Payal Watchmaker

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Payal Watchmaker is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Payal Watchmaker has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Immunology, 9 papers in Oncology and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Payal Watchmaker's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (10 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (8 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers). Payal Watchmaker is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (10 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (8 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers). Payal Watchmaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Slovakia. Payal Watchmaker's co-authors include Hideho Okada, Gary Kohanbash, Diego Carrera, Paweł Kaliński, Manish K. Aghi, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Sören Müller, Siyuan Liu, Daniel A. Lim and Martina Malatesta and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Payal Watchmaker

18 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Single-cell profiling of human gliomas reveals macrophage ontogeny as a basis for regional differences in macrophage activation in the tumor microenvironment

2017 434 citations Sören Müller, Gary Kohanbash et al. Genome biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Payal Watchmaker United States	8	841	357	353	339	190	20	1.2k
Paul R. Gielen Netherlands	9	741 0.9×	455 1.3×	501 1.4×	143 0.4×	115 0.6×	11	1.2k
Susanne Unger Germany	14	705 0.8×	199 0.6×	193 0.5×	253 0.7×	72 0.4×	27	996
Tina Verschuere Belgium	17	641 0.8×	307 0.9×	404 1.1×	273 0.8×	82 0.4×	21	1.0k
Erika Falisi Italy	9	1.2k 1.4×	217 0.6×	560 1.6×	87 0.3×	79 0.4×	10	1.3k
Jie Qing Chen United States	8	481 0.6×	257 0.7×	637 1.8×	305 0.9×	83 0.4×	15	994
David Foulad United States	13	371 0.4×	414 1.2×	481 1.4×	113 0.3×	80 0.4×	17	1.0k
Selena Lorrey United States	9	320 0.4×	230 0.6×	373 1.1×	159 0.5×	62 0.3×	17	718
Po Y. Ho United States	7	855 1.0×	337 0.9×	391 1.1×	54 0.2×	71 0.4×	17	1.2k
Jaebok Choi United States	17	573 0.7×	326 0.9×	209 0.6×	150 0.4×	35 0.2×	41	1.3k
Susan Togher United States	10	1.0k 1.2×	604 1.7×	613 1.7×	77 0.2×	106 0.6×	10	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Payal Watchmaker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hatae, Ryusuke, Payal Watchmaker, Akane Yamamichi, et al.. (2025). Comparative evaluation of CAR-expressing T-, NK-, NKT-cells, and macrophages in an immunocompetent mouse glioma model. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 7(1). vdaf074–vdaf074. 3 indexed citations

Watchmaker, Payal, Ryusuke Hatae, Akane Yamamichi, et al.. (2025). Abstract 6104: Comparative evaluation of CAR-expressing T-, NK-, NKT-cells and macrophages in an immunocompetent mouse glioma model. Cancer Research. 85(8_Supplement_1). 6104–6104. 1 indexed citations

Simic, Milos, Payal Watchmaker, Haoyu Long, et al.. (2024). DIPG-15. NOVEL CNS SENSING SYNNOTCH-CAR T CELLS FOR TARGETING DIFFUSE MIDLINE GLIOMA. Neuro-Oncology. 26(Supplement_4). 0–0. 1 indexed citations

Nejo, Takahide, Saritha Krishna, Akane Yamamichi, et al.. (2023). 956 Glioma-neuronal circuit remodeling induces regional immunosuppression. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. A1062–A1063. 1 indexed citations

Nejo, Takahide, Saritha Krishna, Akane Yamamichi, et al.. (2023). CNSC-06. REDIRECTING IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE GLIOMA MICROENVIRONMENT THROUGH PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION TARGETING NEURONAL ACTIVITY. Neuro-Oncology. 25(Supplement_5). v23–v23.

