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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Microbiology and Immunology
  • 2001 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Hermann Wagner is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to immunology and microbiology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Immunology and Microbiology

Subfields of research cover specialized areas such as immunology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and parasitology.

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Parasitology

Their work addresses topics spanning from Toxoplasma gondii research studies to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, immune cell function and interaction, herpesvirus infections and treatments, inflammasome and immune disorders, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

  • Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Hermann Wagner has published multiple papers. Selected recent works include:

  • "An aberrant STAT pathway is central to COVID-19" (2020) in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • "Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells Program a Distinct Subset of IL-22BP-Producing Dendritic Cells Demarcating Solitary Intestinal Lymphoid Tissues" (2020) in Immunity
  • "Genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 reflects clonal superspreading and multiple independent introduction events, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, February and March 2020" (2020) in Eurosurveillance
  • "Pathogen-selective killing by guanylate-binding proteins as a molecular mechanism leading to inflammasome signaling" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "VPS39-deficiency observed in type 2 diabetes impairs muscle stem cell differentiation via altered autophagy and epigenetics" (2021) in Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, Immunity, Eurosurveillance, and Nature Communications.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Immunity
  • Eurosurveillance
  • Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel Degrandi
  • Alexander Dilthey
  • Tobias Wienemann
  • Birgit Henrich
  • Sebastian Scharf

Hermann Wagner is recognized as a member of prestigious bodies such as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, awarded in 2008 for contributions in microbiology and immunology, and the Academia Europaea since 2001.

Best Publications

  • A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA.

    Hiroaki Hemmi;Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Tsuneyasu Kaisho

  • Erratum A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA

    Hiroaki Hemmi;Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Tsuneyasu Kaisho

  • Species-Specific Recognition of Single-Stranded RNA via Toll-like Receptor 7 and 8

    Florian Heil;Hiroaki Hemmi;Hubertus Hochrein;Franziska Ampenberger

  • Human TLR9 confers responsiveness to bacterial DNA via species-specific CpG motif recognition

    Stefan Bauer;Carsten J. Kirschning;Hans Häcker;Vanessa Redecke

  • Human TLR7 or TLR8 independently confer responsiveness to the antiviral compound R-848

    Marion Jurk;Florian Heil;Jörg Vollmer;Christian Schetter

  • Specificity in Toll-like receptor signalling through distinct effector functions of TRAF3 and TRAF6

    Hans Häcker;Vanessa Redecke;Blagoy Blagoev;Irina Kratchmarova

  • HSP70 as Endogenous Stimulus of the Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Signal Pathway

    Ramunas M. Vabulas;Parviz Ahmad-Nejad;Sanghamitra Ghose;Carsten J. Kirschning

  • Selective depletion of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells induces a scurfy-like disease.

    Katharina Lahl;Christoph Loddenkemper;Cathy Drouin;Jennifer Freyer

  • Endocytosed HSP60s Use Toll-like Receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 to Activate the Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Signaling Pathway in Innate Immune Cells

    Ramunas M. Vabulas;Parviz Ahmad-Nejad;Clarissa da Costa;Thomas Miethke

  • Bacterial DNA and immunostimulatory CpG oligonucleotides trigger maturation and activation of murine dendritic cells

    Tim Sparwasser;Eva Sophie Koch;Ramunas M. Vabulas;Klaus Heeg

  • Bacterial CpG-DNA and lipopolysaccharides activate Toll-like receptors at distinct cellular compartments.

    Parviz Ahmad-Nejad;Hans Häcker;Mark Rutz;Stefan Bauer

  • Leptospiral lipopolysaccharide activates cells through a TLR2-dependent mechanism.

    Catherine Werts;Catherine Werts;Richard I. Tapping;John C. Mathison;Tsung Hsien Chuang

  • CpG-DNA-specific activation of antigen-presenting cells requires stress kinase activity and is preceded by non-specific endocytosis and endosomal maturation.

    Hans Häcker;Harald Mischak;Thomas Miethke;Susanne Liptay

  • Cyclosporin A mediates immunosuppression of primary cytotoxic T cell responses by impairing the release of interleukin 1 and interleukin 2.

    Donald Bunjes;Conny Hardt;Martin Röllinghoff;Hermann Wagner

  • The Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7)-specific stimulus loxoribine uncovers a strong relationship within the TLR7, 8 and 9 subfamily.

    Florian Heil;Parviz Ahmad-Nejad;Hiroaki Hemmi;Hubertus Hochrein

  • CpG oligodeoxynucleotides trigger protective and curative Th1 responses in lethal murine leishmaniasis.

    Stefan Zimmermann;Oliver Egeter;Susanne Hausmann;Grayson B. Lipford

  • T cell-mediated lethal shock triggered in mice by the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B: critical role of tumor necrosis factor.

    Thomas Miethke;Claudia Wahl;Klaus Heeg;Bernd Echtenacher

  • Selective expression of IL-7 receptor on memory T cells identifies early CD40L-dependent generation of distinct CD8+ memory T cell subsets.

    Katharina M. Huster;Verena Busch;Matthias Schiemann;Kathrin Linkemann

  • Toll-like receptor 9 binds single-stranded CpG-DNA in a sequence- and pH-dependent manner

    Mark Rutz;Jochen Metzger;Tanja Gellert;Peter Luppa

  • Immune cell activation by bacterial CpG-DNA through myeloid differentiation marker 88 and tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor (TRAF)6.

    Hans Häcker;Ramunas M. Vabulas;Osamu Takeuchi;Katsuaki Hoshino

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Heeg
Klaus Heeg University Hospital Heidelberg
Carsten J. Kirschning
Carsten J. Kirschning University of Duisburg-Essen
Grayson B. Lipford
Grayson B. Lipford Janus Biotherapeutics (United States)
Martin Röllinghoff
Martin Röllinghoff University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Stefan Bauer
Stefan Bauer Philipp University of Marburg
Tim Sparwasser
Tim Sparwasser Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Hubertus Hochrein
Hubertus Hochrein Technical University of Munich
Dirk H. Busch
Dirk H. Busch Technical University of Munich
Roland Lang
Roland Lang University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Klaus Pfeffer
Klaus Pfeffer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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