2026 Stephen C. De Rosa: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	52	4020	3707	1834	1676	151	18606

Overview

Stephen C. De Rosa is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology, microbiology, and medicine, with a particular emphasis on HIV research and treatment.

Their work spans several subfields including virology, immunology, infectious diseases, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology. Central themes in their research involve monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, immunotherapy and immune responses, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, immune cell function and interaction, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

De Rosa has published in various scientific venues, with repeated publications in EBioMedicine. Other notable journals include Science Translational Medicine, Vaccine, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial (2025, Science Translational Medicine)
Safety and immunogenicity of a recombinant oligomeric gp145 subtype C Env protein (gp145 C.6980) HIV vaccine candidate in healthy, HIV-1-uninfected adult participants in the US (2023, Vaccine)
Regulation of CD45 isoforms during human effector and memory CD8 T cell differentiation: Implications for T cell nomenclature (2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Corrigendum to 'Immune correlates analysis of the Imbokodo (HVTN 705/HPX2008) efficacy trial of a mosaic HIV-1 vaccine regimen evaluated in Southern African people assigned female sex at birth: a two-phase case-control study'. EBioMedicine 2024;108: 105320 (2025, EBioMedicine)
Unbiased cell clustering analysis of vaccine-induced T cell responses in the Imbokodo HIV-1 vaccine trial (2025, EBioMedicine)

Frequent collaborators include Jack Heptinstall, Kelly E. Seaton, Georgia D. Tomaras, M. Juliana McElrath, and Shannon Grant. Each has co-authored multiple publications alongside De Rosa.

The scientist's main areas of contribution intersect with immunological mechanisms and vaccine development against HIV, addressing both cellular immune responses and broader immunoinformatic approaches. Their research contributes to understanding T-cell and B-cell immunology in the context of infectious disease and vaccine efficacy.

Best Publications

HIV nonprogressors preferentially maintain highly functional HIV-specific CD8+ T-cells

Michael R. Betts;Martha C. Nason;Sadie M. West;Stephen C. De Rosa

2278
Citations
Immune-Correlates Analysis of an HIV-1 Vaccine Efficacy Trial

Barton F. Haynes;Peter B. Gilbert;M. Juliana McElrath;Susan Zolla-Pazner

2118
Citations
Sensitive and viable identification of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells by a flow cytometric assay for degranulation

Michael R. Betts;Jason M. Brenchley;David A. Price;Stephen C. De Rosa

2007
Citations
Interim Results of a Phase 1-2a Trial of Ad26.COV2.S Covid-19 Vaccine.

Jerald Sadoff;Mathieu Le Gars;Georgi Shukarev;Dirk Heerwegh

1250
Citations
HIV-1 vaccine-induced immunity in the test-of-concept Step Study: a case–cohort analysis

M Juliana McElrath;M Juliana McElrath;Stephen C De Rosa;Stephen C De Rosa;Zoe Moodie;Sheri Dubey

878
Citations
11-color, 13-parameter flow cytometry: Identification of human naive T cells by phenotype, function, and T-cell receptor diversity

Stephen C. De Rosa;Leonard A. Herzenberg;Leonore A. Herzenberg;Mario Roederer

607
Citations
mRNA vaccination boosts cross-variant neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Leonidas Stamatatos;Leonidas Stamatatos;Julie Czartoski;Yu Hsin Wan;Leah J. Homad

550
Citations
Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells.

Kristen W. Cohen;Susanne L. Linderman;Zoe Moodie;Julie Czartoski

514
Citations
Quantum dot semiconductor nanocrystals for immunophenotyping by polychromatic flow cytometry

Pratip K Chattopadhyay;David A Price;Theresa F Harper;Michael R Betts;Michael R Betts

479
Citations
Safety and Immunogenicity of Novel Adenovirus Type 26– and Modified Vaccinia Ankara–Vectored Ebola Vaccines: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Iain D. Milligan;Malick M. Gibani;Richard Sewell;Elizabeth A. Clutterbuck

379
Citations
The cytolytic enzymes granyzme A, granzyme B, and perforin: expression patterns, cell distribution, and their relationship to cell maturity and bright CD57 expression.

Pratip K. Chattopadhyay;Michael R. Betts;David A. Price;Emma Gostick

309
Citations
COMPASS identifies T-cell subsets correlated with clinical outcomes

Lin Lin;Greg Finak;Kevin Ushey;Chetan Seshadri

296
Citations
Beyond six colors: a new era in flow cytometry.

Stephen C. De Rosa;Jason M. Brenchley;Mario Roederer

296
Citations
Optimization and validation of an 8-color intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) assay to quantify antigen-specific T cells induced by vaccination.

Helen Horton;Evan P. Thomas;Jason A. Stucky;Ian Frank

291
Citations
Safety and Comparative Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine in Combination with Plasmid Interleukin 12 and Impact of Intramuscular Electroporation for Delivery

Spyros A. Kalams;Scott D. Parker;Marnie Elizaga;Barbara Metch

253
Citations
Ontogeny of γδ T Cells in Humans

Stephen C. De Rosa;James P. Andrus;Stephen P. Perfetto;John J. Mantovani

246
Citations
Vaccination in Humans Generates Broad T Cell Cytokine Responses

Stephen C. De Rosa;Fabien X. Lu;Joanne Yu;Stephen P. Perfetto

241
Citations
OpenCyto: An Open Source Infrastructure for Scalable, Robust, Reproducible, and Automated, End-to-End Flow Cytometry Data Analysis

Greg Finak;Jacob Frelinger;Wenxin Jiang;Evan W. Newell

215
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
Chronic elevation of plasma thioredoxin: inhibition of chemotaxis and curtailment of life expectancy in AIDS.

Hajime Nakamura;Stephen C. De Rosa;Junji Yodoi;Arne Holmgren

203
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Juliana McElrath University of Washington

Lawrence Corey Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Georgia D. Tomaras Duke University

Mario Roederer National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Nicole Frahm Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Raphael Gottardo Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Peter B. Gilbert Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Leonard A. Herzenberg Stanford University

David C. Montefiori Duke University

Leonore A. Herzenberg Stanford University

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