Ruth Ganß

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Ruth Ganß is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Ganß has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Immunology and 20 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ruth Ganß's work include Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (20 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (15 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (11 papers). Ruth Ganß is often cited by papers focused on Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (20 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (15 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (11 papers). Ruth Ganß collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and United States. Ruth Ganß's co-authors include Günter J. Hämmerling, Bernd Arnold, Anna Johansson, Juliana Hamzah, Gabriele Bergers, Rose Du, Kan Lu, Claudia Petritsch, Scott R. VandenBerg and Randall S. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Ganß

58 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

HIF1α Induces the Recruitment of Bone Marrow-Derived Vascular Modulatory Cells to Regulate Tumor Angiogenesis and Invasion

2008 902 citations Rose Du, Kan Lu et al. Cancer Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Ganß Australia	32	1.9k	1.9k	1.9k	1.1k	403	58	4.5k
Farbod Shojaei United States	22	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	891 0.8×	291 0.7×	35	4.0k
Oakley C. Olson United States	18	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	702 0.7×	538 1.3×	23	4.2k
Sonja Loges Germany	35	1.9k 1.0×	926 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	423 1.0×	98	5.0k
P. Charles Lin United States	27	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	837 0.8×	135 0.3×	35	4.1k
Sachie Hiratsuka Japan	18	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	3.2k 1.7×	1.6k 1.5×	170 0.4×	24	5.4k
Agnieszka E. Gorska United States	31	3.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.7×	799 0.8×	232 0.6×	48	5.5k
Trang Hoang Canada	26	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	540 1.3×	47	5.6k
Meriem Hasmim France	28	2.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	119 0.3×	42	4.6k
Damya Laoui Belgium	31	2.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.9×	1.9k 1.0×	858 0.8×	153 0.4×	60	5.5k
Sandra S. McAllister United States	24	2.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	271 0.7×	46	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Ganß

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Li, Zhijie, Judith A. Ermer, Ji Li, et al.. (2025). Selective tubulin-binding drugs induce pericyte phenotype switching and anti-cancer immunity. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 17(5). 1071–1100. 2 indexed citations

Ganß, Ruth, et al.. (2025). Pericyte phenotype switching in cancer. Trends in cancer. 11(9). 877–888. 2 indexed citations

He, Bo, Edward Bastow, Ji Li, et al.. (2024). Immune priming and induction of tertiary lymphoid structures in a cord-blood humanized mouse model of gastrointestinal stromal tumor. OncoImmunology. 13(1). 2406576–2406576. 2 indexed citations

Johansson, Anna & Ruth Ganß. (2021). Therapeutic Induction of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Cancer Through Stromal Remodeling. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 674375–674375. 41 indexed citations

Chopra, Meenu, Louise N Winteringham, Tristan D. Clemons, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Detection of Desmoplasia by Targeted Delivery of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles to the Tumour-Specific Extracellular Matrix. Pharmaceutics. 13(10). 1663–1663. 4 indexed citations

He, Bo & Ruth Ganß. (2021). Modulation of the Vascular-Immune Environment in Metastatic Cancer. Cancers. 13(4). 810–810. 15 indexed citations

He, Bo, Arnaud Jabouille, Veronica Steri, et al.. (2018). Vascular targeting of LIGHT normalizes blood vessels in primary brain cancer and induces intratumoural high endothelial venules. The Journal of Pathology. 245(2). 209–221. 84 indexed citations

Zhao, Yang, Ka Ka Ting, Jia Li, et al.. (2017). Targeting Vascular Endothelial-Cadherin in Tumor-Associated Blood Vessels Promotes T-cell–Mediated Immunotherapy. Cancer Research. 77(16). 4434–4447. 50 indexed citations

Johansson, Anna, Bo He, Karen E. Russell, et al.. (2017). De novo induction of intratumoral lymphoid structures and vessel normalization enhances immunotherapy in resistant tumors. Nature Immunology. 18(11). 1207–1217. 244 indexed citations

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Johansson, Anna, Juliana Hamzah, & Ruth Ganß. (2015). More than a scaffold: Stromal modulation of tumor immunity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1865(1). 3–13. 36 indexed citations

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Viebahn, Cornelia S., Volker Benseler, Lauren E. Holz, et al.. (2010). Invading macrophages play a major role in the liver progenitor cell response to chronic liver injury. Journal of Hepatology. 53(3). 500–507. 57 indexed citations

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Manzur, Mitali & Ruth Ganß. (2009). Regulator of G Protein Signaling 5: A New Player in Vascular Remodeling. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 19(1). 26–30. 38 indexed citations

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Du, Rose, Kan Lu, Claudia Petritsch, et al.. (2008). HIF1α Induces the Recruitment of Bone Marrow-Derived Vascular Modulatory Cells to Regulate Tumor Angiogenesis and Invasion. Cancer Cell. 13(3). 206–220. 902 indexed citations breakdown →

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Manzur, Mitali, Juliana Hamzah, & Ruth Ganß. (2008). Modulation of the "blood-tumor" barrier improves immunotherapy. Cell Cycle. 7(16). 2452–2455. 24 indexed citations

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Hämmerling, Günter J. & Ruth Ganß. (2006). Vascular Integration of Endothelial Progenitors During Multistep Tumor Progression. Cell Cycle. 5(5). 509–511. 21 indexed citations

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Ganß, Ruth. (2006). Tumor stroma fosters neovascularization by recuitment of progenitor cells into the tumor bed. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 10(4). 806–814. 27 indexed citations

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Spring, Herbert, Thomas Schüler, Bernd Arnold, Günter J. Hämmerling, & Ruth Ganß. (2005). Chemokines direct endothelial progenitors into tumor neovessels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(50). 18111–18116. 194 indexed citations

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Garbi, Natalio, Bernd Arnold, Siamon Gordon, Günter J. Hämmerling, & Ruth Ganß. (2004). CpG Motifs as Proinflammatory Factors Render Autochthonous Tumors Permissive for Infiltration and Destruction. The Journal of Immunology. 172(10). 5861–5869. 114 indexed citations

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Ryschich, Eduard, Jan Schmidt, Günter J. Hämmerling, E. Klar, & Ruth Ganß. (2002). Transformation of the microvascular system during multistage tumorigenesis. International Journal of Cancer. 97(6). 719–725. 75 indexed citations

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Kawarada, You, Ruth Ganß, Natalio Garbi, et al.. (2001). NK- and CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Eradication of Established Tumors by Peritumoral Injection of CpG-Containing Oligodeoxynucleotides. The Journal of Immunology. 167(9). 5247–5253. 188 indexed citations

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