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Stefani Spranger

Stefani Spranger

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Immunology

D-Index
50
Citations
19280
World Ranking
4181
National Ranking
1906

Overview

Stefani Spranger is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a substantial body of work primarily in medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their research focuses on several intersecting areas within these fields, including oncology, molecular biology, and cancer research.

The main topics of Spranger's work include:

  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Immune cells in cancer

Frequent publication venues for Spranger include:

  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Immunity
  • Cancer Immunology Research

Spranger collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Maria Zagorulya
  • Brendan Horton
  • Duncan M. Morgan
  • K. Dane Wittrup
  • Elen Torres-Mejia

Recent publications by Stefani Spranger include:

  • "Increased demand for NAD+ relative to ATP drives aerobic glycolysis" (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • "Type I interferon activates MHC class I-dressed CD11b+ conventional dendritic cells to promote protective anti-tumor CD8+ T cell immunity" (2021, Immunity)
  • "Direct and Indirect Regulators of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition-Mediated Immunosuppression in Breast Carcinomas" (2020, Cancer Discovery)
  • "Tissue-specific abundance of interferon-gamma drives regulatory T cells to restrain DC1-mediated priming of cytotoxic T cells against lung cancer" (2023, Immunity)
  • "Lack of CD8 + T cell effector differentiation during priming mediates checkpoint blockade resistance in non-small cell lung cancer" (2021, Science Immunology)

Best Publications

  • Melanoma-intrinsic β-catenin signalling prevents anti-tumour immunity

    Stefani Spranger;Riyue Bao;Thomas F. Gajewski

  • Up-regulation of PD-L1, IDO, and T(regs) in the melanoma tumor microenvironment is driven by CD8(+) T cells.

    Stefani Spranger;Robbert M. Spaapen;Yuanyuan Zha;Jason Williams

  • STING-Dependent Cytosolic DNA Sensing Mediates Innate Immune Recognition of Immunogenic Tumors

    Seng Ryong Woo;Mercedes Beatriz Fuertes;Leticia Corrales;Stefani Spranger

  • Loss of PTEN Promotes Resistance to T Cell–Mediated Immunotherapy

    Weiyi Peng;Jie Qing Chen;Chengwen Liu;Shruti Malu

  • Tumor-Residing Batf3 Dendritic Cells Are Required for Effector T Cell Trafficking and Adoptive T Cell Therapy.

    Stefani Spranger;Daisy Dai;Brendan Horton;Thomas F. Gajewski

  • Mechanism of tumor rejection with doublets of CTLA-4, PD-1/PD-L1, or IDO blockade involves restored IL-2 production and proliferation of CD8 + T cells directly within the tumor microenvironment

    Stefani Spranger;Holly K Koblish;Brendan Horton;Peggy A Scherle

  • Impact of oncogenic pathways on evasion of antitumour immune responses

    Stefani Spranger;Thomas F. Gajewski

  • WNT/β-catenin Pathway Activation Correlates with Immune Exclusion across Human Cancers

    Jason J. Luke;Riyue Bao;Randy F. Sweis;Stefani Spranger

  • Cancer immunotherapy strategies based on overcoming barriers within the tumor microenvironment

    Thomas F Gajewski;Seng-Ryong Woo;Yuanyuan Zha;Robbert Spaapen

  • Innate immune signaling and regulation in cancer immunotherapy

    Leticia Corrales;Vyara Matson;Blake Flood;Stefani Spranger

  • Density of immunogenic antigens does not explain the presence or absence of the T-cell-inflamed tumor microenvironment in melanoma.

    Stefani Spranger;Jason J Luke;Riyue Bao;Yuanyuan Zha

  • Molecular Drivers of the Non-T-cell-Inflamed Tumor Microenvironment in Urothelial Bladder Cancer.

    Randy F. Sweis;Stefani Spranger;Riyue Bao;Gladell P. Paner

  • Type I interferon activates MHC class I-dressed CD11b+ conventional dendritic cells to promote protective anti-tumor CD8+ T cell immunity.

    Ellen Duong;Tim B. Fessenden;Emi Lutz;Teresa Dinter

  • Molecular Pathways: Targeting IDO1 and Other Tryptophan Dioxygenases for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Lijie Zhai;Stefani Spranger;David C. Binder;Galina Gritsina

  • Mechanisms of tumor escape in the context of the T-cell-inflamed and the non-T-cell-inflamed tumor microenvironment

    Stefani Spranger

  • Cancer Immunotherapy Targets Based on Understanding the T Cell-Inflamed Versus Non-T Cell-Inflamed Tumor Microenvironment

    Thomas F. Gajewski;Leticia Corrales;Jason Williams;Brendan Horton

  • Pharmacologic Inhibition of MALT1 Protease by Phenothiazines as a Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Aggressive ABC-DLBCL

    Daniel Nagel;Stefani Spranger;Michelle Vincendeau;Michael Grau

  • Future perspectives in melanoma research

    Paolo A. Ascierto;Sanjiv Agarwala;Gerardo Botti;Alessandra Cesano

  • WNT Signaling in Cancer Immunosurveillance.

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Stefani Spranger;Elaine Fuchs;Alejandro López-Soto

  • Lymphatic vessels regulate immune microenvironments in human and murine melanoma

    Amanda W. Lund;Marek Wagner;Manuel Fankhauser;Eli S. Steinskog

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Gajewski
Thomas F. Gajewski University of Chicago
Jason J. Luke
Jason J. Luke University of Pittsburgh
Paolo A. Ascierto
Paolo A. Ascierto National Institutes of Health
Lisa H. Butterfield
Lisa H. Butterfield University of California, San Francisco
Bernard A. FoxEarle
Bernard A. FoxEarle Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
Patrick Hwu
Patrick Hwu The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Howard L. Kaufman
Howard L. Kaufman Harvard University
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Daniel Krappmann
Daniel Krappmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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