Ben Youngblood

Ben Youngblood publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Youngblood sits on this spectrum.

Ben Youngblood D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Youngblood sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Defining ‘T cell exhaustion’

  Christian U Blank;W Nicholas Haining;Werner Held;Patrick G Hogan;Patrick G Hogan

  1487
  Citations

• TOX reinforces the phenotype and longevity of exhausted T cells in chronic viral infection.

  Francesca Alfei;Kristiyan Kanev;Maike Hofmann;Ming Wu

  849
  Citations

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

  Hazem E. Ghoneim;Yiping Fan;Ardiana Moustaki;Hossam A. Abdelsamed

  785
  Citations

• Origin and differentiation of human memory CD8 T cells after vaccination

  Rama Akondy;Mark Fitch;Srilatha Edupuganti;Shu Yang

  549
  Citations

• Effector CD8 T cells dedifferentiate into long-lived memory cells

  Ben Youngblood;Ben Youngblood;J. Scott Hale;Haydn Thomas Kissick;Eunseon Ahn

  486
  Citations

• Chronic Virus Infection Enforces Demethylation of the Locus that Encodes PD-1 in Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells

  Benjamin Alan Youngblood;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Sang-Jun Ha;Sang-Jun Ha;Jaikumar Duraiswamy

  458
  Citations

• Impact of the COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on influenza and other respiratory viral infections in New Zealand.

  Q Sue Huang;Tim Wood;Lauren Jelley;Tineke Jennings

  457
  Citations

• Distinct Memory CD4+ T Cells with Commitment to T Follicular Helper- and T Helper 1-Cell Lineages Are Generated after Acute Viral Infection

  J. Scott Hale;Ben Youngblood;Donald R. Latner;Ata Ur Rasheed Mohammed

  381
  Citations

• mTORC1 and mTORC2 Kinase Signaling and Glucose Metabolism Drive Follicular Helper T Cell Differentiation.

  Hu Zeng;Sivan Cohen;Cliff Guy;Sharad Shrestha

  350
  Citations

• PD-L1 blockade synergizes with IL-2 therapy in reinvigorating exhausted T cells

  Erin E. West;Hyun Tak Jin;Ata Ur Rasheed;Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster;Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster

  349
  Citations

• Two subsets of stem-like CD8+ memory T cell progenitors with distinct fate commitments in humans.

  Giovanni Galletti;Gabriele De Simone;Emilia M C Mazza;Simone Puccio

  304
  Citations

• Deleting DNMT3A in CAR T cells prevents exhaustion and enhances antitumor activity.

  Brooke Prinzing;Caitlin C. Zebley;Christopher T. Petersen;Yiping Fan

  304
  Citations

• Lentiviral Gene Therapy Combined with Low-Dose Busulfan in Infants with SCID-X1.

  Ewelina Mamcarz;Sheng Zhou;Timothy Lockey;Hossam Abdelsamed

  279
  Citations

• Developmental plasticity allows outside-in immune responses by resident memory T cells.

  Raissa Fonseca;Raissa Fonseca;Lalit K Beura;Lalit K Beura;Clare F Quarnstrom;Hazem E Ghoneim;Hazem E Ghoneim

  267
  Citations

• The role of mTOR in memory CD8 T-cell differentiation.

  Koichi Araki;Benjamin Alan Youngblood;Rafi Ahmed

  222
  Citations

• Global DNA Methylation Remodeling Accompanies CD8 T Cell Effector Function

  Christopher D. Scharer;Benjamin G. Barwick;Benjamin A. Youngblood;Rafi Ahmed

  217
  Citations

• PI3K orchestration of the in vivo persistence of chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells.

  Wenting Zheng;Carol E. O’Hear;Carol E. O’Hear;Rajshekhar Alli;Jacob H. Basham

  202
  Citations

• SNP-mediated disruption of CTCF binding at the IFITM3 promoter is associated with risk of severe influenza in humans

  E Kaitlynn Allen;Adrienne G Randolph;Tushar Bhangale;Pranay Dogra

  190
  Citations

• T-cell memory differentiation: insights from transcriptional signatures and epigenetics.

  Ben Youngblood;J. Scott Hale;Rafi Ahmed

  186
  Citations

• Cutting edge: Prolonged exposure to HIV reinforces a poised epigenetic program for PD-1 expression in virus-specific CD8 T cells.

  Benjamin Youngblood;Alessandra Noto;Filippos Porichis;Rama Akondy

  179
  Citations