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Overview

Oliver Eickelberg is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, surgery, oncology, and physiology.

The central topics in their research encompass interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, neonatal respiratory health research, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, transplantation methods and outcomes, pulmonary hypertension research and treatments, and medical imaging and pathology studies.

Eickelberg's recent publications cover a variety of influential studies in leading journals. Notable papers include:

  • An integrated cell atlas of the lung in health and disease, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Inhibition of LTβR signalling activates WNT-induced regeneration in lung, 2020, Nature
  • NIH SenNet Consortium to map senescent cells throughout the human lifespan to understand physiological health, 2022, Nature Aging
  • The arginine methyltransferase PRMT7 promotes extravasation of monocytes resulting in tissue injury in COPD, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Spatial mapping of cellular senescence: emerging challenges and opportunities, 2023, Nature Aging

Eickelberg collaborates frequently with several researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Mélanie Königshoff
  • Michael Lindner
  • Anne Hilgendorff
  • Meshal Ansari
  • Fabian J. Theis

Publication venues where Oliver Eickelberg has multiple contributions are:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JCI Insight
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.

    Carly G.K. Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian M. Mbano

  • Cellular and molecular pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Marc Humbert;Nicholas W. Morrell;Stephen L. Archer;Kurt R. Stenmark

  • Genetics and genomics of pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Florent Soubrier;Wendy K. Chung;Rajiv Machado;Ekkehard Grünig

  • The impact of TGF-β on lung fibrosis: from targeting to biomarkers.

    Isis E. Fernandez;Oliver Eickelberg

  • WNT1-inducible signaling protein–1 mediates pulmonary fibrosis in mice and is upregulated in humans with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    Melanie Königshoff;Monika Kramer;Nisha Balsara;Jochen Wilhelm

  • Inhibition and role of let-7d in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

    Kusum V. Pandit;David Corcoran;Hanadie Yousef;Manohar Yarlagadda

  • Ligand-independent Activation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor by β2-Adrenergic Receptor Agonists in Primary Human Lung Fibroblasts and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

    Oliver Eickelberg;Michael Roth;Rainer Lörx;Victoria Bruce

  • Functional Wnt Signaling Is Increased in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Melanie Königshoff;Nisha Balsara;Eva-Maria Pfaff;Monika Kramer

  • Mutations of the TGF-beta type II receptor BMPR2 in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Rajiv D. Machado;Micheala A. Aldred;Victoria James;Rachel E. Harrison

  • Biglycan: A danger signal that activates the NLRP3 inflammasome via toll-like and P2X receptors

    Andrea Babelova;Kristin Moreth;Kristin Moreth;Wasiliki Tsalastra-Greul;Jinyang Zeng-Brouwers;Jinyang Zeng-Brouwers

  • An atlas of the aging lung mapped by single cell transcriptomics and deep tissue proteomics.

    Ilias Angelidis;Lukas M. Simon;Isis E. Fernandez;Maximilian Strunz

  • New cellular and molecular mechanisms of lung injury and fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    Isis E Fernandez;Oliver Eickelberg

  • The instructive extracellular matrix of the lung: basic composition and alterations in chronic lung disease.

    Gerald Burgstaller;Bettina Oehrle;Michael Gerckens;Eric S. White

  • An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Use of Animal Models for the Preclinical Assessment of Potential Therapies for Pulmonary Fibrosis.

    R. Gisli Jenkins;Bethany B. Moore;Rachel C. Chambers;Oliver Eickelberg

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19.

    Joana P. Bernardes;Neha Mishra;Florian Tran;Thomas Bahmer

  • Extracellular matrix deposition by primary human lung fibroblasts in response to TGF-β1 and TGF-β3

    Oliver Eickelberg;Eleonore Köhler;Frank Reichenberger;Sybille Bertschin

  • Increased local expression of coagulation factor X contributes to the fibrotic response in human and murine lung injury

    Chris J. Scotton;Malvina A. Krupiczojc;Melanie Königshoff;Paul F. Mercer

  • Epithelial–mesenchymal transition in lung development and disease: does it exist and is it important?

    Domokos Bartis;Nikica Mise;Rahul Y Mahida;Oliver Eickelberg

  • Induction of vascular endothelial growth factor by platelet-activating factor and platelet-derived growth factor is downregulated by corticosteroids.

    Markus Nauck;Michael Roth;Michael Tamm;Oliver Eickelberg

  • Genetic basis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: current understanding and future directions.

    John H Newman;Richard C Trembath;Jane A Morse;Ekkehard Grunig

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Seeger
Werner Seeger University of Giessen
Martin Irmler
Martin Irmler University of Lausanne
Franz Pfeiffer
Franz Pfeiffer Technical University of Munich
Johannes Beckers
Johannes Beckers Technical University of Munich
Rory E. Morty
Rory E. Morty Max Planck Society
Ralph T. Schermuly
Ralph T. Schermuly University of Giessen
Maximilian F. Reiser
Maximilian F. Reiser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fabian J. Theis
Fabian J. Theis Technical University of Munich
Naftali Kaminski
Naftali Kaminski Yale University
Stefanie M. Hauck
Stefanie M. Hauck Sanofi (France)

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