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Richard A. Kroczek

Richard A. Kroczek

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Microbiology

D-Index
65
Citations
21033
World Ranking
2468
National Ranking
184

Overview

Richard A. Kroczek is affiliated with the Robert Koch Institute in Germany. Their research spans multiple topics within the medical sciences, focusing mainly on immunology, oncology, and diabetes-related disorders.

Kroczek's work prominently features studies on monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies as well as CAR-T cell therapy research. The research also involves immunotherapy and immune response mechanisms, diabetes and associated disorders, pancreatic function related to diabetes, and diabetes management and research.

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including:

  • Vaccine-induced CD8 T cells are redirected with peptide-MHC class I-IgG antibody fusion proteins to eliminate tumor cells in vivo (2020, mAbs)
  • The XCL1/XCR1 axis is upregulated in type 1 diabetes and aggravates its pathogenesis (2025, JCI Insight)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kroczek include:

  • Cornelia Fischer
  • Michael W. Munks
  • Ann B. Hill
  • Stefan Bissinger
  • Verena Brand

Kroczek's publications have appeared primarily in the journals mAbs and JCI Insight. Their work builds on several subfields within medicine, such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, genetics, and surgery, along with immunology and oncology.

Best Publications

  • CD40 ligand on activated platelets triggers an inflammatory reaction of endothelial cells

    Volker Henn;Joseph R. Slupsky;Michael Gräfe;Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

  • ICOS is an inducible T-cell co-stimulator structurally and functionally related to CD28

    Andreas Hutloff;Anna M. Dittrich;Katja C. Beier;Barbara Eljaschewitsch

  • Superior antigen cross-presentation and XCR1 expression define human CD11c+CD141+ cells as homologues of mouse CD8+ dendritic cells

    Annabell Bachem;Steffen Güttler;Evelyn Hartung;Frédéric Ebstein

  • Homozygous loss of ICOS is associated with adult-onset common variable immunodeficiency

    Bodo Grimbacher;Andreas Hutloff;Michael Schlesier;Erik Glocker

  • Defective expression of T-cell CD40 ligand causes X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM

    Ulf Korthäuer;Daniel Graf;Hans W. Mages;Francine Brière

  • ICOS is an inducible T-cell co-stimulator structurally and functionally related to CD28

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  • The inflammatory action of CD40 ligand (CD154) expressed on activated human platelets is temporally limited by coexpressed CD40

    Volker Henn;Sabine Steinbach;Kerstin Büchner;Peter Presek

  • Selective Expression of the Chemokine Receptor XCR1 on Cross-presenting Dendritic Cells Determines Cooperation with CD8+ T Cells

    Brigitte G. Dorner;Martin B. Dorner;Xuefei Zhou;Corinna Opitz

  • MIP-1α, MIP-1β, RANTES, and ATAC/lymphotactin function together with IFN-γ as type 1 cytokines

    Brigitte G. Dorner;Alexander Scheffold;Michael S. Rolph;Martin B. Huser

  • A soluble form of TRAP (CD40 ligand) is rapidly released after T cell activation.

    D Graf;S Müller;U Korthäuer;C van Kooten

  • ICOS is critical for T helper cell–mediated lung mucosal inflammatory responses

    Jose Angel Gonzalo;Jane Tian;Tracy Delaney;Justin Corcoran

  • CD8+ T Cells Orchestrate pDC-XCR1+ Dendritic Cell Spatial and Functional Cooperativity to Optimize Priming.

    Anna Brewitz;Sarah Eickhoff;Sabrina Dähling;Thomas Quast

  • ICOS maintains the T follicular helper cell phenotype by down-regulating Kruppel-like factor 2.

    Jan P. Weber;Jan P. Weber;Franziska Fuhrmann;Franziska Fuhrmann;Randi K. Feist;Randi K. Feist;Annette Lahmann;Annette Lahmann

  • Activated Platelets Induce Tissue Factor Expression on Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells by Ligation of CD40

    Joseph R. Slupsky;Matthias Kalbas;Antje Willuweit;Volker Henn

  • ICOS Controls the Pool Size of Effector-Memory and Regulatory T Cells

    Yvonne Burmeister;Timo Lischke;Anja C. Dahler;Hans Werner Mages

  • Expression of ICOS In Vivo Defines CD4+ Effector T Cells with High Inflammatory Potential and a Strong Bias for Secretion of Interleukin 10

    Max Löhning;Andreas Hutloff;Tilmann Kallinich;Tilmann Kallinich;Hans Werner Mages

  • ICOS-ligand, expressed on human endothelial cells, costimulates Th1 and Th2 cytokine secretion by memory CD4+ T cells

    Saman Khayyamian;Andreas Hutloff;Kerstin Büchner;Michael Gräfe

  • Spontaneous apoptosis of dendritic cells is efficiently inhibited by TRAP (CD40-ligand) and TNF-α, but strongly enhanced by interleukin-10

    Burkhard Ludewig;Daniel Graf;Hans R. Gelderblom;Yechiel Becker

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of murine ICOS and identification of B7h as ICOS ligand.

    Hans W. Mages;Andreas Hutloff;Christoph Heuck;Kerstin Büchner

  • Induction, binding specificity and function of human ICOS

    Katja C. Beier;Andreas Hutloff;Anna M. Dittrich;Christoph Heuck

  • Involvement of inducible costimulator in the exaggerated memory B cell and plasma cell generation in systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Andreas Hutloff;Kerstin Büchner;Karin Reiter;Hans J. Baelde

  • Production of IL-12 by Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Is Optimal When the Stimulus Is Given at the Onset of Maturation, and Is Further Enhanced by IL-4

    Susanne Ebner;Gudrun Ratzinger;Beate Krösbacher;Matthias Schmuth

  • Sequential Involvement of NFAT and Egr Transcription Factors in FasL Regulation

    Jyothi Rengarajan;Paul R Mittelstadt;Hans W Mages;Andrea J Gerth

Frequent Co-Authors

Eckard Hamelmann
Eckard Hamelmann Bielefeld University
Andreas Radbruch
Andreas Radbruch German Rheumatism Research Centre
Ethan M. Shevach
Ethan M. Shevach National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Burkhard Ludewig
Burkhard Ludewig University of Zurich
Bodo Grimbacher
Bodo Grimbacher University of Freiburg
Jan Ceuppens
Jan Ceuppens KU Leuven
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health
Anthony J. Coyle
Anthony J. Coyle Takeda (United States)
Helmut Jonuleit
Helmut Jonuleit Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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