2026 George Coukos: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	122	310	286	196	177	616	74062
Medicine	121	3548	3316	1955	1805	613	73965

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

George Coukos is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research work spans several interconnected fields, including medicine, immunology and microbiology, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The focus extends into specialized subfields such as immunology, oncology, molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and biomedical engineering.

Their contributions to scientific literature include numerous publications addressing cancer immunotherapy, immune responses, and related treatments. Key topics of research involve CAR-T cell therapy, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, immune cell function and interaction, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

George Coukos has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, reflected in multiple joint publications. Notable collaborators with extensive joint work include:

Alexandre Harari
Melita Irving
Michal Bassani-Sternberg
Lana E. Kandalaft
Denarda Dangaj Laniti

Publications often appear in journals and venues where Coukos has maintained a significant presence. Frequent publication forums include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Nature Biotechnology
Frontiers in Immunology
Nature Communications

Recent papers by George Coukos and associates reflect continued research in immunological mechanisms and cancer therapies. Examples of such publications are:

Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death, 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Interpretation of T cell states from single-cell transcriptomics data using reference atlases, 2021, Nature Communications
Disturbed mitochondrial dynamics in CD8+ TILs reinforce T cell exhaustion, 2020, Nature Immunology
Key Parameters of Tumor Epitope Immunogenicity Revealed Through a Consortium Approach Improve Neoantigen Prediction, 2020, Cell
High-throughput automated organoid culture via stem-cell aggregation in microcavity arrays, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering

Best Publications

Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survival.

Tyler J Curiel;George Coukos;Linhua Zou;Xavier Alvarez

6333
Citations
Cancer immunotherapy comes of age

Ira Mellman;George Coukos;Glenn Dranoff

4524
Citations
Intratumoral T cells, recurrence, and survival in epithelial ovarian cancer.

Lin Zhang;Jose R. Conejo-Garcia;Dionyssios Katsaros;Phyllis A. Gimotty

3993
Citations
Adverse effects of immune-checkpoint inhibitors: epidemiology, management and surveillance.

Filipe Martins;Filipe Martins;Latifyan Sofiya;Gerasimos P. Sykiotis;Faiza Lamine

2122
Citations
Rethinking ovarian cancer: recommendations for improving outcomes

Sebastian Vaughan;Jermaine I. Coward;Robert C. Bast;Andy Berchuck

1608
Citations
Regulatory CD4+CD25+ T Cells in Tumors from Patients with Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Late-Stage Ovarian Cancer

Edward Y. Woo;Christina S. Chu;Theresa J. Goletz;Katia Schlienger

1584
Citations
Tumour hypoxia promotes tolerance and angiogenesis via CCL28 and T reg cells

Andrea Facciabene;Xiaohui Peng;Ian S. Hagemann;Klara Balint

1477
Citations
microRNAs exhibit high frequency genomic alterations in human cancer

Lin Zhang;Jia Huang;Nuo Yang;Joel Greshock

1369
Citations
Rethinking ovarian cancer II: Reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

David D. Bowtell;David D. Bowtell;Steffen Böhm;Ahmed A. Ahmed;Paul Joseph Aspuria

1334
Citations
The microRNAs miR-373 and miR-520c promote tumour invasion and metastasis

Huang Q;Gumireddy K;Schrier M;le Sage C

1240
Citations
Tumor endothelium FasL establishes a selective immune barrier promoting tolerance in tumors.

Gregory T. Motz;Stephen P. Santoro;Li Ping Wang;Tom Garrabrant

1072
Citations
Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Sarah Warren;Sandy Adjemian

1009
Citations
Phenotype, distribution, generation, and functional and clinical relevance of Th17 cells in the human tumor environments

Ilona Kryczek;Mousumi Banerjee;Pui Cheng;Linhua Vatan

1005
Citations
T-Regulatory Cells: Key Players in Tumor Immune Escape and Angiogenesis

Andrea Facciabene;Gregory T. Motz;George Coukos

950
Citations
Laser-capture microdissection

Virginia Espina;Julia D Wulfkuhle;Valerie S Calvert;Amy VanMeter

943
Citations
Modulation of the antitumor immune response by complement

Maciej M Markiewski;Robert A DeAngelis;Fabian Benencia;Fabian Benencia;Salome K Ricklin-Lichtsteiner

907
Citations
Cooperation between Constitutive and Inducible Chemokines Enables T Cell Engraftment and Immune Attack in Solid Tumors

Denarda Dangaj;Marine Bruand;Alizée J. Grimm;Catherine Ronet

844
Citations
Dual Blockade of PD-1 and CTLA-4 Combined with Tumor Vaccine Effectively Restores T-Cell Rejection Function in Tumors

Jaikumar Duraiswamy;Karen M. Kaluza;Gordon J. Freeman;George Coukos

825
Citations
Prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating T cells in ovarian cancer: A meta-analysis

Wei-Ting Hwang;Sarah F. Adams;Emin Tahirovic;Ian S. Hagemann

726
Citations
Genomic and epigenetic alterations deregulate microRNA expression in human epithelial ovarian cancer

Lin Zhang;Stefano Volinia;Tomas Bonome;George Adrian Calin

711
Citations
Deciphering and reversing tumor immune suppression.

Greg T. Motz;George Coukos;George Coukos

655
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lana E. Kandalaft Ludwig Cancer Research

Lin Zhang University of Pennsylvania

David Gfeller University of Lausanne

Alexandre Harari University of Lausanne

Michal Bassani-Sternberg Ludwig Cancer Research

Daniel J. Powell University of Pennsylvania

Phyllis A. Gimotty University of Pennsylvania

Stephen C. Rubin University of Pennsylvania

Dionyssios Katsaros University of Turin

Olivier Michielin University of Lausanne

External Links

Personal website of George Coukos

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