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Peter Vandenabeele

Peter Vandenabeele

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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Peter Vandenabeele is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine. Within these broad areas, their work covers subfields including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Cancer Research.

The main topics of their research focus on interferon and immune responses, cell death mechanisms and regulation, inflammasome and immune disorders, phagocytosis and immune regulation, immune cell function and interaction, immunotherapy and immune responses, and ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter Vandenabeele include Tom Vanden Berghe, Jonathan Maelfait, Wim Declercq, Franck B. Riquet, and Bartosz Wiernicki.

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers by Peter Vandenabeele include:

  • Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death, 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Patients with COVID-19: in the dark-NETs of neutrophils, 2021, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Cancer cells dying from ferroptosis impede dendritic cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Excessive phospholipid peroxidation distinguishes ferroptosis from other cell death modes including pyroptosis, 2020, Cell Death and Disease
  • ADAR1 prevents autoinflammation by suppressing spontaneous ZBP1 activation, 2022, Nature

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Classification of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death

    G. Kroemer;G. Kroemer;G. Kroemer;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;P. Vandenabeele;J. Abrams

  • Molecular definitions of cell death subroutines: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012

    Galluzzi L;Vitale I;Vitale I;Vitale I;Abrams Jm;Alnemri Es

  • Immunogenic cell death and DAMPs in cancer therapy.

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

  • Molecular mechanisms of necroptosis: an ordered cellular explosion.

    Peter Vandenabeele;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Lorenzo Galluzzi;Tom Vanden Berghe;Guido Kroemer

  • The molecular machinery of regulated cell death

    Daolin Tang;Rui Kang;Tom Vanden Berghe;Peter Vandenabeele;Peter Vandenabeele

  • Targeting Ferroptosis to Iron Out Cancer.

    Behrouz Hassannia;Peter Vandenabeele;Tom Vanden Berghe

  • Necroptosis and its role in inflammation

    Manolis Pasparakis;Peter Vandenabeele

  • Regulated necrosis: the expanding network of non-apoptotic cell death pathways

    Tom Vanden Berghe;Andreas Linkermann;Sandrine Jouan-Lanhouet;Henning Walczak

  • Reference database of Raman spectra of biological molecules

    Joke De Gelder;Kris De Gussem;Peter Vandenabeele;Luc Moens

  • Necroptosis: The Release of Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns and Its Physiological Relevance

    Agnieszka Kaczmarek;Peter Vandenabeele;Dmitri V. Krysko

  • Toxic proteins released from mitochondria in cell death

    Xavier Saelens;Nele Festjens;Lieselotte Vande Walle;Maria van Gurp

  • Cytosolic flagellin requires Ipaf for activation of caspase-1 and interleukin 1β in salmonella-infected macrophages

    Luigi Franchi;Amal Amer;Mathilde Body-Malapel;Thirumala Devi Kanneganti

  • Bacterial RNA and small antiviral compounds activate caspase-1 through cryopyrin/Nalp3

    Thirumala Devi Kanneganti;Nesrin Özören;Mathilde Body-Malapel;Amal Amer

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • More than one way to die: apoptosis, necrosis and reactive oxygen damage

    Walter Fiers;Rudi Beyaert;Wim Declercq;Peter Vandenabeele

  • Inhibition of Caspases Increases the Sensitivity of L929 Cells to Necrosis Mediated by Tumor Necrosis Factor

    Dominique Vercammen;Rudi Beyaert;Geertrui Denecker;Vera Goossens

  • Two tumour necrosis factor receptors: structure and function.

    Peter Vandenabeele;Wim Declercq;Rudi Beyaert;Walter Fiers

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Declercq
Wim Declercq Ghent University
Tom Vanden Berghe
Tom Vanden Berghe University of Antwerp
Dmitri V. Krysko
Dmitri V. Krysko Ghent University
Luc Moens
Luc Moens University of Antwerp
Walter Fiers
Walter Fiers Ghent University
Mathieu J.M. Bertrand
Mathieu J.M. Bertrand Ghent University
Xavier Saelens
Xavier Saelens Ghent University
Luc Moens
Luc Moens University of Antwerp

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