopoietic cell transplantation differ according to conditioning strategy. Haematologica. 100(11). 1477–1485. 35 indexed citations

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Nakasone, Hideki, Bita Sahaf, & David B. Miklos. (2015). Therapeutic benefits targeting B-cells in chronic graft-versus-host disease. International Journal of Hematology. 101(5). 438–451. 22 indexed citations

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Boyd, Scott D., Bruno Gaëta, Katherine Jackson, et al.. (2010). Individual Variation in the Germline Ig Gene Repertoire Inferred from Variable Region Gene Rearrangements. The Journal of Immunology. 184(12). 6986–6992. 184 indexed citations

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Sahaf, Bita, Kondala R. Atkuri, Kartoosh Heydari, et al.. (2008). Culturing of human peripheral blood cells reveals unsuspected lymphocyte responses relevant to HIV disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(13). 5111–5116. 33 indexed citations

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Tung, James W., Kartoosh Heydari, Bita Sahaf, et al.. (2007). Modern Flow Cytometry: A Practical Approach. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine. 27(3). 453–468. 151 indexed citations

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Sahaf, Bita, Kartoosh Heydari, Leonard A. Herzenberg, & Leonore A. Herzenberg. (2004). The extracellular microenvironment plays a key role in regulating the redox status of cell surface proteins in HIV-infected subjects. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 434(1). 26–32. 64 indexed citations

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Herzenberg, Leonard A., David R. Parks, Bita Sahaf, et al.. (2002). The History and Future of the Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter and Flow Cytometry: A View from Stanford. Clinical Chemistry. 48(10). 1819–1827. 405 indexed citations

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Sahaf, Bita, Anita Söderberg, Christina Ekerfelt, Staffan Paulie, & Anders Rosén. (2002). Enzyme-Linked Immunospot Assay for Detection of Thioredoxin and Thioredoxin Reductase Secretion from Cells. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 353. 22–35. 12 indexed citations

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Söderberg, Anita, Bita Sahaf, Arne Holmgren, & Anders Rosén. (1998). Monoclonal Antibodies to Human Thioredoxin Reductase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 249(1). 86–89. 12 indexed citations

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