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Rafi Ahmed

emory university

162H-index

764Paper Count

10.8WCitation Count

Published Papers 327

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Exposed phosphatidylserine is an inhibitory molecule in T cell exhaustion

Nature

IF48.5

2026-03-25

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Christopher B. Medina; Ewelina Sobierajska; Minghao Gong; Daniel T. McManus; Maheshwor Thapa; Judong Lee; Se Jin Im; Jason E. Toombs; Joshua M. Mitchell; Yating Wang; Jennifer W. Carlisle; Gordon J. Freeman; Viraj A. Master; Suresh S. Ramalingam; Haydn T. Kissick; Shuzhao Li; Rolf A. Brekken; Rafi Ahmed

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Understanding the pathogenesis of uveitis in Ebola virus disease survivors: an observational cohort and cross-sectional study protocol for clinical, molecular virologic and immunologic characterisation

BMJ Open

IF2.3

2025-12-22

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Hartley, Caleb D.; Linderman, Susanne; Fashina, Tolulope; Ward, Laura; Drews-Botsch, Carolyn; Pratt, Catherine; Kuthyar, Sanjana; Fernandes, Alcides Filho; Huang, Ye; Choo, Charlene; Nguyen, Nam; Carag, Jessica; Morgan, Jill; Kraft, Colleen S.; Hewlett, Angela; Brett-Major, David; Schieffelin, John S.; Garry, Robert F.; Grant, Donald; Justin, Grant A.; Conrady, Christopher D.; Smith, Justine R.; Hayek, Brent R.; Balendra, Shiama; Acharya, Nisha; Doan, Thuy; Legand, Anais; Formenty, Pierre; Zeng, Xiankun; Conteh, Ibrahim; Vandy, Matthew Jusu; Harrison-Williams, Lloyd; Mustapha, Jalikatu; Koroma, Zikan; Wiley, Michael R.; Crozier, Ian; Mwanza, Jean-Claude; Shantha, Jessica G.; Ahmed, Rafi; Yeh, Steven

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T cell nomenclature: from subsets to modules

Nature Reviews Immunology

IF60.9

2025-11-18

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David Masopust; Andrew G. Soerens; Clare F. Quarnstrom; Rafi Ahmed

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Guidelines for T cell nomenclature

Nature Reviews Immunology

IF60.9

2025-11-18

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David Masopust; Amit Awasthi; Rémy Bosselut; David G. Brooks; Marcus Buggert; Kenji Chamoto; Weiguo Cui; Chen Dong; Donna L. Farber; Thomas Gebhardt; Carmen Gerlach; Ananda Goldrath; Philip D. Greenberg; J. Scott Hale; Adrian Hayday; Dirk Homann; Matteo Iannacone; Stephen C. Jameson; Marc K. Jenkins; Nikhil S. Joshi; Susan M. Kaech; Axel Kallies; Alice O. Kamphorst; Mark H. Kaplan; Paul Klenerman; Marco Künzli; Antonio Lanzavecchia; Georg M. Lauer; Enrico Lugli; Andrew D. Luster; Laura K. Mackay; M. Juliana McElrath; Scott N. Mueller; Zaza Ndhlovu; Thumbi Ndung’u; Pamela S. Ohashi; Annette Oxenius; Giuseppe Pantaleo; Marion Pepper; Louis J. Picker; Clare F. Quarnstrom; Gustavo Reyes-Terán; Mario Roederer; Pamela C. Rosato; Gonzalo Salgado-Montes de Oca; Federica Sallusto; Ton N. Schumacher; Daniella M. Schwartz; Eui-Cheol Shin; Andrew G. Soerens; Daniela S. Thommen; Vaiva Vezys; João P. B. Viola; Bruce D. Walker; Tania H. Watts; Casey T. Weaver; E. John Wherry; Hai-Hui Xue; Ben Youngblood; Rafi Ahmed

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Prolonged antigen presentation in absence of CD4 T cells promotes reversible defects of helpless CD8 memory T cells across multiple host-pathogen systems

JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

IF3.4

2025-11-01

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van der Heide, Verena; Laghlali, Gabriel; Davenport, Bennett; Cubitt, Beatrice; Roudko, Vladimir; Choo, Daniel; Humblin, Etienne; Jhun, Kevin; Vaidya, Abishek Balachandra; Angeliadis, Krista; Dawson, Travis; Furtado, Glaucia C.; Kamphorst, Alice Oliffson; Schotsaert, Michael; Ahmed, Rafi; de la Torre, Juan Carlos; Homann, Dirk

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Influenza vaccine based on AS03-adjuvanted chimeric HA induces long-lived stalk-specific plasma cells in bone marrow and lymph nodes of nonhuman primates

