Research
- Research Topics
- Cell Biology and Tumor Biology
- Stem Cells and Cancer
- Inflammatory Stress in Stem Cells
- Experimental Hematology
- Molecular Embryology
- Signal Transduction and Growth Control
- Epigenetics
- Redox Regulation
- Vascular Oncology and Metastasis
- Clinical Neurobiology
- Molecular Neurogenetics
- Chaperones and Proteases
- Vascular Signaling and Cancer
- Molecular Neurobiology
- Mechanisms Regulating Gene Expression
- Molecular Biology of Centrosomes and Cilia
- Dermato-Oncology
- Pediatric Leukemia
- Tumour Metabolism and Microenvironment
- Personalized Medical Oncology
- Molecular Hematology - Oncology
- Cancer Progression and Metastasis
- Translational Surgical Oncology
- Neuronal Signaling and Morphogenesis
- Cell Signaling and Metabolism
- Cell Fate Engineering and Disease Modeling
- Cancer Drug Development
- Cell Morphogenesis and Signal Transduction
- Functional and Structural Genomics
- Molecular Genome Analysis
- Molecular Genetics
- Pediatric Neurooncology
- Cancer Genome Research
- Chromatin Networks
- Functional Genome Analysis
- Theoretical Systems Biology
- Neuroblastoma Genomics
- Signaling and Functional Genomics
- Signal Transduction in Cancer and Metabolism
- RNA-Protein Complexes and Cell Proliferation
- Systems Biology of Signal Transduction
- Areas of Interest
- Advancement of clinical proteomics for systems medicine
- Bridging from the single cell to the cell population – Epo-induced cellular responses and erythroleukemia
- Deciphering tumor microenvironment interactions determining lung cancer development
- Mechanisms controlling the compensation of liver injury and towards model-based biomarkers for early detection of liver cancer
- Application of dynamic pathway modelling for personalized medicine
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- Molecular thoracic Oncology
- Proteomics of Stem Cells and Cancer
- Computational Genomics and System Genetics
- Applied Functional Genomics
- Applied Bioinformatics
- Translational Medical Oncology
- Metabolic crosstalk in cancer
- Pediatric Glioma Research
- Cancer Epigenomics
- Translational Pediatric Sarcoma Research
- Artificial Intelligence in Oncology
- Mechanisms of Genomic Variation and Data Science
- Neuropathology
- Pediatric Oncology
- Neurooncology
- Somatic Evolution and Early Detection
- Translational Control and Metabolism
- Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
- Precision Sarcoma Research
- Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis
- Mechanisms of Genome Control
- Translational Gastrointestinal Oncology and Preclinical Models
- Translational Lymphoma Research
- Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis
- Genome Instability in Tumors
- Developmental Origins of Pediatric Cancer
- Brain Tumor Translational Targets
- Translational Functional Cancer Genomics
- Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution
- SPRINT
- Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research
- Health Economics
- Physical Activity, Prevention and Cancer
- Preventive Oncology
- Personalized Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
- Digital Biomarkers for Oncology
- Tumorigenesis and molecular cancer prevention
- Genomic Epidemiology
- Cancer Survivorship
- Immunology and Cancer
- Cellular Immunology
- Molecular Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors
- Immunoproteomics
- Personalized Immunotherapy
- mRNA Cancer Immunotherapies
- Translational Immunotherapy
- B Cell Immunology
- Immune Diversity
- Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity
- Applied Tumor Immunity
- Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology
- Adaptive Immunity and Lymphoma
- Dermal Oncoimmunology
- Immune Regulation in Cancer
- Systems Immunology and Single Cell Biology
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- Radiological Early Response Assessment Of Modern Cancer Therapies
- Imaging In Monoclonal Plasma Cell Disorders
- 7 Tesla MRI - Novel Imaging Biomarkers
- Functional Imaging
- Visualization And Forensic Imaging
- PET/MRI
- Dual- and Multienergy CT
- Radiomics Research Group
- Prostate Research Group
- Breast Imaging Research Group
- Bone marrow
- Musculoskeletal Imaging
- Microstructural Imaging Research Group
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- Medical Physics in Radiology
- X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography
- Federated Information Systems
- Translational Molecular Imaging
- Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology
- Biomedical Physics in Radiation Oncology
- Intelligent Medical Systems
- Medical Image Computing
- Radiooncology - Radiobiology
- Smart Technologies for Tumor Therapy
- Radiation Oncology
- Molecular Radiooncology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Translational Radiation Oncology
- Molecular Biology of Systemic Radiotherapy
- Interactive Machine Learning
- Intelligent Systems and Robotics in Urology
- Multiparametric methods for early detection of prostate cancer
- Translational Molecular Imaging in Oncologic Therapy Monitoring
- Molecular Mechanisms of Head and Neck Tumors
- Radiology
- Infection, Inflammation and Cancer
- Tumor Virology
- Pathogenesis of Virus-Associated Tumors
- Immunotherapy and Immunoprevention
- Applied Tumor Biology
- Virotherapy
- Virus-associated Carcinogenesis
- Chronic Inflammation and Cancer
- Microbiome and Cancer
- Experimental Hepatology, Inflammation and Cancer
- Infections and Cancer Epidemiology
- Tumorvirus-specific Vaccination Strategies
- Mammalian Cell Cycle Control Mechanisms
- Molecular Therapy of Virus-Associated Cancers
- DNA Vectors
- Episomal-Persistent DNA in Cancer- and Chronic Diseases
- Cell Biology and Tumor Biology
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- Flyer - The Cancer Cooperation Program
- List Publications 1976-2004
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- Cross Program Topic Single Cell Sequencing
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DNA Repair and Epigenomics
Selected publications
Weigel C, Chaisaingmongkol J, Assenov Y, Kuhmann C, Winkler V, Santi I, Bogatyrova O, Kaucher S, Bermejo JL, Leung SY, Chan TL, Lasitschka F, Bohrer MH, Marx A, Haußen RH, Herold-Mende C, Dyckhoff G, Boukamp P, Delank KW, Hörmann K, Lippert BM, Baier G, Dietz A, Oakes CC, Plass C, Becher H, Schmezer P, Ramroth H, Popanda O. DNA methylation at an enhancer of the three prime repair exonuclease 2 gene (TREX2) is linked to gene expression and survival in laryngeal cancer. Clin Epigenetics. 2019 May 3;11(1):67.
