Group Head
Prof. Dr. Dirk Jäger
Head of 'Tumor Immunology' and Head of NCT Program 'Immunotherapy', NCT Heidelberg
Director of the Medical Oncology Department, Heidelberg University Medical Center (UKHD)
Director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
Head of the CCU Applied Tumor Immunity Unit and the Applied Tumor Immunity Group (DKFZ)
Secretariat Medical Oncology
Birgit Eberle
Tel: +49 6221 56-7229
Email: birgit.eberle@nct-heidelberg.de
Research Associates
Liam Bartels (DKFZ)
Position: Researcher
Area of expertise: Computational pathology, Machine learning, Medical sample imaging
Email: liam.bartels@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Eren Boga (DKFZ)
Position: PhD Student
Title: „Generation of a cellular CAR library for rapid identification of antigen-specific, functional CAR constructs"
Email: eren.boga@nct-heidelberg.de
Daniel Browne
Position: IT System Administrator
Email: daniel.browne@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Pornpimol Charoentong, PhD
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
Sarah Glenz (DKFZ)
Position: PhD Student
Title: "Structural and functional consequences of AAV capsid engineering"
Email: sarah.glenz@nct-heidelberg.de
Niels Grabe, PhD (Prof. Dr.)
Position: Professor at University Medicine Göttingen and NCT & University Hospital Heidelberg, Scientific Director of TIGA Center for Medical Informatics / Bioinformatics / AI, Heidelberg
Area of expertise: AI based digital pathology, image analysis, medical informatics and bioinformatics
Email: niels.grabe@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Bénédicte Lenoir, PhD (DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate, project coordinator "NCT TME Unit"
Area of expertise: Immunohistology, image analysis, project management
Email: benedicte.lenoir@nct-heidelberg.de
Yanhong Lyu, PhD (DKFZ)
Position: Postdoc, Bioinformation
Area of expertise: Bioinformatics, Genomics
Email: y.lyu@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Marten Meyer, PhD (UKHD/DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: translational research, TCR discovery, recombinant protein production
Email: marten.meyer@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Frank Momburg, PhD (DKFZ/UKHD)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Group Leader DKFZ
Area of expertise: translational research, TCR discovery, recombinant protein production
Email: frank.momburg@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Julia Pollmann, PhD
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Innate Immunity, Immuno-oncology, chronic viral infections
Email: j.pollmann@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Ferdinand Popp (DKFZ)
Position: Research Associate
Area of expertise: Cancer and Molecular Biology, Multi-omics and clinical data analysis, Machine learning & Data Science
Email: f.popp@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Maria Paula Roberti, PhD (DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate, Deputy Head of the CCU Applied Tumor Immunity (DKFZ)
Area of expertise: Immunotherapy, Translational Research, Gut microbiota and immunity
Email: mariapaula.roberti@nct-heidelberg.de
Alexander Rölle, PhD
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 (DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: AAV capsid design, cancer vaccination, gene and cell therapy
Email: silke.uhrig-schmidt@nct-heidelberg.de
Nektarios Valous, PhD (DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Computational image processing, computational biomedicine, interdisciplinary physics
Email: nek.valous@nct-heidelberg.de
Katharina von Werthern (DKFZ)
Position: Master Student
Heiko Weyd, PhD (DKFZ)
Position: Senior Research Associate
Area of expertise: Immunology, Antibodies, Apoptosis, T cells, Tolerance
Email: h.weyd@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Inka Zörnig, PhD
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 Börsig (DKFZ/UKHD)
Martina Busacker-Scharpff
Veronika Geißler
Isabella Gosch
Petra Hill
Iris Kaiser
Annette Köster
Alexandra Krauthoff (DKFZ)
Claudia Luckner-Minden
Claudia Tessmer (DKFZ)
Alexandra Tuch (DKFZ)
Nina Wilhelm (DKFZ)
Claudia Ziegelmeier
Former Members
Dr. Aileen Berger
Dr. Julia Bitzer
Dr. Lasse Neukirch
Dr. Rodrigo Moraleda
Dr. Zeynep Koşaloğlu-Yalçın