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CAR-T cell therapy is a last hope for many patients with blood, bone marrow or lymph gland cancer when other treatments such as chemotherapy are unsuccessful. A limiting factor of this otherwise very effective and safe therapy is that the cells used in the process quickly reach a state of exhaustion. Susana Minguet (B01) and Wolfgang Schamel (University of Freiburg) have now been able to prevent this exhaustion and thus significantly improve the effect of the therapy in a preclinical animal model. The new results have been published in the journal Nature Immunology.

Celebrating 10 years of empowering women “Flying to new heights with kite-mentoring” – joined with the International Conference of eument-net.

Physical and mental health go hand in hand – that’s why the University Health Day at the University of Freiburg is dedicated to numerous topics such as mindfulness healthy eating and sleep, stress management and multitasking within a framework of lectures, information booths and workshops.
Registration for workshops is now open.

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Dr. Maike Hofmann, scientist of the CRC 1160 (A02), has been accepted into the Heisenberg Programme from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Marta Rizzi (B02) has taken on a Heisenberg professorship at the University of Freiburg on April 1, 2023 with a research focus on immunodeficiencies

DFG granted 3. Funding period for CRC 1160.

We are proud and happy and are looking forward to the next 4 years of research.

Alexander Nyström (B03) was selected by the European Society for Dermatological Research to give the lecture “Rising Star in Dermatology” at the first global meeting of the societies for investigative dermatological research – ISID2023, Tokyo, 10-13 May, 2023.

Dr. Christoph Schell, scientist of the CRC 1160 (Z01), has been accepted into the Heisenberg Programme from the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Dr. Susana Minguet García, scientist of the CRC 1160 (B01), will receive a Heisenberg Professorship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for Synthetic Immunology on April 1, 2023. The Professorship is based at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg.

The CRC 1160 scientist, Robert Zeiser (B09) has received an ERC Advanced grant for his project AlloCure, which aims to decipher the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the immune response against leukaemia cells and enteroendocrine cells after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, with funding of 2.5 million euros over 5 years.

Dr. Maike Hofmann wurde mit dem Georges-Köhler-Preis 2022 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI) für ihre Forschungsarbeiten zur virusspezifischen Immunantwort von CD8+ T-Zellen ausgezeichnet . Diese haben grundlegend zu einem besseren Verständnis der Immunbiologie bei viraler Hepatitis sowie bei SARS-CoV-2-Infektionen und der entsprechenden mRNA-Impfung beigetragen.

The Upper Rhine Immunology (URI) meeting will bring together researchers from Strasbourg, Basel, Karlsruhe and Freiburg who will present their recent work and expert views in the fields of adaptive and innate immunity, signaling and immune response, hematopoiesis, immunodeficiency, inflammation and disease, as well as immunotherapy.

A big THANK YOU to all the attendees joining this year’s SFB1160 PPII conference, for all the amazing talks and the lively discussions, we are very happy to have had you all here in Freiburg in presence !

The scientific committee had put together a wonderful 3-day programme that attracted more than 260 participants to listen to and discuss exciting scientific talks.

On behalf of the boards of the CRC 1160 – IMPATH and the Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), we are delighted to invite you to participate to the “From Paradigms to Paradoxes in Immunity and Immunopathology (PPII) International Conference” – to be held in Freiburg from 06-08 October 2022.

Registration and abstract submission closed!