Bruce R. Blazar

90.1k total citations · 18 hit papers
843 papers, 58.3k citations indexed

About

Bruce R. Blazar is a scholar working on Immunology, Hematology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce R. Blazar has authored 843 papers receiving a total of 58.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 538 papers in Immunology, 387 papers in Hematology and 202 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Bruce R. Blazar's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (361 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (359 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (291 papers). Bruce R. Blazar is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (361 papers), Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (359 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (291 papers). Bruce R. Blazar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Bruce R. Blazar's co-authors include Angela Panoskaltsis‐Mortari, Daniel J. Weisdorf, Jeffrey S. Miller, John E. Wagner, William J. Murphy, Todd E. DeFor, Patricia A. Taylor, Robert Zeiser, Carl H. June and Jakub Tolar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bruce R. Blazar

825 papers receiving 57.5k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial translocation i... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2006 2010 2005 2002 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Microbial translocation is a cause of systemic immune activation in chronic HIV infection
    2006 2.7k citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  2. Targeting Tim-3 and PD-1 pathways to reverse T cell exhaustion and restore anti-tumor immunity
    2010 1.6k citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
  3. Successful adoptive transfer and in vivo expansion of human haploidentical NK cells in patients with cancer
    2005 1.4k citations Jeffrey S. Miller, Angela Panoskaltsis‐Mortari et al. Blood profile →
  4. The infusion of ex vivo activated and expanded CD4+CD25+ immune regulatory cells inhibits graft-versus-host disease lethality
    2002 849 citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. Blood profile →
  5. Infusion of ex vivo expanded T regulatory cells in adults transplanted with umbilical cord blood: safety profile and detection kinetics
    2010 805 citations Claudio G. Brunstein, Jeffrey S. Miller et al. Blood profile →
  6. Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease — Biologic Process, Prevention, and Therapy
    2017 777 citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  7. Transplantation of unrelated donor umbilical cord blood in 102 patients with malignant and nonmalignant diseases: influence of CD34 cell dose and HLA disparity on treatment-related mortality and survival
    2002 743 citations John E. Wagner, Juliet N. Barker et al. Blood profile →
  8. Rescue of exhausted CD8 T cells by PD-1–targeted therapies is CD28-dependent
    2017 724 citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. Science profile →
  9. IL-2 Receptor β-Dependent STAT5 Activation Is Required for the Development of Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells
    2007 656 citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  10. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells from mouse tumor-draining lymph nodes directly activate mature Tregs via indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
    2007 652 citations Phillip Chandler, Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  11. Advances in graft-versus-host disease biology and therapy
    2012 626 citations Bruce R. Blazar, William J. Murphy et al. profile →
  12. Palifermin for Oral Mucositis after Intensive Therapy for Hematologic Cancers
    2004 606 citations Daniel J. Weisdorf, Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  13. Transplantation of 2 partially HLA-matched umbilical cord blood units to enhance engraftment in adults with hematologic malignancy
    2004 597 citations Juliet N. Barker, Daniel J. Weisdorf et al. Blood profile →
  14. Coexpression of Tim-3 and PD-1 identifies a CD8+ T-cell exhaustion phenotype in mice with disseminated acute myelogenous leukemia
    2011 532 citations David H. Munn, William J. Murphy et al. Blood profile →
  15. Human Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Activated by CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides Induce the Generation of CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells
    2004 509 citations Xueqing Liang, Angela Panoskaltsis‐Mortari et al. profile →
  16. Pathophysiology of Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease and Therapeutic Targets
    2017 445 citations Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  17. Mitochondrial Integrity Regulated by Lipid Metabolism Is a Cell-Intrinsic Checkpoint for Treg Suppressive Function
    2019 301 citations Keli L. Hippen, Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →
  18. The Biology of Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: A Task Force Report from the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
    2016 283 citations Steven Z. Pavletic, Bruce R. Blazar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce R. Blazar United States 119 36.0k 20.2k 16.5k 9.4k 5.0k 843 58.3k
Michael A. Caligiuri United States 108 25.9k 0.7× 9.5k 0.5× 14.0k 0.8× 13.6k 1.4× 3.6k 0.7× 438 46.7k
Arnon Nagler Israel 88 12.6k 0.3× 21.6k 1.1× 12.5k 0.8× 7.8k 0.8× 6.0k 1.2× 1.1k 39.3k
Lorenzo Moretta Italy 128 48.3k 1.3× 6.8k 0.3× 14.2k 0.9× 7.5k 0.8× 6.5k 1.3× 678 60.8k
Jerome Ritz United States 103 19.0k 0.5× 12.9k 0.6× 10.1k 0.6× 6.4k 0.7× 4.8k 1.0× 610 36.4k
Franco Locatelli Italy 88 9.9k 0.3× 12.5k 0.6× 8.4k 0.5× 7.6k 0.8× 8.1k 1.6× 1.0k 33.0k
Alain Fischer France 111 25.9k 0.7× 9.4k 0.5× 7.4k 0.4× 14.3k 1.5× 2.8k 0.6× 706 46.7k
David T. Scadden United States 101 10.4k 0.3× 13.8k 0.7× 10.3k 0.6× 18.7k 2.0× 8.8k 1.8× 389 43.6k
