Martina Sester

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Martina Sester is a biologist, professor for transplantation and infection immunology and department head of the Institute for Infection Medicine at the Saarland University Hospital and Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the university . In her department, she combines basic and clinical research and focuses on analyzing the reaction of the immune system to pathogens such as the human cytomegalovirus , the tubercle bacillus , adenoviruses and HIV . She is also concerned with optimizing immunosuppression , for example after an organ transplant .

Career

Martina Sester studied biology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the University of Sussex in Brighton from 1991 to 1994 . In 1996 she did her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg with a thesis on proteins of a subtype of adenoviruses.

After completing her doctorate, she moved to the Saarland University Hospital (UKS) in Homburg and until 2009 headed a research laboratory with a focus on infection immunology and immune monitoring. In 1999 she was awarded the 10,000 Euro research prize on the subject of “Accurate virus diagnostics after transplants” from the Friends of the UKS . In 2004 she completed her habilitation and was granted the license to teach experimental medicine . As a result, together with a colleague, she developed a new immune test method for transplants - tests are carried out to determine whether a patient's immune system is strong enough to fight an infection with the cytomegalovirus , or to use medication to counter possible complications. For this purpose, the individual relationship between viral load and immune defense is determined. The procedure was included in the routine diagnostics after organ transplants at the university clinic and formed the basis for further research projects in the field of other bacterial and viral infections and found its way into over 100 publications.

In 2009 Martina Sester was appointed professor for transplant and infection immunology at the UKS.

In addition to her academic career, Martina Sester is involved in the committees of her university. She was deputy dean of the clinical medicine division and has been deputy dean of research, faculty equal opportunities officer of the medical faculty and member of the advisory board of the excellence program for women scientists since 2014 .

She is a member of national and international specialist societies, such as the steering committee of TBNet , an international tuberculosis network, for the field of translational research . In the Transplantation Society , a research NGO on the subject of transplant medicine, she worked in 2017 as a member of the CMV specialist group on the guidelines for dealing with cytomegalovirus infections after organ transplants. She is also a co-author of other medical guidelines.

In 2018 she was awarded the Memento Research Prize for Neglected Diseases for her contribution to the fight against tuberculosis and the improvement of health care for people affected by the disease .

Publications (selection)

  • Structure-function analysis of the adenovirus E3 / 19K protein: characterization of the interaction with MHC class I molecules and the 'amyloid precursor like protein 2' (APLP2) . (Dissertation 1997). Freiburg 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martina Sester. In: transplant-campus.de. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Saarland University Hospital - transplant and infection immunology. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Board of Directors of the Saarland University Hospital (ed.): University Medicine at the UKS. Competency report 2012 . 2012, p. 161 ( uniklinikum-saarland.de [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Martina Sester: Structure-function analysis of the adenovirus E3 / 19K protein: characterization of the interaction with MHC class I molecules and the 'amyloid precursor like protein 2' (APLP2) . (Dissertation 1997). Freiburg 1996, DNB  950325538 .
  5. ↑ a b Prize winners yesterday - today? Research award winners report . In: UKS report . No. 3 . Homburg 2018, p. 12 ( uniklinikum-saarland.de [PDF]).
  6. ↑ New routine test to make transplants safer . In: UKS Report. Journal of the Saarland University Hospital and the Association of His Friends . No. 1 . Homburg 2005, p. 15 ( uniklinikum-saarland.de [PDF]).
  7. ↑ About Us. Retrieved March 22, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ TTS consensus recommendations on CMV infection after organ transplantation. In: uniklinikum-saarland.de. Saarland University Hospital, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Dragos Bumbacea, Sandra M. Arend, Fusun Eyuboglu, Jay A. Fishman, Delia Goletti: The risk of tuberculosis in transplant candidates and recipients: a TBNET consensus statement . In: European Respiratory Journal . tape 40 , no. 4 , October 1, 2012, ISSN  0903-1936 , p. 990-1013 , doi : 10.1183 / 09031936.00000712 , PMID 22496318 ( ersjournals.com [accessed March 22, 2020]).
  10. ^ Memento Research Prize - Memento Prize. In: memento-preis.de. Doctors Without Borders e. V., accessed on March 22, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sester, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Biologist, infection immunologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century