Julia Hinterdobler, PhD student
Carina Mauersberger, PhD student
Anna-Sophia Zimmermann, MD student
Nicolas Lopez Armbruster, MD student
Benedikt Miritsch, MD student
Almut Meesmann, MD student
Jan Hettwer, MD student
Clara Ulrike Meyer-Lindemann, MD student
Simin Schott, MD student
Sophia Novacek, MD student
Anna-Christina Schmidt, MD student
David Khangholi, MD student

Michaela Frint

European Research Council (ERC starting grant)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen (DZHK) e.V.
Deutsche Herzstiftung
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung

Acute mental stress drives vascular inflammation and promotes plaque destabilization in mouse atherosclerosis. Hinterdobler J, Schott S, Jin H, Meesmann A, Steinsiek AL, Zimmermann AS, Wobst J, Müller P, Mauersberger C, Vilne B, Baecklund A, Chen CS, Moggio A, Braster Q, Molitor M, Krane M, Kempf WE, Ladwig KH, Hristov M, Hulsmans M, Hilgendorf I, Weber C, Wenzel P, Scheiermann C, Maegdefessel L, Soehnlein O, Libby P, Nahrendorf M, Schunkert H, Kessler T, Sager HB. Eur Heart J. 2021 Jul 19:ehab371. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab371. (IF=30)

Functional investigation of the coronary artery disease gene SVEP1. Winkler MJ, Müller P, Sharifi AM, Wobst J, Winter H, Mokry M, Ma L, van der Laan SW, Pang S, Miritsch B, Hinterdobler J, Werner J, Stiller B, Güldener U, Webb TR, Asselbergs FW, Björkegren JLM, Maegdefessel L, Schunkert H, Sager HB*, Kessler T* (contributed equally). Basic Res Cardiol. 2020 Nov 13;115(6):67. doi: 10.1007/s00395-020-00828-6. (IF=12)

Proliferation and Recruitment Contribute to Myocardial Macrophage Expansion in Chronic Heart Failure. Sager HB, Hulsmans M, Lavine KJ, Beltrami Moreira MB, Heidt T, Courties G, Sun Y, Iwamoto Y, Tricot B, Khan OF, Dahlman JE, Borodovsky A, Fitzgerald K, Anderson DG, Weissleder R, Libby P, Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M. Circ Res. 2016 Sep 16;119(7):853-64. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.116.309001. (IF=12)

RNAi targeting multiple cell adhesion molecules reduces immune cell recruitment and vascular inflammation after myocardial infarction. Sager HB, Dutta P, Dahlman JE, Hulsmans M, Courties G, Sun Y, Heidt T, Vinegoni C, Borodovsky A, Fitzgerald K, Wojtkiewicz GR, Iwamoto Y, Tricot B, Khan OF, Kauffman KJ, Xing Y, Shaw TE, Libby P, Langer R, Weissleder R, Swirski FK, Anderson DG, Nahrendorf M. Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jun 8;8(342):342ra80. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf1435. (IF=16)

Targeting Interleukin-1β Reduces Leukocyte Production After Acute Myocardial Infarction. Sager HB, Heidt T, Hulsmans M, Dutta P, Courties G, Sebas M, Wojtkiewicz GR, Tricot B, Iwamoto Y, Sun Y, Weissleder R, Libby P, Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M. Circulation. 2015 Nov 17;132(20):1880-90. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.016160. (IF=17)

Myocardial Infarction Activates CCR2(+) Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Dutta P*, Sager HB* (contributed equally), Stengel KR, Naxerova K, Courties G, Saez B, Silberstein L, Heidt T, Sebas M, Sun Y, Wojtkiewicz G, Feruglio PF, King K, Baker JN, van der Laan AM, Borodovsky A, Fitzgerald K, Hulsmans M, Hoyer F, Iwamoto Y, Vinegoni C, Brown D, Di Carli M, Libby P, Hiebert SW, Scadden DT, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Cell Stem Cell. 2015 May 7;16(5):477-87. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.04.008. (IF=22)

Chronic variable stress activates hematopoietic stem cells. Heidt T*, Sager HB* (contributed equally), Courties G, Dutta P, Iwamoto Y, Zaltsman A, von Zur Muhlen C, Bode C, Fricchione GL, Denninger J, Lin CP, Vinegoni C, Libby P, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Nat Med. 2014 Jul;20(7):754-8. doi: 10.1038/nm.3589. (IF=27)

Physicians‘ perception of guideline-recommended low-density lipoprotein target values: characteristics of misclassified patients. Sager HB, Linsel-Nitschke P, Mayer B, Lieb W, Franzel B, Elsasser U, Schunkert H. Eur Heart J. 2010 May;31(10):1266-73. (IF=10)