Aharon G. Freud
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
Publications
167
Citations
6,847
Est. group size
~20
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
45
Publishing since 1982
Aharon G. Freud studies how natural killer (NK) cells—immune cells that help fight infections and support pregnancy—develop and specialize in different tissues, particularly the uterus. His lab investigates the genetic and molecular programs that guide immune cell differentiation, and applies these insights to conditions like pregnancy complications and organ transplantation. This work combines basic immunology with translational questions relevant to reproductive and transplant medicine.
Publication output has grown over the past decade, with a notable surge in 2023 and continued steady activity through 2024-2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Inhibition of NFAT after human uterus transplant promotes loss of tissue-resident NK cells and attendant pregnancy complications
Science Translational Medicine · 2026
- Author response for "Gene regulatory programs of NK cells show that NCAM1 (CD56) and KIRs are controlled by genetically polymorphic distal regulatory elements"
2026
- A Developmental Program of Early Residency Promotes the Differentiation of Divergent Uterine Nk Cell Subsets in Humans
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- 735 Warthin-Finkeldey-Like Cells: A Retrospective Clinicopathological Study in Non-measles Conditions
Laboratory Investigation · 2025
- Natural Killer Cell Development
2025
- A developmental program of early residency promotes the differentiation of divergent uterine NK cell subsets in humans
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
- Author response for "Gene regulatory programs of NK cells show that NCAM1 (CD56) and KIRs are controlled by genetically polymorphic distal regulatory elements"
2025
- Inhibition of NFAT promotes loss of tissue resident uterine natural killer cells and attendant pregnancy complications in humans
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024
- Sequential Transcriptional Programs of Tissue Residency Drive Human Uterine NK Cell Development
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024
- Unraveling the early transcriptional signature of peripheral blood NK cell transition to uterine residency
The Journal of Immunology · 2024
- Cell fate determination is associated with changes in competing transcriptional units in the human <i>GATA1</i> and <i>GATA2</i> lineage-determining transcription factors
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024
- Deciphering the localization and trajectory of human natural killer cell development
Journal of Leukocyte Biology · 2023
- <i>GATA1</i> and <i>GATA2</i> Sense/Antisense Transcriptional Switching in Early Hematopoietic Development
Blood · 2023
- Evidence for the digital programming of cellular differentiation: characterization of binary switches in lineage-determining transcription factors
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- Aberrant survival of uterine natural killer subsets in uterus transplant recipients
The Journal of Immunology · 2022
- The Journal of Immunology×13
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×11
- Blood×10
- Cancer Research×8
- Frontiers in Immunology×4
- Patrick L. Collins
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Matthew McCullen
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Devin M. Jones
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Eugene M. Oltz
Immunology and Microbiology · The Ohio State University
- Mark H. Kaplan
Immunology and Microbiology · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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