Toralf Roch

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Toralf Roch is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Toralf Roch has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Immunology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Toralf Roch's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (9 papers). Toralf Roch is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (9 papers). Toralf Roch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United Kingdom. Toralf Roch's co-authors include Simon Fillatreau, Vicky Lampropoulou, Stephen M. Anderton, Andreas Lendlein, Ping Shen, Elisabeth Calderón‐Gómez, Patrícia Neves, Ulrich Steinhoff, Richard A. O’Connor and David Gray and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Immunity.

In The Last Decade

Toralf Roch

66 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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B cell depletion therapy ameliorates autoimmune disease through ablation of IL-6–producing B cells

2012 498 citations Ping Shen, Vicky Lampropoulou et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toralf Roch Germany	20	1.4k	313	278	229	227	70	2.3k
Xiangyang Tan China	19	1.8k 1.3×	513 1.6×	249 0.9×	282 1.2×	183 0.8×	39	3.0k
David Sehy United States	8	2.1k 1.5×	354 1.1×	221 0.8×	564 2.5×	103 0.5×	14	2.8k
Howard Meyerson United States	27	731 0.5×	603 1.9×	353 1.3×	445 1.9×	352 1.6×	114	2.6k
Ilan Bank Israel	28	1.9k 1.3×	613 2.0×	178 0.6×	548 2.4×	256 1.1×	81	3.6k
Dorothea Terhorst‐Molawi Germany	19	1.0k 0.7×	276 0.9×	249 0.9×	323 1.4×	74 0.3×	50	2.1k
Stephen R. Brooks United States	28	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 3.4×	105 0.4×	382 1.7×	298 1.3×	55	3.0k
Yujie Liu China	20	1.4k 1.0×	865 2.8×	88 0.3×	499 2.2×	433 1.9×	118	3.0k
George F. Murphy United States	37	2.2k 1.6×	561 1.8×	186 0.7×	578 2.5×	256 1.1×	65	4.5k
Koichiro Takahashi Japan	25	668 0.5×	543 1.7×	80 0.3×	228 1.0×	248 1.1×	117	2.3k
A. Facchini Italy	31	787 0.6×	481 1.5×	148 0.5×	329 1.4×	394 1.7×	127	2.6k

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Roch, Toralf, Krystallenia Paniskaki, Constantin J. Thieme, et al.. (2025). Urine-derived renal tubular epithelial cells resemble functional characteristics of professional antigen-presenting cells and can directly induce BKV-specific T cell responses. Journal of Nephrology. 38(7). 1841–1854.

Blazquez‐Navarro, Arturo, Chris Bauer, Michal Or‐Guil, et al.. (2024). Interactions of TTV with BKV, CMV, EBV, and HHV-6A and their impact on post-transplant graft function in kidney transplant recipients. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1393838–1393838.

Blazquez‐Navarro, Arturo, Toralf Roch, Chris Bauer, et al.. (2023). High incidence and viral load of HHV-6A in a multi-centre kidney transplant cohort. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 1188535–1188535. 1 indexed citations

Roch, Toralf, Benjamin Rohn, Arturo Blazquez‐Navarro, et al.. (2022). A Vector-Based Vaccine Dose After 3 Doses of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination Does Not Substantially Improve Humoral SARS-CoV-2 Immunity in Renal Transplant Recipients. Kidney International Reports. 7(4). 932–934. 4 indexed citations

Roch, Toralf, et al.. (2022). Regulation of the apoptosis/autophagy switch by propionic acid in ventromedial hypothalamus of rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Heliyon. 8(11). e11529–e11529. 10 indexed citations

Paniskaki, Krystallenia, Moritz Anft, Constantin J. Thieme, et al.. (2022). Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Cross-Reactive B and T Cell Responses in Kidney Transplant Patients. Transplantation Proceedings. 54(6). 1455–1464. 3 indexed citations

Blazquez‐Navarro, Arturo, Chantip Dang‐Heine, Toralf Roch, et al.. (2021). Risk factors for Epstein–Barr virus reactivation after renal transplantation: Results of a large, multi‐centre study. Transplant International. 34(9). 1680–1688. 7 indexed citations

Babel, Nina, Moritz Anft, Arturo Blazquez‐Navarro, et al.. (2020). Immune monitoring facilitates the clinical decision in multifocal COVID-19 of a pancreas-kidney transplant patient. American Journal of Transplantation. 20(11). 3210–3215. 10 indexed citations

Stervbo, Ulrik, Benjamin Rohn, Toralf Roch, et al.. (2020). Stability of 12 T-helper cell-associated cytokines in human serum under different pre-analytical conditions. Cytokine. 129. 155044–155044. 4 indexed citations

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Stervbo, Ulrik, Sven Rahmann, Toralf Roch, Timm H. Westhoff, & Nina Babel. (2020). Epitope similarity cannot explain the pre-formed T cell immunity towards structural SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18995–18995. 7 indexed citations

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Blazquez‐Navarro, Arturo, Leila Amini, Michael Schmueck‐Henneresse, et al.. (2020). The role of soluble mediators in the clinical course of EBV infection and B cell homeostasis after kidney transplantation. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19594–19594. 5 indexed citations

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Stervbo, Ulrik, et al.. (2019). Repeated Changes to the Gravitational Field Negatively Affect the Serum Concentration of Select Growth Factors and Cytokines. Frontiers in Physiology. 10. 402–402. 6 indexed citations

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Roch, Toralf, et al.. (2019). Phagocytosis of spherical and ellipsoidal micronetwork colloids from crosslinked poly(ε-caprolactone). International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 567. 118461–118461. 11 indexed citations

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Thieme, Constantin J., Toralf Roch, Ulrik Stervbo, et al.. (2019). The TreaT-Assay: A Novel Urine-Derived Donor Kidney Cell-Based Assay for Prediction of Kidney Transplantation Outcome. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19037–19037. 7 indexed citations

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Stervbo, Ulrik, Toralf Roch, Birgit Sawitzki, et al.. (2018). Gravitational stress during parabolic flights reduces the number of circulating innate and adaptive leukocyte subsets in human blood. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206272–e0206272. 15 indexed citations

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Stervbo, Ulrik, Dominika Pohlmann, Udo Baron, et al.. (2017). Age dependent differences in the kinetics of γδ T cells after influenza vaccination. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181161–e0181161. 17 indexed citations

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Wischke, Christian, Anne Krüger, Toralf Roch, et al.. (2013). Endothelial cell response to (co)polymer nanoparticles depending on the inflammatory environment and comonomer ratio. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. 84(2). 288–296. 19 indexed citations

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Neffe, Axel T., S. Braune, Toralf Roch, et al.. (2013). Poly(ethylene glycol) Grafting to Poly(ether imide) Membranes: Influence on Protein Adsorption and Thrombocyte Adhesion. Macromolecular Bioscience. 13(12). 1720–1729. 32 indexed citations

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Neves, Patrícia, Vicky Lampropoulou, Elisabeth Calderón‐Gómez, et al.. (2010). Signaling via the MyD88 Adaptor Protein in B Cells Suppresses Protective Immunity during Salmonella typhimurium Infection. Immunity. 33(5). 777–790. 236 indexed citations

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Hoehlig, Kai, Vicky Lampropoulou, Toralf Roch, et al.. (2008). Chapter 1 Immune Regulation by B Cells and Antibodies. Advances in immunology. 98. 1–38. 19 indexed citations

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