Werner Held

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
116 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Werner Held is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Held has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Immunology, 28 papers in Oncology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Werner Held's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (85 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (82 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (34 papers). Werner Held is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (85 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (82 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (34 papers). Werner Held collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Werner Held's co-authors include David H. Raulet, H. Robson MacDonald, Léonardo Scarpellino, Vijaykumar Chennupati, Daniel E. Speiser, Dietmar Zehn, Jérôme D. Coudert, Hans Acha‐Orbea, Sandra P. Calderon-Copete and Sylvain Pradervand and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Werner Held

116 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Defining ‘T cell exhaustion’

2019 953 citations Werner Held, Daniel E. Speiser et al. profile →
Intratumoral Tcf1+PD-1+CD8+ T Cells with Stem-like Properties Promote Tumor Control in Response to Vaccination and Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy

2019 942 citations Imran Siddiqui, Silvia A. Fuertes Marraco et al. Immunity profile →
T Cell Factor 1-Expressing Memory-like CD8+ T Cells Sustain the Immune Response to Chronic Viral Infections

2016 668 citations Mélanie Charmoy, Werner Held et al. Immunity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Werner Held Switzerland	51	7.5k	3.4k	2.1k	684	638	116	9.8k
Alexander Steinle Germany	47	8.8k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	362 0.5×	741 1.2×	110	10.2k
Helmut Jonuleit Germany	44	10.8k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	712 1.0×	632 1.0×	107	12.8k
Makoto Kurachi Japan	26	5.7k 0.8×	4.2k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	416 0.6×	697 1.1×	43	8.2k
Sayuri Yamazaki Japan	32	10.7k 1.4×	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	970 1.4×	499 0.8×	53	12.3k
Pawel Muranski United States	31	5.5k 0.7×	4.8k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	989 1.4×	426 0.7×	81	7.8k
Nathalie Rufer Switzerland	42	5.6k 0.7×	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	521 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	114	8.2k
Conrad C. Bleul Germany	26	5.0k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	394 0.6×	413 0.6×	39	8.0k
Edward Greenfield United States	33	5.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	389 0.6×	428 0.7×	116	7.7k
Loise M. Francisco United States	16	5.8k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	437 0.6×	523 0.8×	19	8.0k
Giulia Casorati Italy	48	5.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	843 1.2×	542 0.8×	131	7.4k

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Bevilacqua, Alessio, Fabien Franco, Kung‐Chi Kao, et al.. (2024). PPARβ/δ-orchestrated metabolic reprogramming supports the formation and maintenance of memory CD8 ⁺ T cells. Science Immunology. 9(98). eadn2717–eadn2717. 11 indexed citations

Girotra, Mukul, Mélanie Charmoy, Helen Carrasco Hope, et al.. (2023). Induction of mitochondrial recycling reverts age-associated decline of the hematopoietic and immune systems. Nature Aging. 3(9). 1057–1066. 38 indexed citations

Sacirbegovic, Faruk, Matthias Günther, Alessandro Greco, et al.. (2023). Graft-versus-host disease is locally maintained in target tissues by resident progenitor-like T cells. Immunity. 56(2). 369–385.e6. 22 indexed citations

Wilson, Anne, Isabel Ferrero, Daniel E. Speiser, Werner Held, & Pedro Romero. (2023). Hugh Robson MacDonald (1946–2023). Immunity. 56(5). 893–894. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Joana G., Tania Wyss, Silvia A. Fuertes Marraco, et al.. (2020). Central memory CD8+ T cells derive from stem-like Tcf7hi effector cells in the absence of cytotoxic differentiation. Immunity. 53(5). 985–1000.e11. 126 indexed citations

Welten, Suzanne P. M., Alexander Yermanos, Nicolas S. Baumann, et al.. (2020). Tcf1+ cells are required to maintain the inflationary T cell pool upon MCMV infection. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2295–2295. 34 indexed citations

Jaworski, Maike, Werner Held, Stéphanie Favre, et al.. (2014). Malt1 protease inactivation efficiently dampens immune responses but causes spontaneous autoimmunity. The EMBO Journal. 33(23). 2765–2781. 110 indexed citations

Bessoles, Stéphanie, Georgi S. Angelov, Jonathan Back, et al.. (2013). Education of Murine NK Cells Requires Both cis and trans Recognition of MHC Class I Molecules. The Journal of Immunology. 191(10). 5044–5051. 36 indexed citations

Held, Werner & Roy A. Mariuzza. (2011). Cis–trans interactions of cell surface receptors: biological roles and structural basis. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 68(21). 3469–3478. 42 indexed citations

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Gardiol, Noémie, et al.. (2011). Natural Killer Cell Mediated Missing-Self Recognition Can Protect Mice from Primary Chronic Myeloid Leukemia In Vivo. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27639–e27639. 10 indexed citations

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Melichar, Heather J., Kavitha Narayan, Sandy D. Der, et al.. (2007). Regulation of γδ Versus αß T Lymphocyte Differentiation by the Transcription Factor SOX13. Science. 315(5809). 230–233. 146 indexed citations

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Saurer, Leslie, et al.. (2003). Cutting Edge: Stimulation with the Cognate Self-Antigen Induces Expression of the Ly49A Receptor on Self-Reactive T Cells Which Modulates Their Responsiveness. The Journal of Immunology. 171(12). 6334–6338. 5 indexed citations

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Ioannidis, Vassilios, et al.. (2003). Initiation and Limitation of Ly-49A NK Cell Receptor Acquisition by T Cell Factor-1. The Journal of Immunology. 171(2). 769–775. 14 indexed citations

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Ioannidis, Vassilios, Jacques Zimmer, Friedrich Beermann, & Werner Held. (2001). Cre Recombinase-Mediated Inactivation of H-2Dd Transgene Expression: Evidence for Partial Missing Self-Recognition by Ly49A NK Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 167(11). 6256–6262. 26 indexed citations

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Kunz, Béatrice & Werner Held. (2001). Positive and Negative Roles of the Trans -Acting T Cell Factor-1 for the Acquisition of Distinct Ly-49 MHC Class I Receptors by NK Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 166(10). 6181–6187. 24 indexed citations

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Kropf, Bente Lowin, Béatrice Kunz, Friedrich Beermann, & Werner Held. (2000). Impaired Natural Killing of MHC Class I-Deficient Targets by NK Cells Expressing a Catalytically Inactive Form of SHP-1. The Journal of Immunology. 165(3). 1314–1321. 50 indexed citations

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Brawand, Pierre, François A. Lemonnier, H. Robson MacDonald, Jean‐Charles Cerottini, & Werner Held. (2000). Transgenic Expression of Ly49A on T Cells Impairs a Specific Antitumor Response. The Journal of Immunology. 165(4). 1871–1876. 18 indexed citations

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Waanders, Gary A., et al.. (1995). Quantitation of endogenous mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen expression by lymphocyte subsets. European Journal of Immunology. 25(9). 2632–2637. 14 indexed citations

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Wilson, Anne, Werner Held, & H. Robson MacDonald. (1994). Two waves of recombinase gene expression in developing thymocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 179(4). 1355–1360. 212 indexed citations

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Held, Werner, Gary A. Waanders, Hans Acha‐Orbea, & H. Robson MacDonald. (1994). Reverse transcriptase-dependent and -independent phases of infection with mouse mammary tumor virus: implications for superantigen function.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 180(6). 2347–2351. 43 indexed citations

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