2026 Pedro Romero: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	137	178	165	3	3	562	65210
Medicine	137	1910	1781	27	26	569	68785

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Pedro Romero is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, focusing on research in medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans various subfields including immunology, oncology, molecular biology, surgery, and cancer research.

Their primary research topics include:

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
CAR-T cell therapy research
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways

Pedro Romero has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
Frontiers in Immunology
Annals of Oncology
Cancer Research

Their recent notable papers are:

"Metabolic reprogramming of terminally exhausted CD8+ T cells by IL-10 enhances anti-tumor immunity" (2021) published in Nature Immunology
"Metabolic and epigenetic regulation of T-cell exhaustion" (2020) published in Nature Metabolism
"Tumor-specific cytolytic CD4 T cells mediate immunity against human cancer" (2021) published in Science Advances
"IL-10-expressing CAR T cells resist dysfunction and mediate durable clearance of solid tumors and metastases" (2024) published in Nature Biotechnology
"The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier regulates memory T cell differentiation and antitumor function" (2022) published in Cell Metabolism

Pedro Romero often collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

Camilla Jandus
Tania Wyss
Mathias Wenes
George Coukos
Alexandre Harari

Best Publications

Sequence complexity of disordered protein.

Pedro Romero;Zoran Obradovic;Xiaohong Li;Ethan C. Garner

2137
Citations
The unfoldomics decade: an update on intrinsically disordered proteins

A Keith Dunker;Christopher J Oldfield;Jingwei Meng;Pedro Romero

2044
Citations
Melanoma Cell Expression of Fas(Apo-1/CD95) Ligand: Implications for Tumor Immune Escape

M. Hahne;D. Rimoldi;M. Schröter;P. Romero

1736
Citations
BAFF, a novel ligand of the tumor necrosis factor family, stimulates B cell growth.

Pascal Schneider;Fabienne Mackay;Véronique Steiner;Kay Hofmann

1700
Citations
Flexible nets. The roles of intrinsic disorder in protein interaction networks.

A. Keith Dunker;Marc S. Cortese;Pedro Romero;Pedro Romero;Lilia M. Iakoucheva

1334
Citations
TLR3 deficiency in patients with herpes simplex encephalitis.

Shen Ying Zhang;Shen Ying Zhang;Emmanuelle Jouanguy;Emmanuelle Jouanguy;Sophie Ugolini;Asma Smahi

1319
Citations
Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data

Stephen K Burley;Helen M Berman;Charmi Bhikadiya

1234
Citations
Type I Interferon Inhibits Interleukin-1 Production and Inflammasome Activation

Greta Guarda;Marion Braun;Francesco Staehli;Aubry Tardivel

1082
Citations
The Genome of the Natural Genetic Engineer Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

Derek W. Wood;Joao C. Setubal;Rajinder Kaul;Dave E. Monks

1002
Citations
Human gene MAGE-3 codes for an antigen recognized on a melanoma by autologous cytolytic T lymphocytes.

B Gaugler;B Van den Eynde;P van der Bruggen;P Romero

986
Citations
Exhaustion of tumor-specific CD8(+) T cells in metastases from melanoma patients

Lukas Baitsch;Petra Baumgaertner;Estelle Devêvre;Sunil K. Raghav

940
Citations
Intrinsic protein disorder in complete genomes.

A K Dunker;Z Obradovic;P Romero;E C Garner

928
Citations
The Pathway Tools software.

Peter D. Karp;Suzanne M. Paley;Pedro Romero

830
Citations
Rapid and strong human CD8 + T cell responses to vaccination with peptide, IFA, and CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 7909

Daniel E. Speiser;Danielle Liénard;Nathalie Rufer;Verena Rubio-Godoy

769
Citations
Predicting Protein Disorder for N-, C-, and Internal Regions.

X Li;P Romero;M Rani;AK Dunker

767
Citations
D2P2: database of disordered protein predictions

Matt E. Oates;Pedro Romero;Takashi Ishida;Mohamed F. Ghalwash

757
Citations
Coupled folding and binding with α-helix-forming molecular recognition elements

Christopher J. Oldfield;Yugong Cheng;Marc S. Cortese;Pedro Romero

746
Citations
Tumour immunity: effector response to tumour and role of the microenvironment.

Alberto Mantovani;Pedro Romero;A Karolina Palucka;Francesco M Marincola

720
Citations
Navigating metabolic pathways to enhance antitumour immunity and immunotherapy

Xiaoyun Li;Mathias Wenes;Pedro Romero;Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang

698
Citations
Computational prediction of human metabolic pathways from the complete human genome

Pedro Romero;Pedro Romero;Jonathan Wagg;Michelle L Green;Dale Kaiser

660
Citations
Ex Vivo Staining of Metastatic Lymph Nodes by Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Tetramers Reveals High Numbers of Antigen-experienced Tumor-specific Cytolytic T Lymphocytes

Pedro Romero;P. Rod Dunbar;Danila Valmori;Mikaël Pittet

644
Citations
Human Gene MAGE-3 Codes for an Antigen Recognized on a Melanoma by Autologous Cytolytic T Lymphocytes By Btatrice Gaugler,* Benoit Van den Eynde,*

Pierre van der Bruggen;Pedro Romero;Jose Juan Gaforio;Etienne De Plaen

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Charles Cerottini University of Lausanne

Daniel E. Speiser University of Lausanne

Danila Valmori University of Nantes

Philippe Guillaume University of Lausanne

Mikael J. Pittet University of Geneva

Immanuel F. Luescher University of Lausanne

Alfred Zippelius University Hospital of Basel

Olivier Michielin University of Lausanne

Nathalie Rufer University Hospital of Lausanne

Pierre-Yves Dietrich University of Geneva

External Links

Personal website of Pedro Romero

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