Heike Horn

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Heike Horn is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heike Horn has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 23 papers in Oncology and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Heike Horn's work include Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (28 papers), Viral-associated cancers and disorders (16 papers) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (13 papers). Heike Horn is often cited by papers focused on Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (28 papers), Viral-associated cancers and disorders (16 papers) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (13 papers). Heike Horn collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Heike Horn's co-authors include German Ott, Andreas Rosenwald, Annette M. Staiger, Wolfram Klapper, Reiner Siebert, Michael Pfreundschuh, Norbert Schmitz, Michael Hummel, Harald Stein and Lorenz Trümper and has published in prestigious journals such as Blood, PLoS ONE and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Heike Horn

52 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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MYC status in concert with BCL2 and BCL6 expression predicts outcome in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

2013 372 citations Heike Horn, Marita Ziepert et al. Blood profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heike Horn Germany	19	1.0k	822	487	353	196	57	1.5k
Gamal-Andre Banat Germany	10	890 0.9×	726 0.9×	534 1.1×	210 0.6×	42 0.2×	12	1.4k
Hyeon Seok Eom South Korea	15	671 0.6×	590 0.7×	180 0.4×	392 1.1×	136 0.7×	58	1.3k
Francesco Turturro United States	19	546 0.5×	637 0.8×	253 0.5×	580 1.6×	74 0.4×	64	1.4k
Jae‐Yong Kwak South Korea	21	468 0.4×	398 0.5×	263 0.5×	233 0.7×	125 0.6×	115	1.3k
Steve Alas United States	7	657 0.6×	551 0.7×	405 0.8×	410 1.2×	110 0.6×	7	1.3k
Alberto Bessudo United States	18	359 0.3×	609 0.7×	258 0.5×	517 1.5×	68 0.3×	70	1.2k
Dixie Esseltine United States	22	506 0.5×	1.6k 2.0×	539 1.1×	1.8k 5.1×	142 0.7×	44	3.1k
Rodney R. Miles United States	19	460 0.4×	491 0.6×	163 0.3×	613 1.7×	179 0.9×	68	1.4k
Hwee‐Yong Yap United States	18	149 0.1×	765 0.9×	271 0.6×	204 0.6×	174 0.9×	31	1.3k
Dixie‐Lee Esseltine United States	11	190 0.2×	817 1.0×	285 0.6×	1.2k 3.4×	65 0.3×	12	1.8k

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Horn, Heike, et al.. (2026). Burkitt Lymphoma—A Guide to Biological Features, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis. Cancers. 18(4). 579–579.

Kurz, Katrin S., Markus Kreuz, Marita Ziepert, et al.. (2025). Age‐ and gender‐specific molecular characteristics of diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma: Results from clinical trials of the DSHNHL/GLA. HemaSphere. 9(3). e70093–e70093.

Grygalewicz, Beata, Lukasz M. Szafron, Renata Woroniecka, et al.. (2025). Cytogenomic and Clinicopathologic Comparison of MYC-Positive and MYC-Negative High-Grade B-Cell Lymphoma With 11q Aberration in the Context of Other Aggressive Lymphomas With MYC Rearrangement. Modern Pathology. 38(8). 100774–100774. 1 indexed citations

Eßmann, Frank, Heike Horn, Julia Schüler, et al.. (2023). Indolyl-chalcone derivatives trigger apoptosis in cisplatin-resistant mesothelioma cells through aberrant tubulin polymerization and deregulation of microtubule-associated proteins. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1190988–1190988. 3 indexed citations

Horn, Heike, Anja Schmitt, Wendan Xu, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of glutaminase-1 in DLBCL potentiates venetoclax-induced antitumor activity by promoting oxidative stress. Blood Advances. 7(24). 7433–7444. 8 indexed citations

Horn, Heike, et al.. (2023). Weiterbildungsstatistik im Verbund 2020.

Kurz, Katrin S., Michaela Ott, Claudia Kalla, et al.. (2023). Large B-Cell Lymphomas in the 5th Edition of the WHO-Classification of Haematolymphoid Neoplasms—Updated Classification and New Concepts. Cancers. 15(8). 2285–2285. 13 indexed citations

Staiger, Annette M., Julia Richter, Michaela Ott, et al.. (2021). The “Burkitt-like” immunophenotype and genotype is rarely encountered in diffuse large B cell lymphoma and high-grade B cell lymphoma, NOS. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 479(3). 575–583. 16 indexed citations

Winter, Stefan, Ute Hofmann, Thomas E. Mürdter, et al.. (2020). Optimized protocol for metabolomic and lipidomic profiling in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded kidney tissue by LC-MS. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1134. 125–135. 16 indexed citations

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Scott, David W., Rebecca L. King, Annette M. Staiger, et al.. (2018). High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma morphology. Blood. 131(18). 2060–2064. 145 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Christian Köhler, Markus Kreuz, et al.. (2018). Gene expression profiling reveals a close relationship between follicular lymphoma grade 3A and 3B, but distinct profiles of follicular lymphoma grade 1 and 2. Haematologica. 103(7). 1182–1190. 29 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Annette M. Staiger, Matthias Vöhringer, et al.. (2014). Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphomas of Immunoblastic Type Are a Major Reservoir for MYC-IGH Translocations. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 39(1). 61–66. 24 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Julia Bausinger, Annette M. Staiger, et al.. (2014). Numerical and Structural Genomic Aberrations Are Reliably Detectable in Tissue Microarrays of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tumor Samples by Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95047–e95047. 12 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Claudio Doglioni, Alexander Marx, et al.. (2014). Fluorescence in situ analysis of soft tissue tumor associated genetic alterations in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. Pathology - Research and Practice. 210(12). 804–811. 9 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Jörg Kalla, Péter Fritz, et al.. (2014). Detection of Rearrangements and Transcriptional Up-Regulation of ALK in FFPE Lung Cancer Specimens Using a Novel, Sensitive, Quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 9(3). 307–315. 26 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, et al.. (2013). Grauzonenlymphome. Der Pathologe. 34(3). 225–232. 1 indexed citations

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Martín‐Guerrero, Idoia, Itziar Salaverría, Birgit Burkhardt, et al.. (2013). Recurrent loss of heterozygosity in 1p36 associated with TNFRSF14 mutations in IRF4 translocation negative pediatric follicular lymphomas. Haematologica. 98(8). 1237–1241. 49 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Carsten Schmelter, Ellen Leich, et al.. (2011). Follicular lymphoma grade 3B is a distinct neoplasm according to cytogenetic and immunohistochemical profiles. Haematologica. 96(9). 1327–1334. 95 indexed citations

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Dreyling, Martin, Eva Hoster, Sı́lvia Beà, et al.. (2010). Update on the molecular pathogenesis and clinical treatment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL): minutes of the 9th European MCL Network conference. Leukemia & lymphoma. 51(9). 1612–1622. 14 indexed citations

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Horn, Heike, Christiane Pott, Jörg Kalla, et al.. (2010). A multiplex MALDI-TOF MS approach facilitates genotyping of DNA from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumour specimens. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 20(10). 598–604. 15 indexed citations

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