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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
  • 2019 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
  • 2017 - AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - AAI Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists For service as AAI Program Committee Chair

Overview

Lewis L. Lanier is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions also in medicine. The main subfields in which they work include immunology, molecular biology, oncology, surgery, and epidemiology.

The scientist's principal topics of research cover areas such as immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, transplantation methods and outcomes, mechanical circulatory support devices, and cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Key recent publications by Lewis L. Lanier include:

  • Multiple early factors anticipate post-acute COVID-19 sequelae (2022), published in Cell
  • Multi-Omics Resolves a Sharp Disease-State Shift between Mild and Moderate COVID-19 (2020), published in Cell
  • Tissue Determinants of Human NK Cell Development, Function, and Residence (2020), published in Cell
  • An NK-like CAR T cell transition in CAR T cell dysfunction (2021), published in Cell
  • The neutrotime transcriptional signature defines a single continuum of neutrophils across biological compartments (2021), published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Lewis L. Lanier include:

  • Oscar A. Aguilar
  • Avishai Shemesh
  • Daniel R. Calabrese
  • John R. Greenland
  • Janice Arakawa-Hoyt

Major venues where Lewis L. Lanier publishes their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Cell
  • Nature Immunology

Throughout their career, Lewis L. Lanier has received recognition from professional organizations in immunology and related fields. These awards include:

  • Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI), 2019
  • AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists, 2017
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010
  • AAI Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists, 2001, for service as AAI Program Committee Chair

Best Publications

  • Activation of NK Cells and T Cells by NKG2D, a Receptor for Stress-Inducible MICA

    Stefan Bauer;Veronika Groh;Jun Wu;Alexander Steinle

  • NK CELL RECOGNITION

    Lewis L. Lanier

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

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

  • HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C

    Veronique M. Braud;David S. J. Allan;Christopher A. O'Callaghan;Kalle Söderström

  • NK CELL RECEPTORS

    Lewis L. Lanier

  • The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells

    Tracy S P Heng;Michio W Painter;Kutlu Elpek;Veronika Lukacs-Kornek

  • Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibition.

    Lewis L Lanier

  • Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells

    Joseph C. Sun;Joshua N. Beilke;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Immune inhibitory receptors.

    Jeffrey V. Ravetch;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Direct Recognition of Cytomegalovirus by Activating and Inhibitory NK Cell Receptors

    Hisashi Arase;Edward S. Mocarski;Ann E. Campbell;Ann B. Hill

  • The relationship of CD16 (Leu-11) and Leu-19 (NKH-1) antigen expression on human peripheral blood NK cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes

    L. L. Lanier;An My Le;C. I. Civin;M. R. Loken

  • CD69 acts downstream of interferon-alpha/beta to inhibit S1P1 and lymphocyte egress from lymphoid organs.

    Lawrence R. Shiow;David B. Rosen;Naděžda Brdičková;Ying Xu

  • An activating immunoreceptor complex formed by NKG2D and DAP10.

    Jun Wu;Yaoli Song;Alexander B. H. Bakker;Stefan Bauer

  • Human Diversity in Killer Cell Inhibitory Receptor Genes

    Markus Uhrberg;Nicholas M Valiante;Benny P Shum;Heather G Shilling

  • B70 antigen is a second ligand for CTLA-4 and CD28

    Miyuki Azuma;Daisuke Ito;Daisuke Ito;Hideo Yagita;Ko Okumura

  • NK cells and cancer: you can teach innate cells new tricks

    Maelig G. Morvan;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Immunoreceptor DAP12 bearing a tyrosine-based activation motif is involved in activating NK cells

    Lewis L. Lanier;Brian C. Corliss;Jun Wu;Clement Leong

  • Natural killer cells, viruses and cancer.

    Adelheid Cerwenka;Lewis L. Lanier

  • Subpopulations of human natural killer cells defined by expression of the Leu-7 (HNK-1) and Leu-11 (NK-15) antigens.

    L. L. Lanier;An My Le;J. H. Phillips;N. L. Warner

  • Retinoic Acid Early Inducible Genes Define a Ligand Family for the Activating NKG2D Receptor in Mice

    Adelheid Cerwenka;Alexander B.H Bakker;Terri McClanahan;Janet Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph H. Phillips
Joseph H. Phillips MSD (United States)
Joseph C. Sun
Joseph C. Sun Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Noel L. Warner
Noel L. Warner Becton Dickinson (United States)
Peter Parham
Peter Parham Stanford University
Hisashi Arase
Hisashi Arase Osaka University
Douglas F. Nixon
Douglas F. Nixon Cornell University
Kouetsu Ogasawara
Kouetsu Ogasawara Tohoku University
James P. Allison
James P. Allison The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jenny E. Gumperz
Jenny E. Gumperz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arthur Weiss
Arthur Weiss University of California, San Francisco

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