Ali Naji

Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Also affiliated with University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyImmunology and Microbiology

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Papers

Driven by 45 papers. Top paper: “Genome-wide analysis of histone modifications in human pancreatic islets”.

Genome-wide analysis of histone modifications in human pancreatic islets

Genome Research(2010)10.1101/gr.102038.109

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4.5DataRank · unranked

126 citations

Jonathan Schug, John Le Lay, Alan Fox, Olga Smirnova, Chengyang Liu +3 more

A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids

Cell stem cell(2020)10.1016/j.stem.2020.06.015

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0.976DataRank · unranked

670 citations

Yuling Han, Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant, Vikas Gupta, Pengfei Wang, Xiaohua Duan +32 more

Immunotherapy targeting B cells and long-lived plasma cells effectively eliminates pre-existing donor-specific allo-antibodies

Cell Reports Medicine(2023)10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101336

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0.716DataRank · unranked

22 citations

Caroline Markmann, Ming Yu, Divyansh Agarwal, Susan Rostami, Wei Wang +21 more

The Identity of Human Tissue-Emigrant CD8+ T Cells

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.019

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109 citations

Laura A. Vella, Son Nguyen, Vincent H. Wu, Zeyu Chen, Takuya Sekine +35 more

Sel1L-Hrd1 ER-associated degradation maintains β cell identity via TGF-β signaling

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2020)10.1172/jci134874

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89 citations

Tongyu Liu, Yewei Ji, Rachel B. Reinert, Mauricio Torres, Xin Li +11 more

Robust, 3-Dimensional Visualization of Human Colon Enteric Nervous System Without Tissue Sectioning

Gastroenterology(2020)10.1053/j.gastro.2020.02.035

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65 citations

Silvia Huerta López, Rajarshi Sengupta, Archana Shenoy, Sabine Schneider, Christina M. Wright +10 more

Genetic Variation in Type 1 Diabetes Reconfigures the 3D Chromatin Organization of T Cells and Alters Gene Expression

Immunity(2020)10.1016/j.immuni.2020.01.003

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55 citations

Naomi Goldman, Wenliang Wang, Benjamin Cattau, Yeqiao Zhou, Jelena Petrovic +13 more

Identification of EGFR and RAS Inhibitors using Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Visualized Experiments(2020)10.3791/61788

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4 citations

Thuy Nhu L. Truong, Ali Naji, Sabita Thapa, John F. Hancock, Ransome van der Hoeven +1 more

The identity of human tissue-emigrant CD8 + T cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.11.236372

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5 citations

Laura A. Vella, Son Nguyen, Vincent H. Wu, Takuya Sekine, André Perez‐Potti +31 more

SARS-CoV-2 infection induces beta cell transdifferentiation

Cell Metabolism(2021)10.1016/j.cmet.2021.05.015

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195 citations

Skyler Uhl, Tuo Zhang, Dongxiang Xue, Bo Li, J. Jeya Vandana +20 more

A nanofibrous encapsulation device for safe delivery of insulin-producing cells to treat type 1 diabetes

Science Translational Medicine(2021)10.1126/scitranslmed.abb4601

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123 citations

Kristina G. Maxwell, Kai Wang, Daniel T. Bowers, James A. Flanders, Wanjun Liu +12 more

Exome-wide evaluation of rare coding variants using electronic health records identifies new gene–phenotype associations

Nature Medicine(2021)10.1038/s41591-020-1133-8

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65 citations

Anastasia Lucas, Xinyuan Zhang, Kumardeep Chaudhary, Judy H. Cho, Girish N. Nadkarni +36 more

TCR+/BCR+ dual-expressing cells and their associated public BCR clonotype are not enriched in type 1 diabetes

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.035

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27 citations

Wenzhao Meng, Aaron M. Rosenfeld, Daniel J. Perry, Puchong Thirawatananond, Rhonda Bacher +9 more

SARS-CoV-2 Spike-Specific T-Cell Responses in Patients With B-Cell Depletion Who Received Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Treatments

JAMA Oncology(2021)10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.6030

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18 citations

Kyabeth Torres-Rodriguez, Wenzhao Meng, Wei‐Ting Hwang, Noelle V. Frey, Ali Naji +2 more

Norovirus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in Human Blood and Tissues

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology(2021)10.1016/j.jcmgh.2020.12.012

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19 citations

L Mayer, Chi Wai Lau, Chengyang Liu, Olesya Palko, Meenakshi Bewtra +8 more

Germinal center responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in healthy and immunocompromised individuals

