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Rainer Storb is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on hematology, immunology, genetics, oncology, and public health, environmental and occupational health within the field of medicine.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Research

Rainer Storb has contributed to numerous publications in several prominent scientific venues. The most frequent venues where their research appears are:

  • Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
  • Blood
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • Haematologica

Recent papers reflect a focus on hematopoietic cell transplantation techniques, conditioning intensities, and measurable residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Survival, Nonrelapse Mortality, and Relapse-Related Mortality After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Comparing 2003-2007 Versus 2013-2017 Cohorts" (2020), Annals of Internal Medicine
  • "History of hematopoietic cell transplantation: challenges and progress" (2020), Haematologica
  • "Conditioning intensity and peritransplant flow cytometric MRD dynamics in adult AML" (2022), Blood
  • "Conditioning Intensity, Pre-Transplant Flow Cytometric Measurable Residual Disease, and Outcome in Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation" (2020), Cancers
  • "HLA-Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Treatment of Nonmalignant Diseases Using Nonmyeloablative Conditioning and Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide" (2020), Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Brenda M. Sandmaier (18 publications)
  • Roland B. Walter (9 publications)
  • Gary Schoch (8 publications)
  • Megan Othus (8 publications)
  • Mary E.D. Flowers (8 publications)

Rainer Storb's body of work contributes to the understanding and development of transplant techniques and their outcomes, particularly in relation to blood and marrow transplantation and leukemia treatment.

Best Publications

  • Clinical manifestations of graft-versus-host disease in human recipients of marrow from HL-A-matched sibling donors.

    Glucksberg H;Storb R;Fefer A;Buckner Cd

  • Chronic graft-versus-host syndrome in man: A long-term clinicopathologic study of 20 seattle patients

    Howard M. Shulman;Keith M. Sullivan;Paul L. Weiden;George B. McDonald

  • Evidence for Circulating Bone Marrow-Derived Endothelial Cells

    Qun Shi;Shahin Rafii;Moses Hong-De Wu;Errol S. Wijelath

  • Antileukemic Effect of Graft-versus-Host Disease in Human Recipients of Allogeneic-Marrow Grafts

    P L Weiden;N Flournoy;E D Thomas;R Prentice

  • Reduced mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation.

    Ted A. Gooley;Jason W. Chien;Jason W. Chien;Steven A. Pergam;Steven A. Pergam;Sangeeta Hingorani;Sangeeta Hingorani

  • Hematopoietic cell transplantation in older patients with hematologic malignancies: replacing high-dose cytotoxic therapy with graft-versus-tumor effects

    Peter A. McSweeney;Peter A. McSweeney;Peter A. McSweeney;Dietger Niederwieser;Dietger Niederwieser;Dietger Niederwieser;Judith A. Shizuru;Judith A. Shizuru;Judith A. Shizuru;Brenda M. Sandmaier;Brenda M. Sandmaier;Brenda M. Sandmaier

  • Methotrexate and Cyclosporine Compared with Cyclosporine Alone for Prophylaxis of Acute Graft versus Host Disease after Marrow Transplantation for Leukemia

    Rainer Storb;H. Joachim Deeg;John Whitehead;Frederick Appelbaum

  • Antileukemic effect of chronic graft-versus-host disease: contribution to improved survival after allogeneic marrow transplantation.

    Paul L. Weiden;Keith M. Sullivan;Nancy Flournoy;Rainer Storb

  • One hundred patients with acute leukemia treated by chemotherapy, total body irradiation, and allogeneic marrow transplantation.

    ED Thomas;CD Buckner;M Banaji;RA Clift

  • Transplantation of bone marrow as compared with peripheral-blood cells from HLA-identical relatives in patients with hematologic cancers

    William I. Bensinger;Paul J. Martin;Barry Storer;Reginald Clift

  • Solid Cancers after Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Rochelle E. Curtis;Philip A. Rowlings;H. Joachim Deeg;Donna A. Shriner

  • Marrow transplantation from related donors other than HLA-identical siblings.

    P G Beatty;R A Clift;E M Mickelson;B B Nisperos

  • Chronic graft-versus-host disease in 52 patients: adverse natural course and successful treatment with combination immunosuppression

    KM Sullivan;HM Shulman;R Storb;PL Weiden

  • Allogeneic Bone‐Marrow Transplantation

    Rainer Storb;E. Donnall Thomas

  • Stable mixed hematopoietic chimerism in DLA-identical littermate dogs given sublethal total body irradiation before and pharmacological immunosuppression after marrow transplantation.

    Rainer Storb;Cong Yu;John L. Wagner;H. Joachim Deeg

  • Effect of HLA compatibility on engraftment of bone marrow transplants in patients with leukemia or lymphoma.

    C Anasetti;D Amos;P G Beatty;F R Appelbaum

  • Transplantation of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cells mobilized by recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor

    WI Bensinger;CH Weaver;FR Appelbaum;S Rowley

  • Pregnancies following high-dose cyclophosphamide with or without high- dose busulfan or total-body irradiation and bone marrow transplantation

    JE Sanders;J Hawley;W Levy;T Gooley

  • Factors that influence collection and engraftment of autologous peripheral-blood stem cells.

    W Bensinger;F Appelbaum;S Rowley;R Storb

  • Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)-specific-comorbidity index: A new tool for risk assessment before allogeneic HCT

    M.L. Sorror;M.B. Maris;M.B. Maris;R.F. Storb;R.F. Storb;F. Baron

Frequent Co-Authors

Brenda M. Sandmaier
Brenda M. Sandmaier Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
David G. Maloney
David G. Maloney Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Barry E. Storer
Barry E. Storer Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Frederick R. Appelbaum
Frederick R. Appelbaum Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
H. Joachim Deeg
H. Joachim Deeg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Paul J. Martin
Paul J. Martin Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ted Gooley
Ted Gooley Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jean E. Sanders
Jean E. Sanders Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Keith M. Sullivan
Keith M. Sullivan Duke University
Richard A. Nash
Richard A. Nash Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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