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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Michael S. Neuberger was affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily focused on the field of Medicine, with emphases on various subfields including Surgery, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Nephrology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's published work covered key topics such as surgical site infection prevention, colorectal cancer surgical treatments, hernia repair and management, parathyroid disorders and treatments, pancreatitis pathology and treatment, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and abdominal surgery and complications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Neuberger included Tara Mueller, Victoria Kehl, Rebekka Dimpel, Christiane Blankenstein, and Silvia Egert-Schwender.

Neuberger published in several venues repeatedly, including:

  • Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine
  • JAMA Surgery
  • Infection
  • European Urology Open Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Neuberger were:

  • Duodenal tropism of SARS-CoV-2 and clinical findings in critically ill COVID-19 patients, 2022, Infection
  • Determinants and clinical significance of negative scintigraphic findings in primary hyperparathyroidism: a retrospective observational study, 2022, Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine

Additional research linked to coauthors included:

  • Intraoperative Wound Irrigation for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection After Laparotomy, 2024, JAMA Surgery
  • Lenvatinib plus Pembrolizumab as first-line treatment in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma - real world data from a retrospective multi-center analysis, 2023, European Urology Open Science
  • Intraoperative Wound Irrigation for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection after Laparotomy: The Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled IOWISI Trial (DRKS00012251) of the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society (SDGC CHIR-Net), 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Michael S. Neuberger was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Replacing the complementarity-determining regions in a human antibody with those from a mouse

    Peter T. Jones;Paul H. Dear;Jefferson Foote;Michael S. Neuberger

  • Mutational Processes Molding the Genomes of 21 Breast Cancers

    Serena Nik-Zainal;Ludmil B. Alexandrov;David C. Wedge;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo

  • DNA deamination mediates innate immunity to (retro)viral infection

    Michael Malim;Ann Sheehy;Reuben Harris;Kate Bishop

  • AID mutates E. coli suggesting a DNA deamination mechanism for antibody diversification

    Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt;Reuben S. Harris;Michael S. Neuberger

  • Comparison of the effector functions of human immunoglobulins using a matched set of chimeric antibodies.

    M Brüggemann;G T Williams;C I Bindon;M R Clark

  • Immunoglobulin Isotype Switching Is Inhibited and Somatic Hypermutation Perturbed in UNG-Deficient Mice

    Cristina Rada;Gareth T. Williams;Hilde Nilsen;Deborah E Barnes

  • B cells acquire antigen from target cells after synapse formation.

    Facundo D. Batista;Dagmar Iber;Michael S. Neuberger

  • Hyperresponsive B Cells in CD22-Deficient Mice

    Theresa L. O'Keefe;Gareth T. Williams;Sarah L. Davies;Michael S. Neuberger

  • RNA editing enzyme APOBEC1 and some of its homologs can act as DNA mutators.

    Reuben S. Harris;Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt;Michael S. Neuberger

  • Recombinant antibodies possessing novel effector functions

    Michael S. Neuberger;Gareth T. Williams;Robert O. Fox

  • Evolution of the AID/APOBEC Family of Polynucleotide (Deoxy)cytidine Deaminases

    Silvestro G. Conticello;Cornelia J. F. Thomas;Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt;Michael S. Neuberger

  • Altering the pathway of immunoglobulin hypermutation by inhibiting uracil-DNA glycosylase

    Javier Di Noia;Michael S. Neuberger

  • The Vif Protein of HIV Triggers Degradation of the Human Antiretroviral DNA Deaminase APOBEC3G

    Silvestro G Conticello;Reuben S Harris;Michael S Neuberger

  • Affinity Dependence of the B Cell Response to Antigen: A Threshold, a Ceiling, and the Importance of Off-Rate

    Facundo D Batista;Michael S Neuberger

  • Expression and regulation of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene transfected into lymphoid cells.

    M S Neuberger

  • Mismatch Recognition and Uracil Excision Provide Complementary Paths to Both Ig Switching and the A/T-Focused Phase of Somatic Mutation

    Cristina Rada;Javier M. Di Noia;Michael S. Neuberger

  • A hapten-specific chimaeric IgE antibody with human physiological effector function.

    M. S. Neuberger;G. T. Williams;E. B. Mitchell;S. S. Jouhal

  • Elements regulating somatic hypermutation of an immunoglobulin κ gene : critical role for the intron enhancer/matrix attachment region

    Alexander G. Betz;César Milstein;Africa González-Fernández;Richard Pannell

  • Hot spot focusing of somatic hypermutation in MSH2-deficient mice suggests two stages of mutational targeting.

    Cristina Rada;Michael R. Ehrenstein;Michael S. Neuberger;César Milstein

  • Comparison of the differential context-dependence of DNA deamination by APOBEC enzymes: correlation with mutation spectra in vivo.

    Rupert C.L. Beale;Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt;Svend K. Petersen-Mahrt;Ian N. Watt;Reuben S. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesar Milstein
Cesar Milstein MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Michael R. Ehrenstein
Michael R. Ehrenstein University College London
Facundo D. Batista
Facundo D. Batista Harvard Medical School
Reuben S. Harris
Reuben S. Harris The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Julian E. Sale
Julian E. Sale MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Sven Pettersson
Sven Pettersson Karolinska Institute
Roberto Sitia
Roberto Sitia Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Greg Winter
Greg Winter University of Cambridge
Ashok R. Venkitaraman
Ashok R. Venkitaraman Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Michael R. Stratton
Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute

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