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Biology and Biochemistry
Russia
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
64683
World Ranking
2764
National Ranking
200

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Russia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Marcus Conrad is a researcher affiliated with Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with substantial contributions to Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Oncology.

The main research topics covered by Conrad focus on ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, trace elements in health, epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and selenium in biological systems.

Marcus Conrad's publication record includes research published in a range of scientific venues. They have contributed extensively to journals such as Nature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Redox Biology, and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

Several recent significant papers associated with their field include:

  • Ferroptosis: mechanisms, biology and role in disease (2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • The Metabolic Underpinnings of Ferroptosis (2020, Cell Metabolism)
  • A non-canonical vitamin K cycle is a potent ferroptosis suppressor (2022, Nature)
  • Mechanisms controlling cellular and systemic iron homeostasis (2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023 (2023, Cell Death and Differentiation)

Frequent collaborators working with Marcus Conrad include Bettina Proneth, Eikan Mishima, Toshitaka Nakamura, Adam Wahida, and Sebastian Doll. These relationships reflect a consistent collaborative pattern across their published work.

Best Publications

  • Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease

    Brent R. Stockwell;José Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Hülya Bayir;Ashley I. Bush

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

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

  • Ferroptosis: mechanisms, biology and role in disease.

    Xuejun Jiang;Brent R. Stockwell;Marcus Conrad

  • FSP1 is a glutathione-independent ferroptosis suppressor

    Sebastian Doll;Florencio Porto Freitas;Ron Shah;Maceler Aldrovandi

  • Inactivation of the ferroptosis regulator Gpx4 triggers acute renal failure in mice

    Jose Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Manuela Schneider;Bettina Proneth;Yulia Y. Tyurina

  • ACSL4 dictates ferroptosis sensitivity by shaping cellular lipid composition

    Sebastian Doll;Bettina Proneth;Yulia Y Tyurina;Elena Panzilius

  • Oxidized arachidonic and adrenic PEs navigate cells to ferroptosis

    Valerian E Kagan;Gaowei Mao;Feng Qu;Jose Pedro Friedmann Angeli

  • Glutathione Peroxidase 4 Senses and Translates Oxidative Stress into 12/15-Lipoxygenase Dependent- and AIF-Mediated Cell Death

    Alexander Seiler;Manuela Schneider;Heidi Förster;Stephan Roth

  • Selenium Utilization by GPX4 Is Required to Prevent Hydroperoxide-Induced Ferroptosis

    Irina Ingold;Carsten Berndt;Sabine Schmitt;Sebastian Doll

  • Role of GPX4 in ferroptosis and its pharmacological implication

    Tobias M. Seibt;Bettina Proneth;Marcus Conrad

  • On the Mechanism of Cytoprotection by Ferrostatin-1 and Liproxstatin-1 and the Role of Lipid Peroxidation in Ferroptotic Cell Death.

    Omkar Zilka;Ron Shah;Bo Li;José Pedro Friedmann Angeli

  • Ferroptosis at the crossroads of cancer-acquired drug resistance and immune evasion.

    José Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Dmitri V. Krysko;Marcus Conrad

  • The chemical basis of ferroptosis

    Marcus Conrad;Derek A. Pratt

  • The Metabolic Underpinnings of Ferroptosis.

    Jiashuo Zheng;Marcus Conrad

  • Ultrasmall nanoparticles induce ferroptosis in nutrient-deprived cancer cells and suppress tumour growth

    Sung Eun Kim;Li Zhang;Kai Ma;Michelle Riegman

  • T cell lipid peroxidation induces ferroptosis and prevents immunity to infection

    Mai Matsushita;Stefan Bernd Freigang;Christoph Schneider;Marcus Conrad

  • Nano-targeted induction of dual ferroptotic mechanisms eradicates high-risk neuroblastoma

    Behrouz Hassannia;Bartosz Wiernicki;Irina Ingold;Feng Qu

  • Regulated necrosis: disease relevance and therapeutic opportunities

    Marcus Conrad;José Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Peter Vandenabeele;Brent R. Stockwell

  • Essential role for mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase in hematopoiesis, heart development, and heart function.

    Marcus Conrad;Cemile Jakupoglu;Stéphanie G. Moreno;Stefanie Lippl

  • The oxidative stress-inducible cystine/glutamate antiporter, system x (c) (-) : cystine supplier and beyond.

    Marcus Conrad;Hideyo Sato

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg W. Bornkamm
Georg W. Bornkamm Technical University of Munich
Valerian E. Kagan
Valerian E. Kagan University of Pittsburgh
Ulrich Schweizer
Ulrich Schweizer University of Bonn
Axel Walch
Axel Walch Technical University of Munich
Fulvio Ursini
Fulvio Ursini University of Padua
Yulia Y. Tyurina
Yulia Y. Tyurina University of Pittsburgh
Hülya Bayır
Hülya Bayır University of Pittsburgh
Wolfgang Wurst
Wolfgang Wurst German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Brent R. Stockwell
Brent R. Stockwell Columbia University
Dolph L. Hatfield
Dolph L. Hatfield National Institutes of Health

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