Department and Group Head
Prof. Dr. Dirk Jäger
Head of the CCU Applied Tumor Immunity Unit and the Applied Tumor Immunity Group (DKFZ)
Director of the Medical Oncology Department, Heidelberg University Medical Center (UKHD)
Director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
Head of 'Tumor Immunology' and Head of NCT Program 'Immunotherapy', NCT Heidelberg
Research Associates
Liam Bartels
Position: Researcher
Area of expertise: Computational pathology, Machine learning, Medical sample imaging
Email: liam.bartels@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Daniel Browne (UKHD)
Position: IT System Administrator
Email: daniel.browne@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Pornpimol Charoentong, PhD (UKHD)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Bioinformatician
Area of expertise: Genomics and Bioinformatics, Computational System Biology, Biostatistics, Management of biological databases
Email: Pornpimol.Charoentong@nct-heidelberg.de
Yanhong Lyu, PhD
Position: Postdoc, Bioinformatician
Area of expertise: Bioinformatics, Genomics
Email: y.lyu@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Marten Meyer, PhD (UKHD/DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Deputy Head of the CCU Applied Tumor Immunity
Area of expertise: translational research, TCR discovery, recombinant protein production
Email: marten.meyer@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Julia Pollmann, PhD (UKHD)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Innate Immunity, Immuno-oncology, chronic viral infections
Email: j.pollmann@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Maria Paula Roberti, PhD
Position: Senior Research Associate, Team leader "Translational Research in Immuno-oncology and Microbiome" (TRIM)
Area of expertise: Immunotherapy, Translational Research, Gut microbiota and immunity
Email: mariapaula.roberti@nct-heidelberg.de
Alexander Rölle, PhD (UKHD)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Innate Immunity, Cellular Immunology, Tumor Microenvironment
Email: a.roelle@nct-heidelberg.de
Patrick Schmidt, PhD (UKHD/DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Team leader "Cellular therapies"
Area of expertise: Cellular therapy, CAR T cells, TCR T cells
Email: patrick.schmidt@nct-heidelberg.de
Silke Uhrig-Schmidt, PhD
Position: Senior Research Associate, Equal opportunities and diversity officer
Area of expertise: AAV capsid design, cancer vaccination, gene and cell therapy
Email: silke.uhrig-schmidt@nct-heidelberg.de
Katharina von Werthern
Position: PhD Student
Heiko Weyd, PhD
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Immunology, Antibodies, Apoptosis, T cells, Tolerance
Email: h.weyd@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Nektarios Valous, PhD
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Computational image processing, computational biomedicine, interdisciplinary physics
Email: nek.valous@nct-heidelberg.de
Jasmin Zech
Position: PhD Student
Title: "Role of microbial metabolites in CRC"
Email: jasmin.zech@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Inka Zörnig, PhD (UKHD)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Project coordination and lab head
Area of expertise: translational research, biomarker discovery, immunotherapy
Email: inka.zoernig@nct-heidelberg.de
Technical Assistance
Selina Seith (DKFZ/UKHD)
Martina Busacker-Scharpff (UKHD)
Christiane Christ (UKHD)
Isabella Gosch (UKHD)
Monika Hexel (UKHD)
Iris Kaiser (UKHD)
Annette Köster (UKHD)
Alexandra Krauthoff
Claudia Luckner-Minden (UKHD)
Laura Scatamacchia (UKHD)
Claudia Tessmer
Alexandra Tuch
Claudia Ziegelmeier (UKHD)
Former Members
Dr. Aileen Berger
Dr. Julia Bitzer
Dr. Eren Boga
Dr. Sarah Glenz
Dr. Lasse Neukirch
Dr. Rodrigo Moraleda
Dr. Zeynep Koşaloğlu-Yalçın