Publications
2026
Identification of new overlapping and disease-specific genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis and radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: a meta-analysis of three large European populations and functional characterization
Antonio José Cabrera-Serrano,
María Carretero-Fernández,
Begoña Pérez-Rojo,
Rob Ter Horst,
Marisa Cañadas-Garre,
Helena Canhão,
Luca Quartuccio,
Signe B Sorensen,
Bente Glintborg,
Ileana Filipescu,
Eva Pérez-Pampin,
Pablo Conesa-Zamora,
Jerzy Swierkot,
Alfons A den Broeder,
Salvatore de Vita,
Eva Rabing Brix Petersen,
Yang Li,
Marieke J H Coenen,
Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik,
Vibeke Andersen,
João Eurico Fonseca,
Merete Lund Hetland,
Miguel Ángel López Nevot,
Clementina López-Medina,
Fernando Jesús Reyes-Zurita,
Mihai G Netea,
Alejandro Escudero,
Rafael Cáliz,
Eduardo Collantes-Estévez,
José Manuel Sánchez-Maldonado,
Juan Sainz.
Front Immunol. 2026 Apr 23;17:1637735. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1637735. eCollection 2026.
2026
Cross-disciplinary methodologies for whole-person research - insights from EMPOWER2024
Irène Buvat,
Erik Aarntzen,
Ramsey D Badawi,
Annabelle Ballesta,
Christoph Bock,
Chen-Nee Chuah,
Jasmin Fisher,
John-Paul Graff,
Yaron Ilan,
Hervé Isambert,
Plamen Ch Ivanov,
Leighton T Izu,
Hans Jpm Koenen,
Helene Langevin,
David Y Lewis,
David A Liem,
Jonas Mackerodt,
Manuel Pires,
Lalith Ks Sundar,
Ahmed Tawakol,
Rob Ter Horst,
Bram van Cranenbroek,
Bettina Weigelin,
Simon R Cherry,
Thomas Beyer.
Npj Imaging. 2026 Mar 25;4(1):19. doi: 10.1038/s44303-026-00151-0.
2026
Persistent viral control status is associated with enhanced innate immune responses in people with HIV-1
Jéssica C Dos Santos,
Albert L Groenendijk,
Suzanne D E Ruijten,
Rainer Knoll,
Nadira Vadaq,
Rob Ter Horst,
Ezio T Fok,
Wojciech Witkowski,
Marc J T Blaauw,
Louise E van Eekeren,
Wilhelm A J W Vos,
Maartje Cleophas-Jacobs,
Stephan Reichl,
Twan Otten,
Joost H A Martens,
Arnold van der Meer,
Han Koninkx,
Marien I de Jonge,
Marc D Beyer,
Jan van Lunzen,
Leo A B Joosten,
Christoph Bock,
Casper Rokx,
Annelies Verbon,
Linos Vandekerckhove,
Anna C Aschenbrenner,
Joachim L Schultze,
Vasiliki Matzaraki,
Andre J A M van der Ven,
Mihai G Netea.
iScience. 2026 Jan 30;29(3):114807. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.114807. eCollection 2026 Mar 20.
2026
ULK4 and CDKN2A polymorphisms influence the risk of developing monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
José Manuel Sánchez-Maldonado,
Angelica Macauda,
Antonio José Cabrera-Serrano,
Hauke Thomsen,
Murat Güler,
Rob Ter Horst,
Bethany van Guelpen,
Pavel Vodicka,
Stefano Landi,
Subhayan Chattopadhyay,
Pelin Ünal,
Lucía Ruiz-Durán,
Delphine Casabonne,
Hartmut Goldschmidt,
Istemi Serin,
María Carretero-Fernández,
Elena Cabezudo,
Fernando Reyes-Zurita,
Aaron D Norman,
Ramón García-Sanz,
Gabriele Capurso,
Per Hoffmann,
Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer,
Francisco Jiménez-Romera,
S Vincent Rajkumar,
Niels Weinhold,
Ludmila Vodickova,
Christian Langer,
Angelika Stein,
Abdulkadir Karismaz,
Victor Moreno,
Markus M Nöthen,
Karl-Heinz Jöckel,
Francesca Tavano,
Joaquín Martínez-López,
Shaji K Kumar,
Juan Francisco Gutiérrez-Bautista,
Daniela Basso,
Florentin Späth,
Yolanda Benavente,
Michelle A T Hildebrandt,
Börge Schmidt,
Tereza Sevcikova,
Rui Manuel Vieira Reis,
Yang Li,
Miguel Ángel López-Nevot,
Mihai G Netea,
Daniele Campa,
Alyssa Clay-Gilmour,
Susan L Slager,
Kari Hemminki,
Celine M Vachon,
Asta Försti,
Federico Canzian,
Juan Sainz.
