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Switzerland
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Hans-Uwe Simon is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader disciplines, their work frequently addresses subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Rheumatology, and Epidemiology.

Their scientific interests encompass several distinct topics, including:

  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization

Hans-Uwe Simon has contributed frequently to several publication venues. The most common are:

  • Allergy
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Gastroenterology
  • International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Autophagy in major human diseases," 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • "Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils," 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • "Neutrophil extracellular traps in cancer," 2021, Seminars in Cancer Biology
  • "Urticaria: Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (CIA) Update 2020," 2020, International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
  • "Proposed refined diagnostic criteria and classification of eosinophil disorders and related syndromes," 2022, Allergy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Shída Yousefi
  • Dagmar Simon
  • Darko Stojkov
  • Thomas Greuter
  • Aref Hosseini

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptosis induction

    H U Simon;A Haj-Yehia;F Levi-Schaffer

  • Molecular definitions of cell death subroutines: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012

    Galluzzi L;Vitale I;Vitale I;Vitale I;Abrams Jm;Alnemri Es

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Molecular definitions of autophagy and related processes

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Eric H. Baehrecke;Andrea Ballabio;Patricia Boya

  • Life and death partners: apoptosis, autophagy and the cross-talk between them

    Eisenberg-Lerner A;Bialik S;Simon Hu;Kimchi A

  • Calpain-mediated cleavage of Atg5 switches autophagy to apoptosis.

    Shida Yousefi;Remo Perozzo;Inès Schmid;Andrew Ziemiecki

  • Autophagy in major human diseases

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Giulia Petroni;Ravi K. Amaravadi;Eric H. Baehrecke

  • Autophagy in malignant transformation and cancer progression

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Federico Pietrocola;Federico Pietrocola;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;Ravi K. Amaravadi

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • Catapult-like release of mitochondrial DNA by eosinophils contributes to antibacterial defense

    Shida Yousefi;Jeffrey A. Gold;Nicola Andina;James J. Lee

  • Viable neutrophils release mitochondrial DNA to form neutrophil extracellular traps

    S Yousefi;C Mihalache;E Kozlowski;I Schmid

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Natural history of primary eosinophilic esophagitis: a follow-up of 30 adult patients for up to 11.5 years

    Alex Straumann;Hans-peter Spichtin;Leticia Grize;Kathleen A Bucher

  • Contemporary consensus proposal on criteria and classification of eosinophilic disorders and related syndromes.

    Peter Valent;Amy D. Klion;Hans-Peter Horny;Florence Roufosse

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

    L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;S. A. Aaronson;J. Abrams;E. S. Alnemri

  • Delay in Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis Increases Risk for Stricture Formation in a Time-Dependent Manner

    Alain M. Schoepfer;Ekaterina Safroneeva;Christian Bussmann;Tanja Kuchen

  • Idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis is associated with a TH2-type allergic inflammatory response

    Alex Straumann;Madeleine Bauer;Barbra Fischer;Kurt Blaser

Frequent Co-Authors

Dagmar Simon
Dagmar Simon University of Bern
Shida Yousefi
Shida Yousefi University of Bern
Kurt Blaser
Kurt Blaser University of Zurich
Francesca Levi-Schaffer
Francesca Levi-Schaffer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cezmi A. Akdis
Cezmi A. Akdis University of Zurich
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Amy D. Klion
Amy D. Klion National Institutes of Health
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Gerald J. Gleich
Gerald J. Gleich University of Utah

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