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Nina Bhardwaj publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nina Bhardwaj sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 498 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Nina Bhardwaj D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nina Bhardwaj sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Nina Bhardwaj is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, particularly focusing on immunology and oncology.

The main fields of study covered in their publications include:

  • Medicine
  • Immunology and Microbiology

The subfields of their research encompass:

  • Immunology
  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Surgery
  • Cancer Research

The primary research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Bhardwaj's recent notable papers include:

  • Immunology of COVID-19: Current State of the Science, 2020, Immunity
  • Therapeutic cancer vaccines, 2021, Nature Reviews Cancer
  • A conserved dendritic-cell regulatory program limits antitumour immunity, 2020, Nature
  • A Phase Ib Trial of Personalized Neoantigen Therapy Plus Anti-PD-1 in Patients with Advanced Melanoma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, or Bladder Cancer, 2020, Cell
  • Key Parameters of Tumor Epitope Immunogenicity Revealed Through a Consortium Approach Improve Neoantigen Prediction, 2020, Cell

The venues where Bhardwaj frequently publishes include:

  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Cell
  • Cell

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

  • Matthew D. Galsky
  • John P. Sfakianos
  • Cansu Cimen Bozkus
  • Amir Horowitz
  • Miriam Mérad

Best Publications

  • Dendritic cells acquire antigen from apoptotic cells and induce class I-restricted CTLs

    Matthew L. Albert;Birthe Sauter;Nina Bhardwaj

  • Antigen-specific inhibition of effector T cell function in humans after injection of immature dendritic cells.

    Madhav V. Dhodapkar;Ralph M. Steinman;Joseph Krasovsky;Christian Munz

  • Consequences of cell death: exposure to necrotic tumor cells, but not primary tissue cells or apoptotic cells, induces the maturation of immunostimulatory dendritic cells.

    Birthe Sauter;Matthew L. Albert;Loise Francisco;Marie H. Larsson

  • Immature dendritic cells phagocytose apoptotic cells via alphavbeta5 and CD36, and cross-present antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes

    Matthew L. Albert;S.Frieda A. Pearce;Loise M. Francisco;Birthe Sauter

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

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

  • Therapeutic cancer vaccines

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  • 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

  • Immune and Clinical Responses in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma to CD34+ Progenitor-derived Dendritic Cell Vaccine

    Jacques Banchereau;A. Karolina Palucka;Madhav Dhodapkar;Susan Burkeholder

  • Improved methods for the generation of dendritic cells from nonproliferating progenitors in human blood

    Armin Bender;Mark Sapp;Gerold Schuler;Ralph M. Steinman

  • Critical Role for CD103(+)/CD141(+) Dendritic Cells Bearing CCR7 for Tumor Antigen Trafficking and Priming of T Cell Immunity in Melanoma

    Edward W. Roberts;Miranda L. Broz;Mikhail Binnewies;Mark B. Headley

  • A natural killer-dendritic cell axis defines checkpoint therapy-responsive tumor microenvironments.

    Kevin C. Barry;Joy Hsu;Miranda L. Broz;Francisco J. Cueto;Francisco J. Cueto;Francisco J. Cueto

  • Endocytosis of HIV-1 activates plasmacytoid dendritic cells via Toll-like receptor–viral RNA interactions

    Anne-Sophie Beignon;Kelli McKenna;Mojca Skoberne;Olivier Manches

  • Human blood contains two subsets of dendritic cells, one immunologically mature and the other immature.

    U O'Doherty;M Peng;S Gezelter;W J Swiggard

  • Dendritic cell-based immunotherapy

    Rachel L Sabado;Sreekumar Balan;Nina Bhardwaj

  • A conserved dendritic-cell regulatory program limits antitumour immunity

    Barbara Maier;Andrew M. Leader;Steven T. Chen;Navpreet Tung

  • Efficient Presentation of Phagocytosed Cellular Fragments on the Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Products of Dendritic Cells

    Kayo Inaba;Shannon Turley;Fumiya Yamaide;Tomonori Iyoda

  • A Phase Ib Trial of Personalized Neoantigen Therapy Plus Anti-PD-1 in Patients with Advanced Melanoma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, or Bladder Cancer.

    Patrick A. Ott;Siwen Hu-Lieskovan;Bartosz Chmielowski;Ramaswamy Govindan

  • Aberrant miR-182 expression promotes melanoma metastasis by repressing FOXO3 and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor

    Miguel F. Segura;Douglas Hanniford;Silvia Menendez;Linsey Reavie

  • Rapid generation of broad T-cell immunity in humans after a single injection of mature dendritic cells

    M V Dhodapkar;R M Steinman;M Sapp;H Desai

  • Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity

    Kelli McKenna;Anne-Sophie Beignon;Nina Bhardwaj

  • Tumor-specific killer cells in paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration

    Matthew L. Albert;Jennifer C. Darnell;Armin Bender;Loise M. Francisco

  • Manipulating dendritic cell biology for the active immunotherapy of cancer.

    David W. O'Neill;Sylvia Adams;Nina Bhardwaj

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph M. Steinman
Ralph M. Steinman Rockefeller University
Marie Larsson
Marie Larsson Linköping University
Sacha Gnjatic
Sacha Gnjatic Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sylvia Adams
Sylvia Adams New York University
Patrick A. Ott
Patrick A. Ott Harvard University
Miriam Merad
Miriam Merad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dusan Bogunovic
Dusan Bogunovic Columbia University
William Oh
William Oh Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Achim A. Jungbluth
Achim A. Jungbluth Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rajesh T. Gandhi
Rajesh T. Gandhi Harvard University

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