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Austria
2026

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Immunology

D-Index
87
Citations
25921
World Ranking
1215
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Franz X. Heinz is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases within the broader field of medicine, with specific attention to subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, Epidemiology, and Ophthalmology.

The main topics covered in their work include mosquito-borne diseases and control, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne infectious diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, malaria research and control, and retinal and optic conditions.

Franz X. Heinz has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • Viruses
  • npj Vaccines
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Their recent papers highlight research on vaccines and immune responses, especially related to COVID-19 and flavivirus infections. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Distinguishing features of current COVID-19 vaccines: knowns and unknowns of antigen presentation and modes of action" (2021), npj Vaccines
  • "Dynamics of CD4 T Cell and Antibody Responses in COVID-19 Patients With Different Disease Severity" (2020), Frontiers in Medicine
  • "Profiles of current COVID-19 vaccines" (2021), Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • "Impact of flavivirus vaccine-induced immunity on primary Zika virus antibody response in humans" (2020), PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Primary immune responses are negatively impacted by persistent herpesvirus infections in older people: results from an observational study on healthy subjects and a vaccination trial on subjects aged more than 70 years old" (2022), EBioMedicine

Their scientific collaborations frequently involve coauthors such as Karin Stiasny, Iris Medits, Stephan W. Aberle, Judith H. Aberle, and Heidemarie Holzmann.

Best Publications

  • The envelope glycoprotein from tick-borne encephalitis virus at 2 Å resolution

    Félix A. Rey;Franz X. Heinz;Christian Mandl;Christian Kunz

  • Proteolytic activation of tick-borne encephalitis virus by furin.

    Konrad Stadler;Steven L. Allison;Juliane Schalich;Franz X. Heinz

  • Structure of a flavivirus envelope glycoprotein in its low-pH-induced membrane fusion conformation

    Stéphane Bressanelli;Karin Stiasny;Steven L Allison;Enrico A Stura

  • Structural basis of potent Zika–dengue virus antibody cross-neutralization

    Giovanna Barba-Spaeth;Wanwisa Dejnirattisai;Alexander Rouvinski;Marie Christine Vaney

  • SEQUENCE ANALYSIS AND GENETIC CLASSIFICATION OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES FROM EUROPE AND ASIA

    Michael Ecker;Steven L. Allison;Tamara Meixner;Franz X. Heinz

  • Mutational Evidence for an Internal Fusion Peptide in Flavivirus Envelope Protein E

    Steven L. Allison;Juliane Schalich;Karin Stiasny;Christian W. Mandl

  • Tick-borne virus diseases of human interest in Europe.

    R.N. Charrel;H. Attoui;A.M. Butenko;J.C. Clegg

  • Oligomeric rearrangement of tick-borne encephalitis virus envelope proteins induced by an acidic pH.

    S L Allison;J Schalich;K Stiasny;C W Mandl

  • Structural Changes and Functional Control of the Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Glycoprotein E by the Heterodimeric Association with Protein prM

    Franz X. Heinz;Karin Stiasny;Gudrun Püschner-Auer;Heidemarie Holzmann

  • Distinguishing features of current COVID-19 vaccines: knowns and unknowns of antigen presentation and modes of action

    Franz X. Heinz;Karin Stiasny

  • Molecular organization of a recombinant subviral particle from tick-borne encephalitis virus.

    Ilaria Ferlenghi;Mairi Clarke;Twan Ruttan;Steven L. Allison

  • Folding and dimerization of tick-borne encephalitis virus envelope proteins prM and E in the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Ivo C. Lorenz;Steven L. Allison;Franz X. Heinz;Ari Helenius

  • Flaviviruses and flavivirus vaccines.

    Franz X. Heinz;Karin Stiasny

  • Adaptation of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus to BHK-21 Cells Results in the Formation of Multiple Heparan Sulfate Binding Sites in the Envelope Protein and Attenuation In Vivo

    Christian W. Mandl;Helga Kroschewski;Steven L. Allison;Regina Kofler

  • Field effectiveness of vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis

    Franz X. Heinz;Heidemarie Holzmann;Astrid Essl;Michael Kundi

  • Cryptic Properties of a Cluster of Dominant Flavivirus Cross-Reactive Antigenic Sites

    Karin Stiasny;Stefan Kiermayr;Heidemarie Holzmann;Franz X. Heinz

  • Mapping of Functional Elements in the Stem-Anchor Region of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Envelope Protein E

    Steven L. Allison;Karin Stiasny;Konrad Stadler;Christian W. Mandl

  • Cleavage of protein prM is necessary for infection of BHK-21 cells by tick-borne encephalitis virus

    Sigrid Elshuber;Steven L. Allison;Franz X. Heinz;Christian W. Mandl

  • Spontaneous and Engineered Deletions in the 3′ Noncoding Region of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus: Construction of Highly Attenuated Mutants of a Flavivirus

    Christian W. Mandl;Heidemarie Holzmann;Tamara Meixner;Susanne Rauscher

  • Recombinant subviral particles from tick-borne encephalitis virus are fusogenic and provide a model system for studying flavivirus envelope glycoprotein functions.

    J Schalich;S L Allison;K Stiasny;C W Mandl

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin Stiasny
Karin Stiasny Medical University of Vienna
Christian W. Mandl
Christian W. Mandl Novartis (Switzerland)
Heidemarie Holzmann
Heidemarie Holzmann Medical University of Vienna
Félix A. Rey
Félix A. Rey Institut Pasteur
Stephen C. Harrison
Stephen C. Harrison Harvard University
Sarah E. Randolph
Sarah E. Randolph University of Oxford
Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein
Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein University of Innsbruck
Gottfried Fischer
Gottfried Fischer Medical University of Vienna
Peter F. Stadler
Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University
Reinhard Würzner
Reinhard Würzner Innsbruck Medical University

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