Jun Lai

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Jun Lai is a scholar working on Virology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jun Lai has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Virology, 23 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Jun Lai's work include HIV Research and Treatment (27 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (17 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (14 papers). Jun Lai is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (27 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (17 papers) and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (14 papers). Jun Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Jun Lai's co-authors include Robert F. Siliciano, Janet D. Siliciano, Joel N. Blankson, Ya‐Chi Ho, Sarah B. Laskey, Daniel I. S. Rosenbloom, Liang Shan, Nina N. Hosmane, Jeffrey Wang and King‐Wai Yau and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jun Lai

33 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Replication-Competent Noninduced Proviruses in the Latent Reservoir Increase Barrier to HIV-1 Cure

2013 1.0k citations Ya‐Chi Ho, Liang Shan et al. Cell profile →
Defective proviruses rapidly accumulate during acute HIV-1 infection

2016 515 citations Katherine M. Bruner, Alexandra J. Murray et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jun Lai United States	22	2.8k	2.0k	940	584	499	37	3.3k
Arne Schneidewind United States	16	1.4k 0.5×	544 0.3×	1.3k 1.4×	295 0.5×	365 0.7×	24	2.1k
Sajal K. Ghosh United States	17	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	935 1.0×	638 1.1×	541 1.1×	31	3.5k
Zene Matsuda Japan	24	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	402 0.4×	458 0.8×	689 1.4×	47	2.3k
Charmagne Cayanan United States	11	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 2.0×	499 0.9×	773 1.5×	13	3.5k
Lisa A. Chakrabarti France	30	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	896 1.5×	453 0.9×	59	3.0k
Yong‐Hui Zheng United States	33	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	850 0.9×	862 1.5×	1.0k 2.0×	82	3.0k
Velpandi Ayyavoo United States	27	1.4k 0.5×	721 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	434 0.7×	951 1.9×	85	2.5k
Stephen W. Wietgrefe United States	22	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	706 1.2×	447 0.9×	32	3.5k
Åsa Öhagen United States	18	1.9k 0.7×	934 0.5×	745 0.8×	484 0.8×	688 1.4×	26	2.5k
Vito G. Sasseville United States	18	2.7k 1.0×	894 0.5×	2.0k 2.1×	799 1.4×	454 0.9×	30	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jun Lai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jun Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jun Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jun Lai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jun Lai. Jun Lai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lai, Jun, et al.. (2025). Age-dependent interaction between serum zinc and triglyceride-glucose index among American adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Frontiers in Nutrition. 11. 1475204–1475204.

Yang, Xueying, Junjun Zhou, Yonggeun Hong, et al.. (2025). Histone deacetylases 10 as a prognostic biomarker correlates with tumor microenvironment and therapy response in colorectal cancer. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 31(26). 108662–108662.

Wu, Fengting, Srona Sengupta, Francesco R. Simonetti, et al.. (2024). Bispecific antibodies promote natural killer cell-mediated elimination of HIV-1 reservoir cells. Nature Immunology. 25(3). 462–470. 17 indexed citations

Dragoni, Filippo, Fengting Wu, Jun Lai, et al.. (2024). Cognate antigen engagement induces HIV-1 expression in latently infected CD4+ T cells from people on long-term antiretroviral therapy. Immunity. 57(12). 2928–2944.e6. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Fengting, et al.. (2024). CD4+ T cells with latent HIV-1 have reduced proliferative responses to T cell receptor stimulation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(3). 7 indexed citations

White, Jennifer A., Francesco R. Simonetti, Subul Beg, et al.. (2022). Complex decay dynamics of HIV virions, intact and defective proviruses, and 2LTR circles following initiation of antiretroviral therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 52 indexed citations

Simonetti, Francesco R., Hao Zhang, Kyle Rhodehouse, et al.. (2020). Antigen-driven clonal selection shapes the persistence of HIV-1–infected CD4+ T cells in vivo. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(3). 100 indexed citations

Prodger, Jessica L., Adam A. Capoferri, Katherine Yu, et al.. (2020). Reduced HIV-1 latent reservoir outgrowth and distinct immune correlates among women in Rakai, Uganda. JCI Insight. 5(14). 24 indexed citations

Timmons, Andrew E., Emily J. Fray, Mithra R. Kumar, et al.. (2020). HSF1 inhibition attenuates HIV-1 latency reversal mediated by several candidate LRAs In Vitro and Ex Vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(27). 15763–15771. 25 indexed citations

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Peluso, Michael J., Peter Bacchetti, Kristen D. Ritter, et al.. (2020). Differential decay of intact and defective proviral DNA in HIV-1–infected individuals on suppressive antiretroviral therapy. JCI Insight. 5(4). 124 indexed citations

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Rosenbloom, Daniel I. S., Peter Bacchetti, Mars Stone, et al.. (2019). Assessing intra-lab precision and inter-lab repeatability of outgrowth assays of HIV-1 latent reservoir size. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006849–e1006849. 17 indexed citations

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Poon, Art F. Y., Jessica L. Prodger, Jun Lai, et al.. (2018). Quantitation of the latent HIV-1 reservoir from the sequence diversity in viral outgrowth assays. Retrovirology. 15(1). 47–47. 5 indexed citations

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Salantes, D. Brenda, Yu Zheng, Subul Beg, et al.. (2018). HIV-1 latent reservoir size and diversity are stable following brief treatment interruption. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 128(7). 3102–3115. 73 indexed citations

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Bruner, Katherine M., Alexandra J. Murray, Ross A. Pollack, et al.. (2016). Defective proviruses rapidly accumulate during acute HIV-1 infection. Nature Medicine. 22(9). 1043–1049. 515 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ho, Ya‐Chi, Liang Shan, Nina N. Hosmane, et al.. (2013). Replication-Competent Noninduced Proviruses in the Latent Reservoir Increase Barrier to HIV-1 Cure. Cell. 155(3). 540–551. 1013 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laird, Gregory M., Evelyn E. Eisele, S. Alireza Rabi, et al.. (2013). Rapid Quantification of the Latent Reservoir for HIV-1 Using a Viral Outgrowth Assay. PLoS Pathogens. 9(5). e1003398–e1003398. 180 indexed citations

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Jilek, Benjamin L., Melissa Zarr, Maame Efua Sampah, et al.. (2012). A quantitative basis for antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection. Nature Medicine. 18(3). 446–451. 118 indexed citations

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Durand, Christine M., Gabriel Ghiaur, Janet D. Siliciano, et al.. (2012). HIV-1 DNA Is Detected in Bone Marrow Populations Containing CD4+ T Cells but Is not Found in Purified CD34+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells in Most Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 205(6). 1014–1018. 82 indexed citations

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Siliciano, Janet D., Jun Lai, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2007). Stability of the Latent Reservoir for HIV‐1 in Patients Receiving Valproic Acid. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 195(6). 833–836. 141 indexed citations

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Reisert, Johannes, Jun Lai, King‐Wai Yau, & Jonathan Bradley. (2005). Mechanism of the Excitatory Cl− Response in Mouse Olfactory Receptor Neurons. Neuron. 45(4). 553–561. 138 indexed citations

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