ZMB Members

ZMB Members
Member list

The ZMB currently comprises approx. 90 research groups from the Faculties of Biology, Medicine, and Chemistry at the Essen Campus and the University Hospital Essen, as well as groups from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund. If you are interested in participating in the ZMB network, please do not hesitate to contact us!

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Prof. Dr.Stephan Barcikowski

Group: Technical Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Sebastian Bauer

Group: Translational Sarcoma Research

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Peter Bayer

Group: Structural and Medicinal Biochemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr. Dr.Jürgen Becker

Group: Translational Skin Cancer Research

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Ivo Bendix

Group: Experimental Perinatal Neuroscience

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Mike Blüggel

Group: Molecular Biology II

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Dominik Boos

Group: Molecular Genetics II

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr. Dr.Sven Brandau

Group:Otorhinolaryngology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr. Dana Branzei

Group: Biological and Genomic Treatment Approaches

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Jan Buer

Director of: Institute of Medical Microbiology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Ulf Dittmer

Director of: Institute of Virology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Nicole Dünker

Group: Neuroanatomy

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Michael Ehrmann
Retired Professor of

Microbiology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Matthias Epple

Group: Inorganic Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Kai Exner

Group: Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Joachim Fandrey

Director of: Institute of Physiology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Farnoush Farahpour

Junior Group: Farahpour Lab

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Katharina Fleischhauer

Director of: Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Stefanie Flohé

Group: Immunology Sepsis/Trauma

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Dagmar Führer-Sakel

Director of: Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Anzhela Galstyan

Group: Photoactive Nanomaterials

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Malte Gersch

Group: Chemical and Structural Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Bernd Giebel

Group: Giebel Lab

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Barbara M. Grüner

Group: Cell Plasticity and Metastasis

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Barbara Grünwald

Group: Tumor Heterogeneity and Translational Systems Biology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Erich Gulbins

Director of: Department of Molecular Biology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Matthias Gunzer

Director of: Institute of Experimental Immunology & Imaging

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Wiebke Hansen

Group: Molecular Infection Immunology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Sven Heiles

Group: Lipidomics

ISAS e.V., Dortmund

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Doris Hellerschmied-Jelinek

Group: Mechanistic Cell Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Ulrike Hendgen-Cotta

Manager of: Cardio Science Labs

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Dirk M. Hermann

Group: Vascular Neurology, Dementia and Age Research

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Ken Herrmann

Group: Clinic for Nuclear Medicine

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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PD Dr.Josephine Herz

Group: Experimental Perinatal Neuroscience

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Heike Heuer

Group: Molecular Thyroidology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Anke Hinney

Group: LVR Clinic for Psychiatry Essen

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Daniel Hoffmann

Group: Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Peter Horn

Director of: Institute for Transfusion Medicine

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.Robert Huber

Group: Structure Research

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Hans Werner Ingensiep

Group: Institute of Philosophy

Faculty of Humanities
University of Duisburg-Essen
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Prof. Dr.Jadwiga Jablonska-Koch

Group:Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Verena Jendrossek

Group: Molecular Cell Biology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Christian Johannes

Group: Molecular Genetics I

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Markus Kaiser

Group: Chemical Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Farnusch Kaschani

Manager of: Analytics Core Facility Essen (ACE)

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Carsten Kirschning

Group: Regulation of Pathogen-specific Immunity

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Leo Kiss

Group: Cellular Biochemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Diana Klein

Group: Vascular Remodeling & Normal Tissue Protection

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Christoph Kleinschnitz

Director of: Clinic for Neurology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Shirley Knauer

Group: Molecular Biology II

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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PD Dr.Adalbert Krawczyk

Group: Clinic for Infectious Diseases

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Ralf Küppers

Director of: Institute of Cell Biology (Tumor Research)

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Karl Sebastian Lang

Director of: Institute of Immunology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Jun.-Prof. Dr.Elisabeth Littwitz-Salomon

Group: Immune Metabolism in Infection and Cancer

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Dietmar Lohmann

Group: Ophthalmic Oncology and Genetics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Katharina Lückerath

Group: Preclinical Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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PD Dr.Johann Matschke

