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Immunology

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in France Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Laurence Zitvogel is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, their work is notably concentrated on oncology, molecular biology, immunology, infectious diseases, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist has a substantial publication record addressing several main topics, including cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, gut microbiota and health, immunotherapy and immune responses, immune cell function and interaction, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Frequent co-authors with whom Laurence Zitvogel has collaborated include Guido Kroemer, Lisa Derosa, Marine Fidelle, Carolina Alves Costa Silva, and Nicola Segata.

They publish frequently in a range of scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in OncoImmunology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nature Medicine, Cancer Discovery, and Cancer Research.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Immunostimulation with chemotherapy in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors," 2020, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • "The microbiome and human cancer," 2021, Science
  • "Immunogenic cell stress and death," 2022, Nature Immunology
  • "Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death," 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • "Elevated Calprotectin and Abnormal Myeloid Cell Subsets Discriminate Severe from Mild COVID-19," 2020, Cell

Laurence Zitvogel's contributions to cancer immunotherapy research and related fields have been recognized by their election as a member of Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Exosomes: composition, biogenesis and function

    Clotilde Théry;Laurence Zitvogel;Sebastian Amigorena

  • Gut microbiome influences efficacy of PD-1–based immunotherapy against epithelial tumors

    Bertrand Routy;Bertrand Routy;Bertrand Routy;Lisa Derosa;Lisa Derosa;Lisa Derosa;Connie P. M. Duong;Connie P. M. Duong

  • Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients

    V. Gopalakrishnan;V. Gopalakrishnan;C. N. Spencer;C. N. Spencer;L. Nezi;A. Reuben

  • Anticancer immunotherapy by CTLA-4 blockade relies on the gut microbiota

    Marie Vétizou;Marie Vétizou;Marie Vétizou;Jonathan M. Pitt;Jonathan M. Pitt;Jonathan M. Pitt;Romain Daillère;Romain Daillère;Romain Daillère;Patricia Lepage

  • Calreticulin exposure dictates the immunogenicity of cancer cell death

    Michel Obeid;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;François Ghiringhelli;François Ghiringhelli;François Ghiringhelli;Gian Maria Fimia

  • Toll-like receptor 4-dependent contribution of the immune system to anticancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

    Lionel Apetoh;François Ghiringhelli;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Michel Obeid;Michel Obeid;Michel Obeid

  • Immunogenic Cell Death in Cancer Therapy

    Guido Kroemer;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Oliver Kepp;Laurence Zitvogel

  • Innate or Adaptive Immunity? The Example of Natural Killer Cells

    Eric Vivier;David H. Raulet;Alessandro Moretta;Michael A. Caligiuri

  • Immunogenic cell death in cancer and infectious disease

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Aitziber Buqué;Oliver Kepp;Laurence Zitvogel

  • Eradication of established murine tumors using a novel cell-free vaccine: dendritic cell-derived exosomes

    Laurence Zitvogel;Armelle Regnault;Anne Lozier;Joseph Wolfers

  • Antigen Presentation and T Cell Stimulation by Dendritic Cells

    Pierre Guermonprez;Jenny Valladeau;Laurence Zitvogel;Clotilde Théry

  • The intestinal microbiota modulates the anticancer immune effects of cyclophosphamide

    Sophie Viaud;Sophie Viaud;Fabiana Saccheri;Grégoire Mignot;Takahiro Yamazaki

  • The immune contexture in cancer prognosis and treatment

    Wolf H Fridman;Laurence Zitvogel;Catherine Sautès-Fridman;Catherine Sautès-Fridman;Catherine Sautès-Fridman;Guido Kroemer

  • Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in dendritic cells induces IL-1β–dependent adaptive immunity against tumors

    François Ghiringhelli;Lionel Apetoh;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Antoine Tesniere;Laetitia Aymeric;Laetitia Aymeric;Laetitia Aymeric

  • Immunological aspects of cancer chemotherapy.

    Laurence Zitvogel;Lionel Apetoh;Lionel Apetoh;François Ghiringhelli;Guido Kroemer;Guido Kroemer

  • Tumor-derived exosomes are a source of shared tumor rejection antigens for CTL cross-priming.

    Joseph Wolfers;Anne Lozier;Graça Raposo;Armelle Regnault

  • Cancer despite immunosurveillance: immunoselection and immunosubversion

    Laurence Zitvogel;Antoine Tesniere;Guido Kroemer

  • Caspase-dependent immunogenicity of doxorubicin-induced tumor cell death.

    Noelia Casares;Marie O. Pequignot;Antoine Tesniere;François Ghiringhelli

  • Immunological Effects of Conventional Chemotherapy and Targeted Anticancer Agents.

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Aitziber Buqué;Oliver Kepp;Laurence Zitvogel

  • Metronomic cyclophosphamide regimen selectively depletes CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and restores T and NK effector functions in end stage cancer patients

    François Ghiringhelli;Cedric Menard;Pierre Emmanuel Puig;Sylvain Ladoire

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy
Erika Vacchelli
Erika Vacchelli Université Paris Cité
Alexander M.M. Eggermont
Alexander M.M. Eggermont Institut Gustave Roussy
Nathalie Chaput
Nathalie Chaput Institut Gustave Roussy
Fabrice Andre
Fabrice Andre Institut Gustave Roussy
Yuting Ma
Yuting Ma University of Oxford
Takahiro Yamazaki
Takahiro Yamazaki Cornell University

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