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Overview

Burkhard Ludewig is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, as well as Medicine. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research themes cover a range of topics such as Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune cells in cancer, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Recent publications by Burkhard Ludewig include:

  • Fibroblasts as immune regulators in infection, inflammation and cancer, 2021, Nature Reviews Immunology
  • Remodeling of light and dark zone follicular dendritic cells governs germinal center responses, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • B cell zone reticular cell microenvironments shape CXCL13 gradient formation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Communication, construction, and fluid control: lymphoid organ fibroblastic reticular cell and conduit networks, 2021, Trends in Immunology
  • Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells Program a Distinct Subset of IL-22BP-Producing Dendritic Cells Demarcating Solitary Intestinal Lymphoid Tissues, 2020, Immunity

The scientist frequently publishes in notable venues such as the European Journal of Immunology, The Journal of Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Immunology, and Blood.

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including Mechthild Lütge, Hung-Wei Cheng, Lucas Onder, Angelina De Martin, and Natalia Pikor. The number of collaborations with these individuals ranges notably, with up to 30 joint works recorded.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Mübeccel Akdis

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • Ribose 2′-O-methylation provides a molecular signature for the distinction of self and non-self mRNA dependent on the RNA sensor Mda5

    Roland Züst;Roland Züst;Luisa Cervantes-Barragan;Matthias Habjan;Reinhard Maier

  • Immune surveillance against a solid tumor fails because of immunological ignorance.

    Adrian F. Ochsenbein;Paul Klenerman;Urs Karrer;Burkhard Ludewig

  • Fibroblasts as immune regulators in infection, inflammation and cancer

    Sarah Davidson;Mark Coles;Tom Thomas;George Kollias

  • Control of coronavirus infection through plasmacytoid dendritic-cell-derived type I interferon.

    Luisa Cervantes-Barragan;Roland Züst;Friedemann Weber;Martin Spiegel

  • Restoration of lymphoid organ integrity through the interaction of lymphoid tissue-inducer cells with stroma of the T cell zone.

    Elke Scandella;Beatrice Bolinger;Evelyn Lattmann;Simone Miller

  • Dendritic Cells Induce Autoimmune Diabetes and Maintain Disease via De Novo Formation of Local Lymphoid Tissue

    Burkhard Ludewig;Bernhard Odermatt;Salome Landmann;Hans Hengartner

  • Immunotherapy with dendritic cells directed against tumor antigens shared with normal host cells results in severe autoimmune disease.

    Burkhard Ludewig;Adrian F. Ochsenbein;Bernhard Odermatt;Denise Paulin

  • Association of Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Toxic Effects With Shared Cancer and Tissue Antigens in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

    Fiamma Berner;David Bomze;Stefan Diem;Omar Hasan Ali

  • Form follows function: lymphoid tissue microarchitecture in antimicrobial immune defence

    Tobias Junt;Elke Scandella;Burkhard Ludewig

  • The CLEC-2-podoplanin axis controls the contractility of fibroblastic reticular cells and lymph node microarchitecture.

    Jillian L Astarita;Viviana Cremasco;Jianxin Fu;Max C Darnell

  • CCL19/CCL21-triggered signal transduction and migration of dendritic cells requires prostaglandin E2

    Elke Scandella;Ying Men;Daniel F Legler;Silke Gillessen

  • Spontaneous apoptosis of dendritic cells is efficiently inhibited by TRAP (CD40-ligand) and TNF-α, but strongly enhanced by interleukin-10

    Burkhard Ludewig;Daniel Graf;Hans R. Gelderblom;Yechiel Becker

  • B cell homeostasis and follicle confines are governed by fibroblastic reticular cells

    Viviana Cremasco;Matthew C Woodruff;Lucas Onder;Jovana Cupovic

  • Coronavirus Non-Structural Protein 1 Is a Major Pathogenicity Factor: Implications for the Rational Design of Coronavirus Vaccines

    Roland Züst;Luisa Cervantes-Barragán;Luisa Cervantes-Barragán;Thomas Kuri;Gjon Blakqori

  • Lack of Conventional Dendritic Cells Is Compatible with Normal Development and T Cell Homeostasis, but Causes Myeloid Proliferative Syndrome

    Tal Birnberg;Liat Bar-On;Anita Sapoznikov;Michele L. Caton

  • Aggravation of viral hepatitis by platelet-derived serotonin

    Philipp A. Lang;Claudio Contaldo;Panco Georgiev;Ashraf Mohammad El-Badry

  • Induction, binding specificity and function of human ICOS

    Katja C. Beier;Andreas Hutloff;Anna M. Dittrich;Christoph Heuck

  • Microbiota-derived peptide mimics drive lethal inflammatory cardiomyopathy

    Cristina Gil-Cruz;Christian Perez-Shibayama;Angelina De Martin;Francesca Ronchi

  • Plasmacytoid dendritic cells control T-cell response to chronic viral infection

    Luisa Cervantes-Barragan;Kanako L. Lewis;Sonja Firner;Volker Thiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Thiel
Volker Thiel University of Bern
Hans Hengartner
Hans Hengartner University of Zurich
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Rolf M. Zinkernagel University of Zurich
Bernhard Odermatt
Bernhard Odermatt University of Zurich
Tobias Junt
Tobias Junt Novartis (Switzerland)
Andreas Meyerhans
Andreas Meyerhans Pompeu Fabra University
Sanjiv A. Luther
Sanjiv A. Luther University of Lausanne
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Ari Waisman
Ari Waisman Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Thomas Rülicke
Thomas Rülicke University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

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