Group: Metabolism and Radiation Response

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Hemmo Meyer

Group: Molecular Biology I

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Andrea Musacchio

Group: Mechanistic Cell Biology

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Dortmund

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Perihan Nalbant

Group: Molecular Cell Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Katerina Naydenova

Group: Molecular Neuroscience

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Dortmund

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Jochen Niemeyer

Group: Supramolecular Organocatalysis and Chemosensing

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Annette Paschen

Group: Molecular Tumor Immunology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Dr.Samuel Peña-Llopis

Junior Group: Translational Genomics in Solid Tumors

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Alexander Probst

Group: Environmental Metagenomics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Luisa Rajcsanyi

Group: Molecular Genetics of Mental Disorders

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Tienush Rassaf

Director of: Clinic for Cardiology and Vascular Medicine

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Stefan Raunser

Group: Structural Biochemistry

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Dortmund

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Christian Reinhardt

Director of: Clinic for Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Alexander Roesch

Group: Tumor Heterogeneity & Plasticity

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Hannah Roth

Group: Polymeric Membranes for Biomedical Systems

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Barbara Saccà

Group: Bionanotechnology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Dirk Schadendorf

Director of: Clinic for Dermatology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Björn Scheffler

Group: Translational Neurooncology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Sebastian Schlücker

Group: Molecular Biophotonics and Nanodiagnostics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. i.R. Dr.Thomas Schrader

Group: Biosupramolecular Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Alexander Schramm

Group: Molecular Oncology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Martin Schuler

Director of: Department of Medical Oncology

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Dr.Nina Schulze

Manager of: Imaging Center Essen (ICCE)

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Andrija Sente

Group: Molecular Neuroscience

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Dortmund

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Jun.-Prof. Dr.Katja Siebecke

Group: Institute of Physiology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof Dr.Bettina Siebers

Group: Molecular Enzyme Technology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Winfried Siffert

Director of: Institute of Pharmacogenetics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr. Dr.Jens Siveke

Group: Bridge Institute for Experimental Tumor Therapy

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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PD Dr.Kathrin Sutter

TRR60 Junior Research Group: Interferone-alpha Subtypes

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr. Dr.Alpaslan Tasdogan

Group: Tumor Metabolism

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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PD Dr.Basant Kumar Thakur

Group: General, Visceral, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Kathrin Thedieck

Group: Metabolism, Senescence and Autophagy

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Silvia Vega-Rubín-de-Celis

Junior Research Group: Autophagy in Cancer

ZMB Research Program: Oncology

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Prof. Dr.Andrea Vortkamp

Group: Developmental Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Jens Voskuhl

Group: Biosupramolecular Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Gunther Wennemuth

Director of: Institute of Anatomy

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Astrid Westendorf

Group: Infection Immunology

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Prof. Dr.Stefan Westermann

Group: Molecular Genetics I

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Erna K. Wieduwilt

Group: Biophysical Chemistry

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Prof. Dr.Dominic Winter

Group: Oncological Proteo-Metabolomics

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Dr.Florian Wirsdörfer

Group: Immunomodulation

ZMB Research Program: Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Transplantation

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Dr.Manuela Wülling

Group: Developmental Biology

ZMB Research Program: Molecular and Chemical Cell Biology

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Current Selected Publications
Biology

