Uwe Grether

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Uwe Grether is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Uwe Grether has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Pharmacology and 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Uwe Grether's work include Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (33 papers), Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects (14 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (11 papers). Uwe Grether is often cited by papers focused on Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (33 papers), Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects (14 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (11 papers). Uwe Grether collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Uwe Grether's co-authors include Herbert Waldmann, Frank Stieber, Bernd Kuhn, Peter Mohr, Jörg Benz, Christoph Ullmer, Rainer E. Martin, Markus Meyer, Mario van der Stelt and Alfred Binggeli and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Uwe Grether

60 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Goods and Bads of the Endocannabinoid System as a Therapeutic Target: Lessons Learned after 30 Years

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uwe Grether Switzerland	21	715	377	343	225	174	67	1.3k
Andrew W. Stamford United States	22	604 0.8×	187 0.5×	479 1.4×	245 1.1×	216 1.2×	51	1.5k
Jen‐Shin Song Taiwan	22	625 0.9×	156 0.4×	346 1.0×	132 0.6×	133 0.8×	58	1.4k
Jens‐Uwe Peters Switzerland	17	737 1.0×	150 0.4×	328 1.0×	355 1.6×	349 2.0×	38	1.3k
Jana Sopková‐de Oliveira Santos France	24	845 1.2×	422 1.1×	982 2.9×	116 0.5×	351 2.0×	122	2.1k
Paul C. Trippier United States	21	802 1.1×	224 0.6×	827 2.4×	123 0.5×	116 0.7×	55	1.8k
Régis Millet France	20	663 0.9×	373 1.0×	501 1.5×	204 0.9×	56 0.3×	71	1.4k
J. Guy Breitenbucher United States	26	833 1.2×	763 2.0×	663 1.9×	322 1.4×	85 0.5×	50	2.1k
Rita Scarpelli Italy	25	1.0k 1.4×	502 1.3×	600 1.7×	129 0.6×	160 0.9×	48	2.0k
Anthony J. Roecker United States	20	748 1.0×	280 0.7×	881 2.6×	127 0.6×	73 0.4×	28	2.2k
Soosung Kang South Korea	21	704 1.0×	99 0.3×	374 1.1×	259 1.2×	122 0.7×	54	1.4k

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Kuhaudomlarp, Sakonwan, Annabelle Varrot, Anne Imberty, et al.. (2025). The Parkinson's Disease Drug Tolcapone and Analogues are Potent Glycomimetic Lectin Inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecA. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(50). e202508864–e202508864.

Miljuš, Tamara, Tomasz Maciej Stępniewski, Franziska M. Heydenreich, et al.. (2025). Multiple intramolecular triggers converge to preferential G protein coupling in the CB2R. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5265–5265. 1 indexed citations

Geary, Nori, Wolfgang Guba, Yuan‐Ping Han, et al.. (2025). Biased Signaling and Its Role in the Genesis of Short- and Long-Acting β₂-Adrenoceptor Agonists. Biochemistry. 64(16). 3585–3598.

Zheng, Ming‐Qiang, Jiwei Gu, Claudia Keller, et al.. (2024). Exploration of (R)-[11C]YH168 as a PET tracer for imaging monoacylglycerol lipase in the brain: from mice to non-human primates. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 52(4). 1556–1565. 1 indexed citations

Sarott, Roman C., David A. Sykes, Rosa Maria Vitale, et al.. (2024). Flipping the GPCR Switch: Structure-Based Development of Selective Cannabinoid Receptor 2 Inverse Agonists. ACS Central Science. 10(5). 956–968. 9 indexed citations

Keller, Claudia, Dominik Heer, Ludovic Collin, et al.. (2024). Preclinical Evaluation of the Reversible Monoacylglycerol Lipase PET Tracer (R)‐[¹¹C]YH132: Application in Drug Development and Neurodegenerative Diseases. ChemBioChem. 25(7). e202300819–e202300819. 2 indexed citations

Atz, Kenneth, Leandro Cotos, Clemens Isert, et al.. (2024). Prospective de novo drug design with deep interactome learning. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3408–3408. 44 indexed citations

Atz, Kenneth, Alex T. Müller, Andrea Anelli, et al.. (2024). Geometric deep learning-guided Suzuki reaction conditions assessment for applications in medicinal chemistry. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 15(7). 2310–2321. 4 indexed citations

Guba, Wolfgang, et al.. (2023). Development of a membrane-based Gi-CASE biosensor assay for profiling compounds at cannabinoid receptors. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1158091–1158091. 2 indexed citations

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Atz, Kenneth, Alex T. Müller, Georg Wuitschik, et al.. (2023). Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning. Nature Chemistry. 16(2). 239–248. 50 indexed citations

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Sykes, David A., Rosa Maria Vitale, Roman C. Sarott, et al.. (2023). Platform Reagents Enable Synthesis of Ligand-Directed Covalent Probes: Study of Cannabinoid Receptor 2 in Live Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(28). 15094–15108. 20 indexed citations

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Atz, Kenneth, Alex T. Müller, Clemens Isert, et al.. (2023). Identifying opportunities for late-stage C-H alkylation with high-throughput experimentation and in silico reaction screening. Communications Chemistry. 6(1). 256–256. 8 indexed citations

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Nazaré, Marc & Uwe Grether. (2023). Visualizing the anti-inflammatory cannabinoid Type-2 receptor. 38(1). 30–31. 1 indexed citations

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Grether, Uwe, Jörg Benz, Dominik Heer, et al.. (2022). Development of High Brain-Penetrant and Reversible Monoacylglycerol Lipase PET Tracers for Neuroimaging. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(3). 2191–2207. 10 indexed citations

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Carreira, Erick M., et al.. (2022). Reverse-Design toward Optimized Labeled Chemical Probes – Examples from the Endocannabinoid System. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 76(5). 425–425. 8 indexed citations

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Westphal, Matthias V., Roman C. Sarott, Wolfgang Guba, et al.. (2020). Highly Selective, Amine‐Derived Cannabinoid Receptor 2 Probes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(6). 1380–1387. 19 indexed citations

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Soethoudt, Marjolein, Sara Christina Stolze, Matthias V. Westphal, et al.. (2018). Selective Photoaffinity Probe That Enables Assessment of Cannabinoid CB₂ Receptor Expression and Ligand Engagement in Human Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(19). 6067–6075. 71 indexed citations

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Grether, Uwe, Werner Klaus, Bernd Kuhn, et al.. (2010). New Insights on the Mechanism of PPAR‐targeted Drugs. ChemMedChem. 5(12). 1973–1976. 11 indexed citations

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Grether, Uwe & Herbert Waldmann. (2000). Ein enzymlabiler Safety-Catch-Anker für die kombinatorische Synthese an einem löslichen polymeren Träger. Angewandte Chemie. 112(9). 1688–1691. 12 indexed citations

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Grether, Uwe & Herbert Waldmann. (2000). An Enzyme-Labile Safety Catch Linker for Combinatorial Synthesis on a Soluble Polymeric Support. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39(9). 1629–1632. 35 indexed citations

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