2026 Steven L. Reiner: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	83	1423	1299	725	648	170	30970

Overview

Steven L. Reiner is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within immunology, microbiology, and medicine, focusing primarily on immune responses, cancer immunotherapy, and related molecular mechanisms.

Their main fields of study include:

Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine

Within these, subfields of particular focus are:

Immunology
Oncology
Molecular Biology
Genetics
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Key topics covered by their research include:

Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
T-cell and B-cell Immunology
CAR-T cell therapy research
IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
Gut microbiota and health

Recent publications illustrate the breadth and depth of their scientific contributions:

"Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome," 2022, Cell
"Inhibitory signaling sustains a distinct early memory CD8 ⁺ T cell precursor that is resistant to DNA damage," 2021, Science Immunology
"The CD58-CD2 axis is co-regulated with PD-L1 via CMTM6 and shapes anti-tumor immunity," 2023, Cancer Cell
"Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals distinct T cell populations in immune-related adverse events of checkpoint inhibitors," 2022, Cell Reports Medicine
"PD-1 blockade increases the self-renewal of stem-like CD8 T cells to compensate for their accelerated differentiation into effectors," 2023, Science Immunology

Frequent coauthors collaborating on these works include:

Brian S. Henick
Rohan Maniar
Peter H. Wang
Naiyer A. Rizvi
Robert S. Washburn

Their research is published regularly in venues such as:

Science Immunology
Cell
Cancer Cell
Cell Reports Medicine
Cancers

Best Publications

The lineage decisions of helper T cells

Kenneth M. Murphy;Steven L. Reiner

2320
Citations
The regulation of immunity to Leishmania major.

Steven L Reiner;Richard M Locksley

1628
Citations
Effector and memory CD8 + T cell fate coupled by T-bet and eomesodermin

Andrew M Intlekofer;Naofumi Takemoto;E John Wherry;E John Wherry;Sarah A Longworth

1506
Citations
Control of Effector CD8+ T Cell Function by the Transcription Factor Eomesodermin

Erika L. Pearce;Alan C. Mullen;Gislâine A. Martins;Connie M. Krawczyk

1225
Citations
Role of T-bet in Commitment of TH1 Cells Before IL-12-Dependent Selection

Alan C. Mullen;Frances A. High;Anne S. Hutchins;Hubert W. Lee

1167
Citations
Asymmetric T lymphocyte division in the initiation of adaptive immune responses.

John T. Chang;Vikram R. Palanivel;Ichiko Kinjyo;Felix Schambach

1061
Citations
Helper T Cell Differentiation Is Controlled by the Cell Cycle

Jennifer J. Bird;Daniel R. Brown;Alan C. Mullen;Naomi H. Moskowitz

1044
Citations
Progenitor and terminal subsets of CD8+ T cells cooperate to contain chronic viral infection.

Michael A. Paley;Daniela C. Kroy;Pamela M. Odorizzi;Jonathan B. Johnnidis

968
Citations
The Transcription Factors T-bet and Eomes Control Key Checkpoints of Natural Killer Cell Maturation

Scott M. Gordon;Julie Chaix;Levi J. Rupp;Junmin Wu

847
Citations
A Role for the Transcriptional Repressor Blimp-1 in CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion during Chronic Viral Infection

Haina Shin;Shawn D. Blackburn;Andrew M. Intlekofer;Charlly Kao

585
Citations
Transcription factor T-bet represses expression of the inhibitory receptor PD-1 and sustains virus-specific CD8 + T cell responses during chronic infection

Charlly Kao;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Michael A. Paley;Alison Crawford

566
Citations
VACCINATION WITH DNA ENCODING THE IMMUNODOMINANT LACK PARASITE ANTIGEN CONFERS PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY TO MICE INFECTED WITH LEISHMANIA MAJOR

Sanjay Gurunathan;David L. Sacks;Daniel R. Brown;Steven L. Reiner

554
Citations
CD4+ effector cells default to the Th2 pathway in interferon gamma-deficient mice infected with Leishmania major

Zhi-En Wang;Steven L. Reiner;Shichun Zheng;Dyana K. Dalton

539
Citations
Cutting Edge: The Transcription Factor Eomesodermin Enables CD8+ T Cells To Compete for the Memory Cell Niche

Arnob Banerjee;Scott M. Gordon;Andrew M. Intlekofer;Michael A. Paley

519
Citations
Anomalous type 17 response to viral infection by CD8+ T cells lacking T-bet and eomesodermin.

Andrew M. Intlekofer;Arnob Banerjee;Naofumi Takemoto;Scott M. Gordon

489
Citations
Leishmania promastigotes evade interleukin 12 (IL-12) induction by macrophages and stimulate a broad range of cytokines from CD4+ T cells during initiation of infection.

S L Reiner;S Zheng;Z E Wang;L Stowring

469
Citations
Hlx is induced by and genetically interacts with T-bet to promote heritable T H 1 gene induction

Alan C. Mullen;Anne S. Hutchins;Frances A. High;Hubert W. Lee

443
Citations
Cutting Edge: IL-12 Inversely Regulates T-bet and Eomesodermin Expression during Pathogen-Induced CD8 + T Cell Differentiation

Naofumi Takemoto;Andrew M. Intlekofer;John T. Northrup;E. John Wherry

438
Citations
REGULATION OF SURFACE AND INTRACELLULAR EXPRESSION OF CTLA4 ON MOUSE T CELLS

M L Alegre;P J Noel;B J Eisfelder;E Chuang

431
Citations
Development in motion: helper T cells at work.

Steven L. Reiner

423
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

E. John Wherry University of Pennsylvania

John T. Chang University of California, San Diego

Wolfgang Weninger Medical University of Vienna

Tullia Lindsten Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sarah M. Russell Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Christopher A. Hunter University of Pennsylvania

Craig B. Thompson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Janis K. Burkhardt University of Pennsylvania

Joseph C. Sun Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Nigel Killeen University of California, San Francisco

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