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Ulrich Pfeffer
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
3,350 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 50
Editor 3,300

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Bioinformatics
Genomics
Mathematical Biology
Oncology
Medical Genetics
Computational Biology
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Ophthalmology
Public Health
Women's Health
Respiratory Medicine
Gynecology and Obstetrics
Translational Medicine
Statistics
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Bioengineering
Epidemiology
Genetics
Infectious Diseases
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Surgery and Surgical Specialties
Metabolic Sciences
Drugs and Devices
Pharmacology
Immunology
Orthopedics
Toxicology
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Neurology
Biochemistry
Hematology
Dermatology
Urology
Data Science

Ulrich Pfeffer

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Ulrich Pfeffer - born on January 23rd, 1958 in Berlin, Fed. Rep of Germany
Education:
1976-1983 Study of Biology, Free University Berlin
1983 Master degree, Free University Berlin
1987 PhD Free University Berlin, Prof. Dr. E-R. Lochmann
2013 Habilitation full professor in Molecular Biology and General Pathology, Ministry of Education, University and Research

Scientific work:
2013-today Senior Staff Scientist, Molecular Pathology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Head: Franco Fais
2010-2013 Director, Division of Integrated Molecular Pathology, National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
2004-2010 Section Chief, IST, Functional Genomics.
1999-2004 Senior Staff Scientist, IST, Laboratory Molecular Oncology, Head: Dr. A. Albini
1993-1999 Staff scientist, tenure; IST, Genoa, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Head: Prof. Giorgio Vidali (from 1996-1999: Dr. G. Levi)
1988-1993 Postdoctoral fellow, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Genoa, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Head: Prof. G. Vidali
1985-1987 Research fellow , same lab
1984 Research fellow, University of Genoa

Teaching:
2017- today Contract professor for bioinformatics, Biotechnology Bachelor course, University of Genoa
2006-2015 Contract professor for bioinformatics, Biotechnology Master course, University of Genoa
2006-2013 Member of the Board, PhD School in Biotechnology, Lecturer in bioinformatics, University of Genoa

Computational Biology Genomics Molecular Biology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Senior Staff Scientist

IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
November 2011
Molecular Pathology
Group leader in cancer genomics

