2026 Jeffrey A. Bluestone: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	171	838	769	503	451	558	112179
Immunology	174	46	43	33	31	541	115277
Medicine	175	435	394	262	233	545	115462

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
2020 - AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists
2019 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey A. Bluestone is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a significant focus on Immunology, Oncology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including:

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
CAR-T cell therapy research
Diabetes and associated disorders
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Pancreatic function and diabetes
Diabetes Management and Research

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

Qizhi Tang
Arabella Young
Shen Dong
Kevan C. Herold
Patrick Ho

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bluestone are:

Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae, 2022, Cell
Multi-Omics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19, 2020, Cell
Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials, 2020, The Lancet
Regulatory T cell control of systemic immunity and immunotherapy response in liver metastasis, 2020, Science Immunology
CRISPR screen in regulatory T cells reveals modulators of Foxp3, 2020, Nature

Bluestone's frequent publication venues include:

The Journal of Immunology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Immunology
Cell
Nature Immunology

Awards and recognitions received by Bluestone are:

AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists, 2020
Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI), 2019
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2013
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1997

Best Publications

Loss of CTLA-4 leads to massive lymphoproliferation and fatal multiorgan tissue destruction, revealing a critical negative regulatory role of CTLA-4

E A Tivol;F Borriello;A N Schweitzer;W P Lynch

3791
Citations
CD28/B7 SYSTEM OF T CELL COSTIMULATION

Deborah J. Lenschow;Theresa L. Walunas;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

3640
Citations
CD127 expression inversely correlates with FoxP3 and suppressive function of human CD4+ T reg cells

Weihong Liu;Amy L Putnam;Zhou Xu-yu;Gregory L. Szot

3515
Citations
CTLA-4 can function as a negative regulator of T cell activation

Theresa L. Walunas;Deborah J. Lenschow;Christina Y. Bakker;Peter S. Linsley

2771
Citations
B7/CD28 costimulation is essential for the homeostasis of the CD4+CD25+ immunoregulatory T cells that control autoimmune diabetes.

Benoît Salomon;Deborah J Lenschow;Lesley Rhee;Neda Ashourian

2589
Citations
International Trial of the Edmonton Protocol for Islet Transplantation

A. M James Shapiro;Camillo Ricordi;Bernhard J. Hering;Hugh Auchincloss

2452
Citations
Innate immunity and intestinal microbiota in the development of Type 1 diabetes

Li Wen;Ruth E. Ley;Ruth E. Ley;Pavel Yu. Volchkov;Peter B. Stranges

2259
Citations
Identification of a monoclonal antibody specific for a murine T3 polypeptide

Oberdan Leo;Michele Foo;David H. Sachs;Lawrence E. Samelson

2115
Citations
Natural versus adaptive regulatory T cells.

Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Abul K. Abbas

1955
Citations
The B7 and CD28 receptor families

Carl H. June;Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Lee M. Nadler;Craig B. Thompson

1793
Citations
Genetics, pathogenesis and clinical interventions in type 1 diabetes

Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Kevan Herold;George Eisenbarth

1610
Citations
Instability of the transcription factor Foxp3 leads to the generation of pathogenic memory T cells in vivo.

Xuyu Zhou;Samantha L Bailey-Bucktrout;Lukas T Jeker;Cristina Penaranda

1515
Citations
Long-term survival of xenogeneic pancreatic islet grafts induced by CTLA4lg

DJ Lenschow;Y Zeng;Thistlethwaite;A Montag

1502
Citations
In Vitro–expanded Antigen-specific Regulatory T Cells Suppress Autoimmune Diabetes

Qizhi Tang;Kammi J. Henriksen;Mingying Bi;Erik B. Finger

1484
Citations
Anti-CD3 Monoclonal Antibody in New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Kevan C. Herold;William Hagopian;Julie A. Auger;Ena Poumian-Ruiz

1478
Citations
Complexities of CD28/B7: CTLA-4 Costimulatory Pathways in Autoimmunity and Transplantation

Benoît Salomon;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

1436
Citations
THE NOD MOUSE: A Model of Immune Dysregulation

Mark S. Anderson;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

1420
Citations
Pathogenic conversion of Foxp3+ T cells into TH17 cells in autoimmune arthritis.

Noriko Komatsu;Kazuo Okamoto;Shinichiro Sawa;Tomoki Nakashima

1402
Citations
The Foxp3+ regulatory T cell: a jack of all trades, master of regulation.

Qizhi Tang;Jeffrey A Bluestone

1357
Citations
Control of peripheral T-cell tolerance and autoimmunity via the CTLA-4 and PD-1 pathways.

Brian T. Fife;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

1243
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Qizhi Tang University of California, San Francisco

Kevan C. Herold Yale University

David H. Sachs Columbia University

Anne I. Sperling University of Virginia

Craig B. Thompson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Maria-Luisa Alegre University of Chicago

Lucienne Chatenoud Inserm

Todd M. Brusko University of Florida

Stephen D. Miller Northwestern University

Alexander Marson University of California, San Francisco

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