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Gabriele Bergers

Gabriele Bergers

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
55
Citations
38520
World Ranking
2234
National Ranking
27

Overview

Gabriele Bergers is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with a focus on several intersecting fields including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their research portfolio spans key subfields such as immunology, molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, and genetics.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to immune cells in cancer, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, immune cell function and interaction, glioma diagnosis and treatment, angiogenesis and VEGF in cancer, cancer hypoxia and metabolism, as well as autophagy in disease and therapy.

Among their recent publications are:

  • The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis, 2021, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • A cellular hierarchy in melanoma uncouples growth and metastasis, 2022, Nature
  • Cancer immunotherapies transition endothelial cells into HEVs that generate TCF1+ T lymphocyte niches through a feed-forward loop, 2022, Cancer Cell
  • Identification, validation and biological characterisation of novel glioblastoma tumour microenvironment subtypes: implications for precision immunotherapy, 2022, Annals of Oncology
  • Targeting the tumour vasculature: from vessel destruction to promotion, 2024, Nature reviews. Cancer

Gabriele Bergers has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Diether Lambrechts
  • Francesca M. Bosisio
  • Yichao Hua
  • Jean-Christophe Marine
  • Gerlanda Vella

Their publications appear often in venues known for publishing high-impact biomedical research, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Cell
  • Nature reviews. Cancer
  • Nature
  • Frontiers in Immunology

The scope of their work integrates molecular and cellular processes underlying cancer progression, with a particular focus on the tumor microenvironment and immune mechanisms. The research intersects areas of cancer metabolism, vascular biology, and immunotherapy, contributing to the understanding of cancer cell behavior during metastasis and immune regulation within tumors.

Best Publications

  • Tumorigenesis and the angiogenic switch

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  • Modes of resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy.

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  • Matrix metalloproteinase-9 triggers the angiogenic switch during carcinogenesis

    Gabriele Bergers;Rolf Brekken;Gerald McMahon;Thiennu H. Vu

  • MMP-9/Gelatinase B Is a Key Regulator of Growth Plate Angiogenesis and Apoptosis of Hypertrophic Chondrocytes

    Thiennu H Vu;J.Michael Shipley;Gabriele Bergers;Joel E Berger

  • Benefits of targeting both pericytes and endothelial cells in the tumor vasculature with kinase inhibitors

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  • Drug resistance by evasion of antiangiogenic targeting of VEGF signaling in late-stage pancreatic islet tumors

    Oriol Casanovas;Daniel J. Hicklin;Gabriele Bergers;Douglas Hanahan

  • HIF1α Induces the Recruitment of Bone Marrow-Derived Vascular Modulatory Cells to Regulate Tumor Angiogenesis and Invasion

    Rose Du;Kan V. Lu;Claudia Petritsch;Patty Liu

  • Inflammatory mast cells up-regulate angiogenesis during squamous epithelial carcinogenesis

    Lisa M. Coussens;Wilfred W. Raymond;Gabriele Bergers;Marion Laig-Webster

  • miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells.

    Joachim Silber;Daniel A Lim;Claudia Petritsch;Anders I Persson

  • PDGFRβ + perivascular progenitor cells in tumours regulate pericyte differentiation and vascular survival

    Steven Song;Andrew J. Ewald;William Stallcup;Zena Werb

  • Consensus guidelines for the use and interpretation of angiogenesis assays

    Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska;Kari Alitalo;Elizabeth Allen;Andrey Anisimov

  • VEGF Inhibits Tumor Cell Invasion and Mesenchymal Transition through a MET/VEGFR2 Complex

    Kan V. Lu;Jeffrey P. Chang;Christine A. Parachoniak;Melissa M. Pandika

  • Functions of Paracrine PDGF Signaling in the Proangiogenic Tumor Stroma Revealed by Pharmacological Targeting

    Kristian Pietras;Jessica C. Pahler;Gabriele Bergers;Douglas Hanahan

  • Glioblastoma: Defining Tumor Niches

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  • Alternative promoter usage of the Fos-responsive gene Fit-1 generates mRNA isoforms coding for either secreted or membrane-bound proteins related to the IL-1 receptor.

    Gabriele Bergers;A Reikerstorfer;S Braselmann;P Graninger

  • Non-Stem Cell Origin for Oligodendroglioma

    Anders I. Persson;Claudia Petritsch;Fredrik J. Swartling;Melissa Itsara

  • Extrinsic regulators of epithelial tumor progression: metalloproteinases.

    Gabriele Bergers;Lisa M Coussens

  • Asymmetry-defective oligodendrocyte progenitors are glioma precursors

    Sista Sugiarto;Anders I. Persson;Elena Gonzalez Munoz;Markus Waldhuber;Markus Waldhuber

  • Regulator of G-protein signaling-5 induction in pericytes coincides with active vessel remodeling during neovascularization.

    Mario Berger;Mario Berger;Gabriele Bergers;Gabriele Bergers;Bernd Arnold;Bernd Arnold;Günter J. Hämmerling;Günter J. Hämmerling

  • Transcriptional activation of the fra-1 gene by AP-1 is mediated by regulatory sequences in the first intron.

    G Bergers;P Graninger;S Braselmann;C Wrighton

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Hanahan
Douglas Hanahan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Scott R. VandenBerg
Scott R. VandenBerg University of California, San Francisco
Meinrad Busslinger
Meinrad Busslinger Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Valerie M. Weaver
Valerie M. Weaver University of California, San Francisco
Erkki Ruoslahti
Erkki Ruoslahti Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Tambet Teesalu
Tambet Teesalu University of Tartu
Mitchel S. Berger
Mitchel S. Berger University of California, San Francisco
William B. Stallcup
William B. Stallcup Discovery Institute
Lisa M. Coussens
Lisa M. Coussens Oregon Health & Science University

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