Torsten Meißner

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Torsten Meißner is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Torsten Meißner has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Immunology, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Torsten Meißner's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (9 papers). Torsten Meißner is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (9 papers). Torsten Meißner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Torsten Meißner's co-authors include Koichi S. Kobayashi, Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Jack L. Strominger, Tamara Tilburgs, Amy Li, Amlan Biswas, Chad A. Cowan, Yuen-Joyce Liu, Peter J. van den Elsen and Uwe Vinkemeier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Torsten Meißner

45 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Efficient Ablation of Genes in Human Hematopoietic Stem and Effector Cells using CRISPR/Cas9

2014 379 citations Pankaj Kumar Mandal, Leonardo M. R. Ferreira et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Efficient site-specific integration of large genes in mammalian cells via continuously evolved recombinases and prime editing

2024 70 citations Smriti Pandey, Xin D. Gao et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Torsten Meißner United States	21	1.5k	1.3k	657	339	272	47	2.8k
Herzl Ben‐Hur Israel	19	1.1k 0.8×	947 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	281 0.8×	309 1.1×	80	3.2k
Michiyuki Maeda Japan	30	2.4k 1.6×	865 0.7×	566 0.9×	260 0.8×	98 0.4×	72	3.5k
Rosalba Sacca United States	16	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	615 0.9×	319 0.9×	122 0.4×	25	2.9k
Anna Starzinski‐Powitz Germany	39	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	324 0.5×	594 1.8×	502 1.8×	98	4.9k
Francisco Martı́n Spain	30	551 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	554 0.8×	713 2.1×	204 0.8×	119	3.0k
Hervé Luche France	27	3.3k 2.3×	1.2k 0.9×	571 0.9×	333 1.0×	231 0.8×	46	4.6k
Kazumasa Ogasawara Japan	30	1.2k 0.8×	892 0.7×	320 0.5×	158 0.5×	172 0.6×	119	2.7k
Marı́a L. Toribio Spain	34	2.1k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	718 1.1×	253 0.7×	98 0.4×	109	3.5k
Nicholas M. Gough Australia	25	1.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.9×	774 1.2×	699 2.1×	233 0.9×	43	3.9k
Inga‐Lill Mårtensson Sweden	29	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	271 0.4×	426 1.3×	140 0.5×	78	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Torsten Meißner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Torsten Meißner

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Ferreira, Leonardo M. R., et al.. (2025). The TEA domain transcription factors TEAD1 and TEAD3 and WNT signaling determine HLA-G expression in human extravillous trophoblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(12). e2425339122–e2425339122. 1 indexed citations

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Pandey, Smriti, Xin D. Gao, N Krasnow, et al.. (2024). Efficient site-specific integration of large genes in mammalian cells via continuously evolved recombinases and prime editing. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 9(1). 22–39. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Fang, et al.. (2024). Progesterone-mediated remodeling of the maternal-fetal interface by a PGRMC1-dependent mechanism. Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 163. 104244–104244. 6 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, et al.. (2022). Immune Editing: Overcoming Immune Barriers in Stem Cell Transplantation. Current Stem Cell Reports. 8(4). 206–218. 19 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, Fang Wang, Ziming Du, et al.. (2021). ELF3 activated by a superenhancer and an autoregulatory feedback loop is required for high-level HLA-C expression on extravillous trophoblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(9). 17 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten & Chad A. Cowan. (2020). More Bang for Your Buck: “Off-The-Shelf” Solutions for Cell Replacement Therapy. 2(1). 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Leite, Nayara C., Elad Sintov, Torsten Meißner, et al.. (2020). Modeling Type 1 Diabetes In Vitro Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Reports. 32(2). 107894–107894. 61 indexed citations

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Toyohara, Takafumi, Filip Roudnicky, Mary H.C. Florido, et al.. (2020). Patient hiPSCs Identify Vascular Smooth Muscle Arylacetamide Deacetylase as Protective against Atherosclerosis. Cell stem cell. 27(1). 178–180. 8 indexed citations

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Toyohara, Takafumi, Filip Roudnicky, Mary H.C. Florido, et al.. (2020). Patient hiPSCs Identify Vascular Smooth Muscle Arylacetamide Deacetylase as Protective against Atherosclerosis. Cell stem cell. 27(1). 147–157.e7. 20 indexed citations

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Han, Xiao, Mengning Wang, Paul J. Franco, et al.. (2019). Generation of hypoimmunogenic human pluripotent stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(21). 10441–10446. 239 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, et al.. (2019). The Dual Role of HLA-C in Tolerance and Immunity at the Maternal-Fetal Interface. Frontiers in Immunology. 10. 2730–2730. 99 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yichen, Alyssa J. Rolfe, Christy Hammack, et al.. (2018). An hPSC-Derived Tissue-Resident Macrophage Model Reveals Differential Responses of Macrophages to ZIKV and DENV Infection. Stem Cell Reports. 11(2). 348–362. 27 indexed citations

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Tilburgs, Tamara, Torsten Meißner, Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, et al.. (2017). NLRP2 is a suppressor of NF-ƙB signaling and HLA-C expression in human trophoblasts†,‡. Biology of Reproduction. 96(4). 831–842. 44 indexed citations

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Kim, Hye‐Jung, R. Anthony Barnitz, Taras Kreslavsky, et al.. (2015). Stable inhibitory activity of regulatory T cells requires the transcription factor Helios. Science. 350(6258). 334–339. 297 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, Pankaj Kumar Mandal, Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Derrick J. Rossi, & Chad A. Cowan. (2014). Genome Editing for Human Gene Therapy. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 546. 273–295. 16 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, Amy Li, & Koichi S. Kobayashi. (2011). NLRC5: a newly discovered MHC class I transactivator (CITA). Microbes and Infection. 14(6). 477–484. 67 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten. (2004). Zum gallischen Zahlwort für erster: ein indirekter Zeuge?. Historical Linguistics. 117(1). 97–100. 1 indexed citations

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Meißner, Torsten, Eberhard Krause, & Uwe Vinkemeier. (2004). Ratjadone and leptomycin B block CRM1‐dependent nuclear export by identical mechanisms. FEBS Letters. 576(1-2). 27–30. 70 indexed citations

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Fuß, Bernhard, et al.. (2003). Cooperation of JAK/STAT and Notch signaling in the Drosophila foregut. Developmental Biology. 267(1). 181–189. 22 indexed citations

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Fuß, Bernhard, et al.. (2001). Control of endoreduplication domains in the Drosophila gut by the knirps and knirps-related genes. Mechanisms of Development. 100(1). 15–23. 19 indexed citations

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