Int J Cancer. 2026 Jul 15;159(2):410-422. doi: 10.1002/ijc.70427. Epub 2026 Mar 11.
2026
What are the limits to biomedical research acceleration through general-purpose AI?
Konstantin Hebenstreit,
Constantin Convalexius,
Stephan Reichl,
Stefan Huber,
Christoph Bock,
Matthias Samwald.
Sci Rep. 2026 Jan 12;16(1):1304. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-32583-w.
2025
Interleukin-38 is a negative regulator of trained immunity-A retrospective multi-omics study
Lisa U Teufel,
Vasiliki Matzaraki,
Lukas Folkman,
Dennis M de Graaf,
Rob Ter Horst,
Simone J C F M Moorlag,
Jéssica C Dos Santos,
Catharina M Mulders-Manders,
Thomas Krausgruber,
Charles Dinarello,
Mihai G Netea,
Leo A B Joosten,
Rob J W Arts.
iScience. 2025 Oct 14;28(11):113758. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113758. eCollection 2025 Nov 21.
2025
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data
Moritz Schaefer,
Peter Peneder,
Daniel Malzl,
Salvo Danilo Lombardo,
Mihaela Peycheva,
Jake Burton,
Anna Hakobyan,
Varun Sharma,
Thomas Krausgruber,
Celine Sin,
Jörg Menche,
Eleni M Tomazou,
Christoph Bock.
Nat Biotechnol. 2025 Nov 11. doi: 10.1038/s41587-025-02857-9. Online ahead of print.
2025
Pipeline Olympics: continuable benchmarking of computational workflows for DNA methylation sequencing data against an experimental gold standard
Yu-Yu Lin,
Kersten Breuer,
Dieter Weichenhan,
Pascal Lafrenz,
Antonella Sarnataro,
Agata Wilk,
Maryna Chepeleva,
Oliver Mücke,
Maximilian Schönung,
Franziska Petermann,
Philip Reiner Kensche,
Lena Weiser,
Frank Thommen,
Gideon Giacomelli,
Karl Nordstroem,
Edahi Gonzalez-Avalos,
Angelika Merkel,
Helene Kretzmer,
Jonas Fischer,
Stephen Krämer,
Murat Iskar,
Stephan Wolf,
Ivo Buchhalter,
Manel Esteller,
Christian Lawerenz,
Sven Twardziok,
Marc Zapatka,
Volker Hovestadt,
Matthias Schlesner,
Marcel H Schulz,
Steve Hoffmann,
Clarissa Gerhauser,
Jörn Walter,
Mark Hartmann,
Daniel B Lipka,
Yassen Assenov,
Christoph Bock,
Christoph Plass,
Reka Toth,
Pavlo Lutsik.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Oct 14;53(19):gkaf970. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf970.
2025
Systematic discovery of CRISPR-boosted CAR T cell immunotherapies
Paul Datlinger,
Eugenia V Pankevich,
Cosmas D Arnold,
Nicole Pranckevicius,
Jenny Lin,
Daria Romanovskaia,
Moritz Schaefer,
Francesco Piras,
Anne-Christine Orts,
Amelie Nemc,
Paulina N Biesaga,
Michelle Chan,
Teresa Neuwirth,
Artem V Artemov,
Wentao Li,
Sabrina Ladstätter,
Thomas Krausgruber,
Christoph Bock.
Nature. 2025 Oct;646(8086):963-972. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09507-9. Epub 2025 Sep 24.
2025
A genome-wide association study identifies new loci associated with response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine in a cohort of healthy healthcare workers
Antonio José Cabrera-Serrano,
Lucía Ruiz-Durán,
Juan Francisco Gutiérrez-Bautista,
María Carretero-Fernández,
Rob Ter Horst,
Yang Li,
Fernando Jesús Reyes-Zurita,
Francisco José García-Verdejo,
Mihai G Netea,
Pedro Sánchez-Rovira,
Miguel Ángel López-Nevot,
Antonio Sampedro,
Juan Sainz.
Front Immunol. 2025 Aug 18;16:1639825. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1639825. eCollection 2025.
