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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
126
Citations
84402
World Ranking
410
National Ranking
245

Immunology

D-Index
127
Citations
93832
World Ranking
258
National Ranking
167

Medicine

D-Index
127
Citations
93833
World Ranking
2766
National Ranking
1543

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Miriam Merad is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and immunology and microbiology, with a total of 329 and 163 publications in these fields respectively. The subfields of their research include immunology, oncology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, and neurology.

The main topics covered in their work include immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, immune cells in cancer, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, CAR-T cell therapy research, and immune cell function and interaction.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Merad consist of Sacha Gnjatic, Thomas U. Marron, Seunghee Kim-Schulze, Brian D. Brown, and Jessica Le Bérichel.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews. Immunology, and Immunity.

Recent publications include:

  • An inflammatory cytokine signature predicts COVID-19 severity and survival, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Pathological inflammation in patients with COVID-19: a key role for monocytes and macrophages, 2020, Nature Reviews. Immunology
  • Immunology of COVID-19: Current State of the Science, 2020, Immunity
  • A conserved dendritic-cell regulatory program limits antitumour immunity, 2020, Nature
  • The immunology and immunopathology of COVID-19, 2022, Science

Miriam Merad was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Fate Mapping Analysis Reveals That Adult Microglia Derive from Primitive Macrophages

    Florent Ginhoux;Florent Ginhoux;Melanie Greter;Marylene Leboeuf;Sayan Nandi

  • Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy.

    Mikhail Binnewies;Edward W. Roberts;Kelly Kersten;Vincent Chan

  • Development of Monocytes, Macrophages, and Dendritic Cells

    Frederic Geissmann;Markus G. Manz;Steffen Jung;Michael H. Sieweke

  • The dendritic cell lineage: ontogeny and function of dendritic cells and their subsets in the steady state and the inflamed setting.

    Miriam Merad;Priyanka Sathe;Julie Helft;Jennifer Miller

  • An inflammatory cytokine signature predicts COVID-19 severity and survival.

    Diane Marie Del Valle;Seunghee Kim-Schulze;Hsin-Hui Huang;Noam D. Beckmann

  • Tissue-Resident Macrophages Self-Maintain Locally throughout Adult Life with Minimal Contribution from Circulating Monocytes

    Daigo Hashimoto;Andrew Chow;Andrew Chow;Clara Noizat;Clara Noizat;Pearline Teo

  • Pathological inflammation in patients with COVID-19: a key role for monocytes and macrophages.

    Miriam Merad;Jerome C. Martin

  • Tissue-Resident Macrophage Enhancer Landscapes Are Shaped by the Local Microenvironment

    Yonit Lavin;Deborah Winter;Ronnie Blecher-Gonen;Eyal David

  • Gene-expression profiles and transcriptional regulatory pathways that underlie the identity and diversity of mouse tissue macrophages

    Emmanuel L Gautier;Tal Shay;Tal Shay;Jennifer Miller;Melanie Greter

  • Revised classification of histiocytoses and neoplasms of the macrophage-dendritic cell lineages.

    Jean-François Emile;Oussama Abla;Sylvie Fraitag;Annacarin Horne

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • Immunology of COVID-19: Current State of the Science.

    Nicolas Vabret;Graham J. Britton;Conor Gruber;Samarth Hegde

  • Langerhans cells renew in the skin throughout life under steady-state conditions

    Miriam Merad;Markus G. Manz;Holger Karsunky;Amy Wagers

  • Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer.

    Vinod P. Balachandran;Marta Łuksza;Julia N. Zhao;Vladimir Makarov

  • Expansion and Activation of CD103(+) Dendritic Cell Progenitors at the Tumor Site Enhances Tumor Responses to Therapeutic PD-L1 and BRAF Inhibition.

    Hélène Salmon;Juliana Idoyaga;Adeeb Rahman;Marylène Leboeuf

  • Innate Immune Landscape in Early Lung Adenocarcinoma by Paired Single-Cell Analyses.

    Yonit Lavin;Soma Kobayashi;Andrew Leader;El-ad David Amir

  • C-Myb(+) erythro-myeloid progenitor-derived fetal monocytes give rise to adult tissue-resident macrophages

    Guillaume Hoeffel;Jinmiao Chen;Yonit Lavin;Donovan Low

  • Origin of the lamina propria dendritic cell network.

    Milena Bogunovic;Florent Ginhoux;Julie Helft;Limin Shang

  • Origin, homeostasis and function of Langerhans cells and other langerin-expressing dendritic cells

    Miriam Merad;Florent Ginhoux;Matthew Collin;Matthew Collin

  • Social stress induces neurovascular pathology promoting depression.

    Caroline Menard;Caroline Menard;Madeline L. Pfau;Georgia E. Hodes;Veronika Kana

  • Bone marrow CD169+ macrophages promote the retention of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the mesenchymal stem cell niche

    Andrew Chow;Daniel Lucas;Daniel Lucas;Andrés Hidalgo;Andrés Hidalgo;Simón Méndez-Ferrer;Simón Méndez-Ferrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Florent Ginhoux
Florent Ginhoux Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Sacha Gnjatic
Sacha Gnjatic Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Brian D. Brown
Brian D. Brown Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Matthew Collin
Matthew Collin Newcastle University
Paul S. Frenette
Paul S. Frenette Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Melanie Greter
Melanie Greter University of Zurich
Nina Bhardwaj
Nina Bhardwaj Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Edgar G. Engleman
Edgar G. Engleman Stanford University
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech

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