2026 Peter D. Katsikis: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	60	3324	3061	129	123	185	13494

Overview

Peter D. Katsikis is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with extensive work in several subfields such as Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Immune Cell Function and Interaction
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
CAR-T cell therapy research
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
HIV Research and Treatment

Peter D. Katsikis has contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

The PD-1/PD-L1-Checkpoint Restrains T cell Immunity in Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes (2020), published in Cancer Cell
Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19. A randomized clinical trial (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Challenges in developing personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines (2023), published in Nature reviews. Immunology
Effects of potent neutralizing antibodies from convalescent plasma in patients hospitalized for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021), published in Nature Communications
Rapid in vitro generation of bona fide exhausted CD8+ T cells is accompanied by Tcf7 promotor methylation (2020), published in PLoS Pathogens

Their work has appeared frequently in publication venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Immunology
Nature Communications
Frontiers in Immunology
PLoS Medicine

Peter D. Katsikis has collaborated with several coauthors, notably:

Yvonne M. Mueller
Casper Rokx
Bart Rijnders
Marjan van Meurs
Inge Brouwers-Haspels

Best Publications

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with chimeric monoclonal antibodies to tumor necrosis factor alpha

M J Elliott;R N Maini;M Feldmann;A Long-Fox

1483
Citations
In vivo detection and imaging of phosphatidylserine expression during programmed cell death

F G Blankenberg;P D Katsikis;J F Tait;R E Davis

750
Citations
Immunoregulatory role of interleukin 10 in rheumatoid arthritis.

Peter D. Katsikis;Cong Qiu Chu;Fionula M. Brennan;Ravinder N. Maini

653
Citations
The PD-1/PD-L1-Checkpoint Restrains T cell Immunity in Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes

Floris Dammeijer;Mandy van Gulijk;Evalyn E. Mulder;Melanie Lukkes

617
Citations
Fas antigen stimulation induces marked apoptosis of T lymphocytes in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals.

P D Katsikis;E S Wunderlich;C A Smith;L A Herzenberg

526
Citations
The microRNA miR-155 controls CD8 + T cell responses by regulating interferon signaling

Donald T Gracias;Erietta Stelekati;Jennifer L Hope;Alina C Boesteanu

349
Citations
Interleukin-10 inhibition of the progression of established collagen-induced arthritis.

Marita Walmsley;Peter D. Katsikis;Erika Abney;Sarah Parry

336
Citations
Imaging of Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death) with 99mTc Annexin V

Francis G. Blankenberg;Peter D. Katsikis;Jonathan F. Tait;Richard Eric Davis

301
Citations
Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19. A randomized clinical trial

Arvind Gharbharan;Carlijn C.E. Jordans;Corine GeurtsvanKessel;Jan G. den Hollander

263
Citations
Interleukin-1β Converting Enzyme–like Protease Involvement in Fas-induced and Activation-induced Peripheral Blood T Cell Apoptosis in HIV Infection. TNF-related Apoptosis-inducing Ligand Can Mediate Activation-induced T Cell Death in HIV Infection

P D Katsikis;M E Garcia-Ojeda;J F Torres-Roca;I M Tijoe

263
Citations
Surface expression patterns of negative regulatory molecules identify determinants of virus-specific CD8+ T-cell exhaustion in HIV infection

Takuya Yamamoto;David A. Price;David A. Price;Joseph P. Casazza;Guido Ferrari

233
Citations
In vivo stimulation of CD137 broadens primary antiviral CD8 + T cell responses

E. Scott Halstead;Yvonne M. Mueller;John D. Altman;Peter D. Katsikis

226
Citations
Induction of the interleukin 1 receptor antagonist protein by transforming growth factor-beta.

M Turner;D Chantry;P Katsikis;A Berger

220
Citations
Quantitative Analysis of Apoptotic Cell Death Using Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Francis G. Blankenberg;Francis G. Blankenberg;Peter D. Katsikis;Peter D. Katsikis;Richard W. Storrs;Richard W. Storrs;Christian Beaulieu;Christian Beaulieu

217
Citations
Chronic Antigen Stimulation Alone Is Sufficient to Drive CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion

Christine M. Bucks;Jillian A. Norton;Alina C. Boesteanu;Yvonne M. Mueller

211
Citations
Increased CD95/Fas-induced apoptosis of HIV-specific CD8(+) T cells.

Yvonne M Mueller;Stephen C De Rosa;Justin A Hutton;James Witek

211
Citations
The inflammasome activating caspase 1 mediates fibrosis and myofibroblast differentiation in systemic sclerosis

Carol M. Artlett;Sihem Sassi-Gaha;Judy L. Rieger;Alina C. Boesteanu

210
Citations
LOCALIZATION OF INTERLEUKIN-1α, TYPE 1 INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR AND INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST IN THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE AND CARTILAGE/PANNUS JUNCTION IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

B W Deleuran;C Q Chu;M Field;F M Brennan

207
Citations
Age-associated decrease in virus-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes during primary influenza infection

John Leander Z. Po;Elizabeth M. Gardner;Farvardin Anaraki;Peter D. Katsikis

181
Citations
Memory CD8+ T Cells Require CD28 Costimulation

Annie B. Borowski;Alina C. Boesteanu;Yvonne M. Mueller;Caterina Carafides

179
Citations
IL-15 enhances survival and function of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells.

Yvonne M Mueller;Paul M Bojczuk;Paul M Bojczuk;E Scott Halstead;E Scott Halstead;Alfred H J Kim;Alfred H J Kim

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin R. Turner University of Oxford

John D. Altman Emory University

Fionula M. Brennan University of Oxford

Marc Feldmann University of Oxford

Pierre Youinou University of Western Brittany

Jonathan F. Tait University of Washington

Mark G. Lewis Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Daniel J. Cua Johnson & Johnson (United States)

Wilfred F. J. van IJcken Erasmus MC

Leonore A. Herzenberg Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Peter D. Katsikis

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