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2026

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Immunology

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150
Citations
79929
World Ranking
120
National Ranking
77

Medicine

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Citations
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Lawrence Steinman is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has focused research efforts primarily within the field of medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields, including immunology, pathology and forensic medicine, neurology, oncology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas such as multiple sclerosis research studies, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, polyomavirus and related diseases, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and peripheral neuropathies and disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lawrence Steinman include Bruce Cree, Hans-Peter Hartung, Krzysztof Selmaj, Amit Bar-Or, and Enríque Alvarez.

Their research has been published extensively in venues including:

  • Neurology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Selected recent papers by Lawrence Steinman are:

  • Ublituximab versus Teriflunomide in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Clonally expanded B cells in multiple sclerosis bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM, 2022, Nature
  • Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis, 2022, Science
  • COVID-19 therapeutics: Challenges and directions for the future, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reduced development of COVID-19 in children reveals molecular checkpoints gating pathogenesis illuminating potential therapeutics, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lawrence Steinman has been recognized with honors such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016 and elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Prevention of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by antibodies against alpha 4 beta 1 integrin.

    Ted A. Yednock;Catherine Cannon;Lawrence C. Fritz;Francisco Sanchez-Madrid

  • The design, synthesis, and evaluation of molecules that enable or enhance cellular uptake: Peptoid molecular transporters

    Paul A. Wender;Dennis J. Mitchell;Kanaka Pattabiraman;Erin T. Pelkey

  • A brief history of T(H)17, the first major revision in the T(H)1/T(H)2 hypothesis of T cell-mediated tissue damage.

    Lawrence Steinman

  • Gene-microarray analysis of multiple sclerosis lesions yields new targets validated in autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Christopher Lock;Guy Hermans;Rosetta Pedotti;Andrea Brendolan

  • Treatment of Brain Inflammatory Diseases by Delivering Exosome Encapsulated Anti-inflammatory Drugs From the Nasal Region to the Brain

    Xiaoying Zhuang;Xiaoyu Xiang;William Grizzle;Dongmei Sun

  • The HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, atorvastatin, promotes a Th2 bias and reverses paralysis in central nervous system autoimmune disease

    Sawsan Youssef;Olaf Stüve;Juan C. Patarroyo;Pedro J. Ruiz;Pedro J. Ruiz

  • Polyarginine enters cells more efficiently than other polycationic homopolymers.

    D.J. Mitchell;L. Steinman;D.T. Kim;C.G. Fathman

  • The T Lymphocyte in Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis

    Scott S. Zamvil;Lawrence Steinman

  • Mice with a disrupted IFN-gamma gene are susceptible to the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).

    I A Ferber;S Brocke;C Taylor-Edwards;W Ridgway

  • Limited heterogeneity of T cell receptors from lymphocytes mediating autoimmune encephalomyelitis allows specific immune intervention

    Hans Acha-Orbea;Dennis J. Mitchell;Luika Timmermann;David C. Wraith

  • The influence of the proinflammatory cytokine, osteopontin, on autoimmune demyelinating disease.

    Dorothée Chabas;Sergio E. Baranzini;Dennis Mitchell;Claude C. A. Bernard

  • Clonally expanded B cells in multiple sclerosis bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM

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  • Autoantigen microarrays for multiplex characterization of autoantibody responses

    William H. Robinson;Carla DiGennaro;Wolfgang Hueber;Brian B. Haab

  • A molecular basis for MHC class II--associated autoimmunity

    J A Todd;H Acha-Orbea;J I Bell;N Chao

  • Statin therapy and autoimmune disease: from protein prenylation to immunomodulation

    John Greenwood;Lawrence Steinman;Scott S. Zamvil

  • Multiple sclerosis: a two-stage disease

    Lawrence Steinman

  • Protective and therapeutic role for αB-crystallin in autoimmune demyelination

    Shalina S. Ousman;Beren H. Tomooka;Johannes M. van Noort;Eric F. Wawrousek

  • Elaborate interactions between the immune and nervous systems.

    Lawrence Steinman

  • T-cell clones specific for myelin basic protein induce chronic relapsing paralysis and demyelination

    Scott Zamvil;Patricia Nelson;Jacqueline Trotter;Dennis Mitchell

  • T helper type 1 and 17 cells determine efficacy of interferon-beta in multiple sclerosis and experimental encephalomyelitis.

    Robert C Axtell;Brigit A de Jong;Brigit A de Jong;Brigit A de Jong;Katia Boniface;Laura F van der Voort

  • How to successfully apply animal studies in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis to research on multiple sclerosis.

    Lawrence Steinman;Scott S. Zamvil

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Robinson
William H. Robinson Stanford University
Scott S. Zamvil
Scott S. Zamvil University of California, San Francisco
Jorge R. Oksenberg
Jorge R. Oksenberg University of California, San Francisco
Raymond A. Sobel
Raymond A. Sobel Stanford University
Paul J. Utz
Paul J. Utz Stanford University
Hugh O. McDevitt
Hugh O. McDevitt Stanford University
Paul J. Conlon
Paul J. Conlon Bioduro-Sundia
Claude C.A. Bernard
Claude C.A. Bernard Monash University
Amit Bar-Or
Amit Bar-Or University of Pennsylvania
Bruce A. C. Cree
Bruce A. C. Cree University of California, San Francisco

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