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Rolf Kaiser is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Virology among other related subfields. They have contributed extensively to topics such as HIV research and treatment, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and respiratory viral infections.

Their published work spans a range of subjects including HIV/AIDS drug development, epidemiological interventions, molecular biology aspects of viral infections, and hepatology. Key main topics covered in their research include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments

Rolf Kaiser's frequent coauthors indicate collaboration within a focused research network, including:

  • Eva Heger
  • Florian Klein
  • Elena Knops
  • Veronica Di Cristanziano
  • Maurizio Zazzi

Their research has been published multiple times in notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Viruses
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Infection
  • BMC Public Health
  • Journal of Clinical Virology

Among their recent and cited papers are the following:

  • In-depth virological and immunological characterization of HIV-1 cure after CCR5Δ32/Δ32 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • RNAemia Corresponds to Disease Severity and Antibody Response in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, 2020, Viruses
  • Sensitivity of anti-SARS-CoV-2 serological assays in a high-prevalence setting, 2021, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
  • Analysis of antibodies from HCV elite neutralizers identifies genetic determinants of broad neutralization, 2022, Immunity
  • Pooled RT-qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in schools - a cluster randomised trial, 2021, EClinicalMedicine

Best Publications

  • Bioinformatics prediction of HIV coreceptor usage

    Thomas Lengauer;Oliver Sander;Saleta Sierra;Alexander Thielen

  • Geno2pheno: estimating phenotypic drug resistance from HIV-1 genotypes

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Martin Däumer;Mark Oette;Klaus Korn

  • European guidelines on the clinical management of HIV-1 tropism testing

    L.P.R. Vandekerckhove;Annemarie Wensing;Rolf Kaiser;F. Brun-Vézinet

  • HIV-1 suppression and durable control by combining single broadly neutralizing antibodies and antiretroviral drugs in humanized mice

    Joshua A. Horwitz;Ariel Halper-Stromberg;Hugo Mouquet;Alexander D. Gitlin

  • Diversity and complexity of HIV-1 drug resistance: a bioinformatics approach to predicting phenotype from genotype

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Barbara Schmidt;Hauke Walter;Rolf Kaiser

  • Basics of the virology of HIV-1 and its replication.

    Saleta Sierra;Bernd Kupfer;Rolf Kaiser

  • T- and B-cell responses to different hepatitis C virus antigens in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection and in healthy anti- hepatitis C virus-positive blood donors without viremi

    M Lechmann;H G Ihlenfeldt;I Braunschweiger;G Giers

  • Predicting HIV coreceptor usage on the basis of genetic and clinical covariates

    To Bias Sing;Andrew J. Low;Niko Beerenwinkel;Oliver Sander

  • Learning multiple evolutionary pathways from cross-sectional data

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Jörg Rahnenführer;Martin Däumer;Daniel Hoffmann

  • Low-frequency drug-resistant HIV-1 and risk of virological failure to first-line NNRTI-based ART: a multicohort European case–control study using centralized ultrasensitive 454 pyrosequencing

    Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri;Marc Noguera-Julian;Francesca Di Giallonardo;Rob Schuurman

  • Primary HIV drug resistance and efficacy of first-line antiretroviral therapy guided by resistance testing.

    Mark Oette;Rolf Kaiser;Martin Däumer;Ruth Petch

  • Acute epididymitis revisited: impact of molecular diagnostics on etiology and contemporary guideline recommendations.

    Adrian Pilatz;Hamid Hossain;Rolf Kaiser;Annette Mankertz

  • Computational methods for the design of effective therapies against drug resistant HIV strains

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Tobias Sing;Thomas Lengauer;Jörg Rahnenführer

  • Geno2pheno[HCV] - A Web-based Interpretation System to Support Hepatitis C Treatment Decisions in the Era of Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents.

    Prabhav Kalaghatgi;Anna Maria Sikorski;Elena Knops;Daniel Rupp

  • Severe Pneumonia and Human Bocavirus in Adult

    Bernd Kupfer;Jörg Vehreschild;Oliver Cornely;Rolf Kaiser

  • Phase I Safety, Pharmacokinetic, and Biomarker Study of BIBF 1120, an Oral Triple Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors

    Isamu Okamoto;Hiroyasu Kaneda;Taroh Satoh;Wataru Okamoto

  • Estimating HIV Evolutionary Pathways and the Genetic Barrier to Drug Resistance

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Martin Däumer;Tobias Sing;Jörg Rahnenführer

  • Antiretroviral therapy optimisation without genotype resistance testing: a perspective on treatment history based models

    Mattia C. F. Prosperi;Mattia C. F. Prosperi;Michal Rosen-Zvi;André Altmann;Maurizio Zazzi

  • Preclinical evaluation of HBY 097, a new nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication.

    J P Kleim;R Bender;R Kirsch;C Meichsner

  • Reactivation of an occult hepatitis B virus escape mutant in an anti-HBs positive, anti-HBc negative lymphoma patient

    Sabine Awerkiew;Martin Däumer;Marcel Reiser;Ulrike C. Wend

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Lengauer
Thomas Lengauer Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Maurizio Zazzi
Maurizio Zazzi University of Siena
Herbert Pfister
Herbert Pfister University of Cologne
Anders Sönnerborg
Anders Sönnerborg Karolinska Institute
Gerd Fätkenheuer
Gerd Fätkenheuer University of Cologne
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Joachim Selbig
Joachim Selbig Max Planck Society
Jürgen K. Rockstroh
Jürgen K. Rockstroh University Hospital Bonn
Dieter Häussinger
Dieter Häussinger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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