Andy Wullaert

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Andy Wullaert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Wullaert has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Immunology and 18 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Andy Wullaert's work include Immune Response and Inflammation (18 papers), NF-κB Signaling Pathways (18 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (16 papers). Andy Wullaert is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (18 papers), NF-κB Signaling Pathways (18 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (16 papers). Andy Wullaert collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Andy Wullaert's co-authors include Manolis Pasparakis, Geert Loo, Rudi Beyaert, Marion Bonnet, Karen Heyninck, Katerina Vlantis, Patrick-Simon Welz, Ralph Gareus, Christoph Becker and Blair Madison and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Andy Wullaert

42 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Epithelial NEMO links innate immunity to chronic intestinal inflammation

2007 871 citations Andy Wullaert, Geert Loo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andy Wullaert Belgium	26	2.2k	1.6k	804	520	496	45	3.9k
Claudia Günther Germany	30	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	304 0.4×	501 1.0×	582 1.2×	74	3.5k
Masayuki Fukata United States	27	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	525 0.7×	670 1.3×	744 1.5×	57	4.7k
Huaxi Xu China	45	2.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	506 1.0×	321 0.6×	185	6.0k
Christine McDonald United States	35	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	300 0.4×	931 1.8×	754 1.5×	71	5.0k
Santhakumar Manicassamy United States	32	3.1k 1.4×	2.9k 1.8×	438 0.5×	715 1.4×	534 1.1×	55	6.3k
Li‐Chung Hsu Taiwan	34	2.7k 1.2×	2.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	858 1.6×	526 1.1×	81	5.9k
Eyal Amiel United States	23	1.6k 0.8×	3.3k 2.1×	690 0.9×	662 1.3×	313 0.6×	39	4.9k
C. Henrique Serezani United States	38	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	361 0.4×	683 1.3×	230 0.5×	103	3.9k
Hanwei Cao China	29	1.8k 0.8×	965 0.6×	301 0.4×	378 0.7×	389 0.8×	42	3.8k
Kenji Takabayashi United States	27	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	395 0.5×	422 0.8×	481 1.0×	38	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andy Wullaert

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Cleemput, Jolien Van, et al.. (2025). Advances in human myeloid-engrafting NSG-SGM3 and MISTRG mice. Trends in Immunology. 46(10). 662–665.

Akula, Murali K., Lieselotte Vande Walle, Mozes Sze, et al.. (2025). Pyrin inflammasome-driven erosive arthritis caused by unprenylated RHO GTPase signaling. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 17(10). 2691–2712.

Yılmaz, Bahtiyar, Elisabeth Nyström, Elena Layunta, et al.. (2025). Neonatal microbiota colonization primes maturation of goblet cell–mediated protection in the pre-weaning colon. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 222(8).

Πέττα, Ιωάννα, Gillian Blancke, Louis Boon, et al.. (2024). Myeloid A20 is critical for alternative macrophage polarization and type-2 immune-mediated helminth resistance. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1373745–1373745. 2 indexed citations

Asaoka, Tomoko, et al.. (2023). Myeloid OTULIN deficiency couples RIPK3-dependent cell death to Nlrp3 inflammasome activation and IL-1β secretion. Science Immunology. 8(89). eadf4404–eadf4404. 6 indexed citations

Jonckheere, Veronique, et al.. (2023). Gasdermin D independent canonical inflammasome responses cooperate with caspase-8 to establish host defense against gastrointestinal Citrobacter rodentium infection. Cell Death and Disease. 14(4). 282–282. 9 indexed citations

Wullaert, Andy, et al.. (2023). Recent Insights in Pyrin Inflammasome Activation: Identifying Potential Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Pyrin-Associated Autoinflammatory Syndromes. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 44(1). 8–8. 11 indexed citations

Asaoka, Tomoko, Hanne Van Gorp, Dieter Demon, et al.. (2023). The autoinflammation-associated NLRC4V341A mutation increases microbiota-independent IL-18 production but does not recapitulate human autoinflammatory symptoms in mice. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1272639–1272639. 4 indexed citations

Chauhan, Dhruv, Dieter Demon, Lieselotte Vande Walle, et al.. (2022). GSDMD drives canonical inflammasome‐induced neutrophil pyroptosis and is dispensable for NETosis. EMBO Reports. 23(10). e54277–e54277. 58 indexed citations

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Ribó, Sílvia, et al.. (2022). Nlrp3 inflammasome activation in macrophages suffices for inducing autoinflammation in mice. EMBO Reports. 23(7). e54339–e54339. 13 indexed citations

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Wiernicki, Bartosz, Yulia Y. Tyurina, Behrouz Hassannia, et al.. (2020). Excessive phospholipid peroxidation distinguishes ferroptosis from other cell death modes including pyroptosis. Cell Death and Disease. 11(10). 922–922. 188 indexed citations

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Martens, Arne, Dario Priem, Esther Hoste, et al.. (2020). Two distinct ubiquitin-binding motifs in A20 mediate its anti-inflammatory and cell-protective activities. Nature Immunology. 21(4). 381–387. 51 indexed citations

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Sorgeloos, Frédéric, Soroush T. Sarvestani, Liesbet Martens, et al.. (2019). Nlrp3 inflammasome activation and Gasdermin D-driven pyroptosis are immunopathogenic upon gastrointestinal norovirus infection. PLoS Pathogens. 15(4). e1007709–e1007709. 75 indexed citations

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Kucharíková, Soňa, et al.. (2019). Candidalysin Crucially Contributes to Nlrp3 Inflammasome Activation by Candida albicans Hyphae. mBio. 10(1). 84 indexed citations

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Ronchi, Francesca, et al.. (2018). Inflammasomes make the case for littermate-controlled experimental design in studying host-microbiota interactions. Gut Microbes. 9(4). 1–8. 33 indexed citations

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Akiyama, Takuya, Kenji Oishi, & Andy Wullaert. (2016). Bifidobacteria Prevent Tunicamycin-Induced Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Subsequent Barrier Disruption in Human Intestinal Epithelial Caco-2 Monolayers. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162448–e0162448. 17 indexed citations

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Vlantis, Katerina, Apostolos Polykratis, Patrick-Simon Welz, et al.. (2015). TLR-independent anti-inflammatory function of intestinal epithelial TRAF6 signalling prevents DSS-induced colitis in mice. Gut. 65(6). 935–943. 99 indexed citations

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Becker, Sven, Tobias A. Oelschlaeger, Andy Wullaert, et al.. (2013). Correction: Bacteria Regulate Intestinal Epithelial Cell Differentiation Factors Both In Vitro and In Vivo. PLoS ONE. 8(5). 12 indexed citations

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Vlantis, Katerina, Andy Wullaert, Yoshiteru Sasaki, et al.. (2011). Constitutive IKK2 activation in intestinal epithelial cells induces intestinal tumors in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 121(7). 2781–2793. 82 indexed citations

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Wullaert, Andy, Ben Wielockx, Sofie Van Huffel, et al.. (2005). Adenoviral gene transfer of ABIN‐1 protects mice from TNF/galactosamine‐induced acute liver failure and lethality†. Hepatology. 42(2). 381–389. 44 indexed citations

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