Justin M. Balko

MedicineImmunology and MicrobiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

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Top 2%percentile

2.4Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

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Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis

Nature Cancer(2022)10.1038/s43018-022-00491-x

Top 9%

2.4DataRank

Top 9%114 citations

Toshinori Hinoue, Gregory Wheeler, Benjamin Kelly, Ana C. Garrido-Castro, Tomás Pascual +53 more

Papers

Driven by 41 papers — median percentile 91. Top paper: “Hydroxychloroquine as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Healthcare Workers: A Randomized Trial”.

Hydroxychloroquine as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Healthcare Workers: A Randomized Trial

Clinical Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1093/cid/ciaa1571

N/A

4.6DataRank · unranked

128 citations

Ananta Bangdiwala, Melanie R. Nicol, Caleb P Skipper, Katelyn A Pastick, Margaret L. Axelrod +30 more

Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis

Nature Cancer(2022)10.1038/s43018-022-00491-x

Top 9%

2.4DataRank

Top 9%114 citations

Toshinori Hinoue, Gregory Wheeler, Benjamin Kelly, Ana C. Garrido-Castro, Tomás Pascual +53 more

A tumor-intrinsic PD-L1/NLRP3 inflammasome signaling pathway drives resistance to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2020)10.1172/jci133055

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

251 citations

Kathy S. Evans, Nicholas C. DeVito, Michael P. Plebanek, Michael Sturdivant, Luke P. Wachsmuth +10 more

Nanoparticle delivery improves the pharmacokinetic properties of cyclic dinucleotide STING agonists to open a therapeutic window for intravenous administration

Journal of Controlled Release(2020)10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.11.017

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

120 citations

Lihong Wang-Bishop, Kyle W. Becker, Daniel Shae, Jessalyn J. Baljon, Xinyi He +5 more

Immune checkpoint inhibitor toxicities: systems-based approaches to improve patient care and research

The Lancet Oncology(2020)10.1016/s1470-2045(20)30107-8

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

110 citations

Kerry L. Reynolds, Ryan J. Sullivan, Justin M. Balko, James R. Patrinely, Laura C. Cappelli +3 more

Changes in Peripheral and Local Tumor Immunity after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Reshape Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Clinical Cancer Research(2020)10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-3685

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

60 citations

Mellissa J. Nixon, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Riley E. Bergman, Mark A. Pilkinton, Wyatt J. McDonnell +21 more

MEK activation modulates glycolysis and supports suppressive myeloid cells in TNBC

JCI Insight(2020)10.1172/jci.insight.134290

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

49 citations

Joe T. Sharick, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Violeta Sánchez, Phillip T. Dean, Susan R. Opalenik +14 more

Demographic Factors Associated with Toxicity in Patients Treated with Anti–Programmed Cell Death-1 Therapy

Cancer Immunology Research(2020)10.1158/2326-6066.cir-19-0986

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

65 citations

Haocan Song, Fei Ye, Javid J. Moslehi, Justin M. Balko, Joe‐Elie Salem +2 more

Evolving insights into the mechanisms of toxicity associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology(2020)10.1111/bcp.14433

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

55 citations

Renee McAlister, Justin M. Balko, Douglas B. Johnson, Javid J. Moslehi, Andrew Gibson +2 more

Novel mechanism in cardiac injury: immune checkpoints

European Heart Journal(2020)10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.3625

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Margaret L. Axelrod, Marcia Blair, David Z. Trykall, Joey V. Barnett, Dan M. Roden +5 more

Rapidly fatal pneumonitis from immunotherapy and concurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with newly diagnosed lung cancer

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.04.29.20085738

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Kelli L. Boyd, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Cindy Lowe, Hunter M. Brown, Robert Hoffman +12 more

Efferocytosis produces a prometastatic landscape during postpartum mammary gland involution

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/rn4e-pn02

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Dana M. Brantley‐Sieders, David Vaught, Andrew E. Williams, Michelle D. Williams, Rebecca S. Cook +9 more

Multi-omics analysis identifies therapeutic vulnerabilities in triple-negative breast cancer subtypes

