HEESCHEN Christopher
Principle Investigator
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +86(0)21-63846590
Address: Room 403, East 5 building, 227 South Chongqing, Shanghai, China
Educational Background
MD, trained in Internal Medicine, Oncology (1995-2003), Free University of Berlin, Germany
PhD in Experimental Medicine (2004), Stanford University, California
Professional Experience
PostDoc at Stanford University (1999 – 2001)
Circulating progenitor cells in health and disease
Assistant Professor at Frankfurt University (2001 – 2004)
Director, Department of Experimental Medicine
Stem cells for regenerative Medicine
Full Professor at University of Munich (2004 – 2009)
Head, Department of Experimental Medicine
First identification of cancer stem cells in the pancreas
First detection of circulating cancer stem cells
La Caixa Professor, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (2008 – 2014)
Founding Director, Translational Research Programme
Development of novel therapies against cancer stem cells
Full Professor, Centre for Single Cell Omics (2019-)
Citation indices
Total citations 28,913, including 9,942 since 2014
Average impact factor per publication 14.08
Papers cited >1,000x: 7 and >500x: 18; Current h-index: 70
Top 10 of most cited publications
PC Hermann, ... C Heeschen. Cell Stem Cell 2007;1 (3), 313-323 (2,688 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Nature Medicine 2003;9 (11), 1370-1376 (1,566 citations)
CW Hamm*, C Heeschen*, ... NEJM 1997;337 (23), 1648-1653 (1,356 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Circulation 2003;108 (12), 1440-1445 (1,131 citations)
C Heeschen, ... NEJM 2003;348 (12), 1104-1111 (1,104 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Blood 2003;102 (4), 1340-1346 (1,038 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Circulation 2004;110 (3), 349-355 (1,016 citations)
CW Hamm*, C Heeschen*, ... NEJM 1999;340 (21), 1623-1629 (870 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Nature Medicine 2001;7 (7), 833-839 (810 citations)
C Heeschen, ... Circulation 109 (13), 1615-1622 (744 citations)