2026 Yasmine Belkaid: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	113	759	725	461	437	327	62920
Immunology	118	349	321	222	201	320	69426
Medicine	118	3987	3734	2177	2015	320	69426

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2019 - Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Yasmine Belkaid is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable activity also in subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics including immune cell function and interaction, gut microbiota and health, T-cell and B-cell immunology, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, immunotherapy and immune responses, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and dermatology and skin diseases.

Frequent publication venues for their work include The Journal of Immunology with 24 publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13, Science with 10, Nature Immunology with 7, and Nature with 6.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Yasmine Belkaid are:

Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients, 2021, Science
Host variables confound gut microbiota studies of human disease, 2020, Nature
Gut-educated IgA plasma cells defend the meningeal venous sinuses, 2020, Nature
Control of Immunity by the Microbiota, 2021, Annual Review of Immunology
Infection trains the host for microbiota-enhanced resistance to pathogens, 2021, Cell

Yasmine Belkaid has collaborated extensively with various researchers over time. Frequent coauthors include Verena M. Link, Nicolas Bouladoux, Liang Chi, Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, and Apollo Stacy.

The scientist has received several awards and recognitions, including membership in prestigious organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences (2017), the National Academy of Medicine (2018), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020), and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020. Additionally, they were awarded the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in 2019.

Best Publications

Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation

Yasmine Belkaid;Timothy W. Hand

5562
Citations
A functionally specialized population of mucosal CD103+ DCs induces Foxp3+ regulatory T cells via a TGF-β– and retinoic acid–dependent mechanism

Janine L. Coombes;Karima R.R. Siddiqui;Carolina V. Arancibia-Cárcamo;Jason Hall

3288
Citations
The human skin microbiome

Allyson L. Byrd;Yasmine Belkaid;Julia A. Segre

2647
Citations
Commensal Bacteria Control Cancer Response to Therapy by Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment

Noriho Iida;Amiran Dzutsev;C. Andrew Stewart;Loretta Smith

2385
Citations
Small intestine lamina propria dendritic cells promote de novo generation of Foxp3 T reg cells via retinoic acid

Cheng-Ming Sun;Jason A. Hall;Jason A. Hall;Rebecca B. Blank;Nicolas Bouladoux

2323
Citations
CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells control Leishmania major persistence and immunity

Yasmine Belkaid;Yasmine Belkaid;Ciriaco A. Piccirillo;Susana Mendez;Ethan M. Shevach

2261
Citations
Generation of pathogenic T H 17 cells in the absence of TGF-β signalling

Kamran Ghoreschi;Arian Laurence;Xiang-Ping Yang;Cristina M Tato

1719
Citations
Expression of Helios, an Ikaros Transcription Factor Family Member, Differentiates Thymic-Derived from Peripherally Induced Foxp3+ T Regulatory Cells

Angela M. Thornton;Patricia E. Korty;Dat Q. Tran;Elizabeth A. Wohlfert

1646
Citations
Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti–PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients

Diwakar Davar;Amiran K. Dzutsev;John A. McCulloch;Richard R. Rodrigues

1461
Citations
Natural regulatory T cells in infectious disease

Yasmine Belkaid;Yasmine Belkaid;Barry T Rouse

1439
Citations
Homeostatic Immunity and the Microbiota

Yasmine Belkaid;Oliver J. Harrison

1229
Citations
Compartmentalized Control of Skin Immunity by Resident Commensals

Shruti Naik;Nicolas Bouladoux;Christoph Wilhelm;Michael J. Molloy

1223
Citations
The alarmin IL-33 promotes regulatory T-cell function in the intestine

Chris Schiering;Thomas Krausgruber;Agnieszka Chomka;Anja Fröhlich

1058
Citations
Regulatory T cells and infection: a dangerous necessity

Yasmine Belkaid

970
Citations
Minimal Differentiation of Classical Monocytes as They Survey Steady-State Tissues and Transport Antigen to Lymph Nodes

Claudia Jakubzick;Claudia Jakubzick;Emmanuel L. Gautier;Sophie L. Gibbings;Dorothy K. Sojka

928
Citations
Microbiota-dependent crosstalk between macrophages and ILC3 promotes intestinal homeostasis.

Arthur Mortha;Aleksey Chudnovskiy;Daigo Hashimoto;Milena Bogunovic

880
Citations
Commensal–dendritic-cell interaction specifies a unique protective skin immune signature

Shruti Naik;Nicolas Bouladoux;Jonathan L. Linehan;Seong-Ji Han

824
Citations
The Role of Interleukin (IL)-10 in the Persistence of Leishmania major in the Skin after Healing and the Therapeutic Potential of Anti–IL-10 Receptor Antibody for Sterile Cure

Yasmine Belkaid;Karl F. Hoffmann;Susana Mendez;Shaden Kamhawi

821
Citations
Dialogue between skin microbiota and immunity

Yasmine Belkaid;Julia A. Segre

734
Citations
Skin microbiota–host interactions

Y. Erin Chen;Y. Erin Chen;Michael A. Fischbach;Yasmine Belkaid

695
Citations
Decrease of Foxp3+ Treg Cell Number and Acquisition of Effector Cell Phenotype during Lethal Infection

Guillaume Oldenhove;Nicolas Bouladoux;Elizabeth Ea Wohlfert;Jason A. Hall;Jason A. Hall

653
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Sacks National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Geneviève Milon Institut Pasteur

Jason M. Brenchley National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Christopher L. Karp Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mark C. Udey Washington University in St. Louis

Giorgio Trinchieri National Institutes of Health

John J. O'Shea National Institutes of Health

Nicholas P. Restifo National Institutes of Health

Ethan M. Shevach National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Shaden Kamhawi National Institutes of Health

External Links

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