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iFIT associated Professorships

Prof. Dr. Judith Feucht

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Professorship for Cellular Immunotherapies in Cancer

Prof. Dr. Judith Feucht has taken up her W2 professorship for Cellular Immunotherapies in Cancer at the Faculty of Medicine on September 1, 2023. Prof. Feucht has dedicated her scientific career to CAR-T cell therapy, which has achieved remarkable clinical success in certain hematological diseases, leading to the approval of CAR therapy by the FDA and EMA. Despite the clinical success, treatment with currently approved CAR designs leads to a complete cure in only a fraction of patients. Her research group therefore aims to improve and expand cellular therapies by reprogramming immune cells through innovative gene editing and cell engineering strategies.

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Gehringer

Professorship for Medicinal Chemistry with a focus on protein kinase inhibitors

Prof. Dr. Matthias Gehringer took up his W3 professorship for Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine in May 2024. Prof. Gehringer's research interests include medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. Current research focuses on the design of covalent protein kinase inhibitors and the development of novel electrophilic "warheads" for the targeted covalent targeting of proteins. A particular focus is on the development of potential new drugs for cancer therapy and highly selective chemical probes for mapping the less explored parts of the human kinome.

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Prof. Dr. Mathias Heikenwälder

Professorship for Chronic Inflammation and Cancer Research

Prof. Dr. Mathias Heikenwälder has taken up his W3 professorship for Chronic Inflammation and Cancer Research at the Faculty of Medicine on October 1, 2023. Mathias Heikenwälder's research interests are aimed at understanding the different immune signatures of chronic inflammatory human diseases that trigger cancer - with the ultimate goal of developing suitable mouse models for preclinical research and translation into the clinic. One focus is therefore to understand how inflammation (triggered by lifestyle factors or pathogens (e.g. viruses or bacteria) triggers cancer in regenerative organs (such as the liver or gastrointestinal tract).

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Prof. Dr. Anna Junker

Professorship for Radiochemistry and imaging probe development

Prof. Dr. Anna Junker has taken up her W2 professorship for Radiochemistry and Imaging Probe Development at the Faculty of Medicine on January 1, 2024. Prof. Junker's scientific focus is on the development of novel ligands and inhibitors for various oncologically relevant G-protein coupled receptors, ion channels and enzymes as well as the further development of these ligands and inhibitors into imaging probes.

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Jun. Prof. Dr. Josef Leibold

Junior Professorship for Functional Immunogenomics

Prof. Dr. Josef Leibold took up his W1 professorship for Functional Immunogenomics at the Faculty of Medicine on September 15, 2020. Prof. Leibold's research focuses on the interaction between tumor genetics and the mechanisms of tumor immune surveillance and tumor immune escape. He pursues translational approaches with the aim of developing new therapy options.

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Prof. Dr. André Martins

Professorship for Advanced Preclinical Metabolic Imaging and cell Engineering

Prof. Dr. André Martins took up his W3 professorship for Advanced Preclinical Metabolic Imaging and cell Engineering at the Faculty of Medicine on January 24, 2022. The W3 professorship, which is partially funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, focuses on the development of non-invasive metabolic sensors and technologies for clinical diagnostics and therapy. The goal of Martins and his team is to functionally enable non-invasive monitoring, prediction, selection and image-guided tumor metabolic therapies. The research will support image-guided response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies, cellular immunotherapies (e.g. CAR T-cells or adoptive T-cell transfer) and combinatorial therapies.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Schürch

Professorship for Advanced Tissue Imaging and Digital Pathology

Prof. Dr. Christian Schürch has taken up his W3 professorship for Advanced Tissue Imaging and Digital Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in 2021. Prof. Schürch and his team focus on understanding tumor immunology and the tumor microenvironment in human cancer and mouse tumor models by using high-multiplex microscopy and machine learning-based computational analysis.

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Prof. Dr. Lisa Sevenich

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Professorship for Experimental Neuroonco-Immunology

Prof. Dr. Lisa Sevenich has taken up her W2 professorship for Experimental Neuroonco-Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine on December 15, 2023. Her scientific focus is on the mechanistic investigation of interactions between tumor cells and the brain's own and systemic immune cells in brain metastasis. Sevenich places a particular focus on the elucidation of resistance mechanisms to standard and immunotherapy in cerebral tumors. To this end, she uses a broad spectrum of preclinical models and patient samples to understand complex cellular interactions that prevent an anti-tumor immune response by means of high-resolution imaging and multi-omics analyses.

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Prof. Dr. Juliane Walz

Professorship for Peptid-based Immunotherapy

Prof. Dr. Juliane Walz took up her W3 professorship for peptide-based immunotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine on April 1, 2022. The overarching goal of Ms Walz's research activities in the field of immunology is the development of new peptide-based immunotherapy concepts for tumor and infectious diseases. The identification, characterization and modification of such tumor- or infection-associated peptides by means of mass spectrometric immunopeptidome analysis is a focus of Ms. Walz's work.

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Prof. Dr. Bettina Weigelin

Professorship for Preclinical Imaging of the Immune System

Prof. Dr. Bettina Weigelin has taken up her W2 professorship for Preclinical Imaging of the Immune System at the Faculty of Medicine on May 1, 2021. Weigelin's research focuses on the field of intravital microscopy of immune function in solid tumors and their metastases as well as tumor invasion and the general biology of cancer. By visualizing the interaction of individual cells in living tissue, her results contribute to a better understanding of the resistance mechanisms of tumors in order to develop new and more effective approaches for cellular immunotherapy.

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