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D-Index
61
Citations
30292
World Ranking
3178
National Ranking
1488

Juan J. Lafaille 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 Juan J. Lafaille sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 118 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Juan J. Lafaille 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 Juan J. Lafaille sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Juan J. Lafaille is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The subfields of study they contribute to include Immunology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neurology, and Oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Selected recent publications by Juan J. Lafaille include:

  • Regulatory T Cells License Macrophage Pro-Resolving Functions During Atherosclerosis Regression, 2020, Circulation Research
  • Niche-Selective Inhibition of Pathogenic Th17 Cells by Targeting Metabolic Redundancy, 2020, Cell
  • Food colorants metabolized by commensal bacteria promote colitis in mice with dysregulated expression of interleukin-23, 2021, Cell Metabolism
  • CSF1R inhibition depletes tumor-associated macrophages and attenuates tumor progression in a mouse sonic Hedgehog-Medulloblastoma model, 2020, Oncogene
  • c-MAF-dependent perivascular macrophages regulate diet-induced metabolic syndrome, 2021, Science Immunology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Hernandez Moura Silva
  • Lina Kroehling
  • Dan R. Littman
  • Gláucia C. Furtado
  • Sérgio A. Lira

Juan J. Lafaille has published multiple papers in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Circulation Research, Cell, Cell Metabolism, and Oncogene. The majority of their articles appear in specialized journals focused on immunology, molecular biology, and cancer research.

Best Publications

  • The orphan nuclear receptor RORgammat directs the differentiation program of proinflammatory IL-17+ T helper cells.

    Ivaylo I. Ivanov;Brent S. McKenzie;Liang Zhou;Carlos E. Tadokoro

  • Microglia Promote Learning-Dependent Synapse Formation through Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

    Christopher N. Parkhurst;Guang Yang;Ipe Ninan;Jeffrey N. Savas

  • Natural and adaptive foxp3+ regulatory T cells: more of the same or a division of labor?

    Maria A. Curotto de Lafaille;Juan J. Lafaille

  • Mutations in T-cell antigen receptor genes α and β block thymocyte development at different stages

    Peter Mombaerts;Alan R. Clarke;Michael A. Rudnicki;John Iacomini

  • Interleukin 2 signaling is required for CD4(+) regulatory T cell function.

    Gláucia C. Furtado;Maria A. Curotto de Lafaille;Nino Kutchukhidze;Juan J. Lafaille

  • Correction: Corrigendum: A subpopulation of high IL-21-producing CD4+ T cells in Peyer’s Patches is induced by the microbiota and regulates germinal centers

    Leigh Jones;Wen Qi Ho;Sze Ying;Lakshmi Ramakrishna

  • High incidence of spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in immunodeficient anti-myelin basic protein T cell receptor transgenic mice

    Juan J. Lafaille;Kumiko Nagashima;Motoya Katsuki;Susumu Tonegawa

  • Junctional sequences of T cell receptor γδ genes: Implications for γδ T cell lineages and for a novel intermediate of V-(D)-J joining

    Juan J. Lafaille;Amy DeCloux;Marc Bonneville;Yohtaroh Takagaki

  • Induced CD4+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells in Immune Tolerance

    Angelina M. Bilate;Juan J. Lafaille

  • Neuropilin 1 is expressed on thymus-derived natural regulatory T cells, but not mucosa-generated induced Foxp3+ T reg cells

    Jonathan M. Weiss;Angelina M. Bilate;Michael Gobert;Yi Ding

  • Regulatory T cells inhibit stable contacts between CD4+ T cells and dendritic cells in vivo

    Carlos E. Tadokoro;Guy Shakhar;Shiqian Shen;Yi Ding

  • Oral tolerance in the absence of naturally occurring Tregs

    Daniel Mucida;Nino Kutchukhidze;Agustin Erazo;Momtchilo Russo

  • Myelin Basic Protein–specific T Helper 2 (Th2) Cells Cause Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis in Immunodeficient Hosts Rather than Protect Them from the Disease

    Juan J. Lafaille;Fabienne Van de Keere;Albert L. Hsu;Jody L. Baron

  • Homing of a γδ thymocyte subset with homogeneous T-cell receptors to mucosal epithelia

    Shigeyoshi Itohara;Shigeyoshi Itohara;Shigeyoshi Itohara;Andrew G. Farr;Andrew G. Farr;Andrew G. Farr;Juan J. Lafaille;Juan J. Lafaille;Juan J. Lafaille;Marc Bonneville;Marc Bonneville;Marc Bonneville

  • T cell receptor δ gene mutant mice : independent generation of αβ T cells and programmed rearrangements of γδ TCR genes

    Shigeyoshi Itohara;Peter Mombaerts;Juan Lafaille;John Iacomini

  • Digoxin and its derivatives suppress Th17 cell differentiation by antagonizing RORγt activity

    Jun R. Huh;Monica W. L. Leung;Pengxiang Huang;Daniel A. Ryan

  • Focused specificity of intestinal TH17 cells towards commensal bacterial antigens

    Yi Yang;Miriam B. Torchinsky;Michael Gobert;Huizhong Xiong

  • CD25− T Cells Generate CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells by Peripheral Expansion

    Maria A. Curotto de Lafaille;Andreia C. Lino;Nino Kutchukhidze;Juan J. Lafaille

  • Adaptive Foxp3+ regulatory T cell-dependent and -independent control of allergic inflammation.

    Maria A. Curotto de Lafaille;Nino Kutchukhidze;Shiqian Shen;Yi Ding

  • Regulatory CD4+ T Cells Expressing Endogenous T Cell Receptor Chains Protect Myelin Basic Protein–specific Transgenic Mice from Spontaneous Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

    Danyvid Olivares-Villagómez;Yijie Wang;Juan J. Lafaille

  • CD4(+) regulatory T cells in autoimmunity and allergy.

    Maria A Curotto de Lafaille;Juan J Lafaille

  • Protein kinase C-θ mediates negative feedback on regulatory T cell function

    Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov;Yi Ding;Sudha Kumari;Mukundan Attur

  • Sequential class switching is required for the generation of high affinity IgE antibodies

    Huizhong Xiong;Jayashree Dolpady;Matthias Wabl;Maria A. Curotto de Lafaille

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Dustin
Michael L. Dustin University of Oxford
Dan R. Littman
Dan R. Littman New York University
Michael Poidinger
Michael Poidinger Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Luis Graca
Luis Graca University of Lisbon
Steven B. Abramson
Steven B. Abramson New York University
Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
Daniel Mucida
Daniel Mucida Rockefeller University
Jocelyne Demengeot
Jocelyne Demengeot Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Beth Stevens
Beth Stevens Boston Children's Hospital

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