Publications

2025

1. Gengjie Jia(#), Peiqi He(#), Tianli Dai(#), Denise Goh(#), Jiabei Wang, Mengyuan Sun, Felicia Wee, Fuling Li, Jeffrey Chun Tatt LIM, Shuxia Hao, Yao Liu, Tony Lim Kiat Hon, Ngo Nye-Thane, Qingping Tao, Wei Wang, Ahitsham Umar, Björn Nashan, Yongchang Zhang, Chen Ding, Joe Yeong(), Lianxin Liu(),ChengSun(*) ，Spatial Immune Scoring System Predicts Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence. Nature. 2025 Jan.

2.Yan Li,(#) Joe Yeong, Bernard A Fox， Cheng Sun（*），Asia's emergence in cancer immunotherapy: challenges and opportunities.Journal of Immunotherapy of Cancer, 2025;13:e011278.

2022

1.Wu, H., He, P., Ren, Y., Xiao, S., Wang, W., Liu, Z., Li, H., Wang, Z., Zhang, D., Cai, J., Zhou, X., Jiang, D., Fei, X., Zhao, L., Zhang, H., Liu, Z., Chen, R., Li, W., Wang, C., Zhang, S., Qin, J., Björn, N & Sun, C,.Postmortem high-dimensional immune profiling of severe COVID-19 patients reveals distinct patterns of immunosuppression and immunoactivation. Nat Commun 13, 269 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27723-5.

2.Sajid M, Liu L and Sun C (2022). The Dynamic Role of NK Cells in Liver Cancers: Role in HCC and HBV Associated HCC and Its Therapeutic Implications. Front. Immunol. 13:887186. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.887186.

3.Hu B, Sajid M, Lv R, Liu L and Sun C (2022). A review of spatial profiling technologies for characterizing the tumor microenvironment in immuno-oncology. Front. Immunol. 13:996721. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.996721.

2021

1.Yuan X, Rasul F, Nashan B, Sun C. Innate lymphoid cells and cancer: Role in tumor progression and inhibition. Eur J Immunol. 2021 Sep;51(9):2188-2205. doi: 10.1002/eji.202049033. Epub 2021 Jul 11. PMID: 34189723; PMCID: PMC8457100.

2020

1.Yuwei Wu(#), Jinyu Wang(#), Xiaodong Zheng, Yongyan Chen, Mei Huang, Qiang Huang, Weihua Xiao, Haiming Wei, Zhigang Tian, Rui Sun(*)，Sun C(*) Establishment and Preclinical Therapy of Patient-derived Hepatocellular Carcinoma Xenograft Model. Immunol Lett. Volume 223, July 2020.

2. Yin S, Qin J, Zhou Q, Zhu C, Li Y, Wu D, Shen Z, Guo Y, Zhou Y, Nashan B. Sequential metastasis to the liver and pancreas 4 years after gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: a case report. J Int Med Res. 2020 Nov;48(11):300060520966807.

2019

1.Sun H(#), Liu L, Huang Q, Liu H, Huang M, Wang J, Wen H, Lin R, Qu K, Li K, Wei H, Xiao W, Sun R, Tian Z, Sun C(*). Accumulation of Tumor-Infiltrating CD49a+ NK Cells Correlates with Poor Prognosis for Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Sep;7(9):1535-1546.

2.Wu T(#), Li F, Chen Y, Wei H, Tian Z, Sun C(*), Sun R(*). CD4+ T Cells Play a Critical Role in Microbiota-Maintained Anti-HBV Immunity in a Mouse Model. Front Immunol. 2019 Apr 30;10:927.

3.Sun H(#)(*), Sun C(*). The Rise of NK Cell Checkpoints as Promising Therapeutic Targets in Cancer Immunotherapy. Front Immunol. 2019 Oct 17;10:2354.

4.Sun H(#) (*), Sun C, Xiao W, Sun R. Tissue-resident lymphocytes: from adaptive to innate immunity. Cell Mol Immunol. 2019 Mar;16(3):205-215.

5. Zong Lu(#), Peng Hui, Sun Cheng; Li Fenglei, Zheng Meijuan, Chen Yongyan, Wei Haiming, Sun Rui, Tian Zhigang(*). Breakdown of adaptive immunotolerance induces hepatocellular carcinoma in HBsAg-tg mice. Nature Communications, 2019, 10: 221.