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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

Overview

Vijay K. Kuchroo is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with substantial work also contributing to the field of medicine.

The scientist's research spans several subfields, including immunology, molecular biology, oncology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The main topics covered in their work are immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, galectins and cancer biology, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, as well as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Kuchroo's frequent co-authors include Ana C. Anderson, Aviv Regev, Alexandra Schnell, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, and Chao Wang.

The scientist regularly publishes in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature Immunology
  • Immunity

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Vijay K. Kuchroo include:

  • "Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer," 2021, Cell
  • "Metabolic modeling of single Th17 cells reveals regulators of autoimmunity," 2021, Cell
  • "TIM-3 restrains anti-tumour immunity by regulating inflammasome activation," 2021, Nature
  • "Polyamine metabolism is a central determinant of helper T cell lineage fidelity," 2021, Cell
  • "KIM-1 mediates fatty acid uptake by renal tubular cells to promote progressive diabetic kidney disease," 2021, Cell Metabolism

Vijay K. Kuchroo was recognized with the Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) award in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Reciprocal developmental pathways for the generation of pathogenic effector TH17 and regulatory T cells.

    Estelle Bettelli;Yijun Carrier;Wenda Gao;Thomas Korn

  • IL-17 and Th17 Cells.

    Thomas Korn;Estelle Bettelli;Mohamed Oukka;Vijay K. Kuchroo

  • Adenosine generation catalyzed by CD39 and CD73 expressed on regulatory T cells mediates immune suppression

    Silvia Deaglio;Karen M. Dwyer;Wenda Gao;David J Friedman

  • IL-21 initiates an alternative pathway to induce proinflammatory T H 17 cells

    Thomas Korn;Estelle Bettelli;Wenda Gao;Amit Awasthi

  • Regulatory T cell clones induced by oral tolerance: suppression of autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Youhai Chen;Vijay K. Kuchroo;Jun-ichi Inobe;David A. Hafler

  • PD-L1 regulates the development, maintenance, and function of induced regulatory T cells

    Loise Marie Francisco;Victor H. Salinas;Keturah Elise Brown;Vijay K. Vanguri;Vijay K. Vanguri

  • The Tim-3 ligand galectin-9 negatively regulates T helper type 1 immunity

    Chen Zhu;Ana C Anderson;Anna Schubart;Huabao Xiong

  • Targeting Tim-3 and PD-1 pathways to reverse T cell exhaustion and restore anti-tumor immunity

    Kaori Sakuishi;Lionel Apetoh;Jenna M. Sullivan;Bruce R. Blazar

  • Genetic and Epigenetic Fine-Mapping of Causal Autoimmune Disease Variants

    Kyle Kai How Farh;Alexander Marson;Jiang Zhu;Markus Kleinewietfeld

  • Lag-3, Tim-3, and TIGIT: Co-inhibitory Receptors with Specialized Functions in Immune Regulation

    Ana C. Anderson;Nicole Joller;Vijay K. Kuchroo

  • B7-1 and B7-2 costimulatory molecules activate differentially the Th1/Th2 developmental pathways: Application to autoimmune disease therapy

    Vijay K Kuchroo;Mercy Prabhu Das;Julia A Brown;Ann M Ranger

  • T H -17 cells in the circle of immunity and autoimmunity

    Estelle Bettelli;Mohamed Oukka;Vijay K Kuchroo

  • Th1-specific cell surface protein Tim-3 regulates macrophage activation and severity of an autoimmune disease

    Laurent Monney;Catherine A. Sabatos;Jason L. Gaglia;Akemi Ryu

  • Interleukin-17 and type 17 helper T cells.

    Pierre Miossec;Thomas Korn;Vijay K Kuchroo

  • Induction and effector functions of T H 17 cells

    Estelle Bettelli;Thomas Korn;Mohamed Oukka;Vijay K. Kuchroo

  • IL-4 inhibits TGF-β-induced Foxp3+ T cells and, together with TGF-β, generates IL-9+ IL-10+ Foxp3− effector T cells

    Valerie Dardalhon;Amit Awasthi;Hyoung-Joon Kwon;George Galileos

  • Upregulation of Tim-3 and PD-1 expression is associated with tumor antigen–specific CD8+ T cell dysfunction in melanoma patients

    Julien Fourcade;Zhaojun Sun;Mourad Benallaoua;Philippe Guillaume

  • IL-12 family cytokines: immunological playmakers

    Dario A A Vignali;Vijay K Kuchroo

  • IL-21 and TGF-beta are required for differentiation of human T(H)17 cells.

    Li Yang;David E. Anderson;Clare Baecher-Allan;William D. Hastings

  • Induction and molecular signature of pathogenic TH17 cells

    Youjin Lee;Amit Awasthi;Amit Awasthi;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef;Francisco Javier Quintana

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana C. Anderson
Ana C. Anderson Brigham and Women's Hospital
Raymond A. Sobel
Raymond A. Sobel Stanford University
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Sheng Xiao
Sheng Xiao Brigham and Women's Hospital
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Mohamed Oukka
Mohamed Oukka University of Washington
Howard L. Weiner
Howard L. Weiner Harvard University
Arlene H. Sharpe
Arlene H. Sharpe Harvard University
Terry B. Strom
Terry B. Strom Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nir Yosef
Nir Yosef University of California, Berkeley

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