Nature Immunology

IF27.6

2025-10-15

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Akil Akhtar; Tiffany M. Styles; Chunyang Gu; André Nicolás León; Gregory K. Tharp; Kasey Stokdyk; Anass Abbad; Cora Hirst; Shirin Strohmeier; Gabriele Neumann; Sara T. Richey; James A. Ferguson; Uchurappa Mala; Hasan Ahmed; Julianna Han; Juan Manuel Carreño; Carl W. Davis; Rustom Antia; Peter Palese; Andrew B. Ward; Yoshihiro Kawaoka; Florian Krammer; Rafi Ahmed; Rama R. Amara

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Chimeric hemagglutinin-based universal influenza mRNA vaccine induces protective immunity and bone marrow plasma cells in rhesus macaques

Cell Reports Medicine

IF10.6

2025-09-25

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Tiffany M. Styles; Akil Akhtar; Chunyang Gu; Gabriele Neumann; Hiromi Muramatsu; Justine S. McPartlan; Poulami Talukder; Derrik Gratz; Kasey Stokdyk; Hannah L. Turner; James A. Ferguson; Alesandra J. Rodriguez; Madhumathi Loganathan; Benjamin Francis; Anass Abbad; Ghania Chikh; Ying K. Tam; Zhaohui S. Qin; Julianna Han; Juan Manuel Carreño; Andrew B. Ward; Jasdave S. Chahal; Christian W. Mandl; Norbert Pardi; Yoshihiro Kawaoka; Florian Krammer; Rafi Ahmed; Rama R. Amara

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Prolonged but finite antigen presentation promotes reversible defects of “helpless” memory CD8+ T cells

Immunity

IF26.3

2025-06-25

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Verena van der Heide; Gabriel Laghlali; Bennett Davenport; Beatrice Cubitt; Vladimir Roudko; Daniel Choo; Kevin Jhun; Etienne Humblin; Abishek Vaidya; Krista Angeliadis; Travis Dawson; Glaucia Furtado; Alice O. Kamphorst; Michael Schotsaert; Rafi Ahmed; Juan Carlos de la Torre; Dirk Homann

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Mechanical force regulates ligand binding and function of PD-1

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

IF15.7

2024-09-27

OAAI

Li, Kaitao; Cardenas-Lizana, Paul; Lyu, Jintian; Kellner, Anna V.; Li, Menglan; Cong, Peiwen; Watson, Valencia E.; Yuan, Zhou; Ahn, Eunseon; Doudy, Larissa; Li, Zhenhai; Salaita, Khalid; Ahmed, Rafi; Zhu, Cheng

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Chronic viral infection alters PD-1 locus subnuclear localization in cytotoxic CD8++ T cells

CELL REPORTS

IF6.9

2024-08-01

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Sacristan, Catarina; Youngblood, Ben A.; Lu, Peiyuan; Bally, Alexander P. R.; Xu, Jean Xiaojin; McGary, Katelyn; Hewitt, Susannah L.; Boss, Jeremy M.; Skok, Jane A.; Ahmed, Rafi; Dustin, Michael L.

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Pembrolizumab and low-dose, single-fraction radiotherapy for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma: a prospective, single-centre, single-group, open-label, phase 2 pilot trial in the USA

LANCET HAEMATOLOGY

IF17.7

2024-07-01

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Khan, Mohammad K.; Nasti, Tahseen H.; Qian, Joshua Y.; Kleber, Troy J.; Switchenko, Jeffrey M.; Kaufman, Jonathan L.; Nooka, Ajay J.; Dhodapkar, Madhav, V; Buchwald, Zachary S.; Obiekwe, Daby; Lonial, Sagar; Ahmed, Rafi

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Michael Oldstone (1932-2023): Pioneer in viral pathogenesis, historian and author

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IF9.1

2024-04-03

OAAI

Ahmed, Rafi

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Harnessing CD8 T cell responses using PD-1-IL-2 combination therapy

TRENDS IN CANCER

IF17.5

2024-04-01

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Hashimoto, Masao; Ramalingam, Suresh S.; Ahmed, Ra fi

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Severe disease during both primary and secondary dengue virus infections in pediatric populations

