Behdad Afzali

Also affiliated with National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Colorado Kidney Care

Immunology and MicrobiologyMedicine

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Driven by 43 papers. Top paper: “BACH2 enforces the transcriptional and epigenetic programs of stem-like CD8+ T cells”.

BACH2 enforces the transcriptional and epigenetic programs of stem-like CD8+ T cells

Nature Immunology(2021)10.1038/s41590-021-00868-7

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4.4DataRank · unranked

204 citations

Guohua Lou, Hong‐Wei Sun, Ziang Zhu, Yi Sun, Zeyu Chen +17 more

The Role of Interferon-γ in Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1

New England Journal of Medicine(2024)10.1056/nejmoa2312665

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1.4DataRank · unranked

82 citations

Grace Smith, Gregory Constantine, Monica M Schmitt, Elise M. N. Ferré, Julie C Alejo +61 more

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

Nature Immunology(2021)10.1038/s41590-021-01080-3

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0.801DataRank · unranked

207 citations

Tilo Freiwald, Reuben McGregor, Bingyu Yan, Luopin Wang, Estefanía Nova‐Lamperti +24 more

Folic acid-mediated fibrosis is driven by C5a receptor 1-mediated activation of kidney myeloid cells

American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology(2022)10.1152/ajprenal.00404.2021

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0.641DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Sandhya Xavier, Daniel Chauss, Luopin Wang, Claude Chew, Ronald P. Taylor +7 more

MicroRNA-221 and -222 modulate intestinal inflammatory Th17 cell response as negative feedback regulators downstream of interleukin-23

Immunity(2021)10.1016/j.immuni.2021.02.015

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0.606DataRank · unranked

56 citations

Rachael L. Philips, Giuseppe Sciumè, Franziska Petermann, Françoise Meylan, Hiroyuki Nagashima +13 more

Loss of CD4+ T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection

Immunity(2023)10.1016/j.immuni.2023.07.014

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0.606DataRank · unranked

56 citations

Nicolas S. Merle, Marcin M. Kamiński, Gustavo Palacios, Dhaneshwar Kumar, Luopin Wang +19 more

Unbiased discovery of cancer pathways and therapeutics using Pathway Ensemble Tool and Benchmark

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-51859-9

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0.475DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Aryamav Pattnaik, Subhransu S. Sahoo, Ella G. Stone, Yuxin Zhuang, Annaleigh Benton +23 more

Transcription factor EGR2 controls homing and pathogenicity of TH17 cells in the central nervous system

Nature Immunology(2023)10.1038/s41590-023-01553-7

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0.470DataRank · unranked

22 citations

Yan Wang, Daniel Chauss, Alejandro V. Villarino, Verena M. Link, Hiroyuki Nagashima +16 more

A foundation model for human-AI collaboration in medical literature mining

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-62058-5

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0.442DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Lang Cao, Qiao Jin, Joey Wing Yan Chan, Nicholas Wan, Behdad Afzali +18 more

Preexisting Autoimmunity Is Associated With Increased Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Data From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

Clinical Infectious Diseases(2023)10.1093/cid/ciad294

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0.373DataRank · unranked

11 citations

David Sahner, Hythem Sidky, Behdad Afzali, Nathan Hotaling, Emily Pfaff +2 more

Host-virus chimeric events in SARS-CoV2 infected cells are infrequent and artifactual

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.17.431704

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0.360DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Srishti Chakravorty, Carmen Mirabelli, Luopin Wang, Jorge L. Trujillo‐Ochoa, Daniel Chauss +7 more

Anakinra-associated renal amyloidosis

Kidney International(2024)10.1016/j.kint.2023.08.020

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0.312DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Sara Alehashemi, Surendra Dasari, Meryl Waldman, Behdad Afzali, April Chiu +4 more

Pre-existing autoimmunity is associated with increased severity of COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.02.02.23285353

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Behdad Afzali, Nathan Hotaling, Hythem Sidky, Emily Pfaff, David Sahner +2 more

Response to Comments on “Aberrant type 1 immunity drives susceptibility to mucosal fungal infections”

Science(2021)10.1126/science.abi8835

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12 citations

Vasileios Oikonomou, Nicolás Dutzan, Jigar V. Desai, Marc Swidergall, Tilo Freiwald +38 more

A functional map of genomic HIF1α-DNA complexes in the eye lens revealed through multiomics analysis

BMC Genomics(2021)10.1186/s12864-021-07795-9

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10 citations

Lisa Brennan, Daniel Chauss, Jason Kantorow, Behdad Afzali, Marc Kantorow +1 more

Fibroblast tissue priming—not so nice to C you!

