TCR Discovery Platform
HI-TRON Mainz functional units are the institute's operational core units. All functional units are headed by highly qualified scientists. The T-Cell Discovery Platform is the first of HI-TRON Mainz functional units. Here, cancer-specific T-cell receptor candidates are to be identified, characterized, isolated and functionally characterized. Thus the T-Cell Discovery Platform builds the basis for further projects.
Portfolio
Platform leader
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Volkmar
Head of TCR Discovery Platform
m.volkmar@dkfz-heidelberg.de
05/2020 – present
Head of TCR Discovery Platform, HI-TRON Mainz
05/2012 - 04/2020
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow & Head of Project DKFZ Heidelberg, Dept. Molecular Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors (Prof. Rienk Offringa)
08/2008 - 04/2012
Postdoc Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics (Prof. Francois Fuks)
10/2002 - 03/2008
Doctorate (magna cum laude), Institute for Genetics, Dept. Developmental Genetics (Dr. Rainer Dorn, Prof. Gunter Reuter)
Team
Dr. Elham Fakhr, PostDoc, e.fakhr@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Collaborations:
- AG Wölfel (UMM)
- AG Platten (DKFZ)
- AG Offringa (DKFZ)