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Immune cells in cancer

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Yuhan Hao
Jilin University
2
McLane J. Watson
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
3
Hideki Ikeda
Chiba University
4
Matthew D. Park
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
5
Ana Rita Pombo Antunes
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
6
Yansen Xiao
University of Pennsylvania
7
Dalia Barkley
Institute for Family Health
8
Rina Kim
The Wistar Institute
9
Lena Cords
Helmholtz Zentrum München
10
Jeremy Gungabeesoon
Harvard University

Papers

1
Cancer-associated fibroblast phenotypes are associated with patient outcome in non-small cell lung cancer
Cancer Cell|2024
260 cit.
2
Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment
Nature|2025
248 cit.
3
Hematopoietic aging promotes cancer by fueling IL-1⍺–driven emergency myelopoiesis
Science|2024
120 cit.
4
Classifying cancer-associated fibroblasts—The good, the bad, and the target
Cancer Cell|2024
110 cit.
5
Restoring resident tissue macrophages to combat aging and cancer
Nature Aging|2025
6 cit.
6
902 Hematopoietic aging promotes cancer by fueling IL-1α-driven emergency myelopoiesis
Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts|2024
4 cit.
7
Multi-Dimensional Geometric Feature-Based Calibration Method for LiDAR and Camera Fusion
Unknown Journal|2024
3 cit.
8
Porto-Sinusoidal Vascular Liver Disease Associated With Trastuzumab Emtansine: A Case Report
Cureus|2025
0 cit.
9
Publication (2026) [W7154490388]
Unknown Journal|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Peter Smibert
10X Genomics (United States)
2
Xianwen Ren
Institute of Zoology
3
Guoji Guo
Zhejiang University
4
Xin Yu
Amgen (United States)
5
Youqiong Ye
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
6
Nicole G. Coufal
University of California San Diego
7
Dylan Skola
Illumina (United States)
8
Deborah R. Winter
Northwestern University
9
Andrea Ablasser
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
10
Charlotte L. Scott
Ghent University

Papers

1
Spatial proteogenomics reveals distinct and evolutionarily conserved hepatic macrophage niches
Cell|2022
936 cit.
2
cGAS–STING drives ageing-related inflammation and neurodegeneration
Nature|2023
925 cit.
3
The cGAS–STING pathway drives type I IFN immunopathology in COVID-19
Nature|2022
542 cit.
4
Direct detection of RNA modifications and structure using single-molecule nanopore sequencing
Cell Genomics|2022
161 cit.
5
Clathrin-associated AP-1 controls termination of STING signalling
Nature|2022
149 cit.
6
Reconstruction of the tumor spatial microenvironment along the malignant-boundary-nonmalignant axis
Nature Communications|2023
149 cit.
7
Systematic identification of cell-fate regulatory programs using a single-cell atlas of mouse development
Nature Genetics|2022
103 cit.
8
Integration of Pan-Cancer Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Stromal Cell Features and Therapeutic Targets in Tumor Microenvironment
Cancer Research|2023
101 cit.
9
The Web-Based Portal SpatialTME Integrates Histological Images with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics to Explore the Tumor Microenvironment
Cancer Research|2024
71 cit.
10
Spatial transcriptomics deconvolution at single-cell resolution using Redeconve
Nature Communications|2023
70 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Dmitry I. Gabrilovich
AstraZeneca (Netherlands)
2
Rahul Satija
New York Genome Center
3
Ido Amit
Weizmann Institute of Science
4
Ben A. Barres
Stanford University
5
Marco Prinz
University of Freiburg
6
Miriam Mérad
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
7
John E. Dick
University of Toronto
8
Mihai G. Netea
Radboud University Nijmegen
9
Steffen Jung
Weizmann Institute of Science
10
Jeffrey W. Pollard
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health

Papers

1
Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data
Cell|2019
16.9k cit.
2
Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
Cell|2021
16k cit.
3
Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia
Nature|2017
8k cit.
4
Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data
Nature Biotechnology|2015
7.7k cit.
5
Human acute myeloid leukemia is organized as a hierarchy that originates from a primitive hematopoietic cell
Nature Medicine|1997
6.9k cit.
6
A Unique Microglia Type Associated with Restricting Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
Cell|2017
5.6k cit.
7
Fate Mapping Analysis Reveals That Adult Microglia Derive from Primitive Macrophages
Science|2010
5.1k cit.
8
A cell initiating human acute myeloid leukaemia after transplantation into SCID mice
Nature|1994
4.7k cit.
9
A human colon cancer cell capable of initiating tumour growth in immunodeficient mice
Nature|2006
4.1k cit.
10
Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS
Nature Neuroscience|2015
3.4k cit.

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