SynthImmune is an interdisciplinary network that spans across many institutions at the Heidelberg and Mannheim Campus of Heidelberg University.

| Principal investigator | 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 |
![]() | Cerwenka, Adelheid | UHD, Mannheim (MA) Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3) | Immunology, Oncology |
![]() | Fackler, Oliver | UHD, Center of Integrative Infectious Diