William Ho

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

William Ho is a scholar working on Oncology, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Ho has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Oncology, 15 papers in Immunology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William Ho's work include CAR-T cell therapy research (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (9 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). William Ho is often cited by papers focused on CAR-T cell therapy research (12 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (9 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). William Ho collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Canada. William Ho's co-authors include Philip D. Greenberg, Mark M. Davis, Christopher C. Goodnow, Matthias Wölfl, Michael P. Cooke, Cassian Yee, Jürgen Kuball, Hieu Nguyen, Michelle L. Dossett and Marc A. Gavin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Ho

37 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

  1. Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions
    2003 810 citations Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser et al. Science profile →
  2. Single-cell analysis of normal and FOXP3-mutant human T cells: FOXP3 expression without regulatory T cell development
    2006 640 citations Marc A. Gavin, Troy R. Torgerson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Ho United States 19 2.3k 1.3k 667 666 597 38 4.1k
Teresa Lambe United Kingdom 35 1.9k 0.9× 371 0.3× 479 0.7× 1.2k 1.7× 107 0.2× 95 4.6k
Vivek Naranbhai United States 28 1.1k 0.5× 439 0.3× 278 0.4× 918 1.4× 167 0.3× 78 4.0k
Rama Akondy United States 25 3.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 303 0.5× 1.2k 1.8× 67 0.1× 42 5.0k
Hans‐Martin Jäck Germany 43 2.3k 1.0× 582 0.5× 356 0.5× 2.7k 4.0× 98 0.2× 154 6.5k
Scott D. Boyd United States 41 3.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 421 0.6× 2.2k 3.3× 52 0.1× 119 6.7k
Michael J. Mina United States 30 772 0.3× 377 0.3× 165 0.2× 700 1.1× 792 1.3× 59 4.6k
Mei Song China 25 644 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 397 0.6× 1.2k 1.8× 156 0.3× 76 4.1k
Deepta Bhattacharya United States 34 3.9k 1.7× 875 0.7× 363 0.5× 1.6k 2.4× 67 0.1× 68 6.2k
Anthony T. Tan Singapore 33 1.8k 0.8× 693 0.5× 196 0.3× 852 1.3× 276 0.5× 65 5.1k
Frank Preijers Netherlands 32 3.6k 1.6× 688 0.5× 366 0.5× 800 1.2× 47 0.1× 91 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by William Ho

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Ho

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Ho

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ho, William. (2025). Optimize Patient Safety and Operational Efficiency Through a Closed-Loop Specimen Tacking System. Studies in health technology and informatics. 329. 1696–1697.
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Ho, William, Lél Eöry, Alan Archibald, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic characterisation of acute myeloid leukemia cell lines bearing the same t(9;11) driver mutation reveals different molecular signatures. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 300–300. 1 indexed citations
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Zoellner, Lori A., et al.. (2015). An analysis of inhibitory functioning in individuals with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 37. 94–103. 14 indexed citations
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Chapuis, Aude G., Gunnar B. Ragnarsson, Hieu Nguyen, et al.. (2013). Transferred WT1-Reactive CD8 + T Cells Can Mediate Antileukemic Activity and Persist in Post-Transplant Patients. Science Translational Medicine. 5(174). 174ra27–174ra27. 242 indexed citations
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Palanca-Wessels, Maria Corinna, Ian W. Flinn, Laurie H. Sehn, et al.. (2012). A Phase I Study of the Anti-CD79b Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) DCDS4501A Targeting CD79b in Relapsed or Refractory B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL). Blood. 120(21). 56–56. 14 indexed citations
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Gavin, Marc A., Troy R. Torgerson, Evan Houston, et al.. (2006). Single-cell analysis of normal and FOXP3-mutant human T cells: FOXP3 expression without regulatory T cell development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(17). 6659–6664. 640 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greenberg, Philip D., William Ho, Matthias Wölfl, et al.. (2006). Overcoming obstacles to the generation of T cells for tumor therapy. 6. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Ho, William, Hieu Nguyen, Matthias Wölfl, Juergen Kuball, & Philip D. Greenberg. (2006). In vitro methods for generating CD8+ T-cell clones for immunotherapy from the naïve repertoire. Journal of Immunological Methods. 310(1-2). 40–52. 105 indexed citations
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Ho, William, et al.. (2005). Isolating tumor-reactive T cells and making them work in tumor therapy. 5. 25. 1 indexed citations
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Ho, William, Joseph N. Blattman, Michelle L. Dossett, Cassian Yee, & Philip D. Greenberg. (2003). Adoptive immunotherapy: Engineering T cell responses as biologic weapons for tumor mass destruction. Cancer Cell. 3(5). 431–437. 123 indexed citations
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Ho, William. (2003). Guideline on management of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The Lancet. 361(9366). 1313–1315. 54 indexed citations
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Riley, Steven, Christophe Fraser, Christl A. Donnelly, et al.. (2003). Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions. Science. 300(5627). 1961–1966. 810 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ho, William, Cassian Yee, & Philip D. Greenberg. (2002). Adoptive therapy with CD8+ T cells: it may get by with a little help from its friends. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 110(10). 1415–1417. 74 indexed citations
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Ho, William, Cassian Yee, & Philip D. Greenberg. (2002). Adoptive therapy with CD8+ T cells: it may get by with a little help from its friends. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 110(10). 1415–1417. 64 indexed citations
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Bridges, Carolyn B., Jacqueline M. Katz, WH Seto, et al.. (2000). Risk of Influenza A (H5N1) Infection among Health Care Workers Exposed to Patients with Influenza A (H5N1), Hong Kong. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 181(1). 344–348. 179 indexed citations
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Tourne, Sylvie, Valérie Kouskoff, William Ho, et al.. (1999). Inhibition of thymocyte positive selection by natural MHC: peptide ligands. European Journal of Immunology. 29(2). 394–402. 6 indexed citations
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Ho, William, Michael P. Cooke, Christopher C. Goodnow, & Mark M. Davis. (1994). Resting and anergic B cells are defective in CD28-dependent costimulation of naive CD4+ T cells.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 179(5). 1539–1549. 259 indexed citations
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Garchon, Henri‐Jean, Elwyn Loh, William Ho, et al.. (1989). The XLR sequence family: dispersion on the X and Y chromosomes of a large set of closely related sequences, most of which are pseudogenes. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(23). 9871–9888. 29 indexed citations

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