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Frank Weber

Frank Weber

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
10462
World Ranking
13957
National Ranking
255

Overview

Frank Weber is affiliated with HEMAP AG in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to medical research, with a strong focus on neurology and related subfields.

Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine, including pathology and forensic medicine, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, and surgery. The distribution of publications highlights 54 works in medicine overall, with notable contributions in 12 publications on pathology and forensic medicine, 11 in neurology, 6 in oncology, 6 in rheumatology, and 5 in surgery.

The main topics Frank Weber has addressed include multiple sclerosis research studies, polyomavirus and related diseases, thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, systemic lupus erythematosus research, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, and cytokine signaling pathways and interactions.

  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Polyomavirus and related diseases
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions

Frequent publication venues for their work include sources such as Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Journal of Neurology, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, and Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases.

  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance
  • Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases

Frank Weber has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, with frequent partners including Ralf Gold, Heinz Wiendl, Stefan Bittner, Sven G. Meuth, and Frauke Zipp.

  • Ralf Gold
  • Heinz Wiendl
  • Stefan Bittner
  • Sven G. Meuth
  • Frauke Zipp

Among the recent papers featuring Frank Weber's research are:

  • Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG): position statement on disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (white paper), 2021, Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
  • Clinical implications of serum neurofilament in newly diagnosed MS patients: A longitudinal multicentre cohort study, 2020, EBioMedicine
  • Complete Epstein-Barr virus seropositivity in a large cohort of patients with early multiple sclerosis, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Sunlight exposure exerts immunomodulatory effects to reduce multiple sclerosis severity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Multiple Sklerose Therapie Konsensus Gruppe (MSTKG): Positionspapier zur verlaufsmodifizierenden Therapie der Multiplen Sklerose 2021 (White Paper), 2021, Der Nervenarzt

Best Publications

  • A very strong enhancer is located upstream of an immediate early gene of human cytomegalovirus

    Michael Boshart;Frank Weber;Gerhard Jahn;Karoline Dorsch-Häsler

  • Incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of healthy young men.

    Frank Weber;Heinz Knopf

  • γ-secretase directly sheds the survival receptor BCMA from plasma cells

    Sarah A. Laurent;Franziska S. Hoffmann;Peer-Hendrik Kuhn;Qingyu Cheng

  • Antibodies to MOG are transient in childhood acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

    A. K. Pröbstel;K. Dornmair;K. Dornmair;R. Bittner;R. Bittner;P. Sperl;P. Sperl

  • A long and complex enhancer activates transcription of the gene coding for the highly abundant immediate early mRNA in murine cytomegalovirus

    Karoline Dorsch-Häsler;Günther M. Keil;Frank Weber;Maria Jasin

  • An SV40 "enhancer trap" incorporates exogenous enhancers or generates enhancers from its own sequences.

    Frank Weber;Jean de Villiers;Walter Schaffner

  • DNA methylation as a mediator of HLA-DRB1*15:01 and a protective variant in multiple sclerosis

    Lara Kular;Yun Liu;Yun Liu;Sabrina Ruhrmann;Galina Zheleznyakova

  • Matrix metalloproteinase-9 is elevated in serum of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Wolfgang Beuche;Maryna Yushchenko;Michael Mäder;Malgorzata Maliszewska

  • Genetic predisposition to multiple sclerosis as revealed by immunoprinting

    Cornelia Epplen;Silke Jäckel;Eduardo J. M. Santos;Marcus D'Souza

  • Human astrocytes are only partially competent antigen presenting cells. Possible implications for lesion development in multiple sclerosis.

    Frank Weber;Edgar Meinl;Francesca Aloisi;Claudia Nevinny-Stickel

  • Novel multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci implicated in epigenetic regulation

    Till F. M. Andlauer;Dorothea Buck;Gisela Antony;Antonios Bayas

  • Transrectal Doppler sonography of uterine blood flow in cows during the estrous cycle

    H. Bollwein;H. H. D. Meyer;Johann Maierl;Frank Weber

  • Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG): position statement on disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (white paper):

    Heinz Wiendl;Ralf Gold;Thomas Berger;Tobias Derfuss

  • Tyrosine kinase 2 variant influences T lymphocyte polarization and multiple sclerosis susceptibility

    Nicolas Couturier;Florence Bucciarelli;Ramil N. Nurtdinov;Marc Debouverie

  • Refining genetic associations in multiple sclerosis

    D. Booth;R. Heard;G. Stewart;A. Goris

  • High frequency of homologous recombination in mammalian cells between endogenous and introduced SV40 genomes

    Maria Jasin;Jean de Villiers;Frank Weber;Walter Schaffner

  • Structural and functional dissection of an MHC class I antigen-binding adenovirus glycoprotein.

    Svante Pääbo;F. Weber;T. Nilsson;W. Schaffner

  • Multiple sclerosis Immunomodulatory effects of human astrocytes on T cells

    Edgar Meinl;Francesca Aloisi;Birgit Ertl;Frank Weber

  • Genetic control of multiple sclerosis: increased production of lymphotoxin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha by HLA-DR2+ T cells.

    Frauke Zipp;Frank Weber;Susanne Huber;Stefano Sotgiu

  • EPIBLASTER-fast exhaustive two-locus epistasis detection strategy using graphical processing units.

    Tony Kam-Thong;Darina Czamara;Koji Tsuda;Karsten M. Borgwardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Frauke Zipp
Frauke Zipp Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Hayrettin Tumani
Hayrettin Tumani University of Ulm
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Walter Schaffner
Walter Schaffner University of Zurich
Ralf Gold
Ralf Gold Ruhr University Bochum
Manfred Uhr
Manfred Uhr Max Planck Society
Heinz Wiendl
Heinz Wiendl University of Münster
Martin Stangel
Martin Stangel Hannover Medical School
Reinhard Hohlfeld
Reinhard Hohlfeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Holm Zerbe
Holm Zerbe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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