2026

Y. Mehrjerdian, R. Atallah, B. Wijaya, C. Hammers, S. Gerdes, and G. Heine,
Case Reports: Dupilumab in difficult-to-read bullous pemphigoid at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Frontiers in Medicine , Jan. 2026.
DOI:10.3389/fmed.2025.1697048
A. Mahdy, Z. Taheri, M. Hoivik, A. Franke, and H. ElAbd,
High throughput profiling of the B cell repertoire identifies systemic changes in the repertoir of individuals with Crohn's disease, Frontiers in Immunology , Feb. 2026.
DOI:10.3389/fimmu.2026.1725813
K. Sinning, M. Eckstein, X. Zhao, A. Rosenfeldt, S. Hochrein, and M. Vaeth,
The Glucose Transporter GLUT3 Controls Regulatory T Cell Function, bioRxiv , Mar. 2026.
DOI:10.64898/2026.03.26.714439
S. Gonther, M. Thieme, G. Gubert, P. Schilf, A. Derenda-Hell, S. Murthy, M. Hirose, M. Vaeth, and C. Sadik,
Moxifloxacin Inhibits Neutrophil Responses to Immune Complexes and Ameliorates Skin Inlfammation in a Model of Pemphigoid Diseases, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology , Feb. 2026.
DOI:10.1096/fj.202503040RR
A. Hutloff,
Selective Complement Inhibition in , Cellular & Molecular Immunology , Mar. 2026.
DOI:10.1038/s41423-026-01400-3
S. Emtenani, T. Lari, C. Kiehne, N. Beek, M. Holtsche, and E. Schmidt,
Selective Complement Inhibition in Anti-p200 Pemphigoid: Immune Infiltrate Profiles and Therapeutic Implications Compared to Bullous Pemphigoid, biomolecules , Jan. 2026.
DOI:10.3390/biom16020182
H. ElAbd, A. Mahdy, E. Wacker, M. Gretsova, D. Ellinghaus, A. Dempfile, and A. Franke,
T cell receptor clonotypes predict human leukocyte antigen allele carriage and antigen exposure history, Communications Biology , Jan. 2026.
DOI:10.1038/s42003-025-09140-2
S. Klapa, K. Bieber, A. Vorobyev, M. Ludwig, G. Vollert, S. Arnold, H. Olbrich, H. Nording, A. Müller, K. Kridin, J. Schirmer, K. Allwördern, A. Staehle, R. Ludwig, and P. Lamprecht,
ANCA-associated vasculitis is associated with an increased risk of cardiac and vascular morbidity: results of a large-scale propensity-matched global retrospective cohort study, Frontiers in Immunology , Apr. 2026.
DOI:10.3389/fimmu.2026.1794549
A. Mahdy, H. ElAbd, M. Prinzensteiner, H. Jebens, K. Sivickis, P. Bacher, T. Vogl, M. Poyet, and A. Franke,
Mapping adaptive immune responses toward fungal antigens in inflammatory bowel disease using T cell repertoire sequencing and phage-immunoprecipitation sequencing, Journal of Crohns's and Colitis , Apr. 2026.
DOI:10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjag015

2025

B. Laffer, M. Ohms, S. Kenno, P. Tsui, E. Ehlers-Jeske, W. Song, W. Song, and J. Köhl,
Therapeutic targeting of alternative pathway and C5 but not C5a protects from disease development in a preclinical model of autoiummune blistering dermatosis, Frontiers in Immunology , Apr. 2025.
DOI:DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1560468
M. Hibino, T. Filosi, L. Carrion, E. Porcu, A. Malhotra, K. Lüdtke-Buzug, S. Ibrahim, Y. Yamada, and M. Hirose,
An effective approach to modulate mitochondrial function in murine primary macrophages by a mitochondria-targeted nanocapsule, MITO-Porter, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy , Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.1016/j.biopha.2025.118019
H. Wu, M. Prados, and M. Vaeth,
Metabolic Regulation of T Cell Exhaustion, Immune Discovery , Mar. 2025.
DOI:10.70322/immune.2025.10005
S. Preuß, K. Bieber, A. Vorobyev, A. Recke, E. Moderegger, H. Zirpel, E. Gaffal, D. Thaci, K. Kridin, and R. Ludwig,
Dupilumab shows no elevated risk for maternal adverse pregnancy outcomes: A propensity-matched cohort study, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology , Mar. 2025.
DOI:10.1111/jdv.20670
M. Tigges, S. Dräger, I. Piccini, K. Bieber, A. Vorobjev, J. Edelkamp, M. Bertolini, and R. Ludwig,
Pemphigoid disease model systems for clinical translation, Frontiers in Immunology , Mar. 2025.
DOI:10.3389/fimmu.2025.1537428
R. Ludwig, M. Anson, H. Zirpel, D. Thaci, H. Olbrich, K. Bieber, K. Kridin, A. Dempfle, P. Curman, S. Zhao, and U. Alam,
A comprehensive review of methodologies and application to use the real-world data and analytics platform TriNetX, Frontiers in Pharmacology , Mar. 2025.
DOI:10.3389/fphar.2025.1516126
S. Stenger, A. Vorobjev, K. Bieber, T. Lange, R. Ludwig, and J. Hundt,
Insomnia increases the risk for specific autoimmune diseases: a large-scale retroperspective cohort study, Frontiers in Network Physiology , Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.3389/fnetp.2025.1499297
J. Kwon, H. Kawase, K. Mattonet, S. Guenther, L. Hahnefeld, J. Shamasara, J. Heering, M. Kurz, S. Kirchhofer, C. Krasel, M. Ulrich, M. Presechino, S. Murthy, C. ORlandi, C. Saidk, G. Geisslinger, M. Bünemann, P. Kolb, S. Offermanns, and N. Wettschureck,
Orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPRC5B controls macrophage function by facilitating prostaglandin E receptor 2 signaling, nature communications , Feb. 2025.
DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-56713-0
K. Kridin, C. Papara, K. Bieber, D. Luca, J. Klein, M. Ludwig, P. Curman, A. Vorobyev, A. Dempfle, and R. Ludwig,
Nicotine dependence is associated with an increased risk of developing chronic, non-communicable inflammatory disease: a large-scale retroperspective cohort study, Frontoers in Psychiatry , Feb. 2025.
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1429297
S. Schacht, J. Graffunder, P. Durek, J. Wehrenberg, A. Siracusa, C. Biese, M. Mashreghi, K. Thurley, L. Bauer, and A. Hutloff,
Activation and maturation of antigen-specific B cells in nonectopic lung infiltrates are independent of germinal center reactions in the draining lymph node, Cellular & Molecular Immunology , Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.1038/s41423-025-01285-8
V. Hartmann, S. Guo, S. Rahimi, U. Radine, D. Malheiros, A. Salviano-Silva, V. Hoch, G. Cipolla, V. Calonga-Solis, A. Künstner, I. Burmester, R. Ludwig, W. Hariton, C. Hammers, E. Müller, H. Busch, and J. Hundt,
In pemphigus, cell detachment, but not autoantibody binding, induces cell-wide, long lasting transcriptomic and proteomic changes, bioRxiv , Feb. 2025.
DOI:10.1101/2025.02.10.637416
S. Mousavi, K. Bieber, H. Zirpel, A. Vorobyev, H. Olbrich, C. Papara, D. Luca, D. Thaci, E. Schmidt, G. Riemekasten, P. Lamprecht, M. Laudes, K. Kridin, and R. Ludwig,
Large-scale analysis highlights obesity as a risk factor for chronic, non-communicable inflammatroy diseases, Frontiers in Endocrinology , Feb. 2025.
DOI:10.3389/fendo.2025.1516433
P. Curman, S. Dräger, H. Olbrich, G. Hernandez, K. Bieber, E. Gaffal, K. Kridin, S. Szymczak, and R. Ludiwg,
Identifying common risk factors for primary cellulitis in a large-scale retrospective cohort study, Preprints with THE LANCET , May 2025.
T. Lari, L. Macias, L. Robrahn, H. Dikmen, J. Prüßmann, C. Kiehne, S. Engster, I. Weyers, S. Szymczak, N. Beek, M. Hoffmann, E. Schmidt, and S. Emtenani,
Localization of Lesions in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases Is Independent of Site-Speicific Target Antigen Expression, Life , Jan. 2025.
DOI:10.3390/life15020218
L. Bao, C. Guerrero-Juarez, J. Li, M. Pigors, S. Emtenani, Y. Liu, A. Mansini, Y. Wang, A. Ahmed, N. Ishii, T. Hashimoto, B. White, S. Green, K. Kunstman, N. Nowak, C. Cole, M. Sarkar, J. Gudjonsson, M. Virgilia, M. Sverdlov, M. McAlexander, C. McCrae, C. Nazaroff, E. Schmidt, and K. Amber,
IgG autoantibodies in bullous pemphigoid induce a pathogenic MyD88-dependent proinflammatory response in keratinocytes, nature communications , Jul. 2025.
DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-62495-2
A. Mahdy, J. Fuß, S. Franzenburg, M. Vollstedt, Y. Dolshanskaya, Kokubun, V. Kriukova, F. Tran, C. Bang, M. Hoivik, J. Skieceviciene, J. Kupcinskas, M. Poyet, A. Franke, and H. ElAbd,
Quantifying The Impact of Bulk TCR-Seq Methodological Choices on The Profiled T Cell Repertoire, bioRxiv , Aug. 2025.
DOI:10.1101/2025.08.05.668736