    Journal articles

  • Haase, Max A. B.; Lazar-Stefanita, Luciana; Baudry, Lyam; Wudzinska, Aleksandra; Zhou, Xiaofan; Rokas, Antonis; Hittinger, Chris Todd; Pfander, Boris; Musacchio, Andrea; Boeke, Jef D.
    Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres
    In: Nature, 2026, in press
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kremer, Nora; Mueller, Franziska; Nguyen, Hang; Schulz, Louisa; Popp, Tanja; Artes, Elena; Wolters, Julian; Renner, Michael; Vetter, Ingrid; Maffini, Stefano; Robles, Maria S.; Musacchio, Andrea; Bange, Tanja
    CUL4A-DDB1-DCAF10 is an N-recognin for N-terminally acetylated Src kinases
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 17, 2026, Nr. 1, 132
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Zhang, Ruirui; Liu, Jie; Gasper, Raphael; Unger, Anke; Kaschani, Farnusch; Kaiser, Markus; Janning, Petra; Waldmann, Herbert
    Covalent modification of a glutamic acid inspired by HaloTag technology
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 17, 2026, Nr. 1, 1257
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Walstein, Kai; Hill, Louisa; Vogt, Doro; Oberste-Lehn, Lina; Janning, Petra; Vetter, Ingrid R; Pan, Dongqing; Musacchio, Andrea
    M18BP1 valency and a distributed interaction footprint determine epigenetic centromere specification in humans
    In: The EMBO Journal, 2026, in press
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Esposito-Verza, Arianna; Conti, Duccio; Rodrigues Pedroso, Paulo D.; Oberste-Lehn, Lina; Koerner, Carolin; Wohlgemuth, Sabine; Mansurkhodzhaev, Artem; Vetter, Ingrid R.; Pesenti, Marion E.; Musacchio, Andrea
    Molecular requirements for PLK1 activation by T-loop phosphorylation
    In: The EMBO Journal, Vol. 45, 2026, Nr. 5, pp. 1496 – 1536
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Kracht, Matthias; Kröning, Alexander; van den Boom, Johannes; Gahlot, Pinki; Koska, Sandra; Kiss, Leo; Meyer, Hemmo
    The accessory adapters FAF1, FAF2, and UBXN7 accelerate proteasomal degradation by increasing prior p97-mediated substrate unfolding
    In: Science Advances, Vol. 12, 2026, Nr. 10, eaea7381
    DOI (Open Access)

Current Selected Publications
Chemistry

    Journal articles

  • Hug, Laura A.; Hatzenpichler, Roland; Moraru, Cristina; Soares, André R.; Meyer, Folker; Heyder, Anke; Probst, Alexander J.; The Data Reuse Consortium
    Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data
    In: Nature Microbiology, Vol. 11, 2026, Nr. 1, pp. 335
    DOI (Open Access)

