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Viggo Van Tendeloo

Viggo Van Tendeloo

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Microbiology

D-Index
57
Citations
11326
World Ranking
3587
National Ranking
76

Overview

Viggo Van Tendeloo is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research covers significant topics such as Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, CAR-T cell therapy research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Mast cells and histamine, as well as Renal and related cancers.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Viggo Van Tendeloo include:

  • Novel Insights on MRGPRX2-Mediated Hypersensitivity to Neuromuscular Blocking Agents And Fluoroquinolones, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • MRGPRX2 and Immediate Drug Hypersensitivity: Insights From Cultured Human Mast Cells, 2020, Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
  • The Ins and Outs of Messenger RNA Electroporation for Physical Gene Delivery in Immune Cell-Based Therapy, 2021, Pharmaceutics
  • Cellular immunotherapy: a clinical state-of-the-art of a new paradigm for cancer treatment, 2020, Clinical & Translational Oncology
  • Preexisting memory CD4 T cells in naïve individuals confer robust immunity upon hepatitis B vaccination, 2022, eLife

Frequent co-authors of Viggo Van Tendeloo include:

  • Benson Ogunjimi
  • Pieter Meysman
  • Evelien Smits
  • Pierre Van Damme
  • Kris Laukens

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with recurring contributions in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Hematology & Oncology

Best Publications

  • Clinical use of dendritic cells for cancer therapy

    Sébastien Anguille;Evelien L. Smits;Eva Lion;Viggo F. van Tendeloo

  • Highly efficient gene delivery by mRNA electroporation in human hematopoietic cells: superiority to lipofection and passive pulsing of mRNA and to electroporation of plasmid cDNA for tumor antigen loading of dendritic cells.

    Viggo F. I. Van Tendeloo;Peter Ponsaerts;Filip Lardon;Griet Nijs

  • Induction of complete and molecular remissions in acute myeloid leukemia by Wilms’ tumor 1 antigen-targeted dendritic cell vaccination

    Viggo F. van Tendeloo;Ann Van de Velde;Ann van Driessche;Nathalie Cools

  • CD56 in the Immune System: More Than a Marker for Cytotoxicity?

    Heleen H. Van Acker;Anna Capsomidis;Evelien L. Smits;Viggo F. Van Tendeloo

  • Balancing between immunity and tolerance: an interplay between dendritic cells, regulatory T cells, and effector T cells

    Nathalie Cools;Peter Ponsaerts;Viggo F. I. Van Tendeloo;Zwi N. Berneman

  • Regulatory T cells and human disease.

    Nathalie Cools;Peter Ponsaerts;Viggo F. I. Van Tendeloo;Zwi N. Berneman

  • The Use of TLR7 and TLR8 Ligands for the Enhancement of Cancer Immunotherapy

    Evelien L. J. M. Smits;Peter Ponsaerts;Zwi N. Berneman;Viggo F. I. Van Tendeloo

  • Dendritic cell vaccination as postremission treatment to prevent or delay relapse in acute myeloid leukemia

    Sébastien Anguille;Ann L. Van De Velde;Evelien L. Smits;Viggo F. Van Tendeloo

  • Bisphosphonates for cancer treatment: Mechanisms of action and lessons from clinical trials.

    Heleen H. Van Acker;Sébastien Anguille;Yannick Willemen;Evelien L. Smits

  • Cancer immunotherapy using RNA-loaded dendritic cells.

    P. Ponsaerts;V. F. I. Van Tendeloo;Z. N. Berneman

  • mRNA-based gene transfer as a tool for gene and cell therapy.

    Viggo F I Van Tendeloo;Peter Ponsaerts;Zwi N Berneman

  • Leukemia-associated antigens and their relevance to the immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukemia

    Sebastien Anguille;V F Van Tendeloo;Zwi N Berneman

  • Reporter gene-expressing bone marrow-derived stromal cells are immune-tolerated following implantation in the central nervous system of syngeneic immunocompetent mice

    Irene Bergwerf;Nathalie De Vocht;Bart Tambuyzer;Jacob Verschueren

  • A maximal exercise bout increases the number of circulating CD34+/KDR+ endothelial progenitor cells in healthy subjects. Relation with lipid profile.

    Emeline M. F. Van Craenenbroeck;Christiaan J. Vrints;Steven E. Haine;Katrien Vermeulen

  • Natural killer cell immune escape in acute myeloid leukemia

    E Lion;Y Willemen;Z N Berneman;V F I Van Tendeloo

  • Dendritic Cells as Pharmacological Tools for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Sébastien Anguille;Evelien L. Smits;Christian Bryant;Heleen H. Van Acker

  • Nonviral transfection of distinct types of human dendritic cells: high-efficiency gene transfer by electroporation into hematopoietic progenitor- but not monocyte-derived dendritic cells

    V F Van Tendeloo;H W Snoeck;F Lardon;G L Vanham

  • Clinical-grade manufacturing of autologous mature mRNA-electroporated dendritic cells and safety testing in acute myeloid leukemia patients in a phase I dose-escalation clinical trial

    Ann Van Driessche;Ann L.R. Van de Velde;Griet Nijs;Tessa Braeckman

  • Flow cytometric detection of endothelial microparticles (EMP): effects of centrifugation and storage alter with the phenotype studied

    Sabrina H. van Ierssel;Emeline M. Van Craenenbroeck;Viviane M. Conraads;Viggo F. Van Tendeloo

  • The DFNA5 gene, responsible for hearing loss and involved in cancer, encodes a novel apoptosis-inducing protein.

    Ken Op de Beeck;Guy Van Camp;Sofie Thys;Nathalie Cools

Frequent Co-Authors

Zwi N. Berneman
Zwi N. Berneman University of Antwerp
Evelien Smits
Evelien Smits University of Antwerp
Herman Goossens
Herman Goossens University of Antwerp
Niel Hens
Niel Hens Hasselt University
Greet Schoeters
Greet Schoeters University of Antwerp
I. Jolanda M. de Vries
I. Jolanda M. de Vries Radboud University
Haruo Sugiyama
Haruo Sugiyama Osaka University
Marc Peeters
Marc Peeters University of Antwerp
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Yusuke Oji
Yusuke Oji Osaka University

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