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.09.16.21263686

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29 citations

Kalpana Parvathaneni, Mark M. Painter, Emily Bettini, Divyansh Agarwal, Kendall A. Lundgreen +21 more

Germinal center responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in healthy and immunocompromised individuals

Cell(2022)10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.027

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176 citations

Emily Bettini, Kalpana Parvathaneni, Mark M. Painter, Divyansh Agarwal, Kendall A. Lundgreen +27 more

3D chromatin maps of the human pancreas reveal lineage-specific regulatory architecture of T2D risk

Cell Metabolism(2022)10.1016/j.cmet.2022.08.014

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87 citations

Long Gao, Catherine Lee May, James A. Pippin, Keith D. Boehm, Michelle Lee +8 more

Understanding islet dysfunction in type 2 diabetes through multidimensional pancreatic phenotyping: The Human Pancreas Analysis Program

Cell Metabolism(2022)10.1016/j.cmet.2022.09.013

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73 citations

Ali Naji, Mark A. Atkinson, Alvin C. Powers, Klaus H. Kaestner, Suzanne N. Shapira

α Cell dysfunction in islets from nondiabetic, glutamic acid decarboxylase autoantibody–positive individuals

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2022)10.1172/jci156243

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66 citations

Andrea V. Rozo, Jeffrey Roman, Wei Qin, Daniel Traum, Long Gao +13 more

Suppression of allograft rejection by regulatory B cells induced via TLR signaling

JCI Insight(2022)10.1172/jci.insight.152213

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16 citations

Qiang Fu, Guoli Huai, Kevin Deng, Ji Lei, Lisa Kojima +11 more

Single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility profiling of human pancreatic islets at basal and stimulatory conditions nominates mechanisms of type 1 diabetes genetic risk

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.11.12.516291

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3 citations

Xuming Tang, Henry J. Taylor, Nandini Manickam, Michael R. Erdos, Narisu Narisu +9 more

Injury and a program of fetal wound healing in the fetal and neonatal extrahepatic bile duct

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.12.15.520656

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2 citations

Mallory L. Hunt, Dongning Chen, Yu Du, Jessica Llewellyn, Kapish Gupta +15 more

A beta cell subset with enhanced insulin secretion and glucose metabolism is reduced in type 2 diabetes

Nature Cell Biology(2023)10.1038/s41556-023-01103-1

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71 citations

Nicolás Gómez-Banoy, Lisa Stoll, Friederike Dündar, Alex M. Mawla, Lunkun Ma +20 more

Association between primary graft function and 5-year outcomes of islet allogeneic transplantation in type 1 diabetes: a retrospective, multicentre, observational cohort study in 1210 patients from the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology(2023)10.1016/s2213-8587(23)00082-7

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61 citations

Élodie Drumez, Cassandra Ballou, Mehdi Maanaoui, Elizabeth H. Payne, Franca B. Barton +68 more

Human vascularized bile duct-on-a chip: a multi-cellular micro-physiological system for studying cholestatic liver disease

Biofabrication(2023)10.1088/1758-5090/ad0261

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29 citations

Iris E. M. de Jong, Kapish Gupta, Orith Waisbourd‐Zinman, Adi Har‐Zahav, Carol J. Soroka +7 more

A fetal wound healing program after intrauterine bile duct injury may contribute to biliary atresia

Journal of Hepatology(2023)10.1016/j.jhep.2023.08.010

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23 citations

Mallory L. Hunt, Dongning Chen, Yu Du, Jessica Llewellyn, Kapish Gupta +16 more

Adaptation of HLA testing to characterize the cynomolgus macaque MHC polymorphisms and alloantibody signatures

HLA(2023)10.1111/tan.15239

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3 citations

Chengyang Liu, Vijay Bhoj, Jane Kearns, Tina Bharani, Insuk Choe +7 more

An integrative single-cell multi-omics profiling of human pancreatic islets identifies T1D associated genes and regulatory signals

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3343318/v1

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12 citations

Zeping Zhao, Ricardo D’Oliveira Albanus, Henry J. Taylor, Xuming Tang, Yuling Han +16 more

Human Vascularized Bile Duct-on-a Chip: A multi-cellular micro-physiological system for studying Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.02.530888

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4 citations

Kapish Gupta, Orith Waisbourd‐Zinman, Adi Har‐Zahav, Carol J. Soroka, James L. Boyer +6 more

