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  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

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Kurt Zatloukal is affiliated with the Medical University of Graz in Austria and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, oncology, epidemiology, and artificial intelligence, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical sciences.

The scientist's recent publications include a range of topics relevant to medical biotechnology and diagnostics, such as:

  • AI for life: Trends in artificial intelligence for biotechnology (2023, New Biotechnology)
  • Explainability and causability for artificial intelligence-supported medical image analysis in the context of the European In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (2022, New Biotechnology)
  • Hepatocytic p62 suppresses ductular reaction and tumorigenesis in mouse livers with mTORC1 activation and defective autophagy (2021, Journal of Hepatology)
  • A critical spotlight on the paradigms of FFPE-DNA sequencing (2023, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • Pathologist Validation of a Machine Learning-Derived Feature for Colon Cancer Risk Stratification (2023, JAMA Network Open)

Kurt Zatloukal has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Heimo Müller
  • Martina Loibner
  • Markus Plass
  • Peter M. Abuja
  • Esther Föderl-Höbenreich

The scientist's work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • New Biotechnology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Communications Medicine

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Kurt Zatloukal has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2013, marking their standing within the European scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Causability and explainability of artificial intelligence in medicine.

    Andreas Holzinger;Georg Langs;Helmut Denk;Kurt Zatloukal

  • In Situ Cytotoxic and Memory T Cells Predict Outcome in Patients With Early-Stage Colorectal Cancer

    Franck Pages;Amos Kirilovsky;Bernhard Mlecnik;Martin Asslaber

  • Influenza virus hemagglutinin HA-2 N-terminal fusogenic peptides augment gene transfer by transferrin-polylysine-DNA complexes: toward a synthetic virus-like gene-transfer vehicle.

    Ernst Wagner;Christian Plank;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten

  • Characterization of HULC, a novel gene with striking up-regulation in hepatocellular carcinoma, as noncoding RNA.

    Katrin Panzitt;Marisa M.O. Tschernatsch;Christian Guelly;Tarek Moustafa

  • Coupling of adenovirus to transferrin-polylysine/DNA complexes greatly enhances receptor-mediated gene delivery and expression of transfected genes.

    Ernst Wagner;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten;Helen Kirlappos

  • p62 Is a Common Component of Cytoplasmic Inclusions in Protein Aggregation Diseases

    Kurt Zatloukal;Cornelia Stumptner;Andrea Fuchsbichler;Hans Heid

  • High-efficiency receptor-mediated delivery of small and large (48 kilobase gene constructs using the endosome-disruption activity of defective or chemically inactivated adenovirus particles

    Matt Cotten;Ernst Wagner;Kurt Zatloukal;Stephen Phillips

  • Regurgitation of bile acids from leaky bile ducts causes sclerosing cholangitis in Mdr2 (Abcb4) knockout mice

    Peter Fickert;Andrea Fuchsbichler;Martin Wagner;Gernot Zollner

  • Persistent STAT3 activation in colon cancer is associated with enhanced cell proliferation and tumor growth.

    Florian M. Corvinus;Carina Orth;Richard Moriggl;Svetlana A. Tsareva

  • miR‐29a suppresses tristetraprolin, which is a regulator of epithelial polarity and metastasis

    Christoph A Gebeshuber;Kurt Zatloukal;Javier Martinez

  • A Lymphotoxin-Driven Pathway to Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Johannes Haybaeck;Nicolas Zeller;Monika Julia Wolf;Achim Weber

  • Hepatobiliary transporter expression in percutaneous liver biopsies of patients with cholestatic liver diseases.

    Gernot Zollner;Peter Fickert;Rainer Zenz;Andrea Fuchsbichler

  • Gene transfer into hepatocytes using asialoglycoprotein receptor mediated endocytosis of DNA complexed with an artificial tetra-antennary galactose ligand.

    Christian Plank;Kurt Zatloukal;Matt Cotten;Karl Mechtler

  • Composition for introducing nucleic acid complexes into higher eucaryotic cells

    David T. Curiel;Max L. Birnstiel;Matthew Cotten;Ernst Wagner

  • Embryonic lethality and fetal liver apoptosis in mice lacking the c‐raf‐1 gene

    Mario Mikula;Martin Schreiber;Zvenislava Husak;Lucia Kucerova

  • CAR and PXR agonists stimulate hepatic bile acid and bilirubin detoxification and elimination pathways in mice

    Martin Wagner;Emina Halilbasic;Hanns-Ulrich Marschall;Gernot Zollner

  • Proliferation of human HCC cells and chemically induced mouse liver cancers requires JNK1-dependent p21 downregulation

    Lijian Hui;Kurt Zatloukal;Harald Scheuch;Ewa Stepniak

  • A new xenobiotic-induced mouse model of sclerosing cholangitis and biliary fibrosis.

    Peter Fickert;Ulrike Stöger;Andrea Fuchsbichler;Tarek Moustafa

  • From Mallory to Mallory-Denk bodies: What, how and why?

    Kurt Zatloukal;Samuel W. French;Cornelia Stumptner;Pavel Strnad;Pavel Strnad

  • Functions of c-Jun in Liver and Heart Development

    Robert Eferl;Maria Sibilia;Frank Hilberg;Andrea Fuchsbichler

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Denk
Helmut Denk Medical University of Graz
Ernst Wagner
Ernst Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael Trauner
Michael Trauner Medical University of Vienna
Matthew Cotten
Matthew Cotten Wellcome Sanger Institute
Max L. Birnstiel
Max L. Birnstiel Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Christian Plank
Christian Plank Technical University of Munich
Hanns-Ulrich Marschall
Hanns-Ulrich Marschall University of Gothenburg
Andreas Holzinger
Andreas Holzinger BOKU University
Paola Turano
Paola Turano University of Florence
Gert-Jan B. van Ommen
Gert-Jan B. van Ommen Leiden University Medical Center

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