Alumni

Sven Pagel

Topic: Influence of F7 deletion in myeloid cells on tumor growth and antitumor immune response (TP10 Graf/Ruf )

Affiliation: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz

Carina Santos

Topic: Role of platelets in cancer metastasis (TP10 Graf/Ruf)

Affiliation: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz

Ann-Katrin Gebel 

Topic: Charakterisierung einer neuartigen Hyperaktivierung humaner T-Zellen durch neutrophile Granulozyten (TP06 Munder/Theobald)

Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine III, UMC Mainz

Anita Gabriele Kansy

Topic: Exploring TCR-cancerimmunotherapy in combination with metabolic Intervention for a preclinical model (TP09 Munder/Theobald) 

Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine III, UMC Mainz

Johanna Lossa

Topic: The role of type-I interferons in myeloproliferative neoplasms and chronic viral infections (TP21 Muth/Radsak)

Sukrit Mahajan
 

Topic: Role of EGFL7 in immune evasion by malignant glioma (TP09 Schmidt/Zipp)

Assel Nurbekova

Topic: Virus-host interactome of murine cytomegalovirus (mCMV) immune evasion (proteus) and transcriptional regulation of m152. (
TP11 Distler/Lemmermann)

Affiliation: Institute of Immunology, UMC Mainz

Katharina Paßkowski

Topic: Identification and characterization of T cell receptor independently reactivated memory T cells in the context of virus infection (TP13 Probst/Schild)

Jennifer Pott

Topic: Impact of the endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) expressed by myeloid cells on tumor growth and immnunomodulation (TP10 Graf/Ruf)

Affiliation: Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH)

Dr. rer. nat. Mona Grans

Topic: „Einfluss der Zusammensetzung des Darmmikrobioms auf das Level tonischer Typ !-Interferone und Auswirkungen dessen auf lmmunantworten" (TP13 Probst/Schild)

Dr. rer. nat. Natalia Truong-Andrievici

Thesis: "GPR65-abhängige Zusammensetzung des Tumormikromilieus hoch glykolytischer Tumore" (TP01 Bopp/Schmitt)

Dr. rer. nat. Dominik Siegl

Thesis: "Immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma" (TP08 Schuppan/Deppermann)

Dr. rer. nat. Sara Helbich

Topic: Tissue repair immune cells in murine infection and cancer models

TP19 Delacher/Marini

Affiliation: Institute of Immunology, UMC Mainz

Theresa Schaller

Topic: Targets and mediators of IL-17 mouse models of psoriasis and skin infection

TP15 Stebut/Waisman

Dr. rer. nat. Annekathrin Nedwed

Thesis: "Enhancing analysis and interpretation workflows for transcriptome data with an interactive R/Bioconductor Toolkit"

TP19 Delacher/Marini

Affiliation: IMBEI, UMC Mainz

Nabil Boui

Topic: Deciphering the role of cAMP response element driven gene regulation in tumor-associated macrophage polarization and function (TP01 Bopp)

Dr.rer.nat. Julia Handtke

Thesis: "Understanding immune responses towards SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with Multiple Myeloma" (TP12 Ullrich/Kühn)

Affiliation: Jöckel Innovation Consulting

Dr. rer. nat. Kathrin Braband

Thesis: "Characteritation of CCR8⁺ regulatory T cells in human tumors and healthy tissue"

TP19 Delacher/Marini

Affiliation: Institute of Immunology, UMC Mainz

Ikra Gizem Yildiz

Topic: Neo-epitope specific T-cells (TP17 Kreiter/Sahin)

Affiliation: BioNTech

Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Lukas Olk

Topic: Multimodal analysis of a clinical PanCancer collective (TPQ1 Tenzer/Bukur/Gaida)

Affiliation: Institute of Pathology, UMC Mainz

Lisa Marie Reindl

Topic: Improving NK-cell based immunotherapy against solid pediatric malignancies (TP12 Ullrich/Kühn)

Affiliation: University Medical Center / University Frankfurt a.M.

Dr. rer. nat. Nawid Albinger

Thesis: "Generation and evaluation of chimeric antigen receptor-modified natural killer cells for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia" (TP12 Ullrich/Kühn)

Affiliation: Novartis

Dr. Julia Schäfer

Thesis: "Metabolic reprogramming in SIRT6-deficient hepatoblastoma cells and impact on anti-tumor response of macrophages" (TP07E Strand/Marquardt)

Affiliation: Abbott

Catharina Majer, PhD

Topic: "Impact of SAMHD1 mutations on DNA replication in the context of cancer" (TP04: König) 

Affiliation: Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt 

Dr. Josephin Schwarz

Topic: Immunomodulation of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation by regulatory T cells and dendritic cells (TP14E Holtappels/Clausen)

Affiliation: Biotest AG

Sara Becker, PhD

Thesis: In vitro targeting of murine cytomegalovirus immune evasion proteins and transcriptional control of the m152 gene (TP11 Lemmermann/Reddehase)

Affiliation: Institute of Virology, University Hospital Bonn

Dr. rer. nat. Vinzenz Särchen

Thesis: Molecular dissection of BV6 induced sensitization of rhabdomyosarcoma spheroids towards NK cell attack (TP12 Fulda/Ullrich)

Affiliation: University Medical Center Rostock

Marie Kruchem

Topic: In vivo treatment of NSCLC with combination of immunotherapies and investigation of their effects in a genetically modified mouse model (TP08 Sprinzl/Schuppan)

Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Lang

Thesis: Preclinical evaluation of TCR gene transfer in combination with arginase inhibition as a therapeutic approach in anticancer medicine (TP06 Munder/Theobald)

Affiliation: BionTech SE, Mainz

Christian Gosmann

Topic: Characterization and modulation of M1/M2/TAM (TP08 Sprinzl/Schuppan)

Affiliation: BD, Heidelberg

Dr. Sara Hamdan

Topic: lmmunomodulation of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation by regulatory T cells and dendritic cells (TP14 Holtappels/Clausen)

Affiliation: Ipsen, Göttingen

Lynn Bitar, PhD

Thesis: Bioactive Lipid Signaling in Acute Brain Injury (TP09 Schmidt/Zipp)

Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Mainz

Fatima Al-Naimi

Topic: Novel molecular regulators of Treg differentiation and function (TP18 Sparwasser)

Dr. rer. nat. Yagmur Bülbül

Thesis: Charakterisierung einer neuartigen T-Zell Stimulation durch humane neutrophile Granulozyten (TP06 Munder/Theobald)

Affiliation: Sanofi, Erlangen

Julia Schmiedeke, PhD

Thesis: Impact of murine cytomegalovirus proteins on mast cell degranulation (TP11 Lemmermann/Reddehase)

Affiliation: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefanie Keller, PhD

Thesis: Exploration of the oncogene EGFRvIII as a target for the cure of malignant brain Tumors (TP09 Schmidt/Zipp)

Affiliation: streamedup!, Wiesbaden

Dr. rer. nat. Meike Kespohl

Thesis: Impact of the ISG15 System on Coxsackievirus B3 infection (TP02 Beling/Ruf)

Affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Charite Berlin