Current Selected Publications
Medicine

    Journal articles

  • Bolli, Evangelia; Wirapati, Pratyaksha; Hicham, Mehdi; Xie, Yuxuan; Siwicki, Marie; Duval, Florent; Goubet, Anne-Gaëlle; Kiss, Máté; Zitti, Béatrice; Zwahlen, Thomas; Mcdowell, Sheri; Bill, Ruben; Angerani, Simona; Engblom, Camilla; Anderson, Seth; Jiang, Aiping; Hartley, Oliver; Sykes, David B.; Jankovic, Maja; Fournier, Nadine; Gunzer, Matthias; Tarussio, David; Tissot, Stéphanie; Sadow, Peter M.; Faquin, William C.; Sade-Feldman, Moshe; Weissleder, Ralph; Pai, Sara; Mercier, François; Manguso, Robert; Pittet, Mikaël J.
    CCL3 is produced by aged neutrophils across cancers and promotes tumor growth
    In: Cancer Cell, 2026, in press
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Peng, JuanFei; Yang, JiaJin; Antonopoulou, Georgia; Fang, Rui; Adhikari, Bikash; Vogt, Markus; Wolf, Elmar; Sun, Chong; Du, Shangce; Godfrey, Laura; Gupta, Aayush; Trajkovic-Arsic, Marija; Teichmann, Nicole; Grünwald, Barbara T.; Krebs, Niklas; Steiger, Katja; Mogler, Carolin; Althoff, Kristina; Wang, Xin; Giglio, Giovanni; Liffers, Sven-Thorsten; Savvatakis, Konstantinos; Braren, Rickmer; Lawlor, Rita T.; Scarpa, Aldo; Behrens, Diana; Lang, Karl S.; Cheung, Phyllis F.; Siveke, Jens T.
    Combined targeted and epigenetic-based therapy enhances antitumor immunity by stabilizing GATA6-dependent MHCI expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
    In: Nature Communications, Vol. 17, 2026, Nr. 1, 1476
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Liu, Mei; Wei, You; Weber, Lisa-Marie; Mladenov, Emil; Lin, Xixi; Mladenova, Veronika; Shafaat, Ramtin Omid; Pantelias, Gabriel E.; Gkika, Eleni; Stuschke, Martin; Soni, Aashish; Iliakis, George
    Condensins regulate resection-dependent DNA double-strand break repair pathways in replicated chromatin
    In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 54, 2026, Nr. 4, gkag076
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Keyl, Julius; Hosch, René; Hörst, Fabian; Keyl, Philipp; Dada, Amin; Haubold, Johannes; Straus, Jannis; Egger, Jan; Stahler, Arndt; Kurreck, Annika; Ballhausen, Alexej; Stintzing, Sebastian; Fruehauf, Stefan; Müller, Lothar; Alig, Annabel H S; Trarbach, Tanja; Hartmann, Sylvia; Nensa, Felix; Kleesiek, Jens; Kasper, Stefan; Schuler, Martin; Modest, Dominik P.
    Deep Learning-Derived Sarcopenia Marker Predicts Benefit from Anti-EGFR Therapy in Patients with RAS Wild-type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
    In: Clinical Cancer Research, Vol. 32, 2026, Nr. 5, pp. 938 – 946
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Anker, Markus S.; Mahabadi, Amir Abbas; Totzeck, Matthias; Tewes, Mitra; Khan, Muhammad Shahzeb; Mincu, Raluca; Hendgen-Cotta, Ulrike B.; Michel, Lars; Mathew, Baicy; Drescher, Ophelia; Schuler, Martin; Keller, Ulrich; Rieger, Kathrin; Ahn, Johann; Bullinger, Lars; Modest, Dominik P.; Denecke, Corinna; Kretzler, Lucie; Ramer, Luisa V.; Krug, Danara; Landmesser, Ulf; Lehmann, Lorenz H.; Frey, Norbert; Bercker, Sven; Laufs, Ulrich; Böhm, Michael; Mahfoud, Felix; Merkely, Bela; Diek, Monika; Butler, Javed; Veiser, Anja; Heise, Tim; Hellmich, Martin; Placzek, Marius; Friede, Tim; Anker, Stefan D.; Rassaf, Tienush
    Heart failure therapy in patients with advanced cancer receiving specialized palliative care (EMPATICC trial)
    In: European Heart Journal, Vol. 47, 2026, Nr. 9, pp. 1034 – 1046
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Gorzkiewicz, Michal; Noseir, Soha; Vengurlekar, Mandar; Ghosh, Mitrajit; Katahira, Ichiro; Abromavičiūtė, Džiuljeta; Gerling-Driessen, Ulla; Bonda, Lorand; Rähse, Nick; Lapsien, Marco; Bockholt, Sabrina; Bergmann, Ann Kathrin; Kostadinovska, Konstantina; Fraii, Hafssa; Lang, Karl S.; Oestereich, Lisa; Gohlke, Holger; Hartmann, Laura; Lang, Philipp A
    Sulfated glycosaminoglycans inhibit LCMV entry and modulate antiviral immunity and pathology
    In: EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2026, in press
    DOI (Open Access)
  • Anker, Markus S.; Anker, Stefan D.; Rassaf, Tienush
    The EMPATICC-trial : should location shape therapy?
    In: European Heart Journal, 2026, in press
    DOI
  • Dummer, Reinhard; Guo, Jun; Luke, Jason J; Carlino, Matteo S; Schadendorf, Dirk; Khattak, Muhammad A; Hauschild, Axel; Ascierto, Paolo A; Chen, Yu; Shin, Sang Joon; Rutkowski, Piotr; Luo, Zhiguo; Chen, Jing; Rivalland, Gareth; Coetzee, Corlia; Ribas, Antoni; Mujika, Karmele; Markel, Gal; Villarroel, Rodrigo U; Dizdar, Omer; Caglevic, Christian; Grebennik, Dmitri; Donovan, Kevin; Krepler, Clemens; Long, Georgina V
    Vibostolimab coformulated with pembrolizumab versus pembrolizumab alone as adjuvant therapy for high-risk stage IIB–IV melanoma (KEYVIBE-010) : A randomised, double-blind, phase 3 study
    In: The Lancet Oncology, Vol. 27, 2026, Nr. 3, pp. 327 – 339
    DOI (Open Access)