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Peter Boor is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany and has a broad research portfolio primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work extends into several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Nephrology, and Immunology.

Their research spans a variety of main topics, with notable focus areas such as COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, AI in cancer detection, Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, and the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.

Peter Boor has contributed to several papers in high-impact journals, including:

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning, 2021, Nature
  • Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis, 2020, Nature
  • Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • Spatial multi-omic map of human myocardial infarction, 2022, Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profibrotic macrophage responses and lung fibrosis, 2021, Cell

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Saskia von Stillfried, Roman D. Bülow, Barbara M. Klinkhammer, Rafael Kramann, and Sonja Djudjaj.

Peter Boor's publications often appear in reputable venues with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Deep learning can predict microsatellite instability directly from histology in gastrointestinal cancer.

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Alexander T. Pearson;Niels Halama;Dirk Jäger

  • Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis

    Christoph Kuppe;Mahmoud M. Ibrahim;Mahmoud M. Ibrahim;Jennifer Kranz;Jennifer Kranz;Xiaoting Zhang

  • Renal fibrosis: novel insights into mechanisms and therapeutic targets

    Peter Boor;Tammo Ostendorf;Jürgen Floege

  • Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Jakob Nikolas Kather;Lara R. Heij;Lara R. Heij;Heike I. Grabsch;Heike I. Grabsch;Chiara Loeffler

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profibrotic macrophage responses and lung fibrosis

    Daniel Wendisch;Oliver Dietrich;Tommaso Mari;Saskia von Stillfried

  • Transplanted mesenchymal stem cells accelerate glomerular healing in experimental glomerulonephritis.

    Uta Kunter;Song Rong;Zivka Djuric;Peter Boor

  • Cellular and molecular mechanisms of kidney fibrosis.

    Sonja Djudjaj;Peter Boor

  • The extracellular matrix in the kidney: a source of novel non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis?

    Federica Genovese;Alba A Manresa;Diana Julie Leeming;Morten Asser Karsdal

  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells Prevent Progressive Experimental Renal Failure but Maldifferentiate into Glomerular Adipocytes

    Uta Kunter;Song Rong;Peter Boor;Frank Eitner

  • Extracellular Matrix in Kidney Fibrosis: More Than Just a Scaffold.

    Roman David Bülow;Peter Boor

  • Clinical-Grade Detection of Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Tumors by Deep Learning.

    Amelie Echle;Heike Irmgard Grabsch;Heike Irmgard Grabsch;Philip Quirke;Piet A. van den Brandt

  • Proximal tubular cells contain a phenotypically distinct, scattered cell population involved in tubular regeneration

    Bart Smeets;Bart Smeets;Peter Boor;Peter Boor;Henry Dijkman;Shagun V Sharma

  • Keratins in health and disease.

    Diana M Toivola;Peter Boor;Catharina Alam;Pavel Strnad

  • PDGF in organ fibrosis.

    Barbara Mara Klinkhammer;Jürgen Floege;Peter Boor

  • Evolving complexity of MIF signaling.

    Stanislovas S. Jankauskas;Dickson W.L. Wong;Richard Bucala;Sonja Djudjaj

  • Treatment targets in renal fibrosis

    Peter Boor;Katarína Šebeková;Tammo Ostendorf;Jürgen Floege

  • Regardless of etiology, progressive renal disease causes ultrastructural and functional alterations of peritubular capillaries

    Janka Babickova;Barbara M. Klinkhammer;Eva M. Buhl;Sonja Djudjaj

  • Genetic regulatory effects modified by immune activation contribute to autoimmune disease associations

    Sarah Kim-Hellmuth;Matthias Bechheim;Benno Pütz;Pejman Mohammadi

  • An NLRP3-specific inflammasome inhibitor attenuates crystal-induced kidney fibrosis in mice

    Isis Ludwig-Portugall;Eva Bartok;Ermanila Dhana;Beatrix D.G. Evers

  • Seven weeks of Western diet in apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice induce metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with liver fibrosis

    Robert Schierwagen;Lara Maybüchen;Sebastian Zimmer;Kanishka Hittatiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Floege
Jürgen Floege RWTH Aachen University
Twan Lammers
Twan Lammers RWTH Aachen University
Christian Trautwein
Christian Trautwein RWTH Aachen University
Hans-Joachim Anders
Hans-Joachim Anders Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ralf Weiskirchen
Ralf Weiskirchen RWTH Aachen University
Tim H. Brümmendorf
Tim H. Brümmendorf RWTH Aachen University
Fabian Kiessling
Fabian Kiessling RWTH Aachen University
Joachim Jankowski
Joachim Jankowski RWTH Aachen University
Jürgen Bernhagen
Jürgen Bernhagen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Julio Saez-Rodriguez Heidelberg University

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