2026 Moon H. Nahm: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	79	1695	1544	836	750	313	21507
Medicine	79	17618	16560	8803	8136	318	21583

Overview

Moon H. Nahm is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions in the subfields of Epidemiology, Microbiology, Immunology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, focusing notably on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Bacterial Infections and Vaccines, Respiratory Viral Infections Research, Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Detection and Treatment, Influenza Virus Research Studies, Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, and Diabetes and Associated Disorders.

Moon H. Nahm has coauthored multiple research papers alongside frequent collaborators including Feroze Ganaie, David C. LaFon, Jamil S. Saad, Stephanie W. Lo, and Lesley McGee.

The researcher has published extensively in several academic venues. Notably, these include Microbiology Spectrum, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vaccine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and mBio.

Some of the recent publications featuring Moon H. Nahm are as follows:

A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Serotype and Has a Large cps Fragment from an Oral Streptococcus, 2020, mBio
Structural, Genetic, and Serological Elucidation of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serogroup 24 Serotypes: Discovery of a New Serotype, 24C, with a Variable Capsule Structure, 2021, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Capsule Promotes Intracellular Survival and Vascular Endothelial Cell Translocation during Invasive Pneumococcal Disease, 2021, mBio
Discovery and Characterization of Pneumococcal Serogroup 36 Capsule Subtypes, Serotypes 36A and 36B, 2023, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Novel pneumococcal capsule type 33E results from the inactivation of glycosyltransferase WciE in vaccine type 33F, 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Best Publications

BCL2 protein is topographically restricted in tissues characterized by apoptotic cell death.

David M. Hockenbery;Mary Zutter;William Hickey;Moon Nahm

1718
Citations
Pneumococcal Capsules and Their Types: Past, Present, and Future.

K. Aaron Geno;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert;Joon Young Song;Ian C. Skovsted

809
Citations
Discovery of a New Capsular Serotype (6C) within Serogroup 6 of Streptococcus pneumoniae

In Ho Park;David G. Pritchard;Rob Cartee;Angela Brandao;Angela Brandao

578
Citations
ANTIPHOSPHOCHOLINE ANTIBODIES FOUND IN NORMAL MOUSE SERUM ARE PROTECTIVE AGAINST INTRAVENOUS INFECTION WITH TYPE 3 STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE

David E. Briles;Moon Nahm;Kenneth Schroer;Joseph Davie

575
Citations
NOD-Like Receptors in Infection, Immunity, and Diseases

Young Keun Kim;Jeon Soo Shin;Moon H Nahm

509
Citations
Role of lymphotoxin and the type I TNF receptor in the formation of germinal centers.

Mitsuru Matsumoto;Sanjeev Mariathasan;Moon H. Nahm;Ferenc Baranyay

485
Citations
Affinity maturation without germinal centres in lymphotoxin-α-deficient mice

Mitsuru Matsumoto;Stanley F. Lo;Cynthia J. L. Carruthers;Jingjuan Min

406
Citations
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for quantitation of human antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides.

Catherine M. Wernette;Carl E. Frasch;Dace Madore;George Carlone

397
Citations
Immunization of Humans with Recombinant Pneumococcal Surface Protein A (rPspA) Elicits Antibodies That Passively Protect Mice from Fatal Infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae Bearing Heterologous PspA

David E. Briles;Susan K. Hollingshead;Janice King;Amy Swift

386
Citations
A New Pneumococcal Capsule Type, 10D, is the 100th Serotype and Has a Large cps Fragment from an Oral Streptococcus

Feroze Ganaie;Jamil S. Saad;Lesley McGee;Andries J. van Tonder

376
Citations
Subclass restriction of murine antibodies. II. The IgG plaque-forming cell response to thymus-independent type 1 and type 2 antigens in normal mice and mice expressing an X-linked immunodeficiency

J Slack;G P Der-Balian;M Nahm;J M Davie

357
Citations
Intranasal Immunization of Mice with PspA (Pneumococcal Surface Protein A) Can Prevent Intranasal Carriage, Pulmonary Infection, and Sepsis with Streptococcus pneumoniae

Hong-Yin Wu;Moon H. Nahm;Y. Guo;Michael W. Russell

303
Citations
The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) elicits cross-functional opsonophagocytic killing responses in humans to Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 6C and 7A.

David Cooper;Xinhong Yu;Mohinder Sidhu;Moon H. Nahm

272
Citations
Use of opsonophagocytosis for serological evaluation of pneumococcal vaccines.

Sandra Romero-Steiner;Carl E. Frasch;George Carlone;Roland A. Fleck

256
Citations
Pneumococcal Lipoteichoic Acid (LTA) Is Not as Potent as Staphylococcal LTA in Stimulating Toll-Like Receptor 2

Seung Hyun Han;Je Hak Kim;Michael Martin;Suzanne M. Michalek

246
Citations
A new pneumococcal serotype, 11E, has a variably inactivated wcjE gene.

Juan J. Calix;Moon H. Nahm

238
Citations
Development and Validation of a Fourfold Multiplexed Opsonization Assay (MOPA4) for Pneumococcal Antibodies

Robert L. Burton;Moon H. Nahm

234
Citations
Monoclonal antibodies to mouse MHC antigens. I. Serologic characterization of ten anti-H-2 and anti-Ia reagents.

Vera Hauptfeld;Moon Nahm;Miroslav Hauptfeld;Donald C. Shreffler

231
Citations
Clinical Implications of Pneumococcal Serotypes: Invasive Disease Potential, Clinical Presentations, and Antibiotic Resistance

Joon Young Song;Joon Young Song;Moon H. Nahm;M. Allen Moseley

224
Citations
Genetic Basis for the New Pneumococcal Serotype, 6C

In Ho Park;Saeyoung Park;Susan K. Hollingshead;Moon H. Nahm

208
Citations
Cytokine expression by germinal center cells.

A. W. Butch;Gook-Hyun Chung;J. W. Hoffmann;M. H. Nahm

206
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Briles University of Alabama at Birmingham

Joseph M. Davie Pfizer (Germany)

Dan M. Granoff UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Susan K. Hollingshead University of Alabama at Birmingham

David Goldblatt University College London

George M. Carlone Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Richard P. MacDermott Albany Medical Center Hospital

William H. Benjamin University of Alabama at Birmingham

Mimi L.K. Tang Royal Children's Hospital

Mark T. Dransfield University of Alabama at Birmingham

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