Nikolaus Rajewsky
Max Delbrück Center
Nikolaus Rajewsky is a German system biologist at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and at the Charité in Berlin. He founded and directs the "Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology" and leads a research group studying the role of RNA in gene regulation. Rajewsky also co-chairs LifeTime, a European research initiative focused on mapping, understanding, and targeting cells during disease progression. Rajewsky has received several awards and honors, including the Gottfried
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Nikolaus Rajewsky is a German system biologist at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and at the Charité in Berlin. He founded and directs the "Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology" and leads a research group studying the role of RNA in gene regulation. Rajewsky also co-chairs LifeTime, a European research initiative focused on mapping, understanding, and targeting cells during disease progression. Rajewsky has received several awards and honors, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Affiliation
Max Delbrück Center
Top Publications
- Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency (2013) - 8,649 citations
- Combinatorial microRNA target predictions (2005) - 4,651 citations
- Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with ‘antagomirs’ (2005) - 3,990 citations
- Widespread changes in protein synthesis induced by microRNAs (2008) - 3,506 citations
- miRDeep2 accurately identifies known and hundreds of novel microRNA genes in seven animal clades (2011) - 3,469 citations
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- Full name
- Nikolaus Rajewsky
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-4785-4332
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5073506559
Research interests
- RNA Research and Splicing, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, MicroRNA in disease regulation
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- 8,649OpenAlex citations
- Combinatorial microRNA target predictions ↗2005 · Nature Genetics4,651OpenAlex citations
- Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with ‘antagomirs’ ↗2005 · Nature3,990OpenAlex citations
- 3,506OpenAlex citations
- miRDeep2 accurately identifies known and hundreds of novel microRNA genes in seven animal clades ↗2011 · Nucleic Acids Research3,469OpenAlex citations
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- Combinatorial microRNA target predictions ↗2005 · Nature Genetics
- Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with ‘antagomirs’ ↗2005 · Nature
- miRDeep2 accurately identifies known and hundreds of novel microRNA genes in seven animal clades ↗2011 · Nucleic Acids Research
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