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62
Citations
10890
World Ranking
11015
National Ranking
787

Overview

Franz Rödel is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, notably oncology, molecular biology, surgery, immunology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's research interests focus on cancer-related topics, with particular attention to cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, colorectal and anal carcinomas, head and neck cancer studies, effects of radiation exposure, glioma diagnosis and treatment, salivary gland tumors diagnosis and treatment, and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Franz Rödel has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Cancers
  • Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Cells

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Inflammatory fibroblasts mediate resistance to neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer (2022) published in Cancer Cell
  • Low dose ionizing radiation effects on the immune system (2020) published in Environment International
  • Intracranial injection of natural killer cells engineered with a HER2-targeted chimeric antigen receptor in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (2023) published in Neuro-Oncology
  • Radon Exposure-Therapeutic Effect and Cancer Risk (2020) published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Cellular and Molecular Changes of Brain Metastases-Associated Myeloid Cells during Disease Progression and Therapeutic Response (2020) published in iScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Franz Rödel include:

  • Stephanie Hehlgans
  • Claus Rödel
  • Emmanouil Fokas
  • Maximilian Fleischmann
  • Ria Winkelmann

Their scholarly output reflects a sustained focus on oncology and related biomedical sciences, integrating clinical and molecular approaches to cancer research and treatment strategies. The combination of research on radiation effects, immune system interactions, and novel therapeutic approaches like CAR-T therapies characterizes their work.

Best Publications

  • Survivin as a radioresistance factor, and prognostic and therapeutic target for radiotherapy in rectal cancer.

    Franz Rödel;Jörg Hoffmann;Luitpold Distel;Martin Herrmann

  • Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes predict response to definitive chemoradiotherapy in head and neck cancer.

    Panagiotis Balermpas;Yvonne Michel;Jens Wagenblast;Oliver Seitz

  • CD8+ tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in relation to HPV status and clinical outcome in patients with head and neck cancer after postoperative chemoradiotherapy: A multicentre study of the German cancer consortium radiation oncology group (DKTK-ROG)

    Panagiotis Balermpas;Panagiotis Balermpas;Franz Rödel;Franz Rödel;Claus Rödel;Claus Rödel;Mechthild Krause

  • Spontaneous and radiation-induced apoptosis in colorectal carcinoma cells with different intrinsic radiosensitivities: survivin as a radioresistance factor.

    Claus Rödel;Joachim Haas;Anke Groth;Gerhard G Grabenbauer

  • Radiation sensitivity of human and murine peripheral blood lymphocytes, stem and progenitor cells.

    Daniel Heylmann;Franz Rödel;Thomas Kindler;Bernd Kaina

  • Modulation of Inflammatory Immune Reactions by Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Application

    F. Rodel;B. Frey;U. Gaipl;L. Keilholz

  • Radiobiological mechanisms in inflammatory diseases of low-dose radiation therapy.

    F Rödel;L Keilholz;M Herrmann;R Sauer

  • Adaptation of cancer cells from different entities to the MDM2 inhibitor nutlin-3 results in the emergence of p53-mutated multi-drug-resistant cancer cells

    M Michaelis;F Rothweiler;S Barth;J Cinatl

  • Apoptosis as a cellular predictor for histopathologic response to neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy in patients with rectal cancer.

    Claus Rödel;Gerhard G Grabenbauer;Thomas Papadopoulos;Marc Bigalke

  • Nuclear export is essential for the tumor-promoting activity of survivin

    Shirley K. Knauer;Oliver H. Krämer;Thomas Knösel;Knut Engels

  • Low and moderate doses of ionizing radiation up to 2 Gy modulate transmigration and chemotaxis of activated macrophages, provoke an anti-inflammatory cytokine milieu, but do not impact upon viability and phagocytic function

    R. Wunderlich;A. Ernst;F. Rödel;R. Fietkau

  • High survivin expression is associated with reduced apoptosis in rectal cancer and may predict disease-free survival after preoperative radiochemotherapy and surgical resection.

    Franz Rödel;Jörg Hoffmann;Gerhard G Grabenbauer;Thomas Papadopoulos

  • Vascularization in the transition area between free grafted soft tissues and pre-irradiated graft bed tissues following preoperative radiotherapy in the head and neck region.

    Stefan Schultze-Mosgau;Gerhard G Grabenbauer;Martin Radespiel-Tröger;Joörg Wiltfang

  • Low dose ionizing radiation effects on the immune system.

    Katalin Lumniczky;Nathalie Impens;Gemma Armengol;Serge Candéias

  • Targeting cyclin B1 inhibits proliferation and sensitizes breast cancer cells to taxol

    Ilija Androic;Andrea Krämer;Ruilan Yan;Franz Rödel

  • Survivin antisense oligonucleotides effectively radiosensitize colorectal cancer cells in both tissue culture and murine xenograft models.

    Franz Rödel;Benjamin Frey;Werner Leitmann;Gianni Capalbo

  • Contribution of the immune system to bystander and non-targeted effects of ionizing radiation.

    Franz Rödel;Benjamin Frey;Gabriele Multhoff;Udo Gaipl

  • Apoptosis, p53, bcl-2, and Ki-67 in invasive bladder carcinoma: possible predictors for response to radiochemotherapy and successful bladder preservation.

    Claus Rödel;Gerhard G Grabenbauer;Franz Rödel;Stefan Birkenhake

  • Bacterial evasion of host immune defense: Yersinia enterocolitica encodes a suppressor for tumor necrosis factor alpha expression.

    H U Beuscher;F Rödel;A Forsberg;M Röllinghoff

  • Mononuclear cell adhesion and cell adhesion molecule liberation after X-irradiation of activated endothelial cells in vitro

    G. Hildebrandt;L. Maggiorella;F. Rödel;V. Rödel

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Rödel
Claus Rödel Goethe University Frankfurt
Udo S. Gaipl
Udo S. Gaipl University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Rolf Sauer
Rolf Sauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Benjamin Frey
Benjamin Frey University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Gabriele Multhoff
Gabriele Multhoff Technical University of Munich
Rainer Fietkau
Rainer Fietkau University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martin Herrmann
Martin Herrmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Klaus Strebhardt
Klaus Strebhardt Goethe University Frankfurt
Kerstin Amann
Kerstin Amann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martin Michaelis
Martin Michaelis University of Kent

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