Our Faculty
Hamburg School of Infection & Immunity faculty comprises renowned and competitive researchers from UKE and MIN Faculty of the Hamburg University (UHH), Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI), Center for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and thus brings together a wealth of multidisciplinary research and methods from across and beyond the medical faculty campus.
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UKE Center for Diagnostics
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: NK cells, Innate lymphoid cells, Human immunology, Sex-differences in immunity, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Immune response to infection, Organoids, AIDs and immunodeficiencies
Prof. Dr. med. Martin Aepfelbacher
- Research areas: Infection, Inflammation, Microbiology
- Research topics: Epigenetics, Immune response to infection, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation, Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Structural and Systems Biology
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nicole Fischer
- Research areas: Infection, Virology, Tumor Virology
- Research topics: Organoids, Epigenetics, chronic viral infection, viral persistence, chromatin remodeling
- Research areas: Immunology
- Research topics: Lymphocyte development and selection, Human immunology, Organoids, Feto-maternal immunity
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Clinical Immunology, Cancer Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, B cell response, Human immunology, Immune response to infection, Cancer and the immune system
Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Koch-Nolte
- Research areas: Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: Lymphocyte development and selection, B cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting, Cancer and the immune system, therapeutic antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors, nanobodies, sterile inflammation, purinergic signaling, endogenous danger signals (ATP, NAD)
- Research areas: Infection, Molecular Immunology, Microbiology
- Research topics: Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Molecular Diagonstics: Pathogen detection, Hepatitis Viruses (A-E)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Willi Mittrücker
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Autoimmune diseases
- Research topics: T cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity, Immune response to infection
- Research areas: Infection, Microbiology, Virology
- Research topics: Immune response to infection, molecular diagnostics
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Renné
- Research areas: Inflammation, Coagulation
- Research topics: Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation, Thrombo-inflammation
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Virology
- Research topics: T cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity, Immune response to infection, Feto-maternal immunity, Immune response to infection, Diagnostic applictions
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: Lymphocyte development and selection, T cell response, Human immunology, Autoimmunity, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Immune deficiency, Immune regulation
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: Human immunology, Autoimmunity
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UKE Center for Experimental Medicine
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Cancer Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Cancer and the immune system, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
Dr. rer. nat. Björn-Philipp Diercks
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation
- Research topics: Signalling in immune cells
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: T cell activation
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Joerg Heeren
- Research areas: Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: Immuno targeting, Autoimmunity, Feto-maternal immunity, Immunometabolism, Metaflammation
PD Dr.rer.nat. Andrea Kristina Horst
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Cytokine networks, Autoimmunity, Innate lymphoid cells
Prof. Dr. med. Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger
- Research areas: Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Nephrology
- Research topics: Human immunology, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Cytokine networks, Autoimmunity, Innate lymphoid cells
- Research areas: Immunology
- Research topics: Cancer and the immune system, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gisa Tiegs
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Cytokine networks, Autoimmunity, Innate lymphoid cells
- Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Research topics: Artificial Intelligence in medical biology
- Research areas: Inflammation, (Immuno)metabolism
- Research topics: Immunometabolism, Obesity and Diabetes, Insulin Resistance
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UKE Center for Internal Medicine
- Research areas: Infection, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, vaccines
- Research topics: T cell response, Human immunology, Vaccine design, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Sex-differences in immunity, Immune response to infection
- Research areas: Immunology, Systems Immunology
- Research topics: Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Cancer and the immune system
Dr. Dr. Madeleine Altfeld-Bunders
- Research areas: Infection, Inflammation, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Human immunology, Organoids, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Feto-maternal immunity, Innate lymphoid cells, Immune response to infection
- Research areas: Immunology
- Research topics: Macrophage biology, Phagocytosis, Tissue remodelling
Dr. rer. nat. Antonella Carambia
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting, Autoimmunity
- Research areas: Infection, Inflammation, Hepatology, Liver immunology
- Research topics: Antigen processing and presentation, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Epigenetics, Immune response to infection, humanized-chimeric mouse models, innate immunity, Viral Hepatitis, Virus-host intraction
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Systems Immunology, Cancer Immunology
- Research topics: Lymphocyte development and selection, T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity, Feto-maternal immunity, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Immune response to infection, Cancer and the immune system
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Herkel
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Human immunology, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting, Autoimmunity, T cell tolerance
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Systems Immunology, Cancer Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Organoids, Immuno targeting, Autoimmunity, Sex-differences in immunity, Immune response to infection, Cancer and the immune system, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
Prof. Dr. med. Tobias B. Huber
- Research areas: Inflammation, Translational Immunology, Transplantation Immunology, Kidney immunology
- Research topics: Single cell sequencing, Organoids, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Epigenetics
PD Dr. med. Christian F. Krebs
