Brian T. Fife

8.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
73 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Brian T. Fife is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian T. Fife has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Immunology, 25 papers in Oncology and 19 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Brian T. Fife's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (36 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (34 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers). Brian T. Fife is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (36 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (34 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers). Brian T. Fife collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Brian T. Fife's co-authors include Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Kristen E. Pauken, William J. Karpus, Qizhi Tang, Miyuki Azuma, Tijana Martinov, Matthew F. Krummel, Biao Hu, William A. Kuziel and Todd N. Eagar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Brian T. Fife

72 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Control of peripheral T‐cell tolerance and autoimmunity via the CTLA‐4 and PD‐1 pathways

2008 791 citations Brian T. Fife, Jeffrey A. Bluestone profile →
Visualizing regulatory T cell control of autoimmune responses in nonobese diabetic mice

2005 627 citations Qizhi Tang, Brian T. Fife et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Interactions between PD-1 and PD-L1 promote tolerance by blocking the TCR–induced stop signal

2009 599 citations Brian T. Fife, Kristen E. Pauken et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian T. Fife United States	34	4.6k	2.3k	979	974	711	73	6.7k
Joanna R. Groom Australia	34	5.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	601 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	842 1.2×	63	7.5k
Xuyu Zhou China	26	5.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	689 0.7×	981 1.0×	337 0.5×	64	6.4k
Benoı̂t L. Salomon France	45	8.7k 1.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	877 1.2×	87	10.9k
Kajsa Wing Sweden	23	6.2k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	642 0.7×	773 0.8×	330 0.5×	34	7.8k
Marcel Batten Australia	25	3.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	601 0.6×	712 0.7×	469 0.7×	40	5.5k
Kristen E. Pauken United States	27	5.4k 1.2×	4.5k 2.0×	565 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	443 0.6×	39	8.0k
C. Garrison Fathman United States	45	5.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	656 0.9×	112	7.4k
Zvi Granot Israel	33	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	410 0.4×	1.9k 1.9×	654 0.9×	58	5.5k
Eliane Piaggio France	30	2.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	684 0.7×	659 0.7×	335 0.5×	74	4.0k
Rhodri Ceredig Switzerland	49	5.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	441 0.5×	1.7k 1.7×	729 1.0×	176	8.0k

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Meier, Raphaël, Moufida Ben Nasr, Brian T. Fife, et al.. (2025). Best practices in islet transplantation in mice. American Journal of Transplantation. 25(7). 1399–1409.

Shepherd, Frances K., Clayton K. Mickelson, Jessica K. Fiege, et al.. (2024). Tropism for ciliated cells is the dominant driver of influenza viral burst size in the human airway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(31). e2320303121–e2320303121. 8 indexed citations

Spanier, Justin A., Vivian Fung, Yixin Chen, et al.. (2023). Insulin B peptide-MHC class II-specific chimeric antigen receptor-Tregs prevent autoimmune diabetes in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(18). 33 indexed citations

Williams, Jesse W., Konstantin Zaitsev, Ki-Wook Kim, et al.. (2020). Limited proliferation capacity of aortic intima resident macrophages requires monocyte recruitment for atherosclerotic plaque progression. Nature Immunology. 21(10). 1194–1204. 138 indexed citations

Withers, Sita S., Hong Chang, Justin A. Spanier, et al.. (2020). Development of canine PD-1/PD-L1 specific monoclonal antibodies and amplification of canine T cell function. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235518–e0235518. 30 indexed citations

Kotov, Dmitri I., Jason S. Mitchell, Thomas Pengo, et al.. (2019). TCR Affinity Biases Th Cell Differentiation by Regulating CD25, Eef1e1, and Gbp2. The Journal of Immunology. 202(9). 2535–2545. 49 indexed citations

Fiege, Jessica K., Rebekah E. Dumm, Brian T. Fife, et al.. (2019). Long-term surviving influenza infected cells evade CD8+ T cell mediated clearance. PLoS Pathogens. 15(9). e1008077–e1008077. 22 indexed citations

Shen, Jingjing, Clifford M. Csizmar, Katherine A. Murphy, et al.. (2018). Eradication of Established Tumors by Chemically Self-Assembled Nanoring Labeled T Cells. ACS Nano. 12(7). 6563–6576. 24 indexed citations

Schuldt, Nathaniel J., Jennifer L. Auger, Justin A. Spanier, et al.. (2017). Cutting Edge: Dual TCRα Expression Poses an Autoimmune Hazard by Limiting Regulatory T Cell Generation. The Journal of Immunology. 199(1). 33–38. 19 indexed citations

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Spanier, Justin A., Joseph Wilson, Tijana Martinov, et al.. (2017). Increased Effector Memory Insulin-Specific CD4+ T Cells Correlate With Insulin Autoantibodies in Patients With Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes. 66(12). 3051–3060. 38 indexed citations

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Kalekar, Lokesh A., Sarada L. Nandiwada, Wing Y. Lam, et al.. (2016). CD4+ T cell anergy prevents autoimmunity and generates regulatory T cell precursors. Nature Immunology. 17(3). 304–314. 171 indexed citations

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Pauken, Kristen E., Christine E Nelson, Tijana Martinov, et al.. (2015). Cutting Edge: Identification of Autoreactive CD4+ and CD8+ T Cell Subsets Resistant to PD-1 Pathway Blockade. The Journal of Immunology. 194(8). 3551–3555. 37 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ryan, Daniel Beisang, Noah Tubo, et al.. (2014). T Cell Receptor Cross-Reactivity between Similar Foreign and Self Peptides Influences Naive Cell Population Size and Autoimmunity. Immunity. 42(1). 95–107. 124 indexed citations

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Pauken, Kristen E., Jonathan L. Linehan, Justin A. Spanier, et al.. (2013). Cutting Edge: Type 1 Diabetes Occurs despite Robust Anergy among Endogenous Insulin-Specific CD4 T Cells in NOD Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 191(10). 4913–4917. 40 indexed citations

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Catron, Drew M., Kathryn A. Pape, Brian T. Fife, Nico van Rooijen, & Marc K. Jenkins. (2010). A Protease-Dependent Mechanism for Initiating T-Dependent B Cell Responses to Large Particulate Antigens. The Journal of Immunology. 184(7). 3609–3617. 33 indexed citations

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Melton, Andrew C., Samantha L. Bailey-Bucktrout, Mark A. Travis, et al.. (2010). Expression of αvβ8 integrin on dendritic cells regulates Th17 cell development and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 120(12). 4436–4444. 101 indexed citations

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Habicht, Antje, Shirine Dada, Mollie Jurewicz, et al.. (2007). A Link between PDL1 and T Regulatory Cells in Fetomaternal Tolerance. The Journal of Immunology. 179(8). 5211–5219. 124 indexed citations

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Fife, Brian T., Indira Guleria, Melanie Gubbels Bupp, et al.. (2006). Insulin-induced remission in new-onset NOD mice is maintained by the PD-1–PD-L1 pathway. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(12). 2737–2747. 265 indexed citations

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Fife, Brian T.. (2006). Inhibition of T cell activation and autoimmune diabetes using a B cell surface-linked CTLA-4 agonist. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 116(8). 2252–2261. 58 indexed citations

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Fife, Brian T., Mary Paniagua, Nicholas W. Lukacs, Steven L. Kunkel, & William J. Karpus. (2001). Selective CC chemokine receptor expression by central nervous system‐infiltrating encephalitogenic T cells during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 66(4). 705–714. 43 indexed citations

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