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8

Medicine

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hans Lehrach is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of their work include Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cancer Research.

The main topics explored in Lehrach's research encompass SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Retinal Imaging and Analysis, and Biomedical and Engineering Education.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hans Lehrach include:

  • "A framework for validating AI in precision medicine: considerations from the European ITFoC consortium" (2021) published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • "A combined computational and functional approach identifies IGF2BP2 as a driver of chemoresistance in a wide array of pre-clinical models of colorectal cancer" (2023) published in Molecular Cancer
  • "Adaptive nanopores: A bioinspired label-free approach for protein sequencing and identification" (2020) published in Nano Research
  • "Horizon Scanning: Rise of Planetary Health Genomics and Digital Twins for Pandemic Preparedness" (2021) published in OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology
  • "Proposal of a population wide genome-based testing for Covid-19" (2022) published in Scientific Reports

Lehrach frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Bodo Lange, Lesley A. Ogilvie, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Moritz Schütte, and Felix Dreher.

The prominent publication venues for their research include:

  • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • Molecular Cancer
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Nano Research
  • OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Hans Lehrach was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes

    Marcy E. MacDonald;Christine M. Ambrose;Mabel P. Duyao;Richard H. Myers

  • A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes. The Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group.

    M Shah;N Datson;L Srinidhi;VP Stanton

  • Exon 1 of the HD Gene with an Expanded CAG Repeat Is Sufficient to Cause a Progressive Neurological Phenotype in Transgenic Mice

    Laura Mangiarini;Kirupa Sathasivam;Mary Seller;Barbara Cozens

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • A human protein-protein interaction network : a resource for annotating the proteome

    Ulrich Stelzl;Uwe Worm;Maciej Lalowski;Christian Haenig

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Lambda replacement vectors carrying polylinker sequences

    Anna-Maria Frischauf;Hans Lehrach;Annemarie Poustka;Noreen Murray

  • Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

    Tuuli Lappalainen;Michael Sammeth;Marc R. Friedländer;Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    V. Wood;R. Gwilliam;M.A. Rajandream;M. Lyne

  • Huntingtin-Encoded Polyglutamine Expansions Form Amyloid-like Protein Aggregates In Vitro and In Vivo

    Eberhard Scherzinger;Rudi Lurz;Mark Turmaine;Laura Mangiarini

  • A Global View of Gene Activity and Alternative Splicing by Deep Sequencing of the Human Transcriptome

    Marc Sultan;Marcel H. Schulz;Marcel H. Schulz;Hugues Richard;Alon Magen

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21

    M. Hattori;A. Fujiyama;T. D. Taylor;H. Watanabe

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • Cloning of the T gene required in mesoderm formation in the mouse

    Bernhard G. Herrmann;Siegfried Labeit;Annemarie Poustka;Thomas R. King

  • A gene (PEX) with homologies to endopeptidases is mutated in patients with X–linked hypophosphatemic rickets

    F. Francis;S. Hennig;B. Korn;R. Reinhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Herwig
Ralf Herwig Max Planck Society
Marie-Laure Yaspo
Marie-Laure Yaspo Max Planck Society
James Adjaye
James Adjaye University College London
Richard Reinhardt
Richard Reinhardt Max Planck Society
Erich E. Wanker
Erich E. Wanker Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Heinz Himmelbauer
Heinz Himmelbauer BOKU University
Leonard C. Schalkwyk
Leonard C. Schalkwyk University of Essex
Markus Ralser
Markus Ralser Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Gillian P. Bates
Gillian P. Bates University College London

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