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Systems Immunology, Microbiology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Antigen processing and presentation, Organoids, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting, Autoimmunity, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Immune response to infection, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Translational Immunology, Systems Immunology, Nephrology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Autoimmunity, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Systems Immunology, Transplantation Immunology, Microbiology, Pathology
- Research topics: Immunopathology
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Schramm
- Research areas: Inflammation, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Human immunology, Autoimmunity, Sex-differences in immunity
Dr. med. Julian Constantin Schulze zur Wiesch
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, B cell response, Human immunology, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Immune response to infection, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation, immune exhaustion
Dr. rer. nat. Dorothee Schwinge
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Antigen processing and presentation, Organoids, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity, Sex-differences in immunity
Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Steinmetz
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: Regulatory T cells, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation, T cell response, Cytokine networks, Human immunology
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: B cell response, Autoimmunity
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Autoimmunity, Innate lymphoid cells
- Research areas: Inflammation
- Research topics: Organoids, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Epigenetics, Immune response to infection
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UKE Center for Molecular Neurobiology
- Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Research topics: Artificial Intelligence in medical biology
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Systems Immunology
- Research topics: Single cell sequencing, Human immunology, Immune response to infection, Myeloid cells, Immune cell development
Prof. Dr. med. Manuel A. Friese
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Systems Immunology, Neuroimmunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Human immunology, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Autoimmunity, Sex-differences in immunity, Feto-maternal immunity, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Neuro-immuno Interactions
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Systems Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Human immunology, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics
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UKE Head and Neurocenter
PD Dr. med. Mathias Gelderblom
- Research areas: Inflammation, Clinical Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting, Sex-differences in immunity, Innate lymphoid cells, Leukocyte migration and Inflammation, Local immune cell responses (e.g. microglia)
- Research areas: Immunology, Translational Immunology, Cancer Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Epigenetics, Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Cancer and the immune system
- Research areas: Immunology, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: T cell response, Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immuno targeting
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UKE Center for Obstetrics and Pediatrics
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Molecular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Reproductive Immunology, Immune Ontogeny
- Research topics: T cell response, Single cell sequencing, Cytokine networks, Human immunology, Antigen processing and presentation, Epigenetics, Sex-differences in immunity, Feto-maternal immunity
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sandra Maria Blois
- Research areas: Inflammation, Glycoimmunology
- Research topics: Glycoimmunology, Glyco-Feto-maternal Immunity, Antibodies Glycosylation
- Research areas: Translational Immunology
- Research topics: Human immunology, Sex-differences in immunity, Feto-maternal immunity
- Research areas: Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Cancer Immunology, Transplantation Immunology
- Research topics: Lymphocyte development and selection, T cell response, Human immunology, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Glycoimmunology, Innate lymphoid cells, Cancer and the immune system
- Research areas: Clinical Immunology, Translational Immunology, Microbiome
- Research topics: T cell response, Human immunology, Autoimmunity, Feto-maternal immunity, Immune response to infection, Neonatal Immunity
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UKE Center for Oncology
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Boris Fehse
- Research areas: Infection, Translational Immunology, Cancer Immunology, Adoptive immunotherapy
- Research topics: AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Stem cell transplantation, Gene therapy, Adoptive immunotherapy, CAR-T cells
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Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM)
- Research areas: Protozoa Immunology, Infection
- Research topics: T cell response, Immune response to infection, Protozoa infection
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Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
- Research areas: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Research topics: Computational Structural Biology
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg (EMBL)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Matthias Wilmanns
- Research areas: Infection, Microbiology
- Research topics: Cancer and the immune system
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Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI)
- Research areas: Infection, Virology
- Research topics: Vaccine design, Feto-maternal immunity, Immune response to infection, Viral immune evasion
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Molecular Immunology, Virology
- Research topics: Molecular mechanisms of viral pathogenesis
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Inflammation
- Research topics: Human immunology, Organoids, AIDs and immunodeficiencies, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Immune response to infection
- Research areas: Immunology, Infection, Molecular Immunology, Translational Immunology
- Research topics: Human immunology, Major Histocompatability complex (MHC), Immune response to infection, NK cell biology
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University of Hamburg (UHH)
- Research areas: Computational Systems Biology
- Research topics: Network and Systems Medicine
- Research areas: Infection, Molecular Immunology, Immunogenomics
- Research topics: Major histocompatibility complex (MHC), Systems Immunology and Bioinformatics
- Research areas: Infection, Inflammation, Neuroinflammation
- Research topics: Transgenic and knock-out animal models, Immune response to infection, Response of brain cells to infection and inflammation
- Research areas: Infection, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Development, antiviral Research, Action of second messengers in inflammation
- Research topics: Novel antivirals, emerging infections, synthesis of chemical tools, membrane permeable adenine nucleotides