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71
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22917
World Ranking
1357
National Ranking
100

Overview

Manfred Schwab is affiliated with the German Cancer Research Center in Germany. Their research bridges the fields of computer science and medicine, focusing on artificial intelligence applications and oncology.

The scientist's recent works cover a range of topics, including adversarial robustness in machine learning, anomaly detection techniques and applications, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), peptidase inhibition and analysis, neuroendocrine tumor research advances, and lung cancer research studies.

Recent publications include:

  • INVERTIBLE NEURAL NETWORK FOR INFERENCE PIPELINE ANOMALY DETECTION, 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Invertible Neural Network for Inference Pipeline Anomaly Detection, 2023, International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications
  • Molecular targeting of meningioma cell signaling reveals drug vulnerabilities impairing tumor cell viability, 2025, Brain and Spine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Manfred Schwab include:

  • Ashis Kumer Biswas
  • Yasmin Kocas
  • Sarah Gendreizig
  • Eric Goulin Lippi Fernandes
  • Roland Coras

The scientist's work has been published primarily in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications
  • Brain and Spine

Manfred Schwab's research fields concentrate on computer science and medicine, with particular engagement in artificial intelligence and oncology subfields. These include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology

The intersection of machine learning techniques with cancer research is evident across Schwab's publications, providing insight into both computational and biomedical challenges. The combination of anomaly detection and neural networks appears central to their recent investigations, while later work addresses molecular characteristics related to tumor viability and drug susceptibilities.

Best Publications

  • Classification and diagnostic prediction of cancers using gene expression profiling and artificial neural networks

    Javed Khan;Jun S. Wei;Markus Ringnér;Markus Ringnér;Lao H. Saal

  • Amplified DNA with limited homology to myc cellular oncogene is shared by human neuroblastoma cell lines and a neuroblastoma tumour.

    Manfred Schwab;Kari Alitalo;Karl Heinz Klempnauer;Harold E. Varmus

  • Homogeneously staining chromosomal regions contain amplified copies of an abundantly expressed cellular oncogene (c-myc) in malignant neuroendocrine cells from a human colon carcinoma.

    K. Alitalo;Manfred Schwab;C. C. Lin;H. E. Varmus

  • A cellular oncogene (c-Ki- ras ) is amplified, overexpressed, and located within karyotypic abnormalities in mouse adrenocortical tumour cells

    Manfred Schwab;Kari Alitalo;Harold E. Varmus;J. Michael Bishop

  • N-myc enhances the expression of a large set of genes functioning in ribosome biogenesis and protein synthesis.

    Kathy Boon;Kathy Boon;Huib N. Caron;Ronald Van Asperen;Linda Valentijn

  • Enhanced expression of the human gene N-myc consequent to amplification of DNA may contribute to malignant progression of neuroblastoma.

    M Schwab;J Ellison;M Busch;W Rosenau

  • Oncogene amplification in tumor cells

    Kari Alitalo;Manfred Schwab

  • Conditional expression of N-myc in human neuroblastoma cells increases expression of α-prothymosin and ornithine decarboxylase and accelerates progression into S-phase early after mitogenic stimulation of quiescent cells

    Werner Lutz;Michael Stöhr;Jörg Schürmann;Achim Wenzel

  • Chromosome localization in normal human cells and neuroblastomas of a gene related to c- myc

    Manfred Schwab;Harold E. Varmus;J. Michael Bishop;Karl Heinz Grzeschik

  • Neuroblastoma: biology and molecular and chromosomal pathology

    Manfred Schwab;Frank Westermann;Barbara Hero;Frank Berthold

  • Arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)-peptide binds to both tumor and tumor-endothelial cells in vivo.

    Sabine Zitzmann;Volker Ehemann;Manfred Schwab

  • Customized Oligonucleotide Microarray Gene Expression–Based Classification of Neuroblastoma Patients Outperforms Current Clinical Risk Stratification

    André Oberthuer;Frank Berthold;Patrick Warnat;Barbara Hero

  • Human N-myc gene contributes to neoplastic transformation of mammalian cells in culture.

    Manfred Schwab;Harold E. Varmus;J. Michael Bishop

  • Microsatellite Instability and Mutation Analysis of hMSH2 and hMLH1 in Patients with Sporadic, Familial and Hereditary Colorectal Cancer

    Gabriela Moslein;Gabriela Moslein;David J. Tester;Noralane M. Lindor;Ronald Honchel

  • Genomic instability in 1p and human malignancies

    Manfred Schwab;Christian Praml;Lukas C. Amler

  • Distinct transcriptional MYCN/c-MYC activities are associated with spontaneous regression or malignant progression in neuroblastomas

    Frank Westermann;Daniel Muth;Axel Benner;Tobias Bauer

  • Amplification of cellular oncogenes: a predictor of clinical outcome in human cancer.

    Manfred Schwab;Lukas C. Amler

  • Regulation and Heteromeric Structure of the Fibroblast Activation Protein in Normal and Transformed Cells of Mesenchymal and Neuroectodermal Origin

    Wolfgang J. Rettig;Pilar Garin-Chesa;John H. Healey;Sai L. Su

  • Amplification of oncogenes in human cancer cells

    Manfred Schwab

  • Mutations of the p53 tumor suppressor gene in neoplasms of the human nervous system

    Hiroko Ohgaki;Hiroko Ohgaki;Robert H. Eibl;Martin B. Reichel;Luigi Mariani

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Westermann
Frank Westermann German Cancer Research Center
Frank Berthold
Frank Berthold University of Cologne
Matthias Fischer
Matthias Fischer University of Cologne
Peter M. Schlag
Peter M. Schlag Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Benedikt Brors
Benedikt Brors German Cancer Research Center
Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus Cornell University
Roland Eils
Roland Eils Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Kari Alitalo
Kari Alitalo University of Helsinki
Tommy Martinsson
Tommy Martinsson University of Gothenburg
Jo Vandesompele
Jo Vandesompele Ghent University

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