Research
- Research Topics
- Cell Biology and Tumor Biology
- Stem Cells and Cancer
- Inflammatory Stress in Stem Cells
- Experimental Hematology
- Molecular Embryology
- Signal Transduction and Growth Control
- Epigenetics
- Redox Regulation
- Vascular Oncology and Metastasis
- Clinical Neurobiology
- Molecular Neurogenetics
- Chaperones and Proteases
- Vascular Signaling and Cancer
- Molecular Neurobiology
- Mechanisms Regulating Gene Expression
- Molecular Biology of Centrosomes and Cilia
- Dermato-Oncology
- Pediatric Leukemia
- Tumour Metabolism and Microenvironment
- Personalized Medical Oncology
- Molecular Hematology - Oncology
- Cancer Progression and Metastasis
- Translational Surgical Oncology
- Neuronal Signaling and Morphogenesis
- Cell Signaling and Metabolism
- Cell Fate Engineering and Disease Modeling
- Cancer Drug Development
- Cell Morphogenesis and Signal Transduction
- Functional and Structural Genomics
- Molecular Genome Analysis
- Molecular Genetics
- Pediatric Neurooncology
- Cancer Genome Research
- Chromatin Networks
- Functional Genome Analysis
- Theoretical Systems Biology
- Neuroblastoma Genomics
- Signaling and Functional Genomics
- Signal Transduction in Cancer and Metabolism
- RNA Biology and Cancer
- Systems Biology of Signal Transduction
- Molecular thoracic Oncology
- Proteomics of Stem Cells and Cancer
- Computational Genomics and System Genetics
- Applied Functional Genomics
- Applied Bioinformatics
- Translational Medical Oncology
- Metabolic crosstalk in cancer
- Pediatric Glioma Research
- Cancer Epigenomics
- Translational Pediatric Sarcoma Research
- Artificial Intelligence in Oncology
- Neuropathology
- Pediatric Oncology
- Neurooncology
- Somatic Evolution and Early Detection
- Translational Control and Metabolism
- Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
- Precision Sarcoma Research
- Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis
- Mechanisms of Genome Control
- Translational Gastrointestinal Oncology and Preclinical Models
- Translational Lymphoma Research
- Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis
- Genome Instability in Tumors
- Developmental Origins of Pediatric Cancer
- Brain Tumor Translational Targets
- Translational Functional Cancer Genomics
- Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution
- SPRINT
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- Biostatistics
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- Cellular Immunology
- Molecular Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors
- T Cell Metabolism
- Translational Immunotherapy
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- Medical Physics in Radiology
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- Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology
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- Radiooncology - Radiobiology
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- Molecular Biology of Systemic Radiotherapy
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- Multiparametric methods for early detection of prostate cancer
- Molecular Mechanisms of Head and Neck Tumors
- Radiology
- Infection, Inflammation and Cancer
- Tumor Virology
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- Pathogenesis of Virus-Associated Tumors
- Immunotherapy and Immunoprevention
- Applied Tumor Biology
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- Chronic Inflammation and Cancer
- Microbiome and Cancer
- Cell Plasticity and Epigenetic Remodeling
- Experimental Hepatology, Inflammation and Cancer
- Infections and Cancer Epidemiology
- Tumorvirus-specific Vaccination Strategies
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- Molecular Therapy of Virus-Associated Cancers
- DNA Vectors
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- Cell Biology and Tumor Biology
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- List Publications 1976-2004
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- Cooperational Research Program with Israel: DKFZ - MOST in Cancer Research
- Cooperations with industrial companies
- DKFZ PostDoc Network
- Cross Program Topic RNA@DKFZ
- Cross Program Topic Epigenetics@dkfz
- Cross Program Topic Single Cell Sequencing
- WHO Collaborating Centers
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- Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim
Scientific CV
Since August 2019
Principle Investigator, Division of Microbiome and Cancer, DKFZ, Heidelberg
2016 – 2018
Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Immunology Program, USA (DFG Fellowship) (Dr. van den Brink laboratory)
2011 – 2019
Residency in Internal Medicine and Principle Investigator, Department of Internal Medicine II, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2006 – 2011
Postdoc (Dr. Wotjak laboratory) and Residency in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
2005
Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology (Dr. Holzer laboratory), Medical University of Graz
1998 – 2005
School of Medicine (MD), Medical University of Graz, Austria, and University of Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Awards
2018
New Investigator Award, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
2016
MD Fellowship, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
2015
MD Fellowship, Else Kröner-Fresenius Forschungskolleg, TUM Munich
2006
Postdoc Fellowship, Max Planck Society
2003
DOC Stipend, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Selected Publications
Stein-Thoeringer C.K., Nichols K.B., et al., Lactose drives Enterococcus expansion to promote graft-versus-host disease. Science (2019); Vol. 366, Issue 6469, pp. 1143-1149, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax3760
Mack A., Bobardt J., Hass A., Nichols K., Schmid R.M., Stein-Thoeringer C.K., Changes in gut microbial metagenomic pathways associated with clinical outcomes after elimination of malabsorbed sugars in an IBS cohort. Gut Microbes (2019)
Cruz-Aguilar R.M., Wantia N., Clavel T., Vehreschild M.J.G.T., Buch T., Bajbouj M., Haller D., Busch D., Schmid R.M., Stein-Thoeringer C.K., An open-labeled study on fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients reveals improvement in abdominal pain associated with the relative abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila. Digestion (2019) ;100(2):127-138.
Staffas A., Burgos da Silva M., Slingerland A.E., Lazrak A., Bare C.J., Holman C.D., Docampo M.D., Shono Y., Durham B., Cross J.R., Pickard A., Stein-Thoeringer C.K., Velardi E., Tsai J.J., Jahn L., Jay H., Lieberman S., Smith O.M., Pamer E.G., Peled J.U., Cohen D.E., Jenq R.R., van den Brink M.R.M., Nutritional support from the intestinal microbiota improves hematopoietic reconstitution after bone-marrow transplantation in mice. Cell Host Microbe (2018); 23(4):447-457.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Thoeringer+C
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Stein-Thoeringer+C
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-stein-thoeringer-394562102/
Members of Stein-Thöringer Group
Nyssa Cullin, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Camila Azevedo Antunes Konietzko, Dr. rer. nat.
Postdoctoral Researcher