NATURE MEDICINE

IF50

2024-02-06

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Aggarwal, Charu; Ahmed, Hasan; Sharma, Pragati; Reddy, Elluri Seetharami; Nayak, Kaustuv; Singla, Mohit; Maheshwari, Deepti; Chawla, Yadya M.; Panda, Harekrushna; Rai, Ramesh Chandra; Gunisetty, Sivaram; Priyamvada, Lalita; Bhaumik, Siddhartha Kumar; Ahamed, Syed Fazil; Vivek, Rosario; Bhatnagar, Priya; Singh, Prabhat; Kaur, Manpreet; Dixit, Kritika; Kumar, Sanjeev; Gottimukkala, Kamal; Saini, Keshav; Bajpai, Prashant; Sreekanth, Gopinathan Pillai; Mammen, Shobha; Rajan, Anand; Verghese, Valsan Philip; Abraham, Asha Mary; Shah, Paresh; Alagarasu, Kalichamy; Yu, Tianwei; Davis, Carl W.; Wrammert, Jens; Ansari, Aftab; Antia, Rustom; Kabra, Sushil Kumar; Medigeshi, Guruprasad R.; Ahmed, Rafi; Lodha, Rakesh; Shet, Anita; Chandele, Anmol; Murali-Krishna, Kaja

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Reversible, tunable epigenetic silencing of TCF1 generates flexibility in the T cell memory decision

IMMUNITY

IF26.3

2024-02-01

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Abadie, Kathleen; Clark, Elisa C.; Valanparambil, Rajesh M.; Ukogu, Obinna; Yang, Wei; Daza, Riza M.; Ng, Kenneth K. H.; Fathima, Jumana; Wang, Allan L.; Lee, Judong; Nasti, Tahseen H.; Bhandoola, Avinash; Nourmohammad, Armita; Ahmed, Rafi; Shendure, Jay; Cao, Junyue; Kueh, Hao Yuan

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Mitochondrial metabolic flexibility is critical for CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity

SCIENCE ADVANCES

IF12.5

2023-12-08

OAAI

Chen, Chao; Zheng, Hong; Horwitz, Edwin M.; Ando, Satomi; Araki, Koichi; Zhao, Peng; Li, Zhiguo; Ford, Mandy L.; Ahmed, Rafi; Qu, Cheng-Kui

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BA.5 bivalent booster vaccination enhances neutralization of XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16 and XBB.1.9 variants in patients with lung cancer

NPJ VACCINES

IF6.5

2023-11-21

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Valanparambil, Rajesh M.; Lai, Lilin; Johns, Margaret A.; Davis-Gardner, Meredith; Linderman, Susanne L.; McPherson, Tarrant Oliver; Chang, Andres; Akhtar, Akil; Gamarra, Estefany L. Bocangel; Matia, Hayley; McCook-Veal, Ashley A.; Switchenko, Jeffrey; Nasti, Tahseen H.; Green, Felicia; Saini, Manpreet; Wieland, Andreas; Pinsky, Benjamin A.; Solis, Daniel; Dhodapkar, Madhav V.; Carlisle, Jennifer; Ramalingam, Suresh; Ahmed, Rafi; Suthar, Mehul S.

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The evolution and determinants of neutralization of potent head-binding antibodies against Ebola virus

CELL REPORTS

IF6.9

2023-11-01

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Yu, Xiaoying; Hastie, Kathryn M.; Davis, Carl W.; Avalos, Ruben Diaz; Williams, Dewight; Parekh, Diptiben; Hui, Sean; Mann, Colin; Hariharan, Chitra; Takada, Ayato; Ahmed, Rafi; Saphire, Erica Ollmann

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Efficacy of mRNA-1273 and Novavax ancestral or BA.1 spike booster vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 BA.5 infection in nonhuman primates

SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY

IF16.3

2023-10-27

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Routhu, Nanda Kishore; Stampfer, Samuel David; Lai, Lilin; Akhtar, Akil; Tong, Xin; Yuan, Dansu; Chicz, Taras M.; McNamara, Ryan P.; Jakkala, Kishor; Davis-Gardner, Meredith E.; St Pierre, E. Lovisa; Smith, Brandon; Green, Kristyn Moore; Golden, Nadia; Picou, Breanna; Jean, Sherrie M.; Wood, Jennifer; Cohen, Joyce; Moore, Ian N.; Patel, Nita; Guebre-Xabier, Mimi; Smith, Gale; Glenn, Greg; Kozlowski, Pamela A.; Alter, Galit; Ahmed, Rafi; Suthar, Mehul S.; Amara, Rama Rao

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Characteristics and anatomic location of PD-1+TCF1+stem- like CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection and cancer

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IF9.1

2023-10-02

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Im, Se Jin; Obeng, Rebecca C.; Nasti, Tahseen H.; Mcmanus, Daniel; Kamphorst, Alice O.; Gunisetty, Sivaram; Prokhnevska, Nataliya; Carlisle, Jennifer W.; Yu, Ke; Sica, Gabriel L.; Cardozo, Lucas E.; Goncalves, Andre N. A.; Kissick, Haydn T.; Nakaya, Helder I.; Ramalingam, Suresh S.; Ahmed, Rafi

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