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Daniel D. Pinschewer

Daniel D. Pinschewer

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Microbiology

D-Index
45
Citations
8143
World Ranking
5000
National Ranking
119

Overview

Daniel D. Pinschewer is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research centers on immunology and microbiology, with a significant focus on immunology as well as infectious diseases, epidemiology, genetics, and parasitology. Their work encompasses various topics related to immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, virus-based gene therapy research, viral infections and outbreaks research, immunotherapy and immune responses, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, and cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to key publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Immunology, Cell Reports, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Daniel D. Pinschewer's recent papers include:

  • The alarmin interleukin-33 promotes the expansion and preserves the stemness of Tcf-1+ CD8+ T cells in chronic viral infection, 2023, Immunity
  • Chronic Viral Infection Promotes Efficient Germinal Center B Cell Responses, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Fibroblast-derived IL-33 is dispensable for lymph node homeostasis but critical for CD8 T-cell responses to acute and chronic viral infection, 2020, European Journal of Immunology
  • A Randomized Dose-Escalating Phase I Trial of a Replication-Deficient Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Vector-Based Vaccine Against Human Cytomegalovirus, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Opposing effects of T cell receptor signal strength on CD4 T cells responding to acute versus chronic viral infection, 2021, eLife

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel D. Pinschewer include Doron Merkler, Ingrid Wagner, Anna-Friederike Marx, Mario Kreutzfeldt, and Yusuf I. Ertuna.

Best Publications

  • FTY720 immunosuppression impairs effector T cell peripheral homing without affecting induction, expansion, and memory.

    Daniel D. Pinschewer;Adrian F. Ochsenbein;Bernhard Odermatt;Volker Brinkmann

  • The Alarmin Interleukin-33 Drives Protective Antiviral CD8+ T Cell Responses

    Weldy V. Bonilla;Anja Fröhlich;Anja Fröhlich;Karin Senn;Sandra Kallert

  • Interferons Direct Th2 Cell Reprogramming to Generate a Stable GATA-3+T-bet+ Cell Subset with Combined Th2 and Th1 Cell Functions

    Ahmed N. Hegazy;Ahmed N. Hegazy;Michael Peine;Michael Peine;Caroline Helmstetter;Caroline Helmstetter;Isabel Panse;Isabel Panse

  • Protective long-term antibody memory by antigen-driven and T help-dependent differentiation of long-lived memory B cells to short-lived plasma cells independent of secondary lymphoid organs

    Adrian F. Ochsenbein;Daniel D. Pinschewer;Sophie Sierro;Edit Horvath

  • FTY720: altered lymphocyte traffic results in allograft protection.

    Volker Brinkmann;Daniel D. Pinschewer;Lili Feng;Shizhong Chen

  • Protective T Cell–Independent Antiviral Antibody Responses Are Dependent on Complement

    Adrian F. Ochsenbein;Daniel D. Pinschewer;Bernhard Odermatt;Michael C. Carroll

  • FTY720: a novel transplantation drug that modulates lymphocyte traffic rather than activation.

    Volker Brinkmann;Daniel Pinschewer;Kenji Chiba;Lilli Feng

  • Brain-resident memory T cells represent an autonomous cytotoxic barrier to viral infection

    Karin Steinbach;Ilena Vincenti;Mario Kreutzfeldt;Nicolas Page

  • Dynamics and genomic landscape of CD8 + T cells undergoing hepatic priming

    Alexandre P. Bénéchet;Giorgia De Simone;Pietro Di Lucia;Francesco Cilenti

  • Long-lived virus-reactive memory T cells generated from purified cytokine-secreting T helper type 1 and type 2 effectors

    Max Löhning;Max Löhning;Ahmed N. Hegazy;Daniel D. Pinschewer;Dorothea Busse

  • Recovery of an arenavirus entirely from RNA polymerase I/II-driven cDNA

    Lukas Flatz;Andreas Bergthaler;Juan Carlos de la Torre;Daniel D. Pinschewer

  • Neurons under T Cell Attack Coordinate Phagocyte-Mediated Synaptic Stripping.

    Giovanni Di Liberto;Stanislav Pantelyushin;Mario Kreutzfeldt;Nicolas Page

  • T-bet– and STAT4–dependent IL-33 receptor expression directly promotes antiviral Th1 cell responses

    Claudia Baumann;Weldy V. Bonilla;Anja Fröhlich;Caroline Helmstetter

  • Arenavirus Glycan Shield Promotes Neutralizing Antibody Evasion and Protracted Infection.

    Rami Sommerstein;Rami Sommerstein;Lukas Roland Flatz;Mélissa Remy;Mélissa Remy;Pauline Malinge

  • High antigen levels induce an exhausted phenotype in a chronic infection without impairing T cell expansion and survival.

    Daniel T Utzschneider;Francesca Alfei;Patrick Roelli;Patrick Roelli;David Barras

  • Development of replication-defective lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus vectors for the induction of potent CD8+ T cell immunity

    Lukas Flatz;Lukas Flatz;Lukas Flatz;Ahmed N. Hegazy;Ahmed N. Hegazy;Andreas Bergthaler;Andreas Bergthaler;Andreas Bergthaler;Admar Verschoor;Admar Verschoor

  • Role of the Virus Nucleoprotein in the Regulation of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Transcription and RNA Replication

    Daniel D. Pinschewer;Mar Perez;Juan Carlos de la Torre

  • Specific fibroblastic niches in secondary lymphoid organs orchestrate distinct Notch-regulated immune responses

    Nicolas Fasnacht;Hsin-Ying Huang;Ute Koch;Stéphanie Favre

  • Effects of Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein on Virus-Host Balance

    Weldy V. Bonilla;Daniel D. Pinschewer;Paul Klenerman;Valentin Rousson

  • Dual Role of the Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Intergenic Region in Transcription Termination and Virus Propagation

    Daniel D. Pinschewer;Mar Perez;Juan Carlos de la Torre

  • FTY720 alters lymphocyte homing and protects allografts without inducing general immunosuppression.

    V Brinkmann;S Chen;L Feng;D Pinschewer

Frequent Co-Authors

Doron Merkler
Doron Merkler University of Geneva
Max Löhning
Max Löhning Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Claire-Anne Siegrist
Claire-Anne Siegrist University of Geneva
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Rolf M. Zinkernagel University of Zurich
Paul-Henri Lambert
Paul-Henri Lambert University of Geneva
Hans Hengartner
Hans Hengartner University of Zurich
Juan Carlos de la Torre
Juan Carlos de la Torre Scripps Research Institute
Dan H. Barouch
Dan H. Barouch Harvard Medical School
Bernhard Odermatt
Bernhard Odermatt University of Zurich
Alfred Zippelius
Alfred Zippelius University Hospital of Basel

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