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-26502-6

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

263 citations

Antonio Colaprico, Tiago C. Silva, Jianjiao Chen, Hanbing An, Yuguang Ban +10 more

Tumor-Specific Major Histocompatibility-II Expression Predicts Benefit to Anti–PD-1/L1 Therapy in Patients With HER2-Negative Primary Breast Cancer

Clinical Cancer Research(2021)10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-0607

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

91 citations

Julia D. Wulfkhule, Rosa I. Gallagher, Xiaopeng Sun, Margaret L. Axelrod, Quanhu Sheng +10 more

Progesterone promotes immunomodulation and tumor development in the murine mammary gland

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2021)10.1136/jitc-2020-001710

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

31 citations

Katelin A. Gibson, Merit L. Goodman, Dominika E. Helm, K. Walter, Sean M. Holloran +18 more

Artificial image objects for classification of breast cancer biomarkers with transcriptome sequencing data and convolutional neural network algorithms

Breast Cancer Research(2021)10.1186/s13058-021-01474-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Daniel Chen, Zhongming Zhao, Justin M. Balko, Jingchun Chen, Xiangning Chen

Peripheral Blood Monocyte Abundance Predicts Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1017242/v1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Margaret L. Axelrod, Yu Wang, Yaomin Xu, Xiaopeng Sun, Cosmin Bejan +10 more

T cells specific for α-myosin drive immunotherapy-related myocarditis

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-05432-3

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

328 citations

Wouter C. Meijers, Elles M. Screever, Juan Qin, Mary Grace Carroll, Xiaopeng Sun +21 more

Mechanisms of MHC-I Downregulation and Role in Immunotherapy Response

Frontiers in Immunology(2022)10.3389/fimmu.2022.844866

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

285 citations

Justin M. Balko, Brandie C. Taylor

Combined Dusp4 and p53 loss with Dbf4 amplification drives tumorigenesis via cell cycle restriction and replication stress escape in breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research(2022)10.1186/s13058-022-01542-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Mellissa J. Nixon, Mónica V. Estrada, Violeta Sánchez, Quanhu Sheng, Susan R. Opalenik +9 more

Peripheral Blood Monocyte Abundance Predicts Outcomes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Cancer Research Communications(2022)10.1158/2767-9764.crc-22-0023

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Yu Wang, Yaomin Xu, Xiaopeng Sun, Cosmin A. Bejan, Paula I. González-Ericsson +10 more

Multiplatform Analysis of Primary and Metastatic Breast Tumors from the AURORA US Network identifies microenvironment and epigenetics drivers of metastasis

Research Square(2022)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1221704/v1

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Susana García‐Recio, Toshinori Hinoue4, Gregory Wheeler, Benjamin Kelly, Ana C. Garrido-Castro +49 more

NKG2A Is a Therapeutic Vulnerability in Immunotherapy Resistant MHC-I Heterogeneous Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Cancer Discovery(2023)10.1158/2159-8290.cd-23-0519

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0DataRank · unranked

65 citations

Xiaopeng Sun, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Violeta Sánchez, Melinda E. Sanders, Elizabeth C. Wescott +15 more

Polycomb repressor complex 2 suppresses interferon-responsive MHC-II expression in melanoma cells and is associated with anti-PD-1 resistance

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2023)10.1136/jitc-2023-007736

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

29 citations

Brandie C. Taylor, Margaret L. Axelrod, Xiaopeng Sun, Lindsey N. Guerin, Paula I. González-Ericsson +9 more

Convolutional neural network for biomarker discovery for triple negative breast cancer with RNA sequencing data

Heliyon(2023)10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14819

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Justin M. Balko, Fei Ling, Yabin Jin, Anneliese Gonzalez, Zhongming Zhao +2 more

Polygenic risk score for ulcerative colitis predicts immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.05.15.23289680

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Rohit Thummalapalli, Michael J. Betti, Lydia Yao, Zoe Quandt, Karmugi Balaratnam +23 more

Data from A Kinome-Wide Screen Identifies the Insulin/IGF-I Receptor Pathway as a Mechanism of Escape from Hormone Dependence in Breast Cancer

