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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Paul Kubes is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has a research focus spanning immunology, microbiology, and medicine. Their scholarly work encompasses key topics such as neutrophil function, immune response and inflammation, immune cells in cancer, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Their recent publications include the following notable papers:

  • Immune mechanisms linking metabolic injury to inflammation and fibrosis in fatty liver disease - novel insights into cellular communication circuits, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
  • Neutrophil phenotypes and functions in cancer: A consensus statement, 2022, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils, 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Patrolling Alveolar Macrophages Conceal Bacteria from the Immune System to Maintain Homeostasis, 2020, Cell
  • Primordial GATA6 macrophages function as extravascular platelets in sterile injury, 2021, Science

Paul Kubes has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Bas G. J. Surewaard
  • Bruna Araújo David
  • Fernanda V. S. Castanheira
  • Moritz Peiseler
  • Rachel M. Kratofil

Their research has been published often in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Blood
  • The Journal of Immunology

Within the broad fields of immunology and microbiology and medicine, their work is particularly concentrated in several subfields:

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Surgery

Kubes' main research topics include:

  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

In recognition of academic contributions, Paul Kubes was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Neutrophil recruitment and function in health and inflammation

    Elzbieta Kolaczkowska;Paul Kubes

  • Platelet TLR4 activates neutrophil extracellular traps to ensnare bacteria in septic blood

    Stephen R Clark;Adrienne C Ma;Samantha A Tavener;Braedon McDonald

  • Neutrophil extracellular traps sequester circulating tumor cells and promote metastasis

    Jonathan Cools-Lartigue;Jonathan Spicer;Braedon McDonald;Stephen Gowing

  • An emerging role for neutrophil extracellular traps in noninfectious disease

    Selina K Jorch;Paul Kubes

  • Intravascular danger signals guide neutrophils to sites of sterile inflammation.

    Braedon McDonald;Keir Pittman;Gustavo B. Menezes;Simon A. Hirota

  • A Novel Mechanism of Rapid Nuclear Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in Response to Staphylococcus aureus

    Florian H. Pilsczek;Davide Salina;Karen K. H. Poon;Candace Fahey

  • Infection-induced NETosis is a dynamic process involving neutrophil multitasking in vivo

    Bryan G Yipp;Björn Petri;Davide Salina;Craig N Jenne

  • Immune surveillance by the liver

    Craig N Jenne;Paul Kubes

  • NETosis: how vital is it?

    Bryan G. Yipp;Paul Kubes

  • The microcirculation and inflammation: modulation of leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion

    D. Neil Granger;Paul Kubes

  • The neutrophil in vascular inflammation.

    Mia Phillipson;Paul Kubes

  • Immune Responses in the Liver.

    Paul Kubes;Craig Jenne

  • Intraluminal crawling of neutrophils to emigration sites: a molecularly distinct process from adhesion in the recruitment cascade

    Mia Phillipson;Bryan Heit;Pina Colarusso;Lixin Liu

  • Nitric oxide modulates microvascular permeability.

    P. Kubes;D. N. Granger

  • The systemic immune response to trauma: an overview of pathophysiology and treatment.

    Janet M Lord;Mark J Midwinter;Yen-Fu Chen;Yen-Fu Chen;Antonio Belli

  • Intravascular Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Capture Bacteria from the Bloodstream during Sepsis

    Braedon McDonald;Rossana Urrutia;Bryan G. Yipp;Craig N. Jenne

  • DAMPs, PAMPs, and LAMPs in Immunity and Sterile Inflammation.

    Joel Zindel;Paul Kubes

  • Neutrophils and NETs in modulating acute and chronic inflammation

    Fernanda Vargas e Silva Castanheira;Paul Kubes

  • Sterile Inflammation in the Liver

    Paul Kubes;Wajahat Z. Mehal

  • A Reservoir of Mature Cavity Macrophages that Can Rapidly Invade Visceral Organs to Affect Tissue Repair.

    Jing Wang;Paul Kubes

  • An intracellular signaling hierarchy determines direction of migration in opposing chemotactic gradients

    Bryan Heit;Samantha Tavener;Eko Raharjo;Paul Kubes

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig N. Jenne
Craig N. Jenne University of Calgary
Michael J. Hickey
Michael J. Hickey Monash Medical Centre
Stephen M. Robbins
Stephen M. Robbins University of Calgary
May Ho
May Ho University of Calgary
George Chaconas
George Chaconas University of Calgary
John L. Wallace
John L. Wallace University of Calgary
Alan R. Burns
Alan R. Burns University of Houston
Pere Santamaria
Pere Santamaria University of Calgary
Daniel A. Muruve
Daniel A. Muruve University of Calgary
Thomas B. Issekutz
Thomas B. Issekutz Dalhousie University

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