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Contact
Lab: | Prof. Dr. Bodo Grimbacher |
Department: | Institute for Immunodeficiency Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency University Medical Center Freiburg |
Address: | Breisacher Str. 115 79106 Freiburg |
Phone: | +49 761 270 77732 |
E-mail: | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Lab homepage: | www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/cci/forschung/bodo-grimbacher.html |
PhD positions available: | YES |
Research Area: | Immunology and Virology |
Research Interests: | Genetic causes of hypogammaglobulinemia (CVID) The clinical phenotype of antibody deficiency syndromes The genetic cause of the hyper-IgE recurrent infection syndrome (HIES) New disease genes in severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) The genetic cause of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) The molecular pathology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease |
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Education & Training: | 2006: Habilitation: "The Genetic causes of primary antibody deficiencies", University Hospital Freiburg, Prof. Dr. H.H. Peter, Germany 1995 – 1997: Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Freiburg, Germany 1992 – 1995: Dissertation: "Activation of early growth response transcripts in rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts", Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany 1988 – 1995: Medical School: Technische Hochschule Aachen, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and University of Hamburg, Germany |
Employment & Experience: | 2021–2022: Sabbatical at UCSD, La Jolla, in the laboratory of Prof. Kees Murre, Topic: Epigenetics of B cells Since 2019: Vice Director of the Institute for Immunodeficiency at the CCI, Medical Center – Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg 2011–2019: Scientific Director and consultant at the CCI, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg 2006-2011: Consultant and Head of Marie-Curie Research Group, Dept. of Immunology, Royal Free Hospital & University College London, UK 2000-2006: Assistant lecturer, Senior scientist, and Emmy-Nöther-Fellow of the DFG, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Freiburg, Germany 1997-2000: Postdoc, NIH, National Human Genome Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA |
Scientific Activities: | Academic Board positions: 2014 – ongoing: Speaker of the Arbeitskreis Klinische Immunologie of the DGfI 2014 – ongoing: Head of the Novartis PI3Kd-inhibitor trial on APDS in Europe 2008 - 2011: Steering Committee of the European Ig-Pro20 immunoglobulin trial 2007 - 2011: Member of the UK-PIN steering committee 2006 - 2010: Secretary of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) 2002 - 2006: Head of the ESID Registry Working Party Occasional reviewer for The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and other Journals |
Honors
Honors and Awards: | 2012 Watson Memorial Lecture, University of Newcastle, UK
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Publications
Selected Publications: | Rauer S, Marks R, Urbach H, Warnatz K, Nath A, Holland S, Weiller C, Grimbacher B. Treatment of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy with Pembrolizumab. N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 25;380(17):1676-1677. Abstract |
SGBM PhD students
SGBM PhD students: | Elena Sindram (since July 2021)
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