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Meinrad Gawaz is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular expertise in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. The main areas of study encompass molecular biology, surgery, hematology, and infectious diseases.

The scientific output of Meinrad Gawaz covers several key topics including platelet disorders and treatments, COVID-19 clinical research studies, antiplatelet therapy and cardiovascular diseases, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, and long-term effects of COVID-19.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Meinrad Gawaz highlight their research interests and contributions. These include:

  • Current concepts and novel targets for antiplatelet therapy, 2023, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Anti-platelet factor 4 antibodies causing VITT do not cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, 2021, Blood
  • Platelets and COVID-19, 2021, Hämostaseologie
  • Impaired cardiac function is associated with mortality in patients with acute COVID-19 infection, 2020, Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • Antibody-induced procoagulant platelets in severe COVID-19 infection, 2020, Blood

Meinrad Gawaz frequently collaborates with several researchers including Dominik Rath, Tobias Geisler, Oliver Borst, Anne-Katrin Rohlfing, and Tobias Harm.

Their work is regularly published in a number of venues with the highest number of contributions in:

  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal
  • Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Cardiovascular Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Platelets in inflammation and atherogenesis

    Meinrad Gawaz;Harald Langer;Andreas E. May

  • A Critical Role of Platelet Adhesion in the Initiation of Atherosclerotic Lesion Formation

    Steffen Massberg;Korbinian Brand;Sabine Grüner;Sharon Page

  • Prasugrel versus clopidogrel for acute coronary syndromes without revascularization

    Matthew T. Roe;Paul W. Armstrong;Keith A.A. Fox;Harvey D. White

  • Prevalence of clopidogrel non-responders among patients with stable angina pectoris scheduled for elective coronary stent placement.

    Iris Müller;Felicitas Besta;Christian Schulz;Steffen Massberg

  • A randomized trial of prasugrel versus clopidogrel in patients with high platelet reactivity on clopidogrel after elective percutaneous coronary intervention with implantation of drug-eluting stents: results of the TRIGGER-PCI (Testing Platelet Reactivity In Patients Undergoing Elective Stent Placement on Clopidogrel to Guide Alternative Therapy With Prasugrel) study.

    Dietmar Trenk;Gregg W. Stone;Meinrad Gawaz;Adnan Kastrati

  • Effect of Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Receptor Blockade on Recovery of Coronary Flow and Left Ventricular Function After the Placement of Coronary-Artery Stents in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Franz-Josef Neumann;Rudolf Blasini;Claus Schmitt;Eckhard Alt

  • A crucial role of glycoprotein VI for platelet recruitment to the injured arterial wall in vivo

    Steffen Massberg;Meinrad Gawaz;Sabine Grüner;Valerie Schulte

  • Cardiac Release of Cytokines and Inflammatory Responses in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Franz-Josef Neumann;Ilka Ott;Meinrad Gawaz;Gert Richardt

  • Low response to clopidogrel is associated with cardiovascular outcome after coronary stent implantation

    Tobias Geisler;Harald Langer;Magdalena Wydymus;Katrin Göhring

  • A clinical trial of abciximab in elective percutaneous coronary intervention after pretreatment with clopidogrel.

    Adnan Kastrati;Julinda Mehilli;Helmut Schühlen;Josef Dirschinger

  • Role of platelets in coronary thrombosis and reperfusion of ischemic myocardium.

    Meinrad Gawaz

  • Increased Neutrophil-Platelet Adhesion in Patients With Unstable Angina

    I Ott;F J Neumann;M Gawaz;M Schmitt

  • Effect of a high loading dose of clopidogrel on platelet function in patients undergoing coronary stent placement.

    Iris Müller;Melchior Seyfarth;Silja Rüdiger;Beate Wolf

  • Platelets secrete stromal cell–derived factor 1α and recruit bone marrow–derived progenitor cells to arterial thrombi in vivo

    Steffen Massberg;Ildiko Konrad;Katrin Schürzinger;Michael Lorenz

  • CMR Imaging Predicts Death and Other Adverse Events in Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Simon Greulich;Claudia Christina Deluigi;Steffen Gloekler;Andreas Wahl

  • Induction of Cytokine Expression in Leukocytes by Binding of Thrombin-Stimulated Platelets

    Franz-Josef Neumann;Nikolaus Marx;Meinrad Gawaz;Korbinian Brand

  • Skepinone-L, a Novel Potent and Highly Selective Inhibitor of p38 MAP Kinase, Effectively Impairs Platelet Activation and Thrombus Formation

    Oliver Borst;Britta Walker;Patrick Münzer;Antonella Russo

  • Effect of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor blockade with abciximab on clinical and angiographic restenosis rate after the placement of coronary stents following acute myocardial infarction☆

    Franz-Josef Neumann;Adnan Kastrati;Claus Schmitt;Rudolf Blasini

  • Platelet Function in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated With Direct Angioplasty

    Meinrad Gawaz;Franz-Josef Neumann;Ilka Ott;Alexander Schiessler

  • A randomized trial of prasugrel versus clopidogrel in patients with high platelet reactivity on clopidogrel after elective percutaneous coronary intervention with implantation of drug-eluting stents: results of the TRIGGER-PCI (Testing Platelet Reactivity

    D Trenk;GW Stone;M Gawaz;A Kastrati

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Lang
Florian Lang University of Tübingen
Karin Klingel
Karin Klingel University of Tübingen
Reinhard Kandolf
Reinhard Kandolf University of Tübingen
Matthias Schwab
Matthias Schwab University of Tübingen
Steffen Massberg
Steffen Massberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Martin Schaller
Martin Schaller University of Tübingen
Konstantin Nikolaou
Konstantin Nikolaou University of Tübingen
Burkert Pieske
Burkert Pieske Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Claus D. Claussen
Claus D. Claussen University of Tübingen

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