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51
Citations
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World Ranking
16988
National Ranking
7003

Overview

Qi-Jing Li is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and conducts research spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as immunology and microbiology.

Their work primarily focuses on molecular biology, immunology, oncology, genetics, and biomedical engineering, contributing significantly to these subfields. Qi-Jing Li's research covers key topics including cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, immunotherapy and immune responses, immune cell function and interaction, gene expression and cancer classification, and nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics.

Recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their research scope, with notable papers such as:

  • Cancer-cell-derived GABA promotes β-catenin-mediated tumour growth and immunosuppression, 2022, Nature Cell Biology
  • Tumor-induced erythroid precursor-differentiated myeloid cells mediate immunosuppression and curtail anti-PD-1/PD-L1 treatment efficacy, 2022, Cancer Cell
  • Neural mechanism underlying depressive-like state associated with social status loss, 2023, Cell
  • Radiation-induced eosinophils improve cytotoxic T lymphocyte recruitment and response to immunotherapy, 2021, Science Advances
  • GABAergic signaling beyond synapses: an emerging target for cancer therapy, 2022, Trends in Cell Biology

Qi-Jing Li collaborates frequently with other researchers, with prominent co-authors including Liuyang Wang, Peter B. Alexander, Qingzhu Jia, Bryan Jian Wei Lim, and Diyuan Qin.

Their work is often published in well-known venues with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Cell, OncoImmunology, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • miR-181a is an intrinsic modulator of T cell sensitivity and selection

    Qi Jing Li;Jacqueline Chau;Peter J.R. Ebert;Giselle Sylvester

  • The transcriptional repressor Bcl-6 directs T follicular helper cell lineage commitment

    Di Yu;Sudha Rao;Louis M Tsai;Sau K Lee

  • miR-19 is a key oncogenic component of mir-17-92

    Virginie Olive;Margaux J. Bennett;James C. Walker;Cong Ma

  • TGF-β-miR-34a-CCL22 Signaling-Induced Treg Cell Recruitment Promotes Venous Metastases of HBV-Positive Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Pengyuan Yang;Qi Jing Li;Yuxiong Feng;Yun Zhang

  • Agonist/endogenous peptide-MHC heterodimers drive T cell activation and sensitivity.

    Michelle Krogsgaard;Qi-jing Li;Cenk Sumen;Johannes B. Huppa

  • A single peptide-major histocompatibility complex ligand triggers digital cytokine secretion in CD4(+) T cells.

    Jun Huang;Mario Brameshuber;Xun Zeng;Jianming Xie

  • miR-126 and miR-126* repress recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells and inflammatory monocytes to inhibit breast cancer metastasis

    Yun Zhang;Pengyuan Yang;Pengyuan Yang;Tao Sun;Dong Li

  • Local mutational diversity drives intratumoral immune heterogeneity in non-small cell lung cancer.

    Qingzhu Jia;Wei Wu;Yuqi Wang;Peter B. Alexander

  • Molecular dissection of the miR-17-92 cluster's critical dual roles in promoting Th1 responses and preventing inducible Treg differentiation.

    Shan Jiang;Chaoran Li;Virginie Olive;Erik Lykken

  • CD4 enhances T cell sensitivity to antigen by coordinating Lck accumulation at the immunological synapse.

    Qi-Jing Li;Aaron R Dinner;Aaron R Dinner;Shuyan Qi;Darrell J Irvine;Darrell J Irvine

  • An endogenous positively selecting peptide enhances mature T cell responses and becomes an autoantigen in the absence of microRNA miR-181a

    Peter J R Ebert;Shan Jiang;Jianming Xie;Qi-Jing Li

  • Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of T Cell Receptor Signaling with a Photoactivatable Agonist

    Morgan Huse;Lawrence O. Klein;Andrew T. Girvin;Joycelyn M. Faraj

  • Autophagy Regulates Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis and Calcium Mobilization in T Lymphocytes

    Wei Jia;Heather H. Pua;Qi-Jing Li;You-Wen He

  • MAP kinase phosphorylation-dependent activation of Elk-1 leads to activation of the co-activator p300

    Qi Jing Li;Shen Hsi Yang;Yutaka Maeda;Frances M. Sladek

  • T Cells as a Self-Referential, Sensory Organ

    Mark M. Davis;Michelle Krogsgaard;Morgan Huse;Johannes Huppa

  • miR-17-92 cluster targets phosphatase and tensin homology and Ikaros Family Zinc Finger 4 to promote TH17-mediated inflammation.

    Si-Qi Liu;Shan Jiang;Chaoran Li;Baojun Zhang

  • Plasma microRNA signature as a noninvasive biomarker for acute graft-versus-host disease

    Bin Xiao;Yu Wang;Wei Li;Megan Baker

  • mir-17-92: a polycistronic oncomir with pleiotropic functions

    Virginie Olive;Qijing Li;Lin He

  • Late-stage tumors induce anemia and immunosuppressive extramedullary erythroid progenitor cells

    Lintao Zhao;Ran He;Haixia Long;Bo Guo

  • A Single Peptide-Major Histocompatibility Complex Ligand Triggers Digital Cytokine Secretion

    Jun Huang;Mario Brameshuber;Xun Zeng;Jianming Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark M. Davis
Mark M. Davis Stanford University
Xiao-Fan Wang
Xiao-Fan Wang Duke University
Gang Chen
Gang Chen Guangxi Medical University
Yuan Zhuang
Yuan Zhuang Duke University
You-Wen He
You-Wen He Duke University
John H. Sampson
John H. Sampson Duke University
James E. Herndon
James E. Herndon Duke University
Salvatore Valitutti
Salvatore Valitutti Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Weiguo Zhang
Weiguo Zhang Duke University
Xue-Zhong Yu
Xue-Zhong Yu Medical College of Wisconsin

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