Walid Awad

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Walid Awad is a scholar working on Immunology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walid Awad has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Immunology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Walid Awad's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Walid Awad is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (4 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Walid Awad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and United Kingdom. Walid Awad's co-authors include Linda M. Hendershot, Paul G. Thomas, Pradyot Dash, Geoffrey Neale, Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Ardiana Moustaki, Ben Youngblood, Yiping Fan, Robert Carter and Pranay Dogra 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

Walid Awad

10 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

De Novo Epigenetic Programs Inhibit PD-1 Blockade-Mediated T Cell Rejuvenation

2017 567 citations Hazem E. Ghoneim, Yiping Fan et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walid Awad United States	9	586	437	405	158	123	12	1.1k
Ally-Khan Somani United States	16	568 1.0×	514 1.2×	244 0.6×	209 1.3×	159 1.3×	22	1.2k
Ang Cui United States	12	377 0.6×	435 1.0×	416 1.0×	124 0.8×	59 0.5×	24	1.1k
Alejandra Mendoza United States	10	860 1.5×	505 1.2×	232 0.6×	119 0.8×	70 0.6×	15	1.3k
Anthony Cruz United States	14	579 1.0×	695 1.6×	269 0.7×	58 0.4×	79 0.6×	21	1.1k
Anett Jandke United Kingdom	10	525 0.9×	425 1.0×	271 0.7×	95 0.6×	71 0.6×	13	1.0k
Kanstantsin V. Katlinski United States	10	429 0.7×	276 0.6×	254 0.6×	65 0.4×	94 0.8×	14	723
Meghan E. Turnis United States	12	818 1.4×	375 0.9×	471 1.2×	41 0.3×	169 1.4×	15	1.3k
Asahi Ito Japan	20	556 0.9×	543 1.2×	382 0.9×	153 1.0×	177 1.4×	68	1.4k
Gwenola Bougras France	14	873 1.5×	477 1.1×	355 0.9×	43 0.3×	119 1.0×	18	1.4k
Shunyou Gong United States	10	693 1.2×	321 0.7×	269 0.7×	37 0.2×	120 1.0×	32	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walid Awad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Walid Awad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Walid Awad 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 Walid Awad. Walid Awad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Ghonim, Mohamed A., Stefan Schattgen, Lee-Ann Van de Velde, et al.. (2025). Endogenous T cell responses to fusion-derived neoantigens in pediatric acute leukemias. Leukemia. 39(10). 2419–2431.

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Dash, Pradyot, et al.. (2025). Highly cross-reactive and competent effectors dominate the CD8+ T cell response in Trypanosoma cruzi infection. The Journal of Immunology. 214(8). 2000–2014.

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Schattgen, Stefan, Jackson S. Turner, Mohamed A. Ghonim, et al.. (2024). Influenza vaccination stimulates maturation of the human T follicular helper cell response. Nature Immunology. 25(9). 1742–1753. 10 indexed citations

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Kirk, Allison M., Ching‐Heng Chou, Jeremy Chase Crawford, et al.. (2022). Abstract 1383: Characterization of CD8 T cell responses to DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion neoantigens in fibrolamellar carcinoma. Cancer Research. 82(12_Supplement). 1383–1383. 1 indexed citations

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Zamora, Anthony E., Jeremy Chase Crawford, E. Kaitlynn Allen, et al.. (2019). Pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia generate abundant and functional neoantigen-specific CD8 ⁺ T cell responses. Science Translational Medicine. 11(498). 59 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, Daniel Bastardo Blanco, Xiang Chen, et al.. (2018). Metabolic signaling directs the reciprocal lineage decisions of αβ and γδ T cells. Science Immunology. 3(25). 62 indexed citations

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Blanco, Daniel Bastardo, Xiang Chen, Pradyot Dash, et al.. (2018). Metabolic signaling directs the reciprocal lineage decisions of αβ and γδ T cells. PMC. 14 indexed citations

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Guo, Xi-zhi J., Pradyot Dash, Jeremy Chase Crawford, et al.. (2018). Lung γδ T Cells Mediate Protective Responses during Neonatal Influenza Infection that Are Associated with Type 2 Immunity. Immunity. 49(3). 531–544.e6. 86 indexed citations

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Ghoneim, Hazem E., Yiping Fan, Ardiana Moustaki, et al.. (2017). De Novo Epigenetic Programs Inhibit PD-1 Blockade-Mediated T Cell Rejuvenation. Cell. 170(1). 142–157.e19. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pereira, Ethel R., Karen Frudd, Walid Awad, & Linda M. Hendershot. (2013). Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Stress and Hypoxia Response Pathways Interact to Potentiate Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1 (HIF-1) Transcriptional Activity on Targets Like Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(6). 3352–3364. 154 indexed citations

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Jin, Yi, Walid Awad, Kseniya Petrova, & Linda M. Hendershot. (2008). Regulated release of ERdj3 from unfolded proteins by BiP. The EMBO Journal. 27(21). 2873–2882. 67 indexed citations

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Awad, Walid, et al.. (2008). BiP mutants that are unable to interact with endoplasmic reticulum DnaJ proteins provide insights into interdomain interactions in BiP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(4). 1164–1169. 53 indexed citations

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