Leonid S. Metelitsa

Human NKT Cells Mediate Antitumor Cytotoxicity Directly by Recognizing Target Cell CD1d with Bound Ligand or Indirectly by Producing IL-2 to Activate NK Cells

Leonid S. Metelitsa, Olga V. Naidenko, Anita Kant et al. · The Journal of Immunology · 2001 · 359 citations

Vα24-invariant NKT cells mediate antitumor activity via killing of tumor-associated macrophages

Liping Song, Shahab Asgharzadeh, Jill Salo et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 2009 · 326 citations · Full text

Valpha24-invariant Nkt Cells, Tumor-associated Macrophages, Tumor Infiltration +15

Invariant NKT cells with chimeric antigen receptor provide a novel platform for safe and effective cancer immunotherapy

Andras Heczey, Daofeng Liu, Gengwen Tian et al. · Blood · 2014 · 295 citations · Full text

Increase of Ceramide and Induction of Mixed Apoptosis/Necrosis by N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)- retinamide in Neuroblastoma Cell Lines

Britta Maurer, Leonid S. Metelitsa, Robert C. Seeger et al. · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 1999 · 289 citations · Full text

Constitutive Signaling from an Engineered IL7 Receptor Promotes Durable Tumor Elimination by Tumor-Redirected T Cells

Thomas Shum, Bilal Omer, Haruko Tashiro et al. · Cancer Discovery · 2017 · 280 citations · Full text