Immunity(2021)10.1016/j.immuni.2021.04.010

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12 citations

Claudia Kemper, Behdad Afzali

Reply to Grigoriev et al., “Sequences of SARS-CoV-2 ‘Hybrids’ with the Human Genome: Signs of Non-coding RNA?”

Journal of Virology(2021)10.1128/jvi.01690-21

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0 citations

Srishti Chakravorty, Carmen Mirabelli, Luopin Wang, Jorge L. Trujillo-Ochoa, Daniel Chauss +7 more

A Functional Map of Genomic HIF1α-DNA Complexes in The Eye Lens Revealed Through Multiomics Analysis

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-247248/v1

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0 citations

Lisa Brennan, Daniel Chauss, Jason Kantorow, Behdad Afzali, Marc Kantorow +1 more

Systematic single-cell pathway analysis to characterize early T cell activation

Cell Reports(2022)10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111697

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158 citations

Divyansh Agarwal, Tilo Freiwald, Natalia Kunz, Nicolas S. Merle, Erin E. West +8 more

EBV-associated diseases: Current therapeutics and emerging technologies

Frontiers in Immunology(2022)10.3389/fimmu.2022.1059133

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101 citations

Behdad Afzali, Majid Kazemian, Srishti Chakravorty

A central role for STAT5 in the transcriptional programing of T helper cell metabolism

Science Immunology(2022)10.1126/sciimmunol.abl9467

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54 citations

Arian Laurence, Fred P. Davis, Luis Nivelo, Stephen R. Brooks, Hong‐Wei Sun +7 more

Non-coding RNAs in immunoregulation and autoimmunity: Technological advances and critical limitations

Journal of Autoimmunity(2022)10.1016/j.jaut.2022.102982

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40 citations

Subhransu S. Sahoo, Daniel Chauss, Majid Kazemian, Behdad Afzali, Dhaneshwar Kumar

1,25‐Dihydroxyvitamin D3 suppresses CD4+ T‐cell effector functionality by inhibition of glycolysis

Immunology(2022)10.1111/imm.13472

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18 citations

Nancy Gudgeon, Gillian M. Mackie, Daniel Chauss, Jennie Roberts, Daniel A. Tennant +5 more

Renal diseases and the role of complement: Linking complement to immune effector pathways and therapeutics

Advances in immunology(2021)10.1016/bs.ai.2021.09.001

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22 citations

Behdad Afzali, Tilo Freiwald

A comprehensive single cell data analysis of lymphoblastoid cells reveals the role of super‐enhancers in maintaining EBV latency

Journal of Medical Virology(2022)10.1002/jmv.28362

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12 citations

Chong Wang, Srishti Chakravorty, Zonghao Zhang, Simran D. Kadadi, Yuxin Zhuang +15 more

A comprehensive single cell data analysis of in lymphoblastoid cells reveals the role of Super-enhancers in maintaining EBV latency

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.10.503552

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2 citations

Chong Wang, Srishti Chakravorty, Zonghao Zhang, Simran D. Kadadi, Yuxin Zhuang +14 more

The role of transcription factors in shaping regulatory T cell identity

Nature reviews. Immunology(2023)10.1038/s41577-023-00893-7

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124 citations

Majid Kazemian, Behdad Afzali, Jorge L. Trujillo‐Ochoa

C5a-licensed phagocytes drive sterilizing immunity during systemic fungal infection

Cell(2023)10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.031

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102 citations

Dhaneshwar Kumar, Tilo Freiwald, Daniel Chauss, Melissa D. Johnson, Michael S. Abers +26 more

Host-Virus Chimeric Events in SARS-CoV-2-Infected Cells Are Infrequent and Artifactual

Journal of Virology(2021)10.1128/jvi.00294-21

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37 citations

Srishti Chakravorty, Carmen Mirabelli, Luopin Wang, Jorge L. Trujillo‐Ochoa, Daniel Chauss +7 more

