Jan Böttcher receives ERC Consolidator Grant

🥳Congratulations to our member Jan Böttcher on this outstanding achievement!

🏆Jan is one of five recipients of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His project is being funded with around two million euros over a period of five years through his Consolidator Grant.

🔬In his project EICO-CODE (Unlocking the tissue code: Understanding organ-specific regulation of CD8+ T cell immunity by eicosanoids), Jan aims to find out how certain molecules—known as eicosanoids—influence the behavior and protective power of CD8+ T cells. Using state-of-the-art technologies such as single-cell sequencing, gene editing, and detailed mapping of eicosanoids, which are lipids, in various organs, the team is investigating how local tissue factors control the immune response to cancer and viral infections.

🦠By linking organ biology and immune defense, EICO-CODE provides important new insights into what customized immunotherapies could look like in the future—paving the way for more precise and effective treatments that support the body's natural self-healing powers.