Hedda Wardemann

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Hedda Wardemann (born February 9, 1973 in Hameln) is a German immunologist and professor in the B-cell immunology department at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg .

Education and academic career

Hedda Wardemann studied biology at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg from 1992 to 1998 . From 1998 she did her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg and obtained her doctorate in 2001 (Dr. rer. Nat).

After completing her doctorate, she did a postdoc in the laboratory of Michel C. Nussenzweig at Rockefeller University in New York, USA , from 2001 to 2003 . Until 2005 Wardemann had a position as Research Assistant Professor in Nussenzweig's laboratory before she founded her own research group in molecular immunology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin in 2006 . In 2014 Hedda Wardemann moved to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, where she has headed the B-cell immunology department to this day.

research

Wardemanns is a B-cell immunologist and researches the cellular and molecular mechanisms of human and murine antibody responses under pathogenic and non-pathogenic conditions. Her research group has developed a platform for high-throughput amplification and sequencing of antibody genes at the single cell level in order to follow the clonal development of a B-cell response in healthy and sick people. In combination with antibody cloning, it intends to perform molecular and functional analyzes of human B-cell responses. From this knowledge, new strategies for manipulating the B-cell system are to be developed in order to specifically induce protective antibody responses such as B. by vaccination.

Memberships

  • since 2019: Academia Europaea
  • since 2018: Member of the European B-Cell Network
  • 2015: Founding member of the "International Union of Immunological Sciences (IUIS) vaccine committee"

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c B-cell immunology. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Molecular Immunology. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Academy of Europe: Wardemann Hedda. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wardemann, Hedda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin