Ming O. Li

25.2k citations

124 papers · 18.0k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Immunology top 0.05%
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Immune cells in cancer
- Immune Response and Inflammation
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
Oncology top 0.5%
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- CAR-T cell therapy research

Papers in

Immunology 85
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 50
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 39
- Immune cells in cancer 21
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 14
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways 11
- Immune Response and Inflammation 10
Aging 2

Co-authors: Richard A. Flavell Shomyseh Sanjabi Yisong Y. Wan Soyoung Oh Alexander Y. Rudensky Min Peng Weiming Ouyang Na Yin
Journals: Immunity (16 papers)The Journal of Immunology (7 papers)Nature (6 papers)Science (5 papers)The Journal of Experimental Medicine (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Ming O. Li

120 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Glycolysis fuels phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling to bolster T cell immunity 2021 · 252 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Science
2017 Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
2016 Science
2014 Science
2008 Cell
2007 Immunity
2006 Immunity
2005 Annual Review of Immunology
1996 Nature Medicine

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Co-authorship network

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Targeting glutamine metabolism crosstalk with tumor immune response Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer ·N. Feilberg Jørgensen, Yan Zhao, Wo-Xing-De, Ming O. Li, Guiling Wang	2025	6
2	Immune Regulatory Networks and Therapy of γδ T Cells in Liver Cancer: Recent Trends and Advancements Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology ·Marc Eppler, Marian M. Choy, Ming O. Li, 一夫香村, Yanxi Yu, Elias Lehto, Da Fu, Rui Liao	2024	4
3	SPI1-mediated MIR222HG transcription promotes proneural-to-mesenchymal transition of glioma stem cells and immunosuppressive polarization of macrophages Theranostics ·Fan Yang, Zijie Gao, Jianye Xu, Huizhi Wang, Qindong Guo, Boyan Li, Ming O. Li, Hao Xu, Yanhua Qi, Shulin Zhao, Wei Qiu, Ziwen Pan, Qingtong Wang, Hao Xue, Rongrong Zhao, Xing Guo, Gang Li	2023	31
4	Reprogramming tumour-associated macrophages to outcompete cancer cells Nature ·Xian Zhang, Shun Li, Junko Nishino, H. Mytrang, Liangliang Ji, Chun Chou, Shi Wei, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Jing Zhang, Ting-Wei Hsu, Briana G. Nixon, Ke Xu, Xinxin Wang, Andrea Ballabio, Laura S. Schmidt, W. Marston Linehan, Ming O. Li	2023	77
5	Distinct metabolic requirements regulate B cell activation and germinal center responses Nature Immunology ·Rahul Sharma, Л.Н. Диваева, Priyanka Chowdhury, Keith Conrad Fernandez, Youngjun Kim, Montserrat Cols, Pamela Svenson, Wei-Feng Yen, Wei Hu, Zhong-Min Wang, Sara Violante, Ronan Chaligné, Ming O. Li, Justin R. Cross, Jayanta Chaudhuri	2023	39
6	Effects of Endochondral and Intramembranous Ossification Pathways on Bone Tissue Formation and Vascularization in Human Tissue-Engineered Grafts Cells ·Jonathan Bernhard, Darja Marolt, Ming O. Li, Xavier Monforte, James Ferguson, B. VAN HECKE, Patrick Heimel, 김북원, یلماز بایحان, Andreas Teuschl, Stefan Tangl, Heinz Redl, Gordana Vunjak‐Novakovic	2022	17
7	Cytotoxic granzyme C–expressing ILC1s contribute to antitumor immunity and neonatal autoimmunity Science Immunology ·Briana G. Nixon, Chun Chou, Chirag Krishna, Saïda Dadi, Adam O. Michel, Andrew Cornish, Emily R. Kansler, H. Mytrang, Xinxin Wang, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Christina S. Leslie, Ming O. Li	2022	59
8	Cytotoxic innate lymphoid cells sense cancer cell-expressed interleukin-15 to suppress human and murine malignancies Nature Immunology ·Emily R. Kansler, Saïda Dadi, Chirag Krishna, Briana G. Nixon, Efstathios G. Stamatiades, Ming Liu, Fengshen Kuo, Zhanar Umurzakhova, Xian Zhang, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Kyle A. Blum, Kate Weiss, Ross M. Kedl, Guangwei Cui, Koichi Ikuta, Timothy A. Chan, Christina S. Leslie, A. Ari Hakimi, Ming O. Li	2022	55
9	Glycolysis fuels phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling to bolster T cell immunity Science ·Ke Xu, Na Yin, Min Peng, Efstathios G. Stamatiades, Amy Shyu, Taik Kyun Nam, Xian Zhang, H. Mytrang, Zhaoquan Wang, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Chun Chou, Andrew G. Levine, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Ming O. Li Hit paper breakdown →	2021	252
