Gangjun Lei

960 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 653 citations indexed

About

Gangjun Lei is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Gangjun Lei has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 653 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Immunology, 12 papers in Oncology and 10 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Gangjun Lei's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (10 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Gangjun Lei is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (10 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Gangjun Lei collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Gangjun Lei's co-authors include H. Kim Lyerly, Zachary C. Hartman, Michael A. Morse, Takuya Osada, Timothy M. Clay, Jun-Ping Wei, Oliver Glass, Xiaoyi Yang, Xiao Yang and Amy Hobeika and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Immunology and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Gangjun Lei

22 papers receiving 645 citations

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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.

Effective extracellular payload release and immunomodulatory interactions govern the therapeutic effect of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd)

2025 29 citations Li-Chung Tsao, John S. Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gangjun Lei United States	14	317	288	273	131	112	23	653
Jinny Kim United Kingdom	6	259 0.8×	181 0.6×	412 1.5×	53 0.4×	139 1.2×	8	640
Victoria A. Brentville United Kingdom	12	267 0.8×	311 1.1×	424 1.6×	54 0.4×	49 0.4×	31	606
Stefanie Loeser Austria	7	301 0.9×	341 1.2×	479 1.8×	89 0.7×	117 1.0×	7	813
Brian J. Czerniecki United States	12	342 1.1×	180 0.6×	413 1.5×	69 0.5×	68 0.6×	23	615
Dahlia M. Besmer United States	11	317 1.0×	397 1.4×	213 0.8×	111 0.8×	80 0.7×	14	679
J Xiang Canada	13	180 0.6×	284 1.0×	186 0.7×	94 0.7×	52 0.5×	31	480
Ingrid Ljuslinder Sweden	17	376 1.2×	402 1.4×	167 0.6×	123 0.9×	66 0.6×	40	800
Ling Tian China	11	189 0.6×	290 1.0×	271 1.0×	61 0.5×	53 0.5×	20	500
Laurie Graham United States	12	211 0.7×	277 1.0×	208 0.8×	53 0.4×	85 0.8×	13	565
Ronald J. Fecek United States	11	176 0.6×	198 0.7×	283 1.0×	63 0.5×	36 0.3×	18	500

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gangjun Lei

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Tsao, Li-Chung, John S. Wang, Simrinder Singh Sodhi, et al.. (2025). Effective extracellular payload release and immunomodulatory interactions govern the therapeutic effect of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd). Nature Communications. 16(1). 3167–3167. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Lei, Gangjun, et al.. (2025). The E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM31 enhances the progression of esophageal cancer through the ubiquitination of BBOX1. Cellular Signalling. 135. 111975–111975.

Wang, Mu‐En, Jun-Ping Wei, Tao Wang, et al.. (2024). Vaccination Against Androgen Receptor Splice Variants to Immunologically Target Prostate Cancer. Vaccines. 12(11). 1273–1273. 3 indexed citations

Trotter, Timothy N., Jun-Ping Wei, Gangjun Lei, et al.. (2024). Overcoming Xenoantigen Immunity to Enable Cellular Tracking and Gene Regulation with Immune-competent “NoGlow” Mice. Cancer Research Communications. 4(4). 1050–1062. 1 indexed citations

Lei, Gangjun, Xiaoyi Yang, Tao Wang, et al.. (2024). Vaccines targeting ESR1 activating mutations elicit anti-tumor immune responses and suppress estrogen signaling in therapy resistant ER+ breast cancer. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 20(1). 2309693–2309693. 6 indexed citations

Trotter, Timothy N., Delila Serra, Tao Wang, et al.. (2023). Dormant tumors circumvent tumor-specific adaptive immunity by establishing a Treg-dominated niche via DKK3. JCI Insight. 8(22). 6 indexed citations

Tsao, Li-Chung, Erika J. Crosby, Timothy N. Trotter, et al.. (2022). Trastuzumab/pertuzumab combination therapy stimulates antitumor responses through complement-dependent cytotoxicity and phagocytosis. JCI Insight. 7(6). 31 indexed citations

