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Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

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Immunology

D-Index
68
Citations
28131
World Ranking
2541
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hiroyoshi Nishikawa is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work focuses primarily on oncology, immunology, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and surgery.

Their research spans important subfields such as:

  • Oncology
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Surgery

Main topics in Nishikawa's research include:

  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Regorafenib Plus Nivolumab in Patients With Advanced Gastric or Colorectal Cancer: An Open-Label, Dose-Escalation, and Dose-Expansion Phase Ib Trial (REGONIVO, EPOC1603)" (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "The PD-1 expression balance between effector and regulatory T cells predicts the clinical efficacy of PD-1 blockade therapies" (2020) published in Nature Immunology
  • "Lactic acid promotes PD-1 expression in regulatory T cells in highly glycolytic tumor microenvironments" (2022) published in Cancer Cell
  • "Mechanisms of regulatory T cell infiltration in tumors: implications for innovative immune precision therapies" (2021) published in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • "Antitumour immunity regulated by aberrant ERBB family signalling" (2021) published in Nature reviews. Cancer

Frequent co-authors in Nishikawa's work include:

  • Shohei Koyama
  • Yosuke Togashi
  • Daisuke Sugiyama
  • Masashi Wakabayashi
  • Kohei Shitara

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • International Immunology
  • Annals of Oncology

Hiroyoshi Nishikawa has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Treg induction by a rationally selected mixture of Clostridia strains from the human microbiota

    Koji Atarashi;Takeshi Tanoue;Kenshiro Oshima;Wataru Suda

  • Intraepithelial CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and a high CD8+/regulatory T cell ratio are associated with favorable prognosis in ovarian cancer

    Eiichi Sato;Sara H. Olson;Jiyoung Ahn;Brian Bundy

  • Regulatory T cells in cancer immunosuppression — implications for anticancer therapy

    Yosuke Togashi;Kohei Shitara;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Regulatory T cells in tumor immunity

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Shimon Sakaguchi;Shimon Sakaguchi

  • Regulatory T (Treg) cells in cancer: Can Treg cells be a new therapeutic target?

    Yoshihiro Ohue;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Lactic acid promotes PD-1 expression in regulatory T cells in highly glycolytic tumor microenvironments.

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  • PD-1+ regulatory T cells amplified by PD-1 blockade promote hyperprogression of cancer

    Takahiro Kamada;Yosuke Togashi;Christopher Tay;Danbee Ha

  • Two FOXP3 + CD4 + T cell subpopulations distinctly control the prognosis of colorectal cancers

    Takuro Saito;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Hisashi Wada;Yuji Nagano

  • The PD-1 expression balance between effector and regulatory T cells predicts the clinical efficacy of PD-1 blockade therapies.

    Shogo Kumagai;Yosuke Togashi;Takahiro Kamada;Eri Sugiyama

  • Regulatory T cells in cancer immunotherapy.

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Shimon Sakaguchi

  • Anti-CCR4 mAb selectively depletes effector-type FoxP3+CD4+ regulatory T cells, evoking antitumor immune responses in humans

    Daisuke Sugiyama;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Yuka Maeda;Megumi Nishioka

  • Interleukin-10-Producing Plasmablasts Exert Regulatory Function in Autoimmune Inflammation

    Masanori Matsumoto;Akemi Baba;Takafumi Yokota;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Roles of regulatory T cells in cancer immunity.

    Yoshiko Takeuchi;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • NY-ESO-1: review of an immunogenic tumor antigen.

    Sacha Gnjatic;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Achim A Jungbluth;Ali O Güre

  • Fecal microbiota transplantation for patients with steroid-resistant acute graft-versus-host disease of the gut

    Kazuhiko Kakihana;Yuki Fujioka;Wataru Suda;Wataru Suda;Yuho Najima

  • Mechanisms of regulatory T cell infiltration in tumors: implications for innovative immune precision therapies

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Shohei Koyama

  • Tumor‐infiltrating IL‐17‐producing γδ T cells support the progression of tumor by promoting angiogenesis

    Daiko Wakita;Kentaro Sumida;Yoichiro Iwakura;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Natural and Induced T Regulatory Cells in Cancer

    Dennis O Adeegbe;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Antitumour immunity regulated by aberrant ERBB family signalling

    Shogo Kumagai;Shohei Koyama;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

  • Phase Ia Study of FoxP3+ CD4 Treg Depletion by Infusion of a Humanized Anti-CCR4 Antibody, KW-0761, in Cancer Patients

    Koji Kurose;Yoshihiro Ohue;Hisashi Wada;Shinsuke Iida

  • CD4+ CD25+ T cells responding to serologically defined autoantigens suppress antitumor immune responses.

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Takuma Kato;Koji Tanida;Atsunori Hiasa

  • In vivo antigen delivery by a Salmonella typhimurium type III secretion system for therapeutic cancer vaccines.

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Eiichi Sato;Gabriel Briones;Li-Mei Chen

  • CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells control the induction of antigen-specific CD4+ helper T cell responses in cancer patients.

    Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Elke Jäger;Gerd Ritter;Lloyd J. Old

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Shiku
Hiroshi Shiku Mie University
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University
Lloyd J. Old
Lloyd J. Old Ludwig Cancer Research
Sacha Gnjatic
Sacha Gnjatic Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Gerd Ritter
Gerd Ritter Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Takayuki Yoshino
Takayuki Yoshino University of Tsukuba
Yuichiro Doki
Yuichiro Doki Osaka University
Masaaki Ito
Masaaki Ito Mie University
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori Kyushu University
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University

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