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Peter Nürnberg

Peter Nürnberg

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Medicine
Germany
2026
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Genetics
Germany
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
141
Citations
69805
World Ranking
180
National Ranking
11

Medicine

D-Index
143
Citations
71939
World Ranking
1517
National Ranking
74

Peter Nürnberg publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Nürnberg sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 712 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Peter Nürnberg D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Nürnberg sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 141 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Peter Nürnberg is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, and Neurology.

Their main topics of study include Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, RNA modifications and cancer, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, and RNA regulation and disease.

Peter Nürnberg has published extensively in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Human Genetics, Brain, and Clinical Genetics.

The scientist's recent papers highlight a range of topics and findings:

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning, 2021, Nature
  • Long-lived macrophage reprogramming drives spike protein-mediated inflammasome activation in COVID-19, 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Chromothripsis followed by circular recombination drives oncogene amplification in human cancer, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Deregulation and epigenetic modification of BCL2-family genes cause resistance to venetoclax in hematologic malignancies, 2022, Blood
  • Evolutionary trajectories of small cell lung cancer under therapy, 2024, Nature

Frequent collaborators of Peter Nürnberg include Janine Altmüller, Hölger Thiele, Bernd Wollnik, Holger Thiele, and Kerstin Becker.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer

    Julie George;Jing Shan Lim;Se Jin Jang;Yupeng Cun

  • Integrative genome analyses identify key somatic driver mutations of small-cell lung cancer

    Martin Peifer;Lynnette Fernández-Cuesta;Martin L. Sos;Julie George

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

  • Frequent and Focal FGFR1 Amplification Associates with Therapeutically Tractable FGFR1 Dependency in Squamous Cell Lung Cancer

    Jonathan Weiss;Martin L. Sos;Danila Seidel;Martin Peifer

  • The centrosomal protein nephrocystin-6 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and activates transcription factor ATF4

    John A. Sayer;John A. Sayer;Edgar A. Otto;John F. O'Toole;Gudrun Nurnberg

  • 15q13.3 microdeletions increase risk of idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    Ingo Helbig;Heather C. Mefford;Andrew J. Sharp;Michel Guipponi

  • Linkage of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) type-4 to chromosome 6q24 and identification of mutations in syntaxin 11

    Udo zur Stadt;Susanne Schmidt;Brigitte Kasper;Karin Beutel

  • Positional cloning uncovers mutations in PLCE1 responsible for a nephrotic syndrome variant that may be reversible.

    Bernward Hinkes;Roger C. Wiggins;Rasheed Gbadegesin;Christopher N. Vlangos

  • Mutations in ENPP1 are associated with 'idiopathic' infantile arterial calcification

    Frank Rutsch;Nico Ruf;Sucheta Vaingankar;Mohammad R Toliat

  • Correlation between genetic and geographic structure in Europe.

    Oscar Lao;Timothy T. Lu;Michael Nothnagel;Olaf Junge

  • Telomerase activation by genomic rearrangements in high-risk neuroblastoma

    Martin Peifer;Falk Hertwig;Frederik Roels;Daniel Dreidax

  • Incidence, Risk Factors, and Attributable Mortality of Secondary Infections in the Intensive Care Unit After Admission for Sepsis

    Lonneke A van Vught;Peter M C Klein Klouwenberg;Cristian Spitoni;Brendon P Scicluna

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning.

    Stefanie Warnat-Herresthal;Hartmut Schultze;Krishnaprasad Lingadahalli Shastry;Sathyanarayanan Manamohan

  • NAD(P)H Oxidase and Multidrug Resistance Protein Genetic Polymorphisms Are Associated With Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity

    Leszek Wojnowski;Bettina Kulle;Markus Schirmer;Gregor Schlüter

  • Diagnostic yield of various genetic approaches in patients with unexplained developmental delay or mental retardation.

    Anita Rauch;Juliane Hoyer;Sabine Guth;Christiane Zweier

  • Mutations in the Tight-Junction Gene Claudin 19 (CLDN19) Are Associated with Renal Magnesium Wasting, Renal Failure, and Severe Ocular Involvement

    Martin Konrad;André Schaller;Dominik Seelow;Amit V. Pandey

  • Recessive mutations in DGKE cause atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome

    Mathieu Lemaire;Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi;Franz Schaefer;Murim Choi

  • Recurrent microdeletions at 15q11.2 and 16p13.11 predispose to idiopathic generalized epilepsies

    Carolien G F De Kovel;Holger Trucks;Ingo Helbig;Heather C. Mefford

  • Mutations in GRIN2A cause idiopathic focal epilepsy with rolandic spikes

    Johannes R Lemke;Dennis Lal;Eva M Reinthaler;Isabelle Steiner

  • A comprehensive linkage analysis for myocardial infarction and its related risk factors.

    Ulrich Broeckel;Christian Hengstenberg;Björn Mayer;Stephan Holmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Janine Altmüller
Janine Altmüller University of Cologne
Gudrun Nürnberg
Gudrun Nürnberg University of Cologne
Holger Thiele
Holger Thiele Leipzig University
Mohammad R. Toliat
Mohammad R. Toliat University of Cologne
Christian Becker
Christian Becker University of Cologne
Bernd Wollnik
Bernd Wollnik University of Göttingen
Christian Kubisch
Christian Kubisch Universität Hamburg
Michael Krawczak
Michael Krawczak Kiel University
Jochen Hampe
Jochen Hampe TU Dresden
Thomas Sander
Thomas Sander University of Cologne

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