Stephen J. Forman United States 100 9.1k 0.3× 12.3k 0.6× 16.3k 1.0× 8.1k 0.9× 4.5k 0.9× 861 36.2k
Toshio Suda Japan 120 12.0k 0.3× 10.3k 0.5× 17.0k 1.0× 32.9k 3.5× 5.2k 1.0× 730 59.1k
Georg Schett Germany 118 18.0k 0.5× 6.1k 0.3× 8.7k 0.5× 21.6k 2.3× 2.7k 0.5× 1.1k 59.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce R. Blazar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fleming, Ryan, James J. Kaminski, Lida P. Hariri, et al.. (2025). Organ-specific microenvironments drive divergent T cell evolution in acute graft-versus-host disease. Science Translational Medicine. 17(783). eads1298–eads1298. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Stephanie J., Corey Cutler, Steven Z. Pavletic, & Bruce R. Blazar. (2024). Belumosudil for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease after 2 or More Prior Lines of Systemic Therapy: 3-Year Follow-up of the Rockstar Study. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 30(2). S262–S263. 2 indexed citations
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Guan, Xiaoqun, Priya D. Issuree, Peng Shao, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Cell-Intrinsic STAT6 Protein on Donor T Cell-Mediated Graft-Versus-Tumor Effect. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(1). 280–280.
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Le, Catherine T., Cordelia Dunai, Lam T. Khuat, et al.. (2023). Regulation of human and mouse bystander T cell activation responses by PD-1. JCI Insight. 8(18). 6 indexed citations
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Pidala, Joseph, Kelly Walton, Hany Elmariah, et al.. (2021). Pacritinib Combined with Sirolimus and Low-Dose Tacrolimus for GVHD Prevention after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Preclinical and Phase I Trial Results. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(10). 2712–2722. 15 indexed citations
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Furlan, Scott N., Karnail Singh, Christina Lopez, et al.. (2020). IL-2 enhances ex vivo–expanded regulatory T-cell persistence after adoptive transfer. Blood Advances. 4(8). 1594–1605. 30 indexed citations
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Lin, Kaifeng, Danny Bruce, Stephanie A. Montgomery, et al.. (2017). T-cell expression of AhR inhibits the maintenance of pTreg cells in the gastrointestinal tract in acute GVHD. Blood. 130(3). 348–359. 22 indexed citations
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Sarhan, Dhifaf, Frank Cichocki, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2016). Adaptive NK Cells with Low TIGIT Expression Are Inherently Resistant to Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells. Cancer Research. 76(19). 5696–5706. 157 indexed citations
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Brunstein, Claudio G., Jeffrey S. Miller, David H. McKenna, et al.. (2015). Umbilical cord blood–derived T regulatory cells to prevent GVHD: kinetics, toxicity profile, and clinical effect. Blood. 127(8). 1044–1051. 303 indexed citations
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Osborn, Mark J., Richard Gabriel, Beau R. Webber, et al.. (2014). Fanconi Anemia Gene Editing by the CRISPR/Cas9 System. Human Gene Therapy. 26(2). 114–126. 91 indexed citations
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Ding, Zhi-Chun, Xiaoyun Lu, Miao Yu, et al.. (2014). Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells Induced by Chemotherapy Attenuate Antitumor CD4+ T-Cell Responses through the PD-1–PD-L1 Axis. Cancer Research. 74(13). 3441–3453. 109 indexed citations
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Olin, Michael R., Brian M. Andersen, Adam J. Litterman, et al.. (2011). Oxygen Is a Master Regulator of the Immunogenicity of Primary Human Glioma Cells. Cancer Research. 71(21). 6583–6589. 17 indexed citations
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Brunstein, Claudio G., Jeffrey S. Miller, Qing Cao, et al.. (2010). Infusion of ex vivo expanded T regulatory cells in adults transplanted with umbilical cord blood: safety profile and detection kinetics. Blood. 117(3). 1061–1070. 805 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zanin‐Zhorov, Alexandra, Yi Ding, Sudha Kumari, et al.. (2010). Protein Kinase C-θ Mediates Negative Feedback on Regulatory T Cell Function. Science. 328(5976). 372–376. 219 indexed citations
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Tolar, Jakub, Akemi Ishida‐Yamamoto, Megan Riddle, et al.. (2008). Amelioration of epidermolysis bullosa by transfer of wild-type bone marrow cells. Blood. 113(5). 1167–1174. 125 indexed citations
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Serafini, Marta, Scott J. Dylla, Masayuki Oki, et al.. (2007). Hematopoietic reconstitution by multipotent adult progenitor cells: precursors to long-term hematopoietic stem cells. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 204(1). 129–139. 75 indexed citations
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Brunstein, Claudio G., Juliet N. Barker, Daniel J. Weisdorf, et al.. (2007). Umbilical cord blood transplantation after nonmyeloablative conditioning: impact on transplantation outcomes in 110 adults with hematologic disease. Blood. 110(8). 3064–3070. 376 indexed citations
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Yang, Shuxia, Angela Panoskaltsis‐Mortari, David H. Ingbar, et al.. (2000). Cyclophosphamide Prevents Systemic Keratinocyte Growth Factor-induced Up-Regulation of Surfactant Protein A after Allogeneic Transplant in Mice. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 162(5). 1884–1890. 18 indexed citations
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Blazar, Bruce R., Dwain L. Thiele, & Daniel A. Vallera. (1990). Pretreatment of murine donor grafts with L-leucyl-L-leucine methyl ester. Blood. 75(3). 1 indexed citations

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