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Patrizia Agostinis

Patrizia Agostinis

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

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Best Female Scientists

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107
Citations
78540
World Ranking
991
National Ranking
10

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
110
Citations
84656
World Ranking
956
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Patrizia Agostinis is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, cell biology, and genetics. The research primarily focuses on topics such as autophagy in disease and therapy, immune cells in cancer, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, mitochondrial function and pathology, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and cellular transport and secretion.

The scientist has published in numerous venues, with frequent publications in Biological Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Death and Disease, Nature Communications, and Autophagy.

  • Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Nature Communications
  • Autophagy

Some of the recent papers associated with their work include:

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition), 2021, Autophagy
  • Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death, 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023, 2023, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export, 2020, Nature
  • Lipid availability determines fate of skeletal progenitor cells via SOX9, 2020, Nature

Frequent collaborators include Johannes V. Swinnen, Friedrich Miescher, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Johannes Büchner, and Maria Livia Sassano, with the number of joint publications ranging from 13 to 18.

  • Johannes V. Swinnen
  • Friedrich Miescher
  • Felix Hoppe-Seyler
  • Johannes Büchner
  • Maria Livia Sassano

Agostinis's research contributes to a broad understanding of cellular processes relevant to disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches, particularly through the study of autophagy and immune-related functions in cancer and other pathologies.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

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

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

  • Photodynamic therapy of cancer: An update†‡

    Patrizia Agostinis;Kristian Berg;Keith A. Cengel;Thomas H. Foster

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Immunogenic cell death and DAMPs in cancer therapy.

    Dmitri V. Krysko;Abhishek D. Garg;Agnieszka Kaczmarek;Olga Krysko

  • EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research

    Jan Van Deun;Pieter Mestdagh;Patrizia Agostinis;Özden Akay

  • Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Sarah Warren;Sandy Adjemian

  • Molecular effectors of multiple cell death pathways initiated by photodynamic therapy

    Esther Buytaert;Michael Dewaele;Patrizia Agostinis

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Consensus guidelines for the detection of immunogenic cell death

    Oliver Kepp;Laura Senovilla;Ilio Vitale;Erika Vacchelli

  • A novel pathway combining calreticulin exposure and ATP secretion in immunogenic cancer cell death.

    Abhishek D Garg;Dmitri V Krysko;Tom Verfaillie;Agnieszka Kaczmarek

  • Emerging role of damage-associated molecular patterns derived from mitochondria in inflammation.

    Dmitri V. Krysko;Patrizia Agostinis;Olga Krysko;Abhishek D. Garg

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress signalling - from basic mechanisms to clinical applications

    Aitor Almanza;Antonio Carlesso;Chetan Chintha;Stuart Creedican

  • PERK is required at the ER-mitochondrial contact sites to convey apoptosis after ROS-based ER stress

    Verfaillie T;Rubio N;Rubio N;Garg Ad;Bultynck G

  • Caspase-mediated cleavage of Beclin-1 inactivates Beclin-1-induced autophagy and enhances apoptosis by promoting the release of proapoptotic factors from mitochondria

    E Wirawan;L Vande Walle;K Kersse;S Cornelis;S Cornelis

  • Hypericin in cancer treatment: more light on the way.

    Patrizia Agostinis;Annelies Vantieghem;Wilfried Merlevede;Peter A.M. de Witte

  • Classification of current anticancer immunotherapies

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Erika Vacchelli;José Manuel Bravo-San Pedro;Aitziber Buqué

  • Immunogenic cell death, DAMPs and anticancer therapeutics: an emerging amalgamation.

    Abhishek D. Garg;Dominika Nowis;Jakub Golab;Peter Vandenabeele

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele Ghent University
Dmitri V. Krysko
Dmitri V. Krysko Ghent University
Jakub Golab
Jakub Golab Medical University of Warsaw
Wim Martinet
Wim Martinet University of Antwerp
Jacques Piette
Jacques Piette University of Liège
Afshin Samali
Afshin Samali University of Galway

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