DEC1 is an adult clock regulator that links circadian rhythms to functional β-cell maturation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.08.11.552890

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3 citations

Mai Liu, Ana P. Montalvo Landivar, Zoe L. Gruskin, Andrew Leduc, Yu Xie +28 more

Human vascularized macrophage-islet organoids to model immune-mediated pancreatic β cell pyroptosis upon viral infection

Cell stem cell(2024)10.1016/j.stem.2024.08.007

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43 citations

Yuling Han, Tuo Zhang, Xue Dong, Jian Ge, Aadita Roy +17 more

Modeling type 1 diabetes progression using machine learning and single-cell transcriptomic measurements in human islets

Cell Reports Medicine(2024)10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101535

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25 citations

Jonathan Schug, Chengyang Liu, Deeksha Lahori, Hélène C. Descamps, Ali Naji +4 more

Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Enteric Nervous System in Human Pediatric Colon Reveals New Features of Hirschsprung’s Disease

Gastroenterology(2024)10.1053/j.gastro.2024.02.045

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23 citations

Rebecca P Bradley, Kahleb Graham, Ceron RH, Amanda M Lemke, Benjamin J. Wilkins +3 more

AnnoSpat annotates cell types and quantifies cellular arrangements from spatial proteomics

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-47334-0

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11 citations

Fatema Tuz Zohora, Noah Burget, Yeqiao Zhou, Diane C. Saunders, Yue J. Wang +8 more

Biliary atresia susceptibility gene EFEMP1 regulates extrahepatic bile duct elastic fiber formation and mechanics

JHEP Reports(2024)10.1016/j.jhepr.2024.101215

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7 citations

Jessica Llewellyn, Emilia Roberts, Chengyang Liu, Ali Naji, Richard K. Assoian +2 more

Immunosuppression withdrawal in living-donor renal transplant recipients following induction with antithymocyte globulin and rituximab: Results of a prospective clinical trial

American Journal of Transplantation(2024)10.1016/j.ajt.2024.03.007

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2 citations

Bryna E. Burrell, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Choli Hartono, Dixon B. Kaufman, Andrew M. Possselt +10 more

MTMR regulates KRAS function by controlling plasma membrane levels of phospholipids

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.01.22.576612

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1 citations

Ali Naji, Ransome van der Hoeven, Hong Liang, Yong Zhou, Gerald Hammond +3 more

Human Vascularized Macrophage-Islet Organoids to Model Immune-Mediated Pancreatic β cell Pyroptosis upon Viral Infection

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.08.05.606734

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1 citations

Yuling Han, Tuo Zhang, Xue Dong, Jian Ge, Aadita Roy +17 more

Norovirus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in Human Blood and Tissues

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/nkfb-3756

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0 citations

Lau C.W, Mayer L.S, Betts M.R, Tomov Vesselin T., Ali Naji +9 more

Integrative single-cell multi-omics profiling of human pancreatic islets identifies T1D-associated genes and regulatory signals

Cell Reports(2025)10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116065

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7 citations

Xiaoshan Zhang, Zeping Zhao, Henry J. Taylor, Xuming Tang, Yuling Han +18 more

Molecular Mechanisms of Human Pancreatic Islet Dysfunction Under Overnutrition Metabolic Stress

Diabetes(2025)10.2337/db24-1038

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4 citations

Guo Li, Maria Pilar Toledo, Pamela Sandoval Sanchez, Gengqiang Xie, Chengyang Liu +5 more

Spatial transcriptomics from pancreas and local draining lymph node tissue reveals a lymphotoxin-β signature in human type 1 diabetes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.05.19.654940

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1 citations

Maigan A. Brusko, Gregory J. Golden, Martha Campbell‐Thompson, Trevor Rogers, Amanda L. Posgai +9 more

The Transcription Factor T-bet Resolves Memory B Cell Subsets with Distinct Tissue Distributions and Antibody Specificities in Mice and Humans

Immunity(2020)10.1016/j.immuni.2020.03.020

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214 citations

Rebecca L. Rosenthal, James J. Knox, Arpita Myles, Martin S. Naradikian, Joanna Madej +19 more

Islet transplantation in the subcutaneous space achieves long-term euglycaemia in preclinical models of type 1 diabetes

Nature Metabolism(2020)10.1038/s42255-020-0269-7

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111 citations

Divyansh Agarwal, Laxminarayana Korutla, Catherine Lee May, Wei Wang, Negin Noorchashm Griffith +8 more