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CRC 1160 scientist, Maike Hofmann (A02), receives the most important award for young researchers in Germany for promoting scientific personalities at an early stage in their careers.

Thomas Boehm (B07N) is honoured for his outstanding research into the development and evolution of the immune system in vertebrates.

The event on 13.11.2021 offers the opportunity to receive up-to-date information on “The many facets of talent and scientific excellence in Freiburg” by renowned and young scientists.

The world is suffering from corona, however, this will not be the last threat by a zoonotic virus.

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.

The prize that was awarded for the first time 2021, goes to PD Dr. Susana Minguet (B01)  for the molecular control of the T cell response enabling an improved CAR-T-cell therapy. Congratulations!

We are happy to announce the Klaus Goettler Awardee Ms. Janine Kemming (A06). Congratulations!

PD Dr. Susana Minguet (B01), Dr. Alexander Nyström (B03N) and PD Dr. Dr. Christoph Schell (Z01) obtained as outstanding and well-established researchers from Freiburg an Internal Senior FRIAS Fellowship.

T cells prevent the disease from developing seriously after the first vaccination. However, only after the second vaccination dose do antibodies offer reliable protection against infection.

With beginning of 2022, Prof. Dr. Robert Thimme (A02) is a new member in the DFG Senate Committee on Collaborative Research Centers and thus a scientific member of the Grants Committee on Collaborative Research Centers.

Prof. Dr. Marco Prinz (C03) was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences in July 2021.

Dr. Sandra Ammann (B04) was awarded this year’s Walter-Hitzig Prize from the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pädiatrische Immunologie (API)” .

Prof. Dr. Stephan Ehl, spokesperson and principal investigator in the CRC 1160 (A01, A07), was elected as President of the German/Swiss/Austrian Working group for Pediatric Immunology (API) for a term of 2 years beginning in May 2021.

Dr. Maike Hofmann (A02) was awarded this year’s Adolf Kussmaul Prize from the Southwest German Society for Gastroenterology at the end of June. Hofmann recently showed that virus-specific CD8 + T cells have a molecular scar and are no longer fully functional, even after a successfully treated chronic hepatitis C virus infection. These findings are relevant for the development of new therapies.

Prof. Dr. Robert Zeiser is honored in the “Translational Research” section for his research that improves therapy after stem cell transplants. The award ceremony can be followed via livestream.

Veranstaltungsreihe Online-Fortbildungen zur Zell- und Gentherapie – Prof. Dr. Toni Cathomen (A07): “Neue Wege in der HIV-Gentherapie mittels Genom-Editierung” am 15.06.2021