SynthImmune is an interdisciplinary network that spans many institutions at Heidelberg University, the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine, and the Medical Faculty Mannheim, as well as our extra-university partners at the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPIfmF), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg (EMBL Heidelberg), and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS).
| Principal investigators | Association | Research Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bärnighausen, Till | UHD, HD Institute of Global Health (HIGH) | Implementation Research |
 | Blaeschke, Franziska | UHD, Hopp’s Childrens Cancer Center + DKFZ HD | Immunology |
 | Blasco, Eva | IMSEAM | Polymer-based functional materials |
 | Brügger, Britta | BZH | Modulation of protein activities by interactions with lipids & lipidomics |
 | Buchholz, Veit | DKFZ | Immunology, infection, and cancer |
 | Bunse, Lucas | DKFZ Heidelberg; Neurology Clinic, University Hospital Mannheim | Neuroimmunology and Cell Therapy, Neurooncology |
 | Cerwenka, Adelheid | UHD, Mannheim (MA) Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3) | Immunology, Oncology |
 | Chlanda, Petr | UHD, BioQuant, CIID | Cryo-electron microscopy of viral infection |
 | Dalpke, Alexander | UKHD | Medical microbiology and hygene |
 | Diz-Munoz, Alba | EMBL HD | Mechanobiology at the cell surface |
 | Fackler, Oliver | UHD, Center of Integrative Infectious Diseases research (CIID) | Spokesperson Infectious Diseases, Immunology |
 | Friedrich, Mirko | DKFZ | Hematology and immune engineering |
 | Frischknecht, Friedrich | UHD, CIID | Infectious Diseases |
 | Gerstung, Moritz | DKFZ HD | Artificial intelligence in oncology |
 | Glembockyte, Victorija | MPImR HD | Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Nanotechnology, Fluorescence Microscopy |
 | Göpfrich, Kerstin | UHD, Center for Molecular Biology of UHD (ZMBH) | Co Spokesperson Synthetic Biology, DNA/RNA Nanotechnology |
 | Harbottle, Richard | DKFZ HD | DNA vectors |
 | Hartmann, Felix | DKFZ HD | System immunology and single cell biology |
 | Heinzelmann, Nora | UHD, Institute for Philosophy + Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM) | Ethics, Philosophy |
 | Herrmann, Carl | UHD, IPMB | Biomedical genomics |
 | Höfer, Thomas | DKFZ HD | Immunology, Computing, Oncology |
 | Huber, Wolfgang | EMBL HD | Computing, Machine Learning |
| Jäger, Dirk | NCT | Applied tumor immunity |
 | Jäschke, Andres | UHD, IPMB | Chemical biology of nucleic acids |
 | Jordan, Stefan | UKHD | Nutritional microbiology and immunology |
| Klein, Christian | UHD, IPMB | Pharmaceutical and medical chemistry |
 | Knop, Michael | UHD, ZMBH | Systems biology, meiosis and signal transduction |
 | Korbel, Jan | EMBL HD | Mechanisms of genomic variation and accelerated genome evolution |
 | Kreshuk, Anna | EMBL HD | Computing, Machine Learning |
 | Laketa, Vibor | UHD, CIID | Establishment and application of advanced microscopy infrastructure (Core Facility Head) |
 | Liu, Haikun | DKFZ HD | Molecular neurogenetics |
 | Loges, Sonja | UHD, MA Cancer Center + DKFZ HD | Oncology |
 | Lusic, Marina | UHD, CIID | Nuclear architecture in viral infection |
 | Molnar-Gabor, Fruzsina | UHD, Faculty of Law | International health and medical law and data protection law |
 | Moos, Thorsten | UHD, Faculty of Theology | Systematic theology (ethics) |
 | Mücksch, Frauke | UHD, CIID | Infectious Diseases |
 | Niopek, Dominik | UHD, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) | Synthetic Biology |
 | Papavasiliou, Nina | DKFZ HD | Immunology |
 | Pashapour, Sadaf | UHD, IMSEAM | Microfabrication and microfluidics (Core Facility Head) |
 | Platten, Michael | UHD, Department of Neurology + DKFZ HD | Co Spokesperson Immunology, Oncology |
 | Platzman, Ilia | MPImR HD | Construction of cells |
| Puschhof, Jens | DKFZ HD | Epithelium microbiome interactions |
 | Roers, Axel | UHD, Institute of Immunology | Immunology |
 | Roth, Susanne | UHD, Department of Surgery | Oncology |
 | Ruggieri, Alessia | UHD, CIID | Translational control by RNA viruses |
 | Sasse, Alexander | UHD, ZMBH | Genomic sequence-to-function models to decode the gene regulatory syntax of genomes |
 | Schwab, Yannick | EMBL HD | Electron microscopy (Core Facility Head) |
 | Schwarz, Ulrich | UHD, Institute for Theoretical Physics | Physics of complex biosystems |
 | Selhuber-Unkel, Christine | UHD, IMSEAM | Engineering Molecular Systems |
 | Spatz, Joachim | UHD, IMSEAM + MPImR HD | Engineering Molecular Systems, Synthetic Biology |
 | Stoecklin, Georg | UHD, MI3 | Immunology |
 | Sun, Chong | DKFZ HD | Immune regulation in cancer |
 | Thacker, Vivek | UKHD | Human organ-chip/organoid models to study chronic infectious diseases |
 | Thomas, Franziska | UHD, Institute for Organic Chemistry | Custom miniproteins for synthetic biology, medicinal chemistry and biomimetic materials |
 | Typas, Athanasios | EMBL HD | Infectious Diseases |
| Ungerechts, Guy | NCT | Virotherapy |
 | Wade, Rebecca | UHD ZMBH + HITS, HD | Computing |
 | Wardemann, Hedda | DKFZ HD | Immunology |
 | Winkler, Eva | UHD, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) | Ethics |
