2026 Sankar Ghosh: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	104	322	295	144	124	294	94828
Molecular Biology	102	484	434	271	239	211	92549

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
2023 - Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2022 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2021 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 - AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award, American Association of Immunologists

Overview

Sankar Ghosh is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes primarily in the intersecting fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, and medicine. Their research contributions span several key subfields including immunology, molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work prominently addresses molecular and cellular mechanisms within immune systems and cancer biology. Specific topics of research emphasize NF-κB signaling pathways, RNA modifications in cancer, immune cell function and interaction, immune response and inflammation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, cytokine signaling pathways, and the role of immune cells in cancer.

Sankar Ghosh has been involved in multiple publications with frequent collaborators including Thomas S. Postler, Jingyao Zhao, Yenkel Grinberg-Bleyer, Felipe Batista Leão, and Vincent Guichard. These coauthors have contributed to a significant portion of their research output.

Their recent publication record includes the following papers:

c-Rel is a myeloid checkpoint for cancer immunotherapy (2020, Nature Cancer)
The T1D-associated lncRNA Lnc13 modulates human pancreatic β cell inflammation by allele-specific stabilization of STAT1 mRNA (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Metformin selectively dampens the acute inflammatory response through an AMPK-dependent mechanism (2021, Scientific Reports)
κB-Ras and Ral GTPases regulate acinar to ductal metaplasia during pancreatic adenocarcinoma development and pancreatitis (2020, Nature Communications)
Impaired mitochondrial oxidative metabolism in skeletal progenitor cells leads to musculoskeletal disintegration (2022, Nature Communications)

Their scientific articles have appeared frequently in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, Nature Immunology, and The Journal of Immunology, reflecting a focus on high-impact and specialized outlets within immunology and molecular biology disciplines.

Among awards, Sankar Ghosh has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and received the AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2002.

Best Publications

NF-kappa B and Rel proteins: evolutionarily conserved mediators of immune responses

Sankar Ghosh;Michael J. May;Elizabeth B. Kopp

7056
Citations
Shared principles in NF-kappaB signaling

Matthew S. Hayden;Sankar Ghosh

6832
Citations
Signaling to NF-kappaB.

Matthew S. Hayden;Sankar Ghosh

6499
Citations
Missing Pieces in the NF-κB Puzzle

Sankar Ghosh;Michael Karin

4998
Citations
The NF-κB Family of Transcription Factors and Its Regulation

Andrea Oeckinghaus;Sankar Ghosh

3263
Citations
Embryonic lethality and liver degeneration in mice lacking the RelA component of NF-kappa B.

Amer A. Beg;William C. Sha;Roderick T. Bronson;Sankar Ghosh

2476
Citations
Inhibition of NF-kappa B by sodium salicylate and aspirin

Elizabeth Kopp;Sankar Ghosh

2328
Citations
NF-κB, inflammation, and metabolic disease.

Rebecca G. Baker;Matthew S. Hayden;Sankar Ghosh

2261
Citations
Crosstalk in NF-κB signaling pathways

Andrea Oeckinghaus;Matthew S Hayden;Sankar Ghosh

2252
Citations
NF-κB, the first quarter-century: remarkable progress and outstanding questions

Matthew S. Hayden;Sankar Ghosh

2078
Citations
MyD88 Is an Adaptor Protein in the hToll/IL-1 Receptor Family Signaling Pathways

Ruslan Medzhitov;Paula Preston-Hurlburt;Elizabeth Kopp;Andrew Stadlen

2034
Citations
New regulators of NF-kappaB in inflammation.

Sankar Ghosh;Matthew S Hayden

1843
Citations
TLR signalling augments macrophage bactericidal activity through mitochondrial ROS

A. Phillip West;Igor E. Brodsky;Igor E. Brodsky;Christoph Rahner;Dong Kyun Woo

1791
Citations
Activation in vitro of NF-kappa B by phosphorylation of its inhibitor I kappa B.

Sankar Ghosh;David Baltimore

1704
Citations
NF-kappaB and the immune response.

M S Hayden;A P West;S Ghosh

1669
Citations
Signal transduction through NF-κB

Michael J May;Sankar Ghosh

1596
Citations
Phosphorylation of NF-κB p65 by PKA Stimulates Transcriptional Activity by Promoting a Novel Bivalent Interaction with the Coactivator CBP/p300

Haihong Zhong;Reinhard E Voll;Sankar Ghosh

1576
Citations
A Toll-like Receptor That Prevents Infection by Uropathogenic Bacteria

Dekai Zhang;Guolong Zhang;Matthew S. Hayden;Matthew B. Greenblatt

1511
Citations
Mitochondria in innate immune responses

A. Phillip West;Gerald S. Shadel;Sankar Ghosh

1495
Citations
TLR11 Activation of Dendritic Cells by a Protozoan Profilin-Like Protein

Felix Yarovinsky;Dekai Zhang;John F. Andersen;Gerard L. Bannenberg

1353
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. May University of Pennsylvania

Richard A. Flavell Yale University

David Baltimore California Institute of Technology

Kalipada Pahan Rush University Medical Center

Fulvio D'Acquisto Queen Mary University of London

Ulf Klein University of Leeds

Mercedes Rincon University of Vermont

Paul Tempst Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Josef M. Penninger University of British Columbia

Govind Bhagat Columbia University

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