2026 Thomas Lion: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	61	11341	10452	105	97	252	13443

Overview

Thomas Lion is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their primary field of research is Medicine, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Hematology, Genetics, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to hematologic and infectious diseases. Key topics addressed in their work include:

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Research
Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility
Fungal Infections and Studies
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Thomas Lion frequently collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

Klára Obrová
Filomena Nogueira
Peter Valent
Sandra Preuner
Eva Vaňková

The scientist publishes regularly in several academic venues, with notable frequency in these journals:

Leukemia
Hematological Oncology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Blood
American Journal of Hematology

Among their recent published papers are:

Polylactic acid as a suitable material for 3D printing of protective masks in times of COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, PeerJ
Standardization of molecular monitoring of CML: results and recommendations from the European treatment and outcome study, 2022, Leukemia
A Prospective Controlled Trial to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of in vitro Expanded Recipient Regulatory T Cell Therapy and Tocilizumab Together With Donor Bone Marrow Infusion in HLA-Mismatched Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients (Trex001), 2021, Frontiers in Medicine
Impact of BCR::ABL1 transcript type on RT-qPCR amplification performance and molecular response to therapy, 2022, Leukemia
Precision Medicine in Hematology 2021: Definitions, Tools, Perspectives, and Open Questions, 2021, HemaSphere

Best Publications

Evaluation of candidate control genes for diagnosis and residual disease detection in leukemic patients using 'real-time' quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR) - a Europe against cancer program

E Beillard;N Pallisgaard;V H J van der Velden;W Bi

1299
Citations
Adenovirus Infections in Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Patients

Thomas Lion

892
Citations
Safe adoptive transfer of virus-specific T-cell immunity for the treatment of systemic adenovirus infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Tobias Feuchtinger;Susanne Matthes-Martin;Celine Richard;Thomas Lion

469
Citations
Molecular monitoring of adenovirus in peripheral blood after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation permits early diagnosis of disseminated disease.

Thomas Lion;Rosi Baumgartinger;Franz Watzinger;Susanne Matthes-Martin

427
Citations
Real-Time Quantitative PCR Assays for Detection and Monitoring of Pathogenic Human Viruses in Immunosuppressed Pediatric Patients

F. Watzinger;M. Suda;S. Preuner;R. Baumgartinger

383
Citations
Laboratory recommendations for scoring deep molecular responses following treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia

N. C. P Cross;H. E White;D Colomer;H Ehrencrona

353
Citations
Sequential monitoring of chimerism and detection of minimal residual disease after allogeneic blood stem cell transplantation (BSCT) using multiplex PCR amplification of short tandem repeat-markers.

C Thiede;M Bornhäuser;U Oelschlägel;C Brendel

311
Citations
Detection and monitoring of virus infections by real-time PCR.

F Watzinger;K Ebner;T Lion

302
Citations
Impact of EWS-ETS Fusion Type on Disease Progression in Ewing's Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor: Prospective Results From the Cooperative Euro-E.W.I.N.G. 99 Trial

Marie-Cecile Le Deley;Olivier Delattre;Karl-Ludwig Schaefer;Sue A. Burchill

243
Citations
Increase of bcr-abl chimeric mRNA expression in tumor cells of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia precedes disease progression

A Gaiger;T Henn;T Henn;E Hörth;E Hörth;K Geissler;K Geissler

228
Citations
Monitoring of adenovirus load in stool by real-time PCR permits early detection of impending invasive infection in patients after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

T Lion;K Kosulin;C Landlinger;M Rauch

210
Citations
Comparative Sequence Analysis of the Hexon Gene in the Entire Spectrum of Human Adenovirus Serotypes: Phylogenetic, Taxonomic, and Clinical Implications

K. Ebner;W. Pinsker;T. Lion

198
Citations
Kinetics of chimerism during the early post-transplant period in pediatric patients with malignant and non-malignant hematologic disorders: implications for timely detection of engraftment, graft failure and rejection.

J Dubovsky;H Daxberger;G Fritsch;D Printz

196
Citations
Persistence and reactivation of human adenoviruses in the gastrointestinal tract

K. Kosulin;E. Geiger;A. Vécsei;W.-D. Huber

171
Citations
Early detection of relapse after bone marrow transplantation in patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia

T. Lion;T. Henn;A. Gadner;A. Gaiger

168
Citations
Nonradioactive labeling of probe with digoxigenin by polymerase chain reaction.

Thomas Lion;Oskar A. Haas

167
Citations
Molecular Detection and Quantitative Analysis of the Entire Spectrum of Human Adenoviruses by a Two-Reaction Real-Time PCR Assay

K. Ebner;M. Suda;F. Watzinger;T. Lion

156
Citations
Adenovirus persistence, reactivation, and clinical management

Thomas Lion

154
Citations
The translocation t(1;22)(p13;q13) is a nonrandom marker specifically associated with acute megakaryocytic leukemia in young children

T Lion;OA Haas;J Harbott;E Bannier

149
Citations
Detection of gene expression by PCR amplification of RNA derived from frozen heparinized whole blood

Shai Izraeli;Christa Pfleiderer;Thomas Lion

143
Citations