Aberrant type 1 immunity drives susceptibility to mucosal fungal infections

Science(2021)10.1126/science.aay5731

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166 citations

Vasileios Oikonomou, Nicolás Dutzan, Jigar V. Desai, Marc Swidergall, Tilo Freiwald +38 more

SARS-CoV-2 drives JAK1/2-dependent local complement hyperactivation

Science Immunology(2021)10.1126/sciimmunol.abg0833

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203 citations

Tilo Freiwald, Daniel Chauss, Luopin Wang, Erin E. West, Carmen Mirabelli +25 more

Successful Treatment of Paecilomyces variotii Pneumonia and Lupus Nephritis With Posaconazole-Cyclophosphamide Co-administration Without Drug Interaction–Induced Toxicity

Open Forum Infectious Diseases(2023)10.1093/ofid/ofad410

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2 citations

Taura Webb, Elise M. N. Ferré, Monica M. Schmitt, Thomas DiMaggio, Dale Kobrin +12 more

Diapedesis-Induced Integrin Signaling via LFA-1 Facilitates Tissue Immunity by Inducing Intrinsic Complement C3 Expression in Immune Cells

Immunity(2020)10.1016/j.immuni.2020.02.006

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106 citations

Erin E. West, Natalia Kunz, Daniel Chauss, E. Ashley Moseman, Jubayer Rahman +20 more

Pre-existing autoimmunity is associated with increased severity of COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

UNC Libraries(2023)10.17615/q5b9-0a28

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

The N C Consortium, Ewy A. Mathé, Arjun S. Yadaw, Behdad Afzali, David Sahner +3 more

The state of complement in COVID-19

Nature reviews. Immunology(2021)10.1038/s41577-021-00665-1

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313 citations

Marina Noris, Bart N. Lambrecht, Claudia Kemper, Behdad Afzali

A deep intronic splice–altering AIRE variant causes APECED syndrome through antisense oligonucleotide-targetable pseudoexon inclusion

Science Translational Medicine(2024)10.1126/scitranslmed.adk0845

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12 citations

Amy P. Hsu, Andrew J. Oler, Dhaneshwar Kumar, Daniel Chauss, Jan Piet van Hamburg +44 more

SARS-CoV2 drives JAK1/2-dependent local and systemic complement hyper-activation

Research Square(2020)10.21203/rs.3.rs-33390/v1

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33 citations

Tilo Freiwald, Daniel Chauss, Luopin Wang, Erin E. West, Jack Bibby +9 more

An autocrine Vitamin D-driven Th1 shutdown program can be exploited for COVID-19

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.07.18.210161

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33 citations

Daniel Chauss, Tilo Freiwald, Bingyu Yan, Luopin Wang, Estefanía Nova‐Lamperti +20 more

Epstein-Barr Virus Episome Physically Interacts with Active Regions of the Host Genome in Lymphoblastoid Cells

Journal of Virology(2020)10.1128/jvi.01390-20

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50 citations

Jun Laing, Bingyu Yan, Hufeng Zhou, Liang‐Ru Ke, Chong Wang +7 more

Inside job: Roles of intracellular C3

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology(2025)10.1016/j.jaci.2025.03.024

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11 citations

Parul Singh, Md Tajmul, Claudia Kemper, Behdad Afzali

A CD4+ T cell-intrinsic complement C5aR2-prostacyclin-IL-1R2 axis orchestrates Th1 cell contraction

Immunity(2025)10.1016/j.immuni.2025.05.003

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10 citations

Jack Bibby, Parul Singh, Nicolas S. Merle, Erin E. West, Andrea C. Bohrer +16 more

Super-silencers are crucial for development and carcinogenesis in B cells

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-63329-x

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3 citations

Hanna M. Petrykowska, Dhaneshwar Kumar, Lela Kardava, Susan Moir, Behdad Afzali +3 more

A PI3Kd-Foxo1-FasL signaling amplification loop rewires CD4+ T helper cell signaling, differentiation and epigenetic remodeling 4854

The Journal of Immunology(2025)10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.2464

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0 citations

Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli-Guimarães, Daniel Chauss, Hiroyuki Nagashima, Yu Kang, Tom Hill +14 more