BIOMEDIGS Students
BIOMEDIGS lives for and from its doctoral students. They have a strong say and a high level of personal responsibility for the organization of their training.
Christoph Müller
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | T-cell receptor (TCR) ligand identification by oligonucleotide library screening |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Leo Hansmann |
| Start: | July 2025 |
Soo-Yeon Cho
Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research
| Theme: | Microenvironmental control of disseminated breast cancer cells |
| Supervisor: | PD Dr. Melanie Werner-Klein |
| Start: | May 2025 |
Filip Vilotic
Department of Infection Prevention and Infectious Diseases
| Theme: | Comparative investigation of host-pathogen interactions and virulence mechanisms of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) |
| Supervisor: | PD Dr. Jürgen Fritsch |
| Start: | February 2025 |
Adriana Krenz
Chair of Neurobiology
| Theme: | Investigations of B cell function and interaction in neurological autoimmune diseases |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Ralf Linker |
| Start: | January 2025 |
Lakshmi Suresh
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Roles and targets of hematopoietic progenitor cell-reactive T cells in acquired aplastic anemia |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Leo Hansmann |
| Start: | December 2024 |
Johannes Lederbauer
Chair of Human Genetics
| Theme: | The role of the RNA-helicase DHX30 in stress granule formation |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Dr. Davor Lessel |
| Start: | December 2024 |
Elena Nedelcu
Chair of Human Genetics
| Theme: | Elucidating the role of DHX30 in a novel neurodevelopmental disorder and R-Ioop metabolism |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Dr. Davor Lessel |
| Start: | December 2024 |
Marina Sauer
Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
| Theme: | Characterization of RNA-based biomarker signatures for endothelial damage and repair in systemic vasculopathy |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Selim Corbacioglu |
| Start: | August 2024 |
Speaker
Maria Drie?lein
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | MICROBOTS- Unravel the power of MICRObial metaBOliTes to prevent graft versus host disease and cure leukemia relapse |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | August 2024 |
Speaker
Misbah Tariq
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Impact of microbiota-derived metabolites on tissue homeostasis and immune function in graft-versus-host disease |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | February 2024 |
Speaker
Ezgi Cibali
Chair of Pathology
| Theme: | Development and Application of TME-Enriched Patient-Derived Organoids for Personalized Drug Screening in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Diego Calvisi |
| Start: | June 2024 |
Maurice Kappelmeyer
Welcome to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Focus: Obstetrics
| Theme: | Bioinformatic characterization of immunological processes in the postpartum uterus |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Emilia Solano |
| Start: | May 2024 |
Christoph Voigt
Chair of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
| Theme: | Analysis of ALR (Augmenter of Liver Regeneration)-induced signaling pathways depending on its isoform |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Thomas Wei? |
| Start: | January?2024 |
Tom Dielforder
Chair of Clinical Chemistry
| Theme: | Investigating adipose tissue-induced changes in metabolism and molecular pathways in breast cancer cells |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Ralph Burkhardt |
| Start: | December 2023 |
Fabiola Arella
Chair of Surgery
| Theme: | ECP as a bridging therapy before liver transplantation |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Dr. James A. Hutchinson |
| Start: | November?2023 |
Julia Stepien
Chair of Surgery
| Theme: | Treatment of ischemia-reperfusion injury after liver transplantation |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Elke Eggenhofer |
| Start: | November 2023 |
Jeanne Benzal-Mazuy
Chair of Neurology / Neurooncology
| Theme: | The role of TSPO in tumor microenvironment and mitochondrial function in glioblastoma |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Peter Hau |
| Start: | Oktober 2023 |
Annika Jasmin Walter
Hospital Hygiene and Infectiology Unit
| Theme: | Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus facultative intracellular survival |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Jürgen Fritsch |
| Start: | Oktober?2023 |
Morteza Heydari
Chair of Immune Cell Communication
| Theme: | Role of EGF-like growth factors in immune regulation and tissue homeostasis during Graft versus Host (GvH) Disease |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Dietmar Zai? |
| Start: | September 2023 |
Yvonne Natascha Susanne Wei?
Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology
| Theme: | The role of immune responses in postpartum tissue regeneration |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Maria Emilia Solano |
| Start: | September 2023 |
Sabina Vancikova
Chair of Immune Cell Communication
| Theme: | The role of EGFR in regulation of tumor microenvironment and metastasis formation |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Dietmar Zai? |
| Start: | September 2023 |
Giulia Preverin
Chair of Surgery
| Theme: | Discovering new mechanisms of human regulatory macrophage-induced Treg generation using a functional drug-target screening approach |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. James A. Hutchinson |
| Start: | July?2023 |
Paul Kupke
Chair of Surgery
| Theme: | Characterization of the innate human immune response to viral hepatitis |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Jens Werner |
| Start: | July?2023 |
Shabnam Shahrivari
Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research
| Theme: | Non-genomic effects of thyroid hormones on the breast cancer microenvironment – links to tumor progression and therapy |
| Supervisor: | Prof.?Dr. Christoph Klein |
| Start: | April 2023 |
Valerie Wenzel
Institute of Human Genetics
| Theme: | Implementation of whole genome sequencing technology for the molecular diagnosis of rare diseases |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Bernhard?Weber |
| Start: | April 2023 |
Selina Timea Vadász
Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy
| Theme: | Reprogramming the tumor milieu by Tcell-mediated exosomal miRNA delivery |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Luca Gattinoni |
| Start: | February 2023 |
Amos Onn
Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research
| Theme: | Cell lineage analysis of disseminated tumor cells |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Christoph Klein |
| Start: | January 2023 |
Suqi Li
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Reprogramming the immunomodulatory function of EVs for cancer immunotherapy |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | October 2022 |
Celine Dreger
Chair of Gene Immunotherapy
| Theme: | Nanoparticle-based gene transfer systems for T-cell engineering |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hinrich Abken |
| Start: | August 2022 |
Kimaya Tekade
Chair of Immune Cell Communication
| Theme: | Role of EGFR & PTPN2 in T cell differentiation & clonal expansion |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Dietmar Zai? |
| Start: | July?2022 |
Valeryia Drobyshava
Chair of Immune Cell Communication
| Theme: | The role of macrophage-derived Areg in obesity |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Dietmar Zai? |
| Start: | July?2022 |
Omer Khalid
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Timed targeting of cGAS/STING to improve tissue-regeneration and antitumor responses following allo-HSCT |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | Juni 2022 |
Helena Janning
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Leukemia-specific chimeric antigen receptors with combinatorial signaling |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Simone Thomas |
| Start: | June?2022 |
Speaker
Clara Chaiban
Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research
| Theme: | Genomic profiling of circulating biomarkers and matched primary tumors from breast cancer patients |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Christoph Klein |
| Start: | May?2022 |
Gabriele Inchingolo
Chair of Functional Immune Cell Modulation
| Theme: | Enhancing Graft-Versus-Leukemia Responses by Donor-Derived Car Modified CD8+ T Memory Stem Cells |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Luca Gattinoni |
| Start: | May?2022 |
Speaker
Dhyani Shah
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Exploring the effect of microbial-derived metabolites on CAR-T cell therapy |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | Mai 2022 |
Saumitra Shaligram
Chair of Immune Cell Communication
| Theme: | Improvement in coeliac disease and allergic airway inflammation by enhacing FoxP3 stability and its antigen specific expression |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Dietmar Zai? |
| Start: | April 2022 |
Speaker
Jessica Alves de Lima
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Organ defence during metastatic colonization by shielding macrophages (B03) |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Tobias Pukrop |
| Start: | April 2022 |
Nele Knelangen
Chair of Functional Immune Cell Modulation
| Theme: | Single cell, highly parallel screening of soluble anti-tumor T cell modulators and downstream phenotyping |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Luca Gattinoni |
| Start: | January 2022 |
Wenqin Shi
Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics
| Theme: | CD8 T cells in pregnancy: Role in angiogenesis at the feto-maternal interface |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Maria Emilia Solano |
| Start: | November 2021 |
Elia Raya
Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research
| Theme: | Evolution of systemic cancer: Mapping the acquisition of metastatic traits into cell lineage trees |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Christoph Klein |
| Start: | June?2021 |
Dr. Johannes Falter
Chair of Neurosurgery
| Theme: | Characterisation of the immunomodulatory microenvironment in relation to invasion-driving cells in glioblastoma |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Proescholdt |
| Start: | April 2021 |
Niklas Ullrich
Chair of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene
| Theme: | The influence of mechanotransduction on inflammation and extracellular remodeling processes through a cell network consisting of PDLF, T cells and macrophages - an in vitro study in a 3D cell culture model |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Jonathan Jantsch |
| Start: | March?2021 |
Dr. Steffen Sp?rl
Chair of Interventional Immunology
| Theme: | Identification of key factors for T cell-mediated NF-kB activation in oral squamous cell carcinoma |
| Supervior: | Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckhove |
| Start: | February 2021 |
Dr. Ines Ugele
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | Effects of 2-hydroxyglutarate and other metabolic changes on immune cell composition, tumor metabolism and prognosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Marina Kreutz |
| Start: | January 2021 |
Dr. Elisabeth Meedt
Chair of Internal Medicine III
| Theme: | The role of short chain fatty acids in the microbiome-metabolome-immune system axis in acute graft versus host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Hendrik Poeck |
| Start: | Januar 2021 |
Kira Stanzick
Chair of Genetic Epidemiology
| Theme: | Development of a gene prioritization tool for kidney function related genes based on genome-wide association meta-analyses |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Iris Heid |
| Start: | October 2020 |
Maik Foltan
Chair of Cardiac, Thoracic and Cardiac Vascular Surgery
| Theme: | NETosis during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Karla Lehle |
| Start: | April 2019 |
Yassin Jabri
Chair of Ophthalmology
| Theme: | Targeting Müller cells for complement Modulating gene addition therapy in a mouse Model for Stargardt disease type 1 |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Herbert J?gle |
| Start: | December 2018 |
Natascha Borchers
Chair of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
| Theme: | Influence of genetic and environmental factors on the development of asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases in children |
| Supervisor: | Prof. Dr. Michael Kabesch |
| Start: | May?2018 |
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