Jäkel C, Bergmann F, Toth R, Assenov Y, van der Duin D, Strobel O, Hank T, Klöppel G, Dorrell C, Grompe M, Moss J, Dor Y, Schirmacher P, Plass C, Popanda O, Schmezer P. Genome-wide genetic and epigenetic analyses of pancreatic acinar cell carcinomas reveal aberrations in genome stability. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 6;8(1):1323.
Weigel C, Veldwijk MR, Oakes CC, Seibold P, Slynko A, Liesenfeld DB, Rabionet M, Hanke SA, Wenz F, Sperk E, Benner A, Rösli C, Sandhoff R, Assenov Y, Plass C, Herskind C, Chang-Claude J, Schmezer P, Popanda O. Epigenetic regulation of diacylglycerol kinase alpha promotes radiation-induced fibrosis. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 11;7:10893.
Seibold P, Schmezer P, Behrens S, Michailidou K, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Flesch-Janys D, Nevanlinna H, Fagerholm R, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Margolin S, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Lambrechts D, Wildiers H, Kristensen V, Alnæs GG, Nord S, Borresen-Dale AL, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A, Jager A, Seynaeve C, Li J, Liu J, Humphreys K, Dunning AM, Rhenius V, Shah M, Kabisch M, Torres D, Ulmer HU, Hamann U, Schildkraut JM, Purrington KS, Couch FJ, Hall P, Pharoah P, Easton DF, Schmidt MK, Chang-Claude J, Popanda O. A polymorphism in the base excision repair gene PARP2 is associated with differential prognosis by chemotherapy among postmenopausal breast cancer patients. BMC Cancer. 2015 Dec 16;15:978.
Schramm A, Köster J, Assenov Y, Althoff K, Peifer M, Mahlow E, Odersky A, Beisser D, Ernst C, Henssen AG, Stephan H, Schröder C, Heukamp L, Engesser A, Kahlert Y, Theissen J, Hero B, Roels F, Altmüller J, Nürnberg P, Astrahantseff K, Gloeckner C, De Preter K, Plass C, Lee S, Lode HN, Henrich KO, Gartlgruber M, Speleman F, Schmezer P, Westermann F, Rahmann S, Fischer M, Eggert A, Schulte JH. Mutational dynamics between primary and relapse neuroblastomas. Nat Genet. 2015 Aug;47(8):872-7.
Walter D, Lier A, Geiselhart A, Thalheimer FB, Huntscha S, Sobotta MC, Moehrle B, Brocks D, Bayindir I, Kaschutnig P, Muedder K, Klein C, Jauch A, Schroeder T, Geiger H, Dick TP, Holland-Letz T, Schmezer P, Lane SW, Rieger MA, Essers MA, Williams DA, Trumpp A, Milsom MD. Exit from dormancy provokes DNA-damage-induced attrition in haematopoietic stem cells. Nature. 2015 Apr 23;520(7548):549-52.
Weigel C, Schmezer P, Plass C, Popanda O. Epigenetics in radiation-induced fibrosis. Oncogene. 2015 Apr 23;34(17):2145-55.
Dutruel C, Bergmann F, Rooman I, Zucknick M, Weichenhan D, Geiselhart L, Kaffenberger T, Rachakonda PS, Bauer A, Giese N, Hong C, Xie H, Costello JF, Hoheisel J, Kumar R, Rehli M, Schirmacher P, Werner J, Plass C, Popanda O, Schmezer P. Early epigenetic downregulation of WNK2 kinase during pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma development. Oncogene. 2014 Jun 26;33(26):3401-10.