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Fabian J. Theis

University of Lübeck · DE
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Biophysics
Research interest
Our research is organised into six primary Scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease, analytic or generative focus. In addition, our Associate Research programmes pioneer new approaches to studying health and disease.
h-index
126
citations
83,382
works
1,087
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Mapping cells through time and space with moscot
Nature 2025cited by 108position: lastdoi
Towards multimodal foundation models in molecular cell biology
Nature 2025cited by 74position: middledoi
Transformers and genome language models
Nature Machine Intelligence 2025cited by 69position: middledoi
A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
Nature 2025cited by 63position: middledoi
Quantitative characterization of cell niches in spatially resolved omics data
Nature Genetics 2025cited by 54position: middledoi
Active learning framework leveraging transcriptomics identifies modulators of disease phenotypes
Science 2025cited by 19position: middledoi
Spatial proteo-transcriptomic profiling reveals the molecular landscape of borderline ovarian tumors and their invasive progression
Cancer Cell 2025cited by 15position: middledoi
OmniPath: integrated knowledgebase for multi-omics analysis
Nucleic Acids Research 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Single-cell multiome and spatial profiling reveals pancreas cell type–specific gene regulatory programs of type 1 diabetes progression
Science Advances 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
2D, or not 2D? Investigating Vertical Signal Integrity of Tissue Slices
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
Pertpy: an end-to-end framework for perturbation analysis
Nature Methods 2025cited by 6position: lastdoi
How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities
Cell 2024cited by 254position: middledoi
CellRank 2: unified fate mapping in multiview single-cell data
Nature Methods 2024cited by 185position: lastdoi
SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics
Nature Methods 2024cited by 166position: middledoi
An integrated transcriptomic cell atlas of human neural organoids
Nature 2024cited by 110position: middledoi
Sfrp1 inhibits lung fibroblast invasion during transition to injury-induced myofibroblasts
European Respiratory Journal 2024cited by 99position: middledoi
The future of rapid and automated single-cell data analysis using reference mapping
Cell 2024cited by 71position: middledoi
A liver immune rheostat regulates CD8 T cell immunity in chronic HBV infection
Nature 2024cited by 69position: middledoi
Considerations for building and using integrated single-cell atlases
Nature Methods 2024cited by 43position: middledoi
Heterogeneity-driven phenotypic plasticity and treatment response in branched-organoid models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Nature Biomedical Engineering 2024cited by 32position: middledoi
Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery
Nature Neuroscience 2024cited by 28position: middledoi
Mapping lineage-traced cells across time points with moslin
Genome biology 2024cited by 23position: middledoi
Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition
2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Polyploidisation pleiotropically buffers ageing in hepatocytes
Journal of Hepatology 2024cited by 11position: middledoi
RegVelo: Gene-regulatory-informed dynamics of single cells
Cell 2024cited by 10position: lastdoi
ProCyon: A multimodal foundation model for protein phenotypes
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
HBV Remodels PP2A Complexes to Rewire Kinase Signaling in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Cancer Research 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities
Nature Reviews Genetics 2023cited by 1,018position: lastdoi
An integrated cell atlas of the lung in health and disease
Nature Medicine 2023cited by 732position: lastdoi
The scverse project provides a computational ecosystem for single-cell omics data analysis
Nature Biotechnology 2023cited by 329position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Jan Krumsiek · Cornell University7 papers (2012–2019)Karsten Suhre · Cornell University7 papers (2012–2015)Jerzy Adamski · University of Ljubljana7 papers (2012–2015)Roland Eils · University of Michigan6 papers (2016–2025)Malte D. Luecken · Center for Environmental Health6 papers (2021–2024)Ursula Klingmüller · German Cancer Research Center6 papers (2013–2023)Mohammad Lotfollahi · Wellcome Sanger Institute6 papers (2021–2025)Carsten Marr · Stem Cell Institute5 papers (2012–2023)Steffen Sass · Technical University of Munich5 papers (2014–2017)Thomas Illig · Medizinische Hochschule Hannover5 papers (2012–2015)Gabi Kastenmüller · Lander Institute5 papers (2012–2015)Christian Gieger · Cambridge School4 papers (2012–2015)Annette Peters · Bayer (Germany)4 papers (2013–2015)Matthias Mann · Novo Nordisk Foundation4 papers (2019–2023)Oliver Stegle · Institut thématique Génétique, génomique et bioinformatique4 papers (2020–2024)Lukas M. Simon · Baylor College of Medicine4 papers (2019–2021)Nikola S. Mueller · Technical University of Munich4 papers (2016–2023) · 4 papers (2016–2023)Maren Büttner · Technical University of Munich4 papers (2021–2024)Cornelia Prehn · Helmholtz Zentrum München4 papers (2012–2013)