2026 Victor Nizet: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	132	72	68	35	31	693	73097
Medicine	133	2206	2054	1244	1142	716	73711

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
2008 - E. Mead Johnson Award, Society for Pediatric Research
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Victor Nizet is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research output covers a broad range of topics predominantly in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work is often situated at the intersection of infectious diseases, molecular biology, and immunology.

Their recent papers include:

Global chemical effects of the microbiome include new bile-acid conjugations, 2020, Nature
Nanoparticle-modified microrobots for in vivo antibiotic delivery to treat acute bacterial pneumonia, 2022, Nature Materials
Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)-Enabled High-Throughput Medicinal Chemistry, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Exploration of Bacterial Bottlenecks and Streptococcus pneumoniae Pathogenesis by CRISPRi-Seq, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
How Neutrophils Meet Their End, 2020, Trends in Immunology

Frequent co-authors with whom Nizet has collaborated include:

George Sakoulas
Bernhard Ø. Palsson
Satoshi Uchiyama
Elisabet Bjånes
Samira Dahesh

Nizet's publications appear regularly in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 37 publications
mSystems, 9 publications
Infectious Microbes & Diseases, 8 publications
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 6 publications
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 6 publications

Their book publications include:

Remington and Klein's Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant, published by Elsevier BV in 2024
Host-pathogen Interaction During Pneumococcal Infections, published by Frontiers Media in 2021

Main fields of study for Victor Nizet are:

Medicine (304 publications)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (178 publications)

Within these fields, subfields of study include:

Molecular Biology (94 publications)
Infectious Diseases (77 publications)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (76 publications)
Epidemiology (52 publications)
Immunology (51 publications)

Their research topics cover:

Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (108 publications)
Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (78 publications)
Neonatal and Maternal Infections (70 publications)
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (48 publications)
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (44 publications)
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (42 publications)
Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (34 publications)

Among the awards received by Nizet are the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2008 and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1β through HIF-1α

G. M. Tannahill;A. M. Curtis;J. Adamik;E. M. Palsson-McDermott

4066
Citations
HIF-1α Is Essential for Myeloid Cell-Mediated Inflammation

Thorsten Cramer;Yuji Yamanishi;Björn E Clausen;Irmgard Förster

2468
Citations
NF-κB links innate immunity to the hypoxic response through transcriptional regulation of HIF-1α

Jordi Rius;Monica Guma;Christian Schachtrup;Katerina Akassoglou

1897
Citations
Innate antimicrobial peptide protects the skin from invasive bacterial infection.

Victor Nizet;Takaaki Ohtake;Takaaki Ohtake;Xavier Lauth;Xavier Lauth;Janet Trowbridge;Janet Trowbridge

1516
Citations
Development and Use of Personalized Bacteriophage-Based Therapeutic Cocktails To Treat a Patient with a Disseminated Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

Robert T. Schooley;Biswajit Biswas;Jason J. Gill;Adriana Hernandez-Morales

1270
Citations
HIF Transcription Factors, Inflammation, and Immunity

Asis Palazon;Ananda W. Goldrath;Victor Nizet;Victor Nizet;Randall S. Johnson;Randall S. Johnson

1223
Citations
Innate immunity gone awry : linking microbial infections to chronic inflammation and cancer

Michael Karin;Toby Lawrence;Victor Nizet

1208
Citations
Skin microbiota: a source of disease or defence?

A.L. Cogen;V. Nizet;R.L. Gallo

1181
Citations
Disease Manifestations and Pathogenic Mechanisms of Group A Streptococcus

Mark J. Walker;Timothy C. Barnett;Jason D. McArthur;Jason N. Cole;Jason N. Cole

1003
Citations
ATP Release Guides Neutrophil Chemotaxis via P2Y2 and A3 Receptors

Yu Chen;Ross Corriden;Yoshiaki Inoue;Linda Yip

970
Citations
Staphylococcus aureus golden pigment impairs neutrophil killing and promotes virulence through its antioxidant activity

George Y. Liu;Anthony Essex;John T. Buchanan;Vivekanand Datta

963
Citations
Interdependence of hypoxic and innate immune responses.

Victor Nizet;Randall S. Johnson

868
Citations
HIF-1α expression regulates the bactericidal capacity of phagocytes

Carole Peyssonnaux;Vivekanand Datta;Thorsten Cramer;Andrew Doedens

861
Citations
DNase expression allows the pathogen group A Streptococcus to escape killing in neutrophil extracellular traps.

John T. Buchanan;Amelia J. Simpson;Ramy K. Aziz;George Y. Liu

861
Citations
IKKα limits macrophage NF-κB activation and contributes to the resolution of inflammation

Toby Lawrence;Toby Lawrence;Magali Bebien;George Y. Liu;Victor Nizet

833
Citations
Regulation of iron homeostasis by the hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIFs)

Carole Peyssonnaux;Annelies S. Zinkernagel;Reto A. Schuepbach;Erinn Rankin

823
Citations
Cutaneous Injury Induces the Release of Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptides Active Against Group A Streptococcus

Robert A. Dorschner;Vasumati K. Pestonjamasp;Seema Tamakuwala;Takaaki Ohtake

768
Citations
A Cholesterol Biosynthesis Inhibitor Blocks Staphylococcus aureus Virulence

Chia I. Liu;Chia I. Liu;George Y. Liu;Yongcheng Song;Fenglin Yin

595
Citations
Cutting edge: Essential role of hypoxia inducible factor-1alpha in development of lipopolysaccharide-induced sepsis.

Carole Peyssonnaux;Pilar Cejudo-Martin;Andrew Doedens;Annelies S. Zinkernagel

582
Citations
Nuclease Expression by Staphylococcus aureus Facilitates Escape from Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

Evelien T.M. Berends;Alexander R. Horswill;Nina M. Haste;Marc Monestier

576
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George Sakoulas University of California, San Diego

Richard L. Gallo University of California, San Diego

Mark J. Walker University of Queensland

Ajit Varki University of California, San Diego

Joe Pogliano University of California, San Diego

Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego

David Gonzalez University of California, San Diego

Ramy K. Aziz Cairo University

Randall S. Johnson University of Cambridge

Bernhard O. Palsson University of California, San Diego

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