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2026

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Immunology

D-Index
149
Citations
74686
World Ranking
126
National Ranking
83

Medicine

D-Index
149
Citations
74773
World Ranking
1210
National Ranking
700

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Jerome Ritz is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within medicine, immunology, and microbiology, with a strong focus on hematology, oncology, molecular biology, and genetics.

Ritz has contributed extensively to the fields of:

  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immune cell function and interaction
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Acute myeloid leukemia research
  • T-cell and B-cell immunology
  • Immunotherapy and immune responses
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics

Their publishing record reflects active participation in a variety of high-impact scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Blood
  • Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
  • Blood Advances
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research

Jerome Ritz's body of work includes several notable recent papers, such as:

  • "Personalized iPSC-Derived Dopamine Progenitor Cells for Parkinson's Disease," 2020, published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Post-Transcriptional Genetic Silencing of BCL11A to Treat Sickle Cell Disease," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in the Non-Trial Setting: Outcomes and Correlates of Response, Resistance, and Toxicity," 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with adverse outcomes in multiple myeloma patients undergoing transplant," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Memory-like NK cells armed with a neoepitope-specific CAR exhibit potent activity against NPM1 mutated acute myeloid leukemia," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaboration forms an integral part of Ritz's research, as reflected by frequent co-authorship with several scientists, including:

  • Robert J. Soiffer
  • Sarah Nikiforow
  • Catherine J. Wu
  • Rizwan Romee
  • Haesook T. Kim

Jerome Ritz's overall publication output is concentrated largely in medicine and immunology, with 312 and 130 publications respectively. Subfield contributions emphasize immunology, hematology, and oncology alongside molecular biology and genetics.

They have been recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians, reflecting engagement with professional medical communities.

Best Publications

  • An immunogenic personal neoantigen vaccine for patients with melanoma

    Patrick A. Ott;Zhuting Hu;Derin B. Keskin;Derin B. Keskin;Sachet A. Shukla;Sachet A. Shukla

  • Neoantigen vaccine generates intratumoral T cell responses in phase Ib glioblastoma trial

    Derin B. Keskin;Annabelle J. Anandappa;Jing Sun;Itay Tirosh

  • Biology and clinical relevance of human natural killer cells.

    Michael Robertson;Jerome Ritz

  • Interleukin-2 and Regulatory T Cells in Graft-versus-Host Disease

    John Koreth;Ken Ichi Matsuoka;Haesook T. Kim;Sean M. McDonough

  • Activation of a novel human transforming gene, ret, by DNA rearrangement

    Masahide Takahashi;Jerome Ritz;Geoffrey M. Cooper

  • IL-2 regulates FOXP3 expression in human CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells through a STAT-dependent mechanism and induces the expansion of these cells in vivo

    Emmanuel Zorn;Erik A. Nelson;Mehrdad Mohseni;Fabrice Porcheray

  • Expression of Epstein-Barr virus transformation-associated genes in tissues of patients with EBV lymphoproliferative disease.

    L Young;C Alfieri;K Hennessy;H Evans

  • A monoclonal antibody to human acute lymphoblastic leukaemia antigen

    Jerome Ritz;John M. Pesando;Jean Notis-McConarty;Herbert Lazarus

  • Immunologic purging of marrow assessed by PCR before autologous bone marrow transplantation for B-cell lymphoma.

    J G Gribben;A S Freedman;D Neuberg;D C Roy

  • The elusive nature and function of mesenchymal stem cells.

    César Nombela-Arrieta;Jerome Ritz;Jerome Ritz;Leslie E. Silberstein

  • CDK4/6 Inhibition Augments Antitumor Immunity by Enhancing T-cell Activation

    Jiehui Deng;Jiehui Deng;Eric S. Wang;Russell W. Jenkins;Shuai Li

  • Phase I evaluation of intravenous recombinant human interleukin 12 in patients with advanced malignancies.

    Michael B. Atkins;Michael J. Robertson;Michael Gordon;Michael T. Lotze

  • Ia DETERMINANTS ON HUMAN T-CELL SUBSETS DEFINED BY MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY Activation Stimuli Required for Expression*

    E L Reinherz;P C Kung;J M Pesando;J Ritz

  • Expression of myeloid differentiation antigens on normal and malignant myeloid cells.

    James D. Griffin;Jerome Ritz;Lee M. Nadler;Stuart F. Schlossman

  • Ipilimumab for Patients with Relapse after Allogeneic Transplantation

    Matthew S. Davids;Haesook T. Kim;Pavan Bachireddy;Caitlin Costello

  • Recombinant Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor after Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation for Lymphoid Cancer

    John Nemunaitis;John Nemunaitis;John Nemunaitis;Susan N. Rabinowe;Jack W. Singer;Jack W. Singer;Jack W. Singer;Philip J. Bierman

  • Reduced frequency of FOXP3+ CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease.

    Emmanuel Zorn;Haesook T. Kim;Haesook T. Kim;Stephanie J. Lee;Stephanie J. Lee;Blair H. Floyd;Blair H. Floyd

  • Functional consequences of interleukin 2 receptor expression on resting human lymphocytes. Identification of a novel natural killer cell subset with high affinity receptors.

    M A Caligiuri;A Zmuidzinas;T J Manley;H Levine

  • Antibody responses to H-Y minor histocompatibility antigens correlate with chronic graft-versus-host disease and disease remission

    David B. Miklos;David B. Miklos;Haesook T. Kim;Haesook T. Kim;Katherine H. Miller;Katherine H. Miller;Luxuan Guo;Luxuan Guo

  • Low-Dose Interleukin-2 Therapy Restores Regulatory T Cell Homeostasis in Patients with Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

    Ken-ichi Matsuoka;John Koreth;Haesook T. Kim;O. Gregory Bascug

  • Characterization of a cell line, NKL, derived from an aggressive human natural killer cell leukemia.

    Michael J. Robertson;K Cochran;Christine Cameron;J. M. Le

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Soiffer
Robert J. Soiffer Harvard University
Joseph H. Antin
Joseph H. Antin Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Edwin P. Alyea
Edwin P. Alyea Harvard University
Corey Cutler
Corey Cutler Harvard University
Vincent T. Ho
Vincent T. Ho Harvard University
Haesook T. Kim
Haesook T. Kim Harvard University
John Koreth
John Koreth Harvard University
Philippe Armand
Philippe Armand Harvard University
Catherine J. Wu
Catherine J. Wu Harvard University
Stuart F. Schlossman
Stuart F. Schlossman Harvard University

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