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Overview

Nir Hacohen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, immunology, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including immunology, oncology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, and cancer research.

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Nir Hacohen has published numerous papers in prominent venues. Their recent papers include:

  • "B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures promote immunotherapy response" (2020, Nature)
  • "Systematic comparison of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing methods" (2020, Nature Biotechnology)
  • "COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets" (2021, Nature)
  • "Viral epitope profiling of COVID-19 patients reveals cross-reactivity and correlates of severity" (2020, Science)
  • "Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes" (2021, Nature)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Moshe Sade-Feldman (72 co-authored works)
  • Genevieve M. Boland (64 co-authored works)
  • Arnav Mehta (58 co-authored works)
  • David Lieb (39 co-authored works)
  • Jonathan Chen (38 co-authored works)

The main publication venues where Nir Hacohen has contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 58 publications
  • Cancer Research with 39 publications
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts with 16 publications
  • Nature with 11 publications
  • Nature Communications with 10 publications

The scope of Nir Hacohen's research situates them at the intersection of experimental and clinical approaches to immune system function and cancer biology, with a focus on single-cell technologies and immune response mechanisms. Their work covers elucidation of cancer immunotherapy biomarkers, detailed immune cell interactions, and the use of advanced molecular techniques to map gene regulation related to disease risk.

Best Publications

  • Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome.

    Manfred G Grabherr;Brian J Haas;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Joshua Z Levin

  • Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals

    Mitchell Guttman;Ido Amit;Manuel Garber;Courtney French

  • Molecular and genetic properties of tumors associated with local immune cytolytic activity.

    Michael S. Rooney;Sachet A. Shukla;Catherine J. Wu;Gad Getz

  • An immunogenic personal neoantigen vaccine for patients with melanoma

    Patrick A. Ott;Zhuting Hu;Derin B. Keskin;Derin B. Keskin;Sachet A. Shukla;Sachet A. Shukla

  • Rab27a and Rab27b control different steps of the exosome secretion pathway

    Matias Ostrowski;Nuno B. Carmo;Sophie Krumeich;Sophie Krumeich;Isabelle Fanget

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals new types of human blood dendritic cells, monocytes, and progenitors.

    Alexandra Chloé Villani;Alexandra Chloé Villani;Rahul Satija;Rahul Satija;Gary Reynolds;Siranush Sarkizova

  • B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures promote immunotherapy response

    Beth A. Helmink;Sangeetha M. Reddy;Jianjun Gao;Shaojun Zhang

  • CRISPR-Cas9 Knockin Mice for Genome Editing and Cancer Modeling

    Randall J. Platt;Sidi Chen;Yang Zhou;Michael J. Yim

  • A Lentiviral RNAi Library for Human and Mouse Genes Applied to an Arrayed Viral High-Content Screen

    Jason Moffat;Dorre A. Grueneberg;Xiaoping Yang;So Young Kim;So Young Kim

  • Evolution and Impact of Subclonal Mutations in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

    Dan A. Landau;Scott L. Carter;Petar Stojanov;Petar Stojanov;Aaron McKenna

  • 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

  • Defining T Cell States Associated with Response to Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Melanoma.

    Moshe Sade-Feldman;Moshe Sade-Feldman;Keren Yizhak;Stacey L. Bjorgaard;Stacey L. Bjorgaard;John P. Ray

  • Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells

    Alex K. Shalek;Rahul Satija;Xian Adiconis;Rona S. Gertner

  • Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry.

    Fan Zhang;Kevin Wei;Kamil Slowikowski;Chamith Y Fonseka

  • Neoantigen vaccine generates intratumoral T cell responses in phase Ib glioblastoma trial

    Derin B. Keskin;Annabelle J. Anandappa;Jing Sun;Itay Tirosh

  • SF3B1 and Other Novel Cancer Genes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

    Lili Wang;Michael S. Lawrence;Youzhong Wan;Petar Stojanov

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals dynamic paracrine control of cellular variation

    Alex K. Shalek;Rahul Satija;Joe Shuga;John J. Trombetta

  • Perturbation of m6A Writers Reveals Two Distinct Classes of mRNA Methylation at Internal and 5′ Sites

    Schraga Schwartz;Maxwell R. Mumbach;Marko Jovanovic;Tim Wang;Tim Wang

  • The plasticity of dendritic cell responses to pathogens and their components.

    Qian Huang;Dongyu Liu;Paul Majewski;Leah C. Schulte

  • Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues

    Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen;Alexandra-Chloé Villani;Alexandra-Chloé Villani;Angela Yen;Angela Yen;Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas

Frequent Co-Authors

Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Catherine J. Wu
Catherine J. Wu Harvard University
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Sachet A. Shukla
Sachet A. Shukla The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ido Amit
Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science
Donna Neuberg
Donna Neuberg Harvard University
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University
Rahul Satija
Rahul Satija New York University

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