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  • 2011 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Surgery, Orthopaedics and Anaesthesiology

Overview

Hans J. Schlitt is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on surgery and hepatology. Their research spans over 330 publications primarily centered around medical sciences, particularly in surgery, hepatology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within clinical and translational medicine, including organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, liver disease and transplantation, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, and intraperitoneal and appendiceal malignancies.

Hans J. Schlitt has published frequently in several academic journals. Notably, they have a significant presence in:

  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • Cancers
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Pediatric Transplantation
  • Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Their recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials (2020, The Lancet)
  • First Long-term Oncologic Results of the ALPPS Procedure in a Large Cohort of Patients With Colorectal Liver Metastases (2020, Annals of Surgery)
  • ALPPS for Locally Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Did Aggressive Surgery Lead to the Oncological Benefit? An International Multi-center Study (2020, Annals of Surgical Oncology)
  • Virus-specific memory T cell responses unmasked by immune checkpoint blockade cause hepatitis (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Extracellular Citrate Fuels Cancer Cell Metabolism and Growth (2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology)

Throughout their career, Hans J. Schlitt has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Edward K. Geissler, Stefan M. Brunner, Jens Werner, Matthias Hornung, and Henrik Junger.

Recognition of their work includes being named to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2011, acknowledged within the fields of surgery, orthopaedics, and anaesthesiology.

Best Publications

  • Right portal vein ligation combined with in situ splitting induces rapid left lateral liver lobe hypertrophy enabling 2-staged extended right hepatic resection in small-for-size settings.

    Andreas A. Schnitzbauer;Sven A. Lang;Holger Goessmann;Silvio Nadalin

  • Mesenchymal stem cells are short-lived and do not migrate beyond the lungs after intravenous infusion.

    Elke Eggenhofer;Volker Benseler;Alexander Kroemer;Felix Popp

  • A new pumpless extracorporeal interventional lung assist in critical hypoxemia/hypercapnia.

    Thomas Bein;Frank Weber;Alois Philipp;Christopher Prasser

  • Sirolimus Use in Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Randomized, Multicenter, Open-Label Phase 3 Trial

    Edward K. Geissler;Andreas A. Schnitzbauer;Andreas A. Schnitzbauer;Carl Zülke;Philipp E. Lamby

  • Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials.

    Birgit Sawitzki;Paul N Harden;Petra Reinke;Aurélie Moreau

  • Cytomegalovirus in transplantation - challenging the status quo

    Jay A Fishman;Vincent Emery;Richard Freeman;Manuel Pascual

  • Immunomodulatory effects of mesenchymal stem cells in a rat organ transplant model.

    Seiichiro Inoue;Felix C Popp;Gudrun E Koehl;Pompiliu Piso

  • Biomarker-guided Intervention to Prevent Acute Kidney Injury After Major Surgery: The Prospective Randomized BigpAK Study

    Ivan Göcze;Dominik Jauch;Markus Götz;Pascal Kennedy

  • Treatment of colorectal liver metastases in Germany: a ten-year population-based analysis of 5772 cases of primary colorectal adenocarcinoma.

    Christina Hackl;Peter Neumann;Michael Gerken;Martin Loss

  • RAPAMYCIN PROTECTS ALLOGRAFTS FROM REJECTION WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTACKING TUMORS IN IMMUNOSUPPRESSED MICE

    Gudrun E Koehl;Joachim Andrassy;Markus Guba;Sebastian Richter

  • Induction of IL-13 Triggers TGF-β1-Dependent Tissue Fibrosis in Chronic 2,4,6-Trinitrobenzene Sulfonic Acid Colitis

    Stefan Fichtner-Feigl;Stefan Fichtner-Feigl;Ivan J. Fuss;Cheryl A. Young;Tomohiro Watanabe

  • Cutting Edge: Immunological Consequences and Trafficking of Human Regulatory Macrophages Administered to Renal Transplant Recipients

    James A. Hutchinson;James A. Hutchinson;Paloma Riquelme;Paloma Riquelme;Birgit Sawitzki;Birgit Sawitzki;Stefan Tomiuk;Stefan Tomiuk

  • Surgery for cholangiocarcinoma.

    Umberto Cillo;Constantino Fondevila;Matteo Donadon;Enrico Gringeri

  • Google goes cancer: improving outcome prediction for cancer patients by network-based ranking of marker genes.

    Christof Winter;Glen Kristiansen;Stephan Kersting;Janine Roy

  • Mammalian target of rapamycin is activated in human gastric cancer and serves as a target for therapy in an experimental model

    Sven A. Lang;Andreas Gaumann;Gudrun E. Koehl;Ulrike Seidel

  • A prospective randomised, open-labeled, trial comparing sirolimus-containing versus mTOR-inhibitor-free immunosuppression in patients undergoing liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma

    Andreas A Schnitzbauer;Carl Zuelke;Christian Graeb;Justine Rochon

  • Peritoneal carcinomatosis: patients selection, perioperative complications and quality of life related to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy

    Gabriel Glockzin;Hans J Schlitt;Pompiliu Piso

  • IL-13 Signaling via IL-13Rα2 Induces Major Downstream Fibrogenic Factors Mediating Fibrosis in Chronic TNBS Colitis

    Stefan Fichtner-Feigl;Cheryl A Young;Atsushi Kitani;Edward K Geissler

  • Arterial chemoembolization before liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: marked tumor necrosis, but no survival benefit?

    Karl J. Oldhafer;Ajay Chavan;Nils R. Frühauf;Peer Flemming

  • Liver transplantation for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors.

    Hauke Lang;Karl Jürgen Oldhafer;Arved Weimann;Hans Jürgen Schlitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward K. Geissler
Edward K. Geissler University of Regensburg
Thomas Bein
Thomas Bein Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolf O. Bechstein
Wolf O. Bechstein Goethe University Frankfurt
Claus Hellerbrand
Claus Hellerbrand University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Karl-Walter Jauch
Karl-Walter Jauch Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rudolf Pichlmayr
Rudolf Pichlmayr Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Peter Neuhaus
Peter Neuhaus Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Birgit Sawitzki
Birgit Sawitzki Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Martin J. Hoogduijn
Martin J. Hoogduijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sheung Tat Fan
Sheung Tat Fan University of Hong Kong

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