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  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Internal Medicine and Dermatology

Overview

Darius Moradpour is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and has a focused research portfolio predominantly in the field of Medicine, with 157 publications. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Hepatology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Surgery, and Physiology.

Key topics addressed in Moradpour's research include Liver Disease and Transplantation, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Hepatitis C virus research, Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology, Hepatitis B Virus Studies, Liver Diseases and Immunity, and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moradpour illustrate a range of investigations mainly centered on liver-related conditions and immune responses. These include:

  • "Hemostatic Alterations in Patients With Cirrhosis: From Primary Hemostasis to Fibrinolysis," 2020, Hepatology
  • "Depressive Symptoms Predict Clinical Recurrence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease," 2021, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • "Portal vein recanalisation alone to treat severe portal hypertension in non-cirrhotic patients with chronic extrahepatic portal vein obstruction," 2022, JHEP Reports
  • "Biomarkers of liver dysfunction correlate with a prothrombotic and not with a prohaemorrhagic profile in patients with cirrhosis," 2020, JHEP Reports
  • "Systematic comparison with autoimmune liver disease identifies specific histological features of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse events," 2022, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Moradpour collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Montserrat Fraga
  • Christine Sempoux
  • Jérôme Gouttenoire
  • Lorenzo Alberio
  • Alessandro Aliotta

Their research contributions have been published in several journals, with frequent venues including:

  • Revue Médicale Suisse
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • JHEP Reports
  • Hämostaseologie
  • Hepatology

In 2014, Moradpour received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften for work related to Internal Medicine and Dermatology.

Best Publications

  • Cardif is an adaptor protein in the RIG-I antiviral pathway and is targeted by hepatitis C virus

    Etienne Meylan;Joseph Curran;Kay Hofmann;Darius Moradpour

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B

    C.P.G.P.P. Marcellin;G. Dusheiko;F. Zoulim;R. Esteban

  • Replication of hepatitis C virus

    Darius Moradpour;François Penin;Charles M. Rice

  • Genetic Variation in IL28B Is Associated With Chronic Hepatitis C and Treatment Failure: A Genome-Wide Association Study

    Andri Rauch;Zoltán Kutalik;Zoltán Kutalik;Patrick Descombes;Tao Cai

  • Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Proteins Induces Distinct Membrane Alterations Including a Candidate Viral Replication Complex

    Denise Egger;Benno Wölk;Rainer Gosert;Rainer Gosert;Leonardo Bianchi

  • Structural biology of hepatitis C virus

    François Penin;Jean Dubuisson;Felix A. Rey;Darius Moradpour

  • Identification of the Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication Complex in Huh-7 Cells Harboring Subgenomic Replicons

    Rainer Gosert;Denise Egger;Volker Lohmann;Ralf Bartenschlager

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hepatitis E virus infection

    Harry R. Dalton;Nassim Kamar;Sally A. Baylis;Darius Moradpour

  • In vivo gene electroinjection and expression in rat liver

    Richard Heller;Mark Jaroszeski;Andrew Atkin;Darius Moradpour

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson's disease

    P Ferenci;A Czlonkowska;W Stremmel;R Houwen

  • An Amino-terminal Amphipathic α-Helix Mediates Membrane Association of the Hepatitis C Virus Nonstructural Protein 5A

    Volker Brass;Elke Bieck;Roland Montserret;Benno Wölk

  • Structure and Function of the Membrane Anchor Domain of Hepatitis C Virus Nonstructural Protein 5A

    François Penin;Volker Brass;Nicole Appel;Stephanie Ramboarina

  • Subcellular localization, stability, and trans-cleavage competence of the hepatitis C virus NS3-NS4A complex expressed in tetracycline-regulated cell lines.

    Benno Wölk;Domenico Sansonno;Hans-Georg Kräusslich;Franco Dammacco

  • Hepatitis C virus proteins: from structure to function

    Darius Moradpour;François Penin

  • Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Proteins Inhibits Signal Transduction through the Jak-STAT Pathway

    Markus H. Heim;Darius Moradpour;Hubert E. Blum

  • The native form and maturation process of hepatitis C virus core protein.

    Kohichiroh Yasui;Takaji Wakita;Kyoko Tsukiyama-Kohara;Shin-Ichi Funahashi

  • Genotype 3 is associated with accelerated fibrosis progression in chronic hepatitis C.

    Pierre-Yves Bochud;Pierre-Yves Bochud;Tao Cai;Tao Cai;Kathrin Stéphanie Overbeck;Murielle Bochud

  • Insertion of Green Fluorescent Protein into Nonstructural Protein 5A Allows Direct Visualization of Functional Hepatitis C Virus Replication Complexes

    Darius Moradpour;Darius Moradpour;Matthew J. Evans;Rainer Gosert;Zhenghong Yuan

  • Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Are Independently Associated With Clinical Recurrence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Antonina Mikocka-Walus;Antonina Mikocka-Walus;Valerie Pittet;Jean-Benoît Rossel;Roland von Känel

  • The Hepatitis C Virus Nonstructural Protein 4B Is an Integral Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein

    Thomas Hügle;Frauke Fehrmann;Elke Bieck;Michinori Kohara

  • Characterization of Cell Lines Allowing Tightly Regulated Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein

    Darius Moradpour;Christoph Englert;Takaji Wakita;Jack R. Wands

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert E. Blum
Hubert E. Blum University of Freiburg
Markus H. Heim
Markus H. Heim University Hospital of Basel
Andreas Cerny
Andreas Cerny University of Bern
François Penin
François Penin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Francesco Negro
Francesco Negro University of Geneva
Pierre-Yves Bochud
Pierre-Yves Bochud University of Lausanne
Zoltán Kutalik
Zoltán Kutalik University of Lausanne
Jack R. Wands
Jack R. Wands Brown University
Ralf Bartenschlager
Ralf Bartenschlager Heidelberg University
Jean-François Dufour
Jean-François Dufour University of Bern

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