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  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Robert Koch Prize
  • 1991 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Axel Ullrich is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions to civil and structural engineering, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, building and construction, and plant science.

The core topics of their work include concrete and cement materials research, recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production, layered double hydroxides synthesis and applications, carbon dioxide capture technologies, membrane separation and gas transport, thermal and kinetic analysis, and zeolite catalysis and synthesis.

Ullrich has published notable papers up to 2023. Among them are:

  • Accelerated carbonation of hardened cement paste: Quantification of calcium carbonate via ATR infrared spectroscopy, 2023, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • In Situ X-ray Diffraction at High Temperatures: Formation of Ca2SiO4 and Ternesite in Recycled Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, 2021, Minerals
  • CaCl2 as a Mineralizing Agent in Low-Temperature Recycling of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete: Cl-Immobilization by Formation of Chlorellestadite, 2022, Minerals
  • Starve to Sustain-An Ancient Syrian Landrace of Sorghum as Tool for Phosphorous Bio-Economy?, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Chlorellestadite (Synth): Formation, Structure, and Carbonate Substitution during Synthesis of Belite Clinker from Wastes in the Presence of CaCl2 and CO2, 2022, Minerals

The frequent co-authors associated with Ullrich include:

  • Krassimir Garbev
  • Peter Stemmermann
  • Dieter Stapf
  • Britta Bergfeldt
  • Günter Beuchle

Ullrich's research has been published in various venues, with repeated contributions to the journal Minerals and also publications in ce/papers, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Preprints.org.

Throughout their career, Ullrich has received recognition through multiple awards such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, receiving the Robert Koch Prize in 2001, and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Human breast cancer: correlation of relapse and survival with amplification of the HER-2/neu oncogene

    Dennis J. Slamon;Gary M. Clark;Steven G. Wong;Wendy J. Levin

  • Studies of the HER-2/neu proto-oncogene in human breast and ovarian cancer.

    Dennis J. Slamon;William Godolphin;Lovell A. Jones;John A. Holt

  • Signal transduction by receptors with tyrosine kinase activity

    Axel Ullrich;Joseph Schlessinger

  • Human epidermal growth factor receptor cDNA sequence and aberrant expression of the amplified gene in A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells

    A Ullrich;L Coussens;J S Hayflick;T J Dull

  • Close similarity of epidermal growth factor receptor and v- erb-B oncogene protein sequences

    J. Downward;Y. Yarden;E. Mayes;G. Scrace

  • Human insulin receptor and its relationship to the tyrosine kinase family of oncogenes

    Axel Ullrich;J. R. Bell;Ellson Y. Chen;R. Herrera

  • EGF receptor transactivation by G-protein-coupled receptors requires metalloproteinase cleavage of proHB-EGF

    Axel Ullrich;Norbert Prezel;Esther Zwick-Wallasch;Henrik Daub

  • Tyrosine kinase receptor with extensive homology to EGF receptor shares chromosomal location with neu oncogene.

    Lisa Coussens;Teresa L. Yang-Feng;Yu Cheng Liao;Ellson Chen

  • Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

    Yosef Yarden;Axel Ullrich

  • High affinity VEGF binding and developmental expression suggest Flk-1 as a major regulator of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.

    Birgit Millauer;Susanne Wizigmann-Voos;Harald Schnürch;Ricardo Martinez

  • Insulin-like growth factor I receptor primary structure: comparison with insulin receptor suggests structural determinants that define functional specificity.

    A Ullrich;A Gray;A W Tam;T Yang-Feng

  • Role of transactivation of the EGF receptor in signalling by G-protein-coupled receptors

    H Daub;F U Weiss;C Wallasch;A Ullrich

  • The SH2 and SH3 domain-containing protein GRB2 links receptor tyrosine kinases to ras signaling

    E.J. Lowenstein;R.J. Daly;A.G. Batzer;W. Li

  • Glioblastoma growth inhibited in vivo by a dominant-negative Flk-1 mutant

    Millauer B;Shawver Lk;Plate Kh;Risau W

  • Human proto-oncogene c-kit: a new cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase for an unidentified ligand.

    Y. Yarden;W. J. Kuang;T. Yang-Feng;L. Coussens

  • Growth factor signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases

    J. Schlessinger;A. Ullrich

  • Amplification, enhanced expression and possible rearrangement of EGF receptor gene in primary human brain tumours of glial origin

    Towia A. Libermann;Harris R. Nusbaum;Nissim Razon;Richard Kris

  • Rat Insulin Genes: Construction of Plasmids Containing the Coding Sequences

    Axel Ullrich;John Shine;John Chirgwin;Raymond Pictet

  • SU5416 Is a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor (Flk-1/KDR) That Inhibits Tyrosine Kinase Catalysis, Tumor Vascularization, and Growth of Multiple Tumor Types

    T. A. T. Fong;L. K. Shawver;Li Sun;Cho Tang

  • The discovery of receptor tyrosine kinases: targets for cancer therapy.

    Andreas Gschwind;Oliver M Fischer;Axel Ullrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger Yale University
William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter University of California, San Francisco
John Shine
John Shine Garvan Institute of Medical Research
György Kéri
György Kéri Semmelweis University
Peter Vajkoczy
Peter Vajkoczy Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Lisa M. Coussens
Lisa M. Coussens Oregon Health & Science University
Stefano Iacobelli
Stefano Iacobelli University of Chieti-Pescara
Yosef Yarden
Yosef Yarden Weizmann Institute of Science
Raymond Pictet
Raymond Pictet Université Paris Cité
Ellson Y. Chen
Ellson Y. Chen Applied Biosystems

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