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Denmark
2026

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Immunology

D-Index
90
Citations
42145
World Ranking
1058
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Morten Nielsen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Malaria Research and Control, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Complement system in diseases, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

Key recent publications include:

  • Capsid-like particles decorated with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicit strong virus neutralization activity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The C-terminal tail of α-synuclein protects against aggregate replication but is critical for oligomerization, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Afucosylated Plasmodium falciparum-specific IgG is induced by infection but not by subunit vaccination, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cryo-EM reveals the architecture of placental malaria VAR2CSA and provides molecular insight into chondroitin sulfate binding, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Developing a multivariate prediction model of antibody features associated with protection of malaria-infected pregnant women from placental malaria, 2021, eLife

They have collaborated frequently with Ali Salanti, Adam F. Sander, Thor G. Theander, Robert Dagil, and Willem A. de Jongh.

Publication venues regularly featuring their work include Nature Communications, Vaccines, Frontiers in Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Communications Biology.

Best Publications

  • NetMHCpan-4.1 and NetMHCIIpan-4.0: improved predictions of MHC antigen presentation by concurrent motif deconvolution and integration of MS MHC eluted ligand data.

    Birkir Reynisson;Bruno Alvarez;Sinu Paul;Bjoern Peters;Bjoern Peters

  • Robust T Cell Immunity in Convalescent Individuals with Asymptomatic or Mild COVID-19.

    Takuya Sekine;André Perez-Potti;Olga Rivera-Ballesteros;Kristoffer Strålin

  • BepiPred-2.0: Improving sequence-based B-cell epitope prediction using conformational epitopes

    Martin Closter Jespersen;Bjoern Peters;Morten Nielsen;Paolo Marcatili

  • Improved method for predicting linear B-cell epitopes.

    Jens Erik Pontoppidan Larsen;Ole Lund;Morten Nielsen

  • NetMHCpan-4.0: Improved Peptide–MHC Class I Interaction Predictions Integrating Eluted Ligand and Peptide Binding Affinity Data

    Vanessa Isabell Jurtz;Sinu Paul;Massimo Andreatta;Paolo Marcatili

  • Reliable prediction of T-cell epitopes using neural networks with novel sequence representations

    Morten Nielsen;Claus Lundegaard;Peder Worning;Sanne Lise Lauemøller

  • Gapped sequence alignment using artificial neural networks: application to the MHC class I system.

    Massimo Andreatta;Morten Nielsen

  • Large-scale validation of methods for cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope prediction

    Mette V Larsen;Claus Lundegaard;Kasper Lamberth;Soren Buus

  • NetMHC-3.0: accurate web accessible predictions of human, mouse and monkey MHC class I affinities for peptides of length 8–11

    Claus Lundegaard;Kasper Lamberth;Mikkel Harndahl;Søren Buus

  • NetMHCpan, a method for MHC class I binding prediction beyond humans

    Ilka Hoof;Bjoern Peters;John Sidney;Lasse Eggers Pedersen

  • Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

    Kamilla Kjærgaard Jensen;Massimo Andreatta;Paolo Marcatili;Søren Buus

  • NetMHCpan, a method for quantitative predictions of peptide binding to any HLA-A and -B locus protein of known sequence.

    Morten A. Nielsen;Claus Lundegaard;Thomas H. Blicher;Kasper Lamberth

  • Prediction of residues in discontinuous B-cell epitopes using protein 3D structures

    Pernille Haste Andersen;Morten Nielsen;Ole Lund

  • Peptide binding predictions for HLA DR, DP and DQ molecules

    Peng Wang;John Sidney;Yohan Kim;Alessandro Sette

  • A generic method for assignment of reliability scores applied to solvent accessibility predictions

    Bent Petersen;Thomas Nordahl Petersen;Pernille Andersen;Pernille Andersen;Morten Nielsen

  • Reliable B cell epitope predictions: impacts of method development and improved benchmarking.

    Jens Vindahl Kringelum;Claus Lundegaard;Ole Lund;Morten Nielsen

  • Prediction of MHC class II binding affinity using SMM-align, a novel stabilization matrix alignment method

    Morten Nielsen;Claus Lundegaard;Ole Lund

  • NN-align. An artificial neural network-based alignment algorithm for MHC class II peptide binding prediction.

    Morten Nielsen;Ole Lund

  • NetSurfP-2.0: Improved prediction of protein structural features by integrated deep learning

    Michael Schantz Klausen;Martin Closter Jespersen;Henrik Nielsen;Kamilla Kjærgaard Jensen

  • The role of the proteasome in generating cytotoxic T-cell epitopes: insights obtained from improved predictions of proteasomal cleavage

    Morten Nielsen;Claus Lundegaard;Ole Lund;Can Keşmir;Can Keşmir

  • NetMHCpan-3.0; improved prediction of binding to MHC class I molecules integrating information from multiple receptor and peptide length datasets.

    Morten Nielsen;Massimo Andreatta

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Lund
Ole Lund Danish National Genome Center
Søren Buus
Søren Buus University of Copenhagen
Bjoern Peters
Bjoern Peters La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Alessandro Sette
Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Charlotte Bay Hasager
Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark
Søren Brunak
Søren Brunak University of Copenhagen
Jason A. Greenbaum
Jason A. Greenbaum La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
William H. Hildebrand
William H. Hildebrand University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Ali Salanti
Ali Salanti Copenhagen University Hospital
Thor G. Theander
Thor G. Theander University of Copenhagen

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