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 20
  • Reviewed 1

Academic Editor on

August 23, 2024
DNA methylation and gene expression profiling reveal potential association of retinol metabolism related genes with hepatocellular carcinoma development
Yanteng Zhao, Kangkang Wan, Jing Wang, Shuya Wang, Yanli Chang, Zhuanyun Du, Lianglu Zhang, Lanlan Dong, Dihan Zhou, Wei Zhang, Shaochi Wang, Qiankun Yang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17916 PubMed 39193514
July 31, 2024
Immune infiltration and prognosis in gastric cancer: role of NAD+ metabolism-related markers
Yu Xing, Zili Zhang, Wenqing Gao, Weiliang Song, Tong Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17833 PubMed 39099656
March 22, 2024
Combined detection of serum IL-6 and CEA contributes to the diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma in situ
Jing Pan, Wanzhen Zhuang, Yu Xia, Zhixin Huang, Yue Zheng, Xin Wang, Yi Huang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17141 PubMed 38529301
February 2, 2024
DLX1 acts as a novel prognostic biomarker involved in immune cell infiltration and tumor progression in lung adenocarcinoma
Yu Du, Heng Li, Yan Wang, Yunyan He, Gaofeng Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16823 PubMed 38317839
January 23, 2024
A peptide encoded by the circular form of the SHPRH gene induces apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells
Jingjing Gao, Hong Pan, Jie Li, Jun Jiang, Wenxian Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16806 PubMed 38282862
September 26, 2023
Association detection between multiple traits and rare variants based on family data via a nonparametric method
Jinling Chi, Meijuan Xu, Xiaona Sheng, Ying Zhou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16040 PubMed 37780393
July 10, 2023
Network neighborhood operates as a drug repositioning method for cancer treatment
Ali Cüvitoğlu, Zerrin Isik
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15624 PubMed 37456868
October 26, 2021
Estrogen receptor—positive breast cancer survival prediction and analysis of resistance–related genes introduction
Chen Shuai, Fengyan Yuan, Yu Liu, Chengchen Wang, Jiansong Wang, Hongye He
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12202 PubMed 34760348
October 26, 2021
Functional drug–target–disease network analysis of gene–phenotype connectivity for curcumin in hepatocellular carcinoma
Yuanyuan Zhao, Jiahao Tao, Zhuangzhong Chen, Suihui Li, Zeyu Liu, Lizhu Lin, Linzhu Zhai
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12339 PubMed 34754622
August 31, 2021
Germline mutation analyses of malignant ground glass opacity nodules in non-smoking lung adenocarcinoma patients
Wenjun Mao, Ruo Chen, Rongguo Lu, Shengfei Wang, Huizhu Song, Dan You, Feng Liu, Yijun He, Mingfeng Zheng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12048 PubMed 34540367
July 20, 2021
Clinical and prognostic relevance of CXCL12 expression in acute myeloid leukemia
Shi-sen Wang, Zi-jun Xu, Ye Jin, Ji-chun Ma, Pei-hui Xia, Xiangmei Wen, Zhen-wei Mao, Jiang Lin, Jun Qian
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11820 PubMed 34327063
June 29, 2021
Forecasting the COVID-19 transmission in Italy based on the minimum spanning tree of dynamic region network
Min Dong, Xuhang Zhang, Kun Yang, Rui Liu, Pei Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11603 PubMed 34249495
June 17, 2021
A seven-lncRNA signature for predicting Ewing’s sarcoma
Zhihui Chen, Xinyu Wang, Guozhu Wang, Bin Xiao, Zhe Ma, Hongliang Huo, Weiwei Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11599 PubMed 34178467
February 4, 2021
DNA methylome signatures as epigenetic biomarkers of hexanal associated with lung toxicity
Yoon Cho, Mi-Kyung Song, Jae-Chun Ryu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10779 PubMed 33604181
October 20, 2020
Polarity and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of retinal pigment epithelial cells in proliferative vitreoretinopathy
Hui Zou, Chenli Shan, Linlin Ma, Jia Liu, Ning Yang, Jinsong Zhao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10136 PubMed 33150072
August 18, 2020
Exploring the classification of cancer cell lines from multiple omic views
Xiaoxi Yang, Yuqi Wen, Xinyu Song, Song He, Xiaochen Bo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9440 PubMed 32874774
July 21, 2020
An RNA-sequencing-based transcriptome for a significantly prognostic novel driver signature identification in bladder urothelial carcinoma
Danqi Liu, Boting Zhou, Rangru Liu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9422 PubMed 32742772
June 3, 2020
Ginsenoside panaxatriol reverses TNBC paclitaxel resistance by inhibiting the IRAK1/NF-κB and ERK pathways
Panpan Wang, Dan Song, Danhong Wan, Lingyu Li, Wenhui Mei, Xiaoyun Li, Li Han, Xiaofeng Zhu, Li Yang, Yu Cai, Ronghua Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9281 PubMed 32547883
January 3, 2020
Survival between synchronous and non-synchronous multiple primary cutaneous melanomas—a SEER database analysis
Jie Xiong, Yanlin Su, Zhitong Bing, Bihai Zhao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8316 PubMed 31915586
November 29, 2019
Identification of prognostic gene signature associated with microenvironment of lung adenocarcinoma
Cheng Yue, Hongtao Ma, Yubai Zhou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8128 PubMed 31803536

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August 11, 2022
Novel Driver Strength Index highlights important cancer genes in TCGA PanCanAtlas patients
Aleksey V. Belikov, Alexey D. Vyatkin, Sergey V. Leonov
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13860 PubMed 35975235