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Overview

Thomas Blankenstein is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a strong focus on subfields including Oncology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Hematology, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in Blankenstein's work include:

  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Virus-based gene therapy research

Among Blankenstein's recent publications are:

  • The role of CD4 T cells in rejection of solid tumors, 2021, Current Opinion in Immunology
  • IFN-γ-dependent tumor-antigen cross-presentation by lymphatic endothelial cells promotes their killing by T cells and inhibits metastasis, 2022, Science Advances
  • CD28 Co-Stimulus Achieves Superior CAR T Cell Effector Function against Solid Tumors Than 4-1BB Co-Stimulus, 2021, Cancers
  • IFNγ binding to extracellular matrix prevents fatal systemic toxicity, 2023, Nature Immunology
  • Adjuvant radiotherapy and local recurrence in vulvar cancer - a subset analysis of the AGO-CaRE-1 study, 2021, Gynecologic Oncology

The recurring publication venues for Blankenstein include:

  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Nature Immunology
  • Blood
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde

Frequent co-authors in Blankenstein's work are:

  • Gerald Willimsky
  • Elisa Kieback
  • Leo Hansmann
  • Vivian Scheuplein
  • Matthias Leisegang

Best Publications

  • CCR7 Governs Skin Dendritic Cell Migration under Inflammatory and Steady-State Conditions

    Lars Ohl;Mariette Mohaupt;Niklas Czeloth;Gabriele Hintzen

  • CD4+ T Cell–Mediated Tumor Rejection Involves Inhibition of Angiogenesis that Is Dependent on IFNγ Receptor Expression by Nonhematopoietic Cells

    Zhihai Qin;Thomas Blankenstein

  • Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance

    Gerald Willimsky;Thomas Blankenstein;Thomas Blankenstein

  • B cells inhibit induction of T cell-dependent tumor immunity.

    Zhihai Qin;Günther Richter;Thomas Schüler;Sabrina Ibe

  • The determinants of tumour immunogenicity.

    Thomas Blankenstein;Thomas Blankenstein;Pierre G. Coulie;Eli Gilboa;Elizabeth M. Jaffee

  • Treatment of experimental encephalomyelitis with a peptide analogue of myelin basic protein

    Brocke S;Gijbels K;Allegretta M;Ferber I

  • Tumor suppression after tumor cell-targeted tumor necrosis factor alpha gene transfer.

    Thomas Blankenstein;Zheng Hong Qin;K Uberla;Werner Muller

  • A Critical Requirement of Interferon γ-mediated Angiostasis for Tumor Rejection by CD8+ T Cells

    Zhihai Qin;Johannes Schwartzkopff;Felicia Pradera;Thomas Kammertoens

  • Interleukin 7 induces CD4+ T cell-dependent tumor rejection.

    H Hock;M Dorsch;T Diamantstein;T Blankenstein

  • CD4-Positive T Lymphocytes Provide a Neuroimmunological Link in the Control of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

    Susanne A. Wolf;Susanne A. Wolf;Susanne A. Wolf;Barbara Steiner;Barbara Steiner;Akgul Akpinarli;Thomas Kammertoens;Thomas Kammertoens

  • Mechanisms of rejection induced by tumor cell-targeted gene transfer of interleukin 2, interleukin 4, interleukin 7, tumor necrosis factor, or interferon gamma

    Hanno Hock;Marion Dorsch;Ulrich Kunzendorf;Zhihai Qin

  • Characterization of the major histocompatibility complex class I deficiencies in B16 melanoma cells.

    Barbara Seliger;Ursula Wollscheid;Frank Momburg;Thomas Blankenstein

  • Retroviral Vectors for High-Level Transgene Expression in T Lymphocytes

    Boris Engels;Hakan Cam;Thomas Schüler;Stefano Indraccolo

  • Tumour ischaemia by interferon-γ resembles physiological blood vessel regression

    Thomas Kammertoens;Christian Friese;Christian Friese;Ainhoa Arina;Christian Idel

  • Interleukin-10 prevents dendritic cell accumulation and vaccination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor gene-modified tumor cells.

    Z Qin;G Noffz;M Mohaupt;T Blankenstein

  • Immunizing and curative potential of replicating and nonreplicating murine mammary adenocarcinoma cells engineered with interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-7, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor alpha, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, and gamma-interferon gene or admixed with conventional adjuvants.

    Alessandra Allione;Manuela Consalvo;Patrizia Nanni;Pier Luigi Lollini

  • The role of tumor stroma in the interaction between tumor and immune system.

    Thomas Blankenstein

  • Engineering antigen-specific primary human NK cells against HER-2 positive carcinomas

    Anna Kruschinski;Andreas Moosmann;Isabel Poschke;Håkan Norell

  • Attenuation of collagen-induced arthritis in mice by treatment with vector cells engineered to secrete interleukin-13.

    Natacha Bessis;Marie-Christophe Boissier;Pascual Ferrara;Thomas Blankenstein

  • T Helper Cell Type 1–associated and Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte–mediated Tumor Immunity Is Impaired in Interleukin 4–deficient Mice

    Thomas Schüler;Zhihai Qin;Sabrina Ibe;Nancy Noben-Trauth

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhihai Qin
Zhihai Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang Uckert
Wolfgang Uckert Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Tibor Diamantstein
Tibor Diamantstein Freie Universität Berlin
Bernd Dörken
Bernd Dörken Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christoph Loddenkemper
Christoph Loddenkemper Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Bernd Dörken
Bernd Dörken Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Peter T. Daniel
Peter T. Daniel Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Rolf Kiessling
Rolf Kiessling Karolinska Institute
Werner Müller
Werner Müller University of Manchester

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