Tsao, Li-Chung, Chaitanya R. Acharya, Timothy N. Trotter, et al.. (2022). Sensitizing immune unresponsive colorectal cancers to immune checkpoint inhibitors through MAVS overexpression. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 10(3). e003721–e003721. 12 indexed citations

Trotter, Timothy N., Casey W. Shuptrine, Li-Chung Tsao, et al.. (2020). IL26, a Noncanonical Mediator of DNA Inflammatory Stimulation, Promotes TNBC Engraftment and Progression in Association with Neutrophils. Cancer Research. 80(15). 3088–3100. 23 indexed citations

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Xu, Ren-Huan, Tao Wang, Jun-Ping Wei, et al.. (2020). HER2-LAMP vaccines effectively traffic to endolysosomal compartments and generate enhanced polyfunctional T cell responses that induce complete tumor regression. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 8(1). e000258–e000258. 13 indexed citations

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Tsao, Li-Chung, Erika J. Crosby, Timothy N. Trotter, et al.. (2019). CD47 blockade augmentation of trastuzumab antitumor efficacy dependent on antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis. JCI Insight. 4(24). 83 indexed citations

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Osada, Takuya, Zachary C. Hartman, Jun-Ping Wei, et al.. (2018). Polyfunctional anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 (anti-HER3) antibodies induced by HER3 vaccines have multiple mechanisms of antitumor activity against therapy resistant and triple negative breast cancers. Breast Cancer Research. 20(1). 90–90. 15 indexed citations

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Ren, Xiu-Rong, Jun-Ping Wei, Gangjun Lei, et al.. (2012). Polyclonal HER2-specific antibodies induced by vaccination mediate receptor internalization and degradation in tumor cells. Breast Cancer Research. 14(3). R89–R89. 29 indexed citations

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Hartman, Zachary C., Xiaoyi Yang, Oliver Glass, et al.. (2011). HER2 Overexpression Elicits a Proinflammatory IL-6 Autocrine Signaling Loop That Is Critical for Tumorigenesis. Cancer Research. 71(13). 4380–4391. 111 indexed citations

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Hartman, Zachary C., Jun-Ping Wei, Oliver Glass, et al.. (2011). Increasing vaccine potency through exosome antigen targeting. Vaccine. 29(50). 9361–9367. 157 indexed citations

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Hartman, Zachary C., Takuya Osada, Oliver Glass, et al.. (2010). Ligand-Independent Toll-like Receptor Signals Generated by Ectopic Overexpression of MyD88 Generate Local and Systemic Antitumor Immunity. Cancer Research. 70(18). 7209–7220. 32 indexed citations

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Hartman, Zachary C., Jun-Ping Wei, Takuya Osada, et al.. (2010). An Adenoviral Vaccine Encoding Full-Length Inactivated Human Her2 Exhibits Potent Immunogenicty and Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy without Oncogenicity. Clinical Cancer Research. 16(5). 1466–1477. 21 indexed citations

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Morse, Michael A., Jun-Ping Wei, Zachary C. Hartman, et al.. (2009). Synergism from combined immunologic and pharmacologic inhibition of HER2 in vivo. International Journal of Cancer. 126(12). 2893–2903. 19 indexed citations

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Osada, Takuya, Matthew McKinney, Xiao Yang, et al.. (2009). Induction of Wilms' Tumor Protein (WT1)–Specific Antitumor Immunity Using a Truncated WT1-Expressing Adenovirus Vaccine. Clinical Cancer Research. 15(8). 2789–2796. 13 indexed citations

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Wei, Jun-Ping, Takuya Osada, Xiao Yang, et al.. (2007). Adenovirus-human HER2 vaccine inhibits breast cancer growth and vaccine induced antibodies (VIA) are efficacious against Herceptin-refractory human breast cancer (48.32). The Journal of Immunology. 178(1_Supplement). S81–S81. 1 indexed citations

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