Lukas Bunse

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 778 citations indexed

About

Lukas Bunse is a scholar working on Oncology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lukas Bunse has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 778 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Oncology, 29 papers in Immunology and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Lukas Bunse's work include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (21 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (20 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (16 papers). Lukas Bunse is often cited by papers focused on Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (21 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (20 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (16 papers). Lukas Bunse collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. Lukas Bunse's co-authors include Michael Platten, Wolfgang Wick, Theresa Bunse, Andreas von Deimling, Katharina Ochs, Felix Sahm, Michael Kilian, Mirco Friedrich, Martina Ott and Stefan Pusch and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Lukas Bunse

42 papers receiving 768 citations

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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.

The pre-existing T cell landscape determines the response to bispecific T cell engagers in multiple myeloma patients

2023 131 citations Mirco Friedrich, Paola Neri et al. Cancer Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lukas Bunse Germany	15	372	322	318	224	102	44	778
Nicholas A. Vitanza United States	16	319 0.9×	145 0.5×	590 1.9×	443 2.0×	130 1.3×	63	1.1k
Diego Carrera United States	5	250 0.7×	470 1.5×	386 1.2×	305 1.4×	219 2.1×	6	855
Nasser K. Yaghi United States	10	368 1.0×	317 1.0×	353 1.1×	388 1.7×	161 1.6×	24	965
Christopher Duntsch United States	12	221 0.6×	108 0.3×	172 0.5×	260 1.2×	113 1.1×	13	638
Maria Georganaki Sweden	11	393 1.1×	315 1.0×	83 0.3×	258 1.2×	115 1.1×	12	711
Clotilde Billottet France	14	268 0.7×	193 0.6×	95 0.3×	408 1.8×	127 1.2×	21	823
Nicole Kountouri Australia	9	198 0.5×	324 1.0×	126 0.4×	368 1.6×	94 0.9×	11	808
Emilio Cosimo United Kingdom	15	133 0.4×	133 0.4×	158 0.5×	306 1.4×	115 1.1×	21	595
Almuth F. Keßler Germany	16	209 0.6×	68 0.2×	275 0.9×	203 0.9×	89 0.9×	57	704
Nathan De Beule Belgium	11	170 0.5×	220 0.7×	302 0.9×	252 1.1×	100 1.0×	22	747

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lukas Bunse

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bunse, Lukas, Theresa Bunse, Michael Kilian, Francisco J. Quintana, & Michael Platten. (2025). The immunology of brain tumors. Science Immunology. 10(112). eads0449–eads0449. 1 indexed citations

Pienkowski, Victor Murcia, et al.. (2025). Computational identification of cross-reactive TCR epitopes with ARDitox. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 151(12). 311–311.

Jähne, Kristine, Michael O. Breckwoldt, Lukas Bunse, et al.. (2024). Tumoral Interferon Beta Induces an Immune-Stimulatory Phenotype in Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Melanoma Brain Metastases. Cancer Research Communications. 4(8). 2189–2202. 2 indexed citations

Platten, Michael & Lukas Bunse. (2024). Heating Up IDH-Mutant Gliomas. New England Journal of Medicine. 391(22). 2170–2172. 1 indexed citations

Lindner, Katharina A.M., Chin Leng Tan, Kristine Jähne, et al.. (2024). H3K27M neoepitope vaccination in diffuse midline glioma induces B and T cell responses across diverse HLA loci of a recovered patient. Science Advances. 10(5). eadi9091–eadi9091. 7 indexed citations

Friedrich, Mirco, Paola Neri, Simon Steiger, et al.. (2023). The pre-existing T cell landscape determines the response to bispecific T cell engagers in multiple myeloma patients. Cancer Cell. 41(4). 711–725.e6. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

Bunse, Lukas, Khwab Sanghvi, Richard P. Harbottle, et al.. (2023). P06.05.A INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR TCR-TRANSGENIC T CELL THERAPY TO TREAT GLIOBLASTOMA (INVENT4GB). Neuro-Oncology. 25(Supplement_2). ii46–ii46. 1 indexed citations

Kilian, Michael, Dirk C. Hoffmann, P. Koopmann, et al.. (2023). NLGN4X TCR transgenic T cells to treat gliomas. Neuro-Oncology. 26(2). 266–278. 9 indexed citations

Bunse, Lukas, et al.. (2022). Clinical and Translational Advances in Glioma Immunotherapy. Neurotherapeutics. 19(6). 1799–1817. 24 indexed citations

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Kilian, Michael, Katrin Aslan, Khwab Sanghvi, et al.. (2022). T cell receptor dynamic and transcriptional determinants of T cell expansion in glioma-infiltrating T cells. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 4(1). vdac140–vdac140. 5 indexed citations

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Friedrich, Mirco, Markus Hahn, Roman Sankowski, et al.. (2022). Dysfunctional dendritic cells limit antigen-specific T cell response in glioma. Neuro-Oncology. 25(2). 263–276. 58 indexed citations

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Platten, Michael, et al.. (2022). Site-Specific Considerations on Engineered T Cells for Malignant Gliomas. Biomedicines. 10(7). 1738–1738. 10 indexed citations

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Bunse, Lukas, Claudia Sommerer, Chin Leng Tan, et al.. (2022). Common T-Cell-Receptor Motifs and Features in Patients with Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-Seronegative End-Stage Renal Disease Receiving a Peptide Vaccination against CMV. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(3). 1029–1029. 2 indexed citations

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Kilian, Michael, Sebastian Uhrig, Alexander Brobeil, et al.. (2022). IgE type multiple myeloma exhibits hypermutated phenotype and tumor reactive T cells. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 10(10). e005815–e005815. 5 indexed citations

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Costa, Barbara, Michael Fletcher, Ekaterina Ivanova, et al.. (2021). A Set of Cell Lines Derived from a Genetic Murine Glioblastoma Model Recapitulates Molecular and Morphological Characteristics of Human Tumors. Cancers. 13(2). 230–230. 15 indexed citations

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Friedrich, Mirco, Katharina A.M. Lindner, Iris Mildenberger, et al.. (2021). Intrathecal activation of CD8 ⁺ memory T cells in IgG4‐related disease of the brain parenchyma. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 13(8). e13953–e13953. 8 indexed citations

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Kilian, Michael, Theresa Bunse, Wolfgang Wick, Michael Platten, & Lukas Bunse. (2021). Genetically Modified Cellular Therapies for Malignant Gliomas. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(23). 12810–12810. 12 indexed citations

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Kilian, Michael, Chin Leng Tan, Katrin Aslan, et al.. (2021). Comparative evaluation of T-cell receptors in experimental glioma-draining lymph nodes. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 3(1). vdab147–vdab147. 2 indexed citations

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Platten, Michael, Lukas Bunse, & Wolfgang Wick. (2021). Hirntumorimmuntherapie – Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Personalisierung. Der Nervenarzt. 92(10). 996–1001. 1 indexed citations

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Ochs, Katharina, Martina Ott, Theresa Bunse, et al.. (2017). K27M-mutant histone-3 as a novel target for glioma immunotherapy. OncoImmunology. 6(7). e1328340–e1328340. 89 indexed citations

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