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D-Index
71
Citations
23474
World Ranking
2282
National Ranking
1107

Qizhi Tang 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 Qizhi Tang sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 217 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.

Qizhi Tang 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 Qizhi Tang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Qizhi Tang is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine with a strong emphasis on immunology and microbiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as immunology, oncology, genetics, surgery, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their main topics of work include:

  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Diabetes Management and Research

Tang's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Transplantation
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Science Translational Medicine

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Qizhi Tang include:

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials, 2020, The Lancet
  • The effect of low-dose IL-2 and Treg adoptive cell therapy in patients with type 1 diabetes, 2021, JCI Insight
  • The CD28-Transmembrane Domain Mediates Chimeric Antigen Receptor Heterodimerization With CD28, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Functional CRISPR dissection of gene networks controlling human regulatory T cell identity, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Precision Engineering of an Anti-HLA-A2 Chimeric Antigen Receptor in Regulatory T Cells for Transplant Immune Tolerance, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology

Frequent coauthors working alongside Tang include:

  • Jeffrey A. Bluestone
  • Vinh Nguyen
  • Yannick D. Müller
  • Patrick Ho
  • Leonardo M. R. Ferreira

Best Publications

  • In Vitro–expanded Antigen-specific Regulatory T Cells Suppress Autoimmune Diabetes

    Qizhi Tang;Kammi J. Henriksen;Mingying Bi;Erik B. Finger

  • The Foxp3+ regulatory T cell: a jack of all trades, master of regulation.

    Qizhi Tang;Jeffrey A Bluestone

  • Type 1 diabetes immunotherapy using polyclonal regulatory T cells.

    Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Jane H. Buckner;Mark Fitch;Stephen E. Gitelman

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

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

  • IRE1α Induces Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein to Activate the NLRP3 Inflammasome and Promote Programmed Cell Death under Irremediable ER Stress

    Alana G. Lerner;John Paul Upton;P. V.K. Praveen;Rajarshi Ghosh

  • Interactions between PD-1 and PD-L1 promote tolerance by blocking the TCR-induced stop signal.

    Brian T Fife;Kristen E Pauken;Todd N Eagar;Takashi Obu

  • Cutting edge: CD28 controls peripheral homeostasis of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells.

    Qizhi Tang;Kammi J. Henriksen;Elisa K. Boden;Aaron J. Tooley

  • Central role of defective interleukin-2 production in the triggering of islet autoimmune destruction.

    Qizhi Tang;Jason Yeates Adams;Cristina Penaranda;Kristin Melli

  • Loss of integrin αvβ8 on dendritic cells causes autoimmunity and colitis in mice

    Mark A. Travis;Boris Reizis;Andrew C. Melton;Emma Masteller

  • Distinct roles of CTLA-4 and TGF-β in CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell function

    Qizhi Tang;Elisa K. Boden;Kammi J. Henriksen;Helene Bour‐Jordan

  • IL-2 reverses established type 1 diabetes in NOD mice by a local effect on pancreatic regulatory T cells

    Yenkel Grinberg-Bleyer;Audrey Baeyens;Sylvaine You;Rima Elhage

  • Next-generation regulatory T cell therapy.

    Leonardo M. R. Ferreira;Yannick D. Muller;Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Qizhi Tang

  • Herpes simplex virus glycoproteins E and I facilitate cell-to-cell spread in vivo and across junctions of cultured cells

    Kevin S. Dingwell;Craig R. Brunetti;Robert L. Hendricks;Qizhi Tang

  • Insulin-induced remission in new-onset NOD mice is maintained by the PD-1–PD-L1 pathway

    Brian T. Fife;Indira Guleria;Melanie Gubbels Bupp;Melanie Gubbels Bupp;Todd N. Eagar

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials.

    Birgit Sawitzki;Paul N Harden;Petra Reinke;Aurélie Moreau

  • How do CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells control autoimmunity?

    Jeffrey A Bluestone;Qizhi Tang

  • Regulatory T-cell physiology and application to treat autoimmunity

    Qizhi Tang;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

  • Inflammatory infiltration of the trigeminal ganglion after herpes simplex virus type 1 corneal infection

    Ting Liu;Q. Tang;R. L. Hendricks

  • ERM-dependent movement of CD43 defines a novel protein complex distal to the immunological synapse.

    Eric J. Allenspach;Patrick Cullinan;Jiankun Tong;Qizhi Tang

  • Expansion of Functional Endogenous Antigen-Specific CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells from Nonobese Diabetic Mice

    Emma L. Masteller;Matthew R. Warner;Qizhi Tang;Kristin V. Tarbell

  • IRE1α Induces Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein to Activate the NLRP3 Inflammasome and Promote Programmed Cell Death under Irremediable ER Stress

    Alana G. Lerner;John-Paul Upton;P.V.K. Praveen;Rajarshi Ghosh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Bluestone
Jeffrey A. Bluestone University of California, San Francisco
Tejal A. Desai
Tejal A. Desai University of California, San Francisco
Flavio Vincenti
Flavio Vincenti University of California, San Francisco
Robert L. Hendricks
Robert L. Hendricks University of Pittsburgh
Matthew F. Krummel
Matthew F. Krummel University of California, San Francisco
Edward K. Geissler
Edward K. Geissler University of Regensburg
Matthias Hebrok
Matthias Hebrok University of California, San Francisco
Alexander Marson
Alexander Marson University of California, San Francisco
Giovanna Lombardi
Giovanna Lombardi King's College London
Hideo Yagita
Hideo Yagita Juntendo University

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