10	Discovery and biological evaluation of phthalazines as novel non-kinase TGFβ pathway inhibitors European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·Anupreet Kharbanda, Mary Tresgallo, Debasmita Saha, wang suk won, Ke Xu, Ming O. Li, Yuet‐Kin Leung, Brendan Frett, Hongyu Li	2021	2
11	Immunity beyond cancer cells: perspective from tumor tissue Trends in cancer ·Shengyu Gao, Ting-Wei Hsu, Ming O. Li	2021	33
12	Tumor derived UBR5 promotes ovarian cancer growth and metastasis through inducing immunosuppressive macrophages Nature Communications ·Mei Song, Oladapo Yeku, Sarwish Rafiq, Terence J. Purdon, Xue Dong, Lijing Zhu, Tuo Zhang, Huan Wang, 国正佐藤, Junhua Mai, Haifa Shen, Briana G. Nixon, Ming O. Li, Renier J. Brentjens, Xiaojing Ma	2020	111
13	Transcriptomic Profiling of the Tumor Microenvironment Reveals Distinct Subgroups of Clear Cell Renal Cell Cancer: Data from a Randomized Phase III Trial Cancer Discovery ·A. Ari Hakimi, Martin H. Voss, Fengshen Kuo, Alejandro Sánchez, Ming Liu, Briana G. Nixon, Lynda Vuong, Irina Ostrovnaya, Ying‐Bei Chen, Victor E. Reuter, Nadeem Riaz, Yuan Cheng, Parul Patel, Mahtab Marker, Albert Reising, Ming O. Li, Timothy A. Chan, Robert J. Motzer	2019	156
14	Notch ligand Dll1 mediates cross-talk between mammary stem cells and the macrophageal niche Science ·Rumela Chakrabarti, Toni Celià-Terrassa, Sushil Kumar, Xiang Hang, Yong Wei, Abrar Choudhury, Julie Hwang, Peng Jia, Briana G. Nixon, Song-Ro Yoon, Christina J. DeCoste, Jie Gao, Johan H. van Es, Ming O. Li, Iannis Aifantis, Hans Clevers, Yibin Kang	2018	147
15	Endothelial APLNR regulates tissue fatty acid uptake and is essential for apelin’s glucose-lowering effects Science Translational Medicine ·Cheol Hwangbo, Jingxia Wu, Irinna Papangeli, David Lang, Bikram Sharma, Saejeong Park, Lina Zhao, S. D. Orlov, Gwang‐woong Go, Guoliang Cui, Mohammed Inayathullah, S E Katz, Jayakumar Rajadas, Stephanie Kwei, Ming O. Li, Alan Morrison, Thomas Quertermous, Arya Mani, Kristy Red‐Horse, Hyung J. Chun	2017	66
16	Aerobic glycolysis promotes T helper 1 cell differentiation through an epigenetic mechanism Science ·Min Peng, Na Yin, Sagar Chhangawala, Ke Xu, Christina S. Leslie, Ming O. Li Hit paper breakdown →	2016	599
17	Signaling through C5a receptor and C3a receptor diminishes function of murine natural regulatory T cells The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·W. H. Kwan, William van der Touw, Estela Paz‐Artal, Ming O. Li, Peter S. Heeger	2013	179
18	JNK1 Is Essential for CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Tumor Immune Surveillance The Journal of Immunology ·Yunfei Gao, Jian Tao, Ming O. Li, Dongqing Zhang, Hongbo Chi, Octavian Henegariu, Susan M. Kaech, Roger J. Davis, Richard A. Flavell, Zhinan Yin	2005	31
19	TGF-β regulates in vivo expansion of Foxp3-expressing CD4 ⁺ CD25 ⁺ regulatory T cells responsible for protection against diabetes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yufeng Peng, Yasmina Laouar, Ming O. Li, E. Allison Green, Richard A. Flavell	2004	337
20	KSHV antibodies among Americans, Italians and Ugandans with and without Kaposi's sarcoma Nature Medicine ·Shou‐Jiang Gao, Lawrence Kingsley, Ming O. Li, Wei Zheng, Carlo Parravicini, John L. Ziegler, Robert Newton, Charles R. Rinaldo, Alfred J. Saah, John Phair, Roger Detels, Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore Hit paper breakdown →	1996	636

About Ming O. Li

Ming O. Li is a scholar working on Immunology, Aging, Cancer Research, Oncology and Molecular Biology, having authored 124 papers that have together received 18.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (50 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (39 papers), Immune cells in cancer (21 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers), IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways (11 papers), FOXO transcription factor regulation (11 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (10 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (10.8k citations), Oncology (4.6k citations), Cancer Research (1.9k citations), Molecular Biology (5.6k citations) and Immunology and Allergy (401 citations). Ming O. Li has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Richard A. Flavell, Shomyseh Sanjabi, Yisong Y. Wan, Soyoung Oh, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Min Peng, Weiming Ouyang, Na Yin, Ruth A. Franklin and Will Liao. Their work appears in journals such as Immunity, The Journal of Immunology, Nature, Science and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

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