Simic, Milos, Payal Watchmaker, Akane Yamamichi, et al.. (2023). 277 SynNotch-CAR T cells demonstrate potent anti-tumor efficacy in a preclinical immunocompetent mouse model for glioblastoma. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. A317–A317. 1 indexed citations

Shin, Jaehoon, Matthew F.L. Parker, Iowis Zhu, et al.. (2022). Antigen-Dependent Inducible T-Cell Reporter System for PET Imaging of Breast Cancer and Glioblastoma. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 64(1). 137–144. 7 indexed citations

Simic, Milos, et al.. (2022). IMMU-14. SynNotch chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells as a potential treatment for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/diffuse midline glioma (DMG). Neuro-Oncology. 24(Supplement_1). i84–i84.

Watchmaker, Payal, et al.. (2022). Future development of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies for patients suffering from malignant glioma. Current Opinion in Oncology. 34(6). 661–669. 2 indexed citations

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Okada, Kaori, Andrea Nguyen, Payal Watchmaker, et al.. (2019). Development of a large-scale H3.3K27M-specific TCR-transduced T cell manufacturing method for adoptive cell therapy in HLA-A2+ patients with diffuse midline glioma. Cytotherapy. 21(5). S36–S36. 1 indexed citations

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Mueller, Sabine, Rishi Lulla, Stewart Goldman, et al.. (2019). PDCT-17 (LTBK-11). PNOC007: H3.3K27M SPECIFIC PEPTIDE VACCINE COMBINED WITH POLY-ICLC FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEWLY DIAGNOSED HLA-A2+ H3.3K27M MIDLINE GLIOMAS. Neuro-Oncology. 21(Supplement_6). vi284–vi285. 1 indexed citations

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Watchmaker, Payal, Neil D. Almeida, Kaori Okada, et al.. (2019). IMMU-18. TARGETING H3.3 K27M MUTATION AS A SHARED NEOANTIGEN IN HLA-A*0201+ PATIENTS WITH DIFFUSE MIDLINE GLIOMAS – DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL MASS CYTOMETRY-BASED MONITORING OF VACCINE-REACTIVE, EPITOPE-SPECIFIC CD8+ T CELL RESPONSES. Neuro-Oncology. 21(Supplement_2). ii96–ii96. 1 indexed citations

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Müller, Sören, Gary Kohanbash, Siyuan Liu, et al.. (2017). Single-cell profiling of human gliomas reveals macrophage ontogeny as a basis for regional differences in macrophage activation in the tumor microenvironment. Genome biology. 18(1). 234–234. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kohanbash, Gary, Diego Carrera, Shruti Shrivastav, et al.. (2017). Isocitrate dehydrogenase mutations suppress STAT1 and CD8+ T cell accumulation in gliomas. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(4). 1425–1437. 309 indexed citations

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Watchmaker, Payal, Katharina Lahl, Mike Lee, et al.. (2013). Comparative transcriptional and functional profiling defines conserved programs of intestinal DC differentiation in humans and mice. Nature Immunology. 15(1). 98–108. 185 indexed citations

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Giermasz, Adam, Julie Urban, Yutaro Nakamura, et al.. (2009). Type-1 polarized dendritic cells primed for high IL-12 production show enhanced activity as cancer vaccines. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 58(8). 1329–1336. 61 indexed citations

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Watchmaker, Payal, Erik Berk, Ravikumar Muthuswamy, et al.. (2009). Independent Regulation of Chemokine Responsiveness and Cytolytic Function versus CD8+ T Cell Expansion by Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 184(2). 591–597. 55 indexed citations

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Watchmaker, Payal, Julie Urban, Erik Berk, et al.. (2008). Memory CD8+ T Cells Protect Dendritic Cells from CTL Killing. The Journal of Immunology. 180(6). 3857–3865. 34 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Yutaro, Payal Watchmaker, Julie Urban, et al.. (2007). Helper Function of Memory CD8+ T Cells: Heterologous CD8+ T Cells Support the Induction of Therapeutic Cancer Immunity. Cancer Research. 67(20). 10012–10018. 25 indexed citations

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Kaliński, Paweł, Yutaro Nakamura, Payal Watchmaker, et al.. (2006). Helper Roles of NK and CD8<sup>+</sup> T Cells in the Induction of Tumor Immunity Polarized Dendritic Cells as Cancer Vaccines. Immunologic Research. 36(1-3). 137–146. 52 indexed citations

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