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Contact
Lab: | Prof. Dr. Dr. Bertram Bengsch |
Department: | Clinic for Internal Medicine II University Medical Center |
Address: | Hugstetterstr 55 79106 Freiburg |
Phone: | +49 761 270 32870 |
E-mail: | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Lab homepage: | www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/medizin2/forschung/teximmed2-fr.html |
PhD positions available: | YES |
Research Area: | Immunology and Virology |
Research Interests: | - Mechanisms of T cell exhaustion and tissue residency - Regulation of immune responses in Cancer, viral infection and autoimmunity - Immunometabolism - Systems immunology - Mass cytometry and imaging mass cytometry |
CV
Education & Training: | 2018: Board Certification Internal Medicine 2013: PhD Dissertation (Faculty of Biology & SGBM), University of Freiburg 2008: MD Dissertation (Faculty of Medicine), University of Freiburg 2002-2008: Study of Medicine in Freiburg with electives in London, Philadelphia, PA (Prof. R. Reddy) |
Employment & Experience: | Since 2020: Heisenberg Professor and Section Head of Translational Hepatogastroenterology, Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center Freiburg Since 10/2017: Group leader, Department of Medicine II, Freiburg, Germany 2014-2017: Postdoctorate (DFG fellowship), Institute for Immunology & Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (Prof. E.J. Wherry), University of Pennsylvania, USA 2009-2014 Clinical and research fellow, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany |
Scientific Activities: | Reviewer for: Immunity, Science Immunology, Cancer Immunology Research, Gastroenterology, Gut, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Blood, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Cytometry A. Editor Frontiers Immunology. |
Honors
Honors and Awards: | 2020: Heisenberg Professorship (German Research Foundation) |
Publications
Selected Publications: | Schwabenland M, Salié H, Tanevski J, Killmer S, Lago MS, Schlaak AE, Mayer L, Matschke J, Püschel K, Fitzek A, Ondruschka B, Mei HE, Boettler T, Neumann-Haefelin C, Hofmann M, Breithaupt A, Genc N, Stadelmann C, Saez-Rodriguez J, Bronsert P, Knobeloch KP, Blank T, Thimme R, Glatzel M, Prinz M, Bengsch B. Deep spatial profiling of human COVID-19 brains reveals neuroinflammation with distinct microanatomical microglia-T-cell interactions. Immunity. 2021 Jul 13;54(7):1594-1610.e11. Abstract |
SGBM PhD students
SGBM PhD students: | Lea Seidel (since July 2019) |