Differentiation and Maintenance of Exhausted and Tissue Resident CD8 T cells

Host

Klaas Vangisbergen, PhD, Tissue Immunity Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Bio

Dietmar Zehn is full professor and head of chair of Physiology and Immunology at the Technical University of Munich and the Executive Director of the new TUM Center for Infection Prevention. He obtained an MD/PhD degree from the Charité – Medical School of the Humboldt University in Berlin, completed a postdoctoral fellowship with M.J. Bevan at the University of Washington, and held an assistant professorship at the University of Lausanne. His research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms guiding T cell differentiation in acute and chronic infections and tumors. Specifically, he aims to uncover the processes that lead to the development and maintenance of exhausted T cells and to understand their biological function. He has been awarded two grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and received the ACTERIA/EFIS Early Career Research Prize. Recently, he successfully secured competitive, national funding for a new research building, the TUM Center for Infection Prevention.

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