Axel Ullrich
Max Planck Society
Axel Ullrich is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. This department's research has primarily focused on signal transduction. Ullrich has received Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2008 and Ullrich and his team received the Wolf Prize in 2010.
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Axel Ullrich is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. This department's research has primarily focused on signal transduction. Ullrich has received Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2008 and Ullrich and his team received the Wolf Prize in 2010.
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Max Planck Society
Top Publications
- Human Breast Cancer: Correlation of Relapse and Survival with Amplification of the HER-2/ neu Oncogene (1987) - 11,859 citations
- Studies of the HER-2/ neu Proto-Oncogene in Human Breast and Ovarian Cancer (1989) - 6,875 citations
- Signal transduction by receptors with tyrosine kinase activity (1990) - 5,542 citations
- High affinity VEGF binding and developmental expression suggest Flk-1 as a major regulator of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis (1993) - 1,958 citations
- Tyrosine Kinase Receptor with Extensive Homology to EGF Receptor Shares Chromosomal Location with neu Oncogene (1985) - 1,827 citations
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- Axel Ullrich
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- Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
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