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Anna Villa

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
20195
World Ranking
5310
National Ranking
2521

Anna Villa publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Villa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 323 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Anna Villa D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Villa sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anna Villa is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology. Within these disciplines, they have contributed extensively to specific subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Oncology, and Cancer Research.

Their main research topics cover areas including Immune Cell Function and Interaction, CAR-T cell therapy research, Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Virus-based gene therapy research, Bone Metabolism and Diseases, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Anna Villa has coauthored intensively with several frequent collaborators. These include Elena Fontana, Valentina Capo, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Maria Carmina Castiello, and Cristina Sobacchi.

Their work is published regularly in several key scientific venues. Prominent among these are Bone Reports, Frontiers in Immunology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development, and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Recent published papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Choice of template delivery mitigates the genotoxic risk and adverse impact of editing in human hematopoietic stem cells, 2022, Cell Stem Cell
  • Artificial thymic organoids represent a reliable tool to study T-cell differentiation in patients with severe T-cell lymphopenia, 2020, Blood Advances
  • NKG2A expression identifies a subset of human Vδ2 T cells exerting the highest antitumor effector functions, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Successful Preclinical Development of Gene Therapy for Recombinase-Activating Gene-1-Deficient SCID, 2020, Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
  • Immune dysregulation in patients with RAG deficiency and other forms of combined immune deficiency, 2020, Blood

Best Publications

  • Lentiviral Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy in Patients with Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

    Alessandro Aiuti;Luca Biasco;Samantha Scaramuzza;Francesca Ferrua

  • Mutations of Jak-3 gene in patients with autosomal severe combined immune deficiency (SCID).

    P Macchi;A Villa;S Giliani;M G Sacco

  • Defects in TCIRG1 subunit of the vacuolar proton pump are responsible for a subset of human autosomal recessive osteopetrosis.

    Annalisa Frattini;Paul J. Orchard;Cristina Sobacchi;Silvia Giliani

  • Osteopetrosis: genetics, treatment and new insights into osteoclast function

    Cristina Sobacchi;Ansgar Schulz;Fraser P. Coxon;Anna Villa

  • The European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) Registry Working Definitions for the Clinical Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Immunity

    Markus G. Seidel;Gerhard Kindle;Benjamin Gathmann;Isabella Quinti

  • Partial V(D)J Recombination Activity Leads to Omenn Syndrome

    Anna Villa;Sandro Santagata;Fabio Bozzi;Silvia Giliani

  • Osteoclast-poor human osteopetrosis due to mutations in the gene encoding RANKL

    Cristina Sobacchi;Annalisa Frattini;Matteo M Guerrini;Mario Abinun

  • V(D)J recombination defects in lymphocytes due to RAG mutations: severe immunodeficiency with a spectrum of clinical presentations.

    Anna Villa;Cristina Sobacchi;Luigi D. Notarangelo;Fabio Bozzi

  • Human Osteoclast-Poor Osteopetrosis with Hypogammaglobulinemia due to TNFRSF11A (RANK) Mutations

    Matteo M. Guerrini;Cristina Sobacchi;Barbara Cassani;Mario Abinun

  • X-linked thrombocytopenia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome are allelic diseases with mutations in the WASP gene.

    Villa A;Notarangelo L;Macchi P;Mantuano E

  • Omenn syndrome: inflammation in leaky severe combined immunodeficiency.

    Anna Villa;Luigi D. Notarangelo;Chaim M. Roifman

  • Grey-lethal mutation induces severe malignant autosomal recessive osteopetrosis in mouse and human

    Nader Chalhoub;Nadia Benachenhou;Venkatesh Rajapurohitam;Monica Pata

  • Chloride Channel ClCN7 Mutations Are Responsible for Severe Recessive, Dominant, and Intermediate Osteopetrosis

    Annalisa Frattini;Alessandra Pangrazio;Lucia Susani;Cristina Sobacchi

  • Recent advances in understanding the pathophysiology of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

    Marita Bosticardo;Francesco Marangoni;Alessandro Aiuti;Alessandro Aiuti;Anna Villa

  • The mutational spectrum of human malignant autosomal recessive osteopetrosis

    Cristina Sobacchi;Annalisa Frattini;Paul J Orchard;Oscar Porras

  • Involvement of PLEKHM1 in osteoclastic vesicular transport and osteopetrosis in incisors absent rats and humans

    Liesbeth Van Wesenbeeck;Paul R. Odgren;Fraser Coxon;Annalisa Frattini

  • WASP regulates suppressor activity of human and murine CD4(+)CD25(+)FOXP3(+) natural regulatory T cells.

    Francesco Marangoni;Sara Trifari;Samantha Scaramuzza;Cristina Panaroni

  • Impaired gastric acidification negatively affects calcium homeostasis and bone mass

    Thorsten Schinke;Arndt F. Schilling;Anke Baranowsky;Sebastian Seitz

  • Structural and functional basis for JAK3-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency.

    Fabio Candotti;Scott A. Oakes;James A. Johnston;Silvia Giliani

  • Preclinical modeling highlights the therapeutic potential of hematopoietic stem cell gene editing for correction of SCID-X1

    Giulia Schiroli;Samuele Ferrari;Anthony Conway;Aurelien Jacob

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Vezzoni
Paolo Vezzoni National Research Council (CNR)
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health
Alessandro Aiuti
Alessandro Aiuti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Pietro Luigi Poliani
Pietro Luigi Poliani University of Brescia
Silvia Giliani
Silvia Giliani University of Brescia
Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Maria Grazia Roncarolo Stanford University
Luigi Naldini
Luigi Naldini Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Mario Abinun
Mario Abinun Newcastle University
Fabio Facchetti
Fabio Facchetti University of Brescia
Fabio Candotti
Fabio Candotti National Institutes of Health

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Publications: 152

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Publications: 91

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Hans D. Ochs

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Publications: 71

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Alessandro Aiuti

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Publications: 63

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John J. O'Shea

National Institutes of Health

Publications: 61

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Axel Schambach

Hannover Medical School

Publications: 55

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Jolan E. Walter

University of South Florida

Publications: 53

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Andrew R. Gennery

Newcastle University

Publications: 50

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Fabio Candotti

National Institutes of Health

Publications: 48

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Mauno Vihinen

Lund University

Publications: 43

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Publications: 40

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Silvia Giliani

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Publications: 40

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Siobhan O. Burns

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Publications: 37

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Luigi Naldini

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