Sooraj Achar

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 611 citations indexed

About

Sooraj Achar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sooraj Achar has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 611 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Sooraj Achar's work include CAR-T cell therapy research (7 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Sooraj Achar is often cited by papers focused on CAR-T cell therapy research (7 papers), Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (4 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Sooraj Achar collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Malaysia. Sooraj Achar's co-authors include Grégoire Altan‐Bonnet, Marco R. Straus, Victor W. Hsu, Qi Qiu, Sourish Ghosh, Nihal Altan‐Bonnet, Cornelis A. M. de Haan, Anthony R. Fehr, Christopher K. E. Bleck and John H. Kehrl and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sooraj Achar

11 papers receiving 605 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.

β-Coronaviruses Use Lysosomes for Egress Instead of the Biosynthetic Secretory Pathway

2020 414 citations Sourish Ghosh, Adeline Kerviel et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sooraj Achar United States	6	233	224	123	97	72	12	611
Junqing Shen United States	9	145 0.6×	365 1.6×	246 2.0×	108 1.1×	25 0.3×	15	706
Inna Ricardo-Lax United States	8	234 1.0×	264 1.2×	91 0.7×	95 1.0×	112 1.6×	12	535
Jiaming Su China	14	208 0.9×	387 1.7×	251 2.0×	74 0.8×	15 0.2×	28	657
Fabian L. Cardenas‐Diaz United States	12	198 0.8×	308 1.4×	83 0.7×	47 0.5×	34 0.5×	21	705
Xialin Du China	14	101 0.4×	224 1.0×	204 1.7×	113 1.2×	16 0.2×	23	497
Ana‐Maria Dragoi United States	13	63 0.3×	392 1.8×	422 3.4×	91 0.9×	64 0.9×	25	934
Nathalie H. Gendron Canada	13	66 0.3×	371 1.7×	80 0.7×	84 0.9×	31 0.4×	14	554
Shi Liu China	17	134 0.6×	323 1.4×	250 2.0×	351 3.6×	54 0.8×	35	791

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sooraj Achar

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Davies, John, Lindsey M. Draper, Scott M. Norberg, et al.. (2025). CD22 TCR-engineered T cells exert antileukemia cytotoxicity without causing inflammatory responses. Science Advances. 11(15). eadq4297–eadq4297.

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Achar, Sooraj, Dongya Jia, Xiang Chen, et al.. (2024). Enhancing CAR T cell therapy through in silico modeling of hinge sequence length based on epitope location. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 552a–552a. 1 indexed citations

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Gaud, Guillaume, Sooraj Achar, John Davies, et al.. (2023). CD3ζ ITAMs enable ligand discrimination and antagonism by inhibiting TCR signaling in response to low-affinity peptides. Nature Immunology. 24(12). 2121–2134. 12 indexed citations

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Kondo, Taisuke, Sooraj Achar, Serifat Adebola, et al.. (2023). Harnessing arginine metabolism overcomes hyperthermia-induced metabolic dysfunction of CAR T-cells. The Journal of Immunology. 210(Supplement_1). 66.05–66.05. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Hannah, Alka Dwivedi, Sarah Underwood, et al.. (2023). Manufacture of CD22 CAR T cells following positive versus negative selection results in distinct cytokine secretion profiles and γδ T cell output. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 32(1). 101171–101171. 7 indexed citations

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Pouzolles, Marie, Saliha Majdoul, Sooraj Achar, et al.. (2023). Generation of Hinge-Modified Human CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells for the Treatment of CD19-Low Leukemia. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 6819–6819. 1 indexed citations

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Achar, Sooraj, Taisuke Kondo, Emanuel Salazar-Cavazos, et al.. (2022). Universal antigen encoding of T cell activation from high-dimensional cytokine dynamics. Science. 376(6595). 880–884. 37 indexed citations

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Chorro, Laurent, Sooraj Achar, Susanne Oberle, et al.. (2022). T cell receptor and IL-2 signaling strength control memory CD8+ T cell functional fitness via chromatin remodeling. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2240–2240. 29 indexed citations

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Jia, Dongya, Xiang Chen, Sooraj Achar, et al.. (2022). 401 Hinge length: A novel method of predicting cytotoxicity of CAR constructs against antigen-low leukemia. Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts. A423–A423. 2 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Sourish, Adeline Kerviel, Qi Qiu, et al.. (2020). β-Coronaviruses Use Lysosomes for Egress Instead of the Biosynthetic Secretory Pathway. Cell. 183(6). 1520–1535.e14. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghosh, Sourish, Qi Qiu, Peter M. Takvorian, et al.. (2020). β-Coronaviruses Use Lysosomal Organelles for Cellular Egress. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Patel, Sarju J., Avery G. Frey, Sooraj Achar, et al.. (2019). A PCBP1–BolA2 chaperone complex delivers iron for cytosolic [2Fe–2S] cluster assembly. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(9). 872–881. 106 indexed citations

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