(2023)10.1158/0008-5472.c.6503028.v1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Todd W. Miller, Justin M. Balko, María G. Kuba, Violeta Sánchez, R. Adam Smith +9 more

Polygenic risk score for ulcerative colitis predicts immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-023-44512-4

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

33 citations

Rohit Thummalapalli, Michael J. Betti, Lydia Yao, Zoe Quandt, Karmugi Balaratnam +28 more

EMP2 Serves as a Functional Biomarker for Chemotherapy-Resistant Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Cancers(2024)10.3390/cancers16081481

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Brian Aguirre, Lucia Liu, Vei Mah, Justin M. Balko, Jessica Tsui +13 more

Interoperability of phenome-wide multimorbidity patterns: a comparative study of two large-scale EHR systems

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.03.28.24305045

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Tess Vessels, Karmel W. Choi, Siwei Zhang, Yajing Li, Lide Han +21 more

Programable Albumin-Hitchhiking Nanobodies Enhance the Delivery of STING Agonists to Potentiate Cancer Immunotherapy

Research Square(2024)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3243545/v1

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Blaise R. Kimmel, Karan Arora, Neil C. Chada, Vijaya Bharti, Alexander J. Kwiatkowski +20 more

Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/m9ck-zv98

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jonathan C. Silverstein, AURORA US Network, Melina E Sanders, P.W. Laird, C.M. Perou +53 more

67O Polygenic risk score associations with immune checkpoint inhibitors related endocrine toxicity

Annals of Oncology(2024)10.1016/j.annonc.2024.08.075

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Zoe Quandt, Ashis Saha, Lifen Yao, P. Midda, Yaomin Xu +15 more

Potentiating cancer immunotherapies with modular albumin-hitchhiking nanobody–STING agonist conjugates

Nature Biomedical Engineering(2025)10.1038/s41551-025-01400-0

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0DataRank · unranked

49 citations

Karan Arora, Neil C. Chada, Vijaya Bharti, Alexander J. Kwiatkowski, Jonah E. Finkelstein +20 more

Progesterone receptor-dependent downregulation of MHC class I promotes tumor immune evasion and growth in breast cancer

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2025)10.1136/jitc-2024-010179

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Harmony Saunders, Lauryn R. Werner, Xiaopeng Sun, Eilidh I Chowanec, Amanda Heard +16 more

CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment modulate the response to endocrine therapy in breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2025)10.1172/jci188458

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Yunguan Wang, Dhivya R. Sudhan, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Luigi Formisano, Nisha Unni +26 more

Monitoring systemic immune responses to checkpoint inhibition in breast cancer reveals host responses and mechanisms of resistance

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2025)10.1136/jitc-2025-012606

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Xiaopeng Sun, Quanhu Sheng, Paula I. González-Ericsson, Elizabeth C. Wescott, Brandie C. Taylor +8 more

Peripheral blood gene expression signatures of systemic immunity predict tumor microenvironment biology and therapeutic response in breast cancer

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-6926989/v1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Xiaopeng Sun, Ann Hanna, Andres A. Ocampo, Brandie C. Taylor, James R. Marshall +14 more

Potent STING activation stimulates immunogenic cell death to enhance antitumor immunity in neuroblastoma

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer(2020)10.1136/jitc-2019-000282

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

177 citations

Mohamed Wehbe, Daniel Shae, Jamaal L. James, Benjamin C. Hacker, Kyle M. Garland +5 more

Peripheral blood biomarkers in monitoring treatment response in breast cancer patients

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics(2025)10.1080/14737159.2025.2467965

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Xiaopeng Sun, Justin M. Balko, Andres A. Ocampo

A Genetic Mouse Model Recapitulates Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Associated Myocarditis and Supports a Mechanism-Based Therapeutic Intervention

Cancer Discovery(2020)10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-0856

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

278 citations

Wouter C. Meijers, Margaret L. Axelrod, Nana-Ama A.S. Anang, Elles M. Screever, Elizabeth C. Wescott +22 more

Justin M. Balko

Indexed papers

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