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Overview

Stephan Brand is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with 40 publications contributing to this area. Within Medicine, their research spans several subfields, including Surgery, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics, most notably:

  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wirtschaftsdienst
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Cancer Research
  • Med

Stephan Brand has also published a book titled Das Internationale Zinsrecht Englands in 2020 through Mohr Siebeck eBooks.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Stephan Brand are:

  • Alterations in T and B cell function persist in convalescent COVID-19 patients, 2021, Med
  • Monocyte migration profiles define disease severity in acute COVID-19 and unique features of long COVID, 2023, European Respiratory Journal
  • Imbalanced prostanoid release mediates cigarette smoke-induced human pulmonary artery cell proliferation, 2022, Respiratory Research
  • HLA-DP on Epithelial Cells Enables Tissue Damage by NKp44+ Natural Killer Cells in Ulcerative Colitis, 2023, Gastroenterology
  • Long-Lasting Alterations in T and B Cell Function in Convalescent COVID-19 Patients, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Stephan Brand frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Tracy Hussell
  • Christopher Jagger
  • Angela Simpson
  • Joanne E. Konkel
  • Halima Ali Shuwa

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • CX3CR1-Mediated Dendritic Cell Access to the Intestinal Lumen and Bacterial Clearance

    Jan Hendrik Niess;Stephan Brand;Xiubin Gu;Limor Landsman

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Crohn’s disease: Th1, Th17 or both? The change of a paradigm: new immunological and genetic insights implicate Th17 cells in the pathogenesis of Crohn’s disease

    Stephan Brand

  • Inherited determinants of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis phenotypes: a genetic association study

    Isabelle Cleynen;Isabelle Cleynen;Gabrielle Boucher;Luke Jostins;Luke Jostins;Luke Jostins;L Philip Schumm

  • IL-22 is increased in active Crohn's disease and promotes proinflammatory gene expression and intestinal epithelial cell migration.

    Stephan Brand;Florian Beigel;Torsten Olszak;Kathrin Zitzmann

  • Diagnosis of specialized intestinal metaplasia by optical coherence tomography.

    John M. Poneros;Stephan Brand;Brett E. Bouma;Guillermo J. Tearney

  • Role of the novel Th17 cytokine IL-17F in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): upregulated colonic IL-17F expression in active Crohn's disease and analysis of the IL17F p.His161Arg polymorphism in IBD.

    Julia Seiderer;Ira Elben;Julia Diegelmann;Jürgen Glas

  • Microbial network disturbances in relapsing refractory Crohn's disease.

    Bahtiyar Yilmaz;Pascal Juillerat;Ove Øyås;Charlotte Ramon

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies nine new risk loci for primary sclerosing cholangitis

    Jimmy Z Liu;Johannes Roksund Hov;Trine Folseraas;Trine Folseraas;Eva Ellinghaus

  • Anti-TNF antibody-induced psoriasiform skin lesions in patients with inflammatory bowel disease are characterised by interferon-γ-expressing Th1 cells and IL-17A/IL-22-expressing Th17 cells and respond to anti-IL-12/IL-23 antibody treatment

    Cornelia Tillack;Laura Maximiliane Ehmann;Matthias Friedrich;Ruediger P. Laubender

  • High-density mapping of the MHC identifies a shared role for HLA-DRB1∗01:03 in inflammatory bowel diseases and heterozygous advantage in ulcerative colitis

    Philippe Goyette;Gabrielle Boucher;Dermot Mallon;Eva Ellinghaus

  • The role of the novel Th17 cytokine IL-26 in intestinal inflammation

    J Dambacher;F Beigel;K Zitzmann;E N De Toni

  • IL-28A and IL-29 mediate antiproliferative and antiviral signals in intestinal epithelial cells and murine CMV infection increases colonic IL-28A expression.

    Stephan Brand;Florian Beigel;Torsten Olszak;Kathrin Zitzmann

  • Linking genetic susceptibility to Crohn's disease with Th17 cell function: IL-22 serum levels are increased in Crohn's disease and correlate with disease activity and IL23R genotype status.

    Silke Schmechel;Astrid Konrad;Julia Diegelmann;Jürgen Glas

  • CXCR4 and CXCL12 are inversely expressed in colorectal cancer cells and modulate cancer cell migration, invasion and MMP-9 activation

    Stephan Brand;Julia Dambacher;Florian Beigel;Torsten Olszak

  • The role of toll-like receptor 4 Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile polymorphisms and CARD15/NOD2 mutations in the susceptibility and phenotype of Crohn's disease

    Stephan Brand;Tanja Staudinger;Fabian Schnitzler;Simone Pfennig

  • Disease activity, ANCA, and IL23R genotype status determine early response to infliximab in patients with ulcerative colitis.

    Matthias Jürgens;Rüdiger P Laubender;Franziska Hartl;Maria Weidinger

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies nine new risk loci for primary sclerosing cholangitis

    Jimmy Z. Liu;Johannes Roksund Hov;Trine Folseraas;Eva Ellinghaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Burkhard Göke
Burkhard Göke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Andre Franke
Andre Franke Kiel University
Helmut M. Diepolder
Helmut M. Diepolder Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Richard H. Duerr
Richard H. Duerr University of Pittsburgh
David Ellinghaus
David Ellinghaus Kiel University
John D. Rioux
John D. Rioux University of Montreal
Christian Krettek
Christian Krettek Hannover Medical School

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