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Pere Santamaria

Pere Santamaria

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
73
Citations
18856
World Ranking
2144
National Ranking
44

Pere Santamaria 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 Pere Santamaria sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 218 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pere Santamaria 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 Pere Santamaria sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% 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

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Pere Santamaria is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Surgery, and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Immune Cell Function and Interaction, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Diabetes and associated disorders, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, as well as Pancreatic function and diabetes.

Their publication record includes papers in key venues such as Frontiers in Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Medicine, Cell Reports, and Nature Communications. Among their recent contributions are:

  • Seven-month kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and role of pre-existing antibodies to human coronaviruses, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Highly Sensitive and Specific Multiplex Antibody Assays To Quantify Immunoglobulins M, A, and G against SARS-CoV-2 Antigens, 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Persistence and baseline determinants of seropositivity and reinfection rates in health care workers up to 12.5 months after COVID-19, 2021, BMC Medicine
  • Gut Microbial Antigenic Mimicry in Autoimmunity, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Ubiquitous antigen-specific T regulatory type 1 cells variably suppress hepatic and extrahepatic autoimmunity, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent co-authors of Pere Santamaria include Pau Serra, Ruth Aguilar, Gemma Moncunill, Carlota Dobaño, and Marta Vidal, reflecting collaborative work with several specialists in related fields.

The publication venues where Pere Santamaria has most frequently contributed are:

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

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2017, under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • The Combined Effects of Tryptophan Starvation and Tryptophan Catabolites Down-Regulate T Cell Receptor ζ-Chain and Induce a Regulatory Phenotype in Naive T Cells

    Francesca Fallarino;Ursula Grohmann;Sylvaine You;Barbara C. McGrath

  • Visualizing regulatory T cell control of autoimmune responses in nonobese diabetic mice

    Qizhi Tang;Jason Yeates Adams;Aaron J. Tooley;Mingying Bi

  • Expanding antigen-specific regulatory networks to treat autoimmunity

    Xavier Clemente-Casares;Jesus Blanco;Jesus Blanco;Poornima Ambalavanan;Jun Yamanouchi

  • Nanoparticle-Based Immunotherapy for Cancer

    Kun Shao;Santiswarup Singha;Xavier Clemente-Casares;Sue Tsai

  • Identification of the β cell antigen targeted by a prevalent population of pathogenic CD8+ T cells in autoimmune diabetes

    Scott M. Lieberman;Anne M. Evans;Bingye Han;Toshiyuki Takaki

  • Interleukin-2 gene variation impairs regulatory T cell function and causes autoimmunity

    Jun Yamanouchi;Dan Rainbow;Pau Serra;Sarah Howlett

  • Spontaneous Autoimmune Diabetes in Monoclonal T Cell Nonobese Diabetic Mice

    Joan Verdaguer;Dennis Schmidt;Abdelaziz Amrani;Brad Anderson

  • TRPV1+ sensory neurons control beta cell stress and islet inflammation in autoimmune diabetes.

    Rozita Razavi;Yin Chan;F. Nikoo Afifiyan;Xue Jun Liu

  • Progression of autoimmune diabetes driven by avidity maturation of a T-cell population

    Abdelaziz Amrani;Joan Verdaguer;Pau Serra;Sabrina Tafuro

  • Reversal of Autoimmunity by Boosting Memory-like Autoregulatory T Cells

    Sue Tsai;Afshin Shameli;Jun Yamanouchi;Xavier Clemente-Casares

  • NKG2D blockade prevents autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice.

    Kouetsu Ogasawara;Jessica A Hamerman;Lauren R Ehrlich;Helene Bour-Jordan

  • CD40 ligation releases immature dendritic cells from the control of regulatory CD4+CD25+ T cells.

    Pau Serra;Abdelaziz Amrani;Jun Yamanouchi;Bingye Han

  • Autoimmune islet destruction in spontaneous type 1 diabetes is not beta-cell exclusive.

    Shawn Winer;Hubert Tsui;Ambrose Lau;Aihua Song

  • Prediction of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice by quantification of autoreactive T cells in peripheral blood

    Jacqueline D. Trudeau;Carolyn Kelly-Smith;C. Bruce Verchere;John F. Elliott

  • Antigen-specific therapeutic approaches for autoimmunity.

    Pau Serra;Pere Santamaria

  • Cellular and molecular mechanisms for the initiation and progression of beta cell destruction resulting from the collaboration between macrophages and T cells.

    Ji-Won Yoon;Hee-Sook Jun;Pere Santamaria

  • Autoreactive CD8 T Cells in Organ-Specific Autoimmunity: Emerging Targets for Therapeutic Intervention

    Roland S. Liblau;F.Susan Wong;Lennart T. Mars;Pere Santamaria

  • Evidence for the role of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells in the destruction of pancreatic beta-cells in nonobese diabetic mice.

    M. Nagata;P. Santamaria;T. Kawamura;T. Utsugi

  • A Mechanism for the Major Histocompatibility Complex–linked Resistance to Autoimmunity

    Dennis Schmidt;Joan Verdaguer;Nuzhat Averill;Pere Santamaria

  • Exendin-4 Improves Reversal of Diabetes in NOD Mice Treated with Anti-CD3 Monoclonal Antibody by Enhancing Recovery of β-Cells

    Nicole A. Sherry;Wei Chen;Jake A. Kushner;Mariela Glandt

  • NKG2D BLOCKADE PREVENTS AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES IN NOD MICE

    Kouetsu Ogasawara;A Hamerman Jessica;R Ehrlich Lauren;Bour-Jordan Helene

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. H. Kay
Thomas W. H. Kay University of Melbourne
Stephen S. Rich
Stephen S. Rich University of Virginia
Anthony J. Faras
Anthony J. Faras University of Minnesota
David V. Serreze
David V. Serreze The Jackson Laboratory
Ji-Won Yoon
Ji-Won Yoon Chung-Ang University
John F. Elliott
John F. Elliott University of Alberta
Paul Kubes
Paul Kubes University of Calgary
Jeffrey A. Bluestone
Jeffrey A. Bluestone University of California, San Francisco
Terry L. Delovitch
Terry L. Delovitch University of Western Ontario
Kevan C. Herold
Kevan C. Herold Yale University

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