2026 Nicholas D. Huntington: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	66	2742	2526	110	103	181	17394

Overview

Nicholas D. Huntington is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, with a focus on immunology and microbiology. Their academic work intersects various subfields including immunology, oncology, molecular biology, genetics, and hematology. The main topics of their research encompass immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, as well as the role of immune cells in cancer.

Among Huntington's recent notable publications are:

The cancer-natural killer cell immunity cycle, 2020, published in Nature Reviews. Cancer
Crosstalk Between Gut Microbiota and Innate Immunity and Its Implication in Autoimmune Diseases, 2020, published in Frontiers in Immunology
Mesenchymal stromal cell apoptosis is required for their therapeutic function, 2021, published in Nature Communications
Discrete tissue microenvironments instruct diversity in resident memory T cell function and plasticity, 2021, published in Nature Immunology
Transforming growth factor-β-regulated mTOR activity preserves cellular metabolism to maintain long-term T cell responses in chronic infection, 2021, published in Immunity

Huntington has frequently published in several scientific outlets including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Immunology
Frontiers in Immunology
Cell Reports
Nature Communications

Throughout their career, they have co-authored many papers with a number of frequent collaborators. These include Jai Rautela, Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimarães, Melissa J. Davis, Stephen L. Nutt, and Joseph Cursons. Their collaboration counts range up to 28 joint publications with Jai Rautela.

Best Publications

ER Stress Triggers Apoptosis by Activating BH3-Only Protein Bim

Hamsa Puthalakath;Lorraine A. O'Reilly;Priscilla Gunn;Lily Lee

1678
Citations
Targeting natural killer cells in cancer immunotherapy

Camille Guillerey;Camille Guillerey;Nicholas D Huntington;Nicholas D Huntington;Mark J Smyth;Mark J Smyth

1125
Citations
IL-15 trans-presentation promotes human NK cell development and differentiation in vivo.

Nicholas D. Huntington;Nicolas Legrand;Nuno L. Alves;Barbara Jaron

663
Citations
TGF-β inhibits the activation and functions of NK cells by repressing the mTOR pathway

Sébastien Viel;Antoine Marçais;Fernando Souza Fonseca Guimaraes;Fernando Souza Fonseca Guimaraes;Roisin Loftus

654
Citations
Tumor immunoevasion by the conversion of effector NK cells into type 1 innate lymphoid cells

Yulong Gao;Yulong Gao;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Tobias Bald;Susanna S Ng;Susanna S Ng

632
Citations
Developmental pathways that generate natural-killer-cell diversity in mice and humans

Nicholas D. Huntington;Christian A. J. Vosshenrich;James P. Di Santo

551
Citations
The cancer–natural killer cell immunity cycle

Nicholas D Huntington;Joseph Cursons;Jai Rautela

527
Citations
CIS is a potent checkpoint in NK cell–mediated tumor immunity

Rebecca B. Delconte;Tatiana B Kolesnik;Laura F. Dagley;Laura F. Dagley;Jai Rautela;Jai Rautela

394
Citations
Lyn tyrosine kinase: accentuating the positive and the negative.

Yuekang Xu;Kenneth W. Harder;Nicholas D. Huntington;Margaret L. Hibbs

380
Citations
NK cell maturation and peripheral homeostasis is associated with KLRG1 up-regulation.

Nicholas D. Huntington;Nicholas D. Huntington;Hy Tabarias;Hy Tabarias;Kirsten Fairfax;Kirsten Fairfax;Jason Brady

368
Citations
Tissue-resident memory CD8 + T cells promote melanoma-immune equilibrium in skin

Simone L Park;Anthony Buzzai;Jai Rautela;Jyh Liang Hor

367
Citations
A2AR Adenosine Signaling Suppresses Natural Killer Cell Maturation in the Tumor Microenvironment.

Arabella Young;Arabella Young;Shin Foong Ngiow;Shin Foong Ngiow;Shin Foong Ngiow;Yulong Gao;Yulong Gao;Ann Marie Patch

358
Citations
Functional subsets of mouse natural killer cells

Yoshihiro Hayakawa;Nicholas D. Huntington;Stephen L. Nutt;Mark J. Smyth

310
Citations
Interleukin 15–mediated survival of natural killer cells is determined by interactions among Bim, Noxa and Mcl-1

Nicholas D Huntington;Hamsa Puthalakath;Priscilla Gunn;Edwina Naik;Edwina Naik

303
Citations
Crosstalk Between Gut Microbiota and Innate Immunity and Its Implication in Autoimmune Diseases.

Yuhao Jiao;Li Wu;Nicholas D. Huntington;Xuan Zhang;Xuan Zhang

301
Citations
A Gene Signature Predicting Natural Killer Cell Infiltration and Improved Survival in Melanoma Patients.

Joseph Cursons;Joseph Cursons;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Momeneh Foroutan;Momeneh Foroutan;Ashley Anderson

280
Citations
The Emergence of Natural Killer Cells as a Major Target in Cancer Immunotherapy

Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes;Joseph Cursons;Nicholas D. Huntington;Nicholas D. Huntington;Nicholas D. Huntington

276
Citations
Humanized mice for modeling human infectious disease: challenges, progress, and outlook.

Nicolas Legrand;Nicolas Legrand;Alexander Ploss;Alexander Ploss;Rudi Balling;Pablo D. Becker

264
Citations
Complementarity and redundancy of IL-22-producing innate lymphoid cells.

Lucille C. Rankin;Mathilde J.H. Girard-Madoux;Cyril Seillet;Cyril Seillet;Lisa A. Mielke;Lisa A. Mielke

259
Citations
Nfil3 is required for the development of all innate lymphoid cell subsets

Cyril Seillet;Cyril Seillet;Lucille C. Rankin;Lucille C. Rankin;Joanna R. Groom;Joanna R. Groom;Lisa A. Mielke;Lisa A. Mielke

258
Citations
Functional CD47/signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα) interaction is required for optimal human T- and natural killer- (NK) cell homeostasis in vivo

Nicolas Legrand;Nicholas D. Huntington;Maho Nagasawa;Arjen Q. Bakker

219
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Smyth QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Gabrielle T. Belz University of Queensland

Stephen L. Nutt Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

James P. Di Santo Institut Pasteur

David M. Tarlinton Monash University

Wei Shi Monash University

Mariapia A. Degli-Esposti Monash University

Eric Vivier Aix-Marseille University

Sandra E. Nicholson Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Warren S. Alexander Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

External Links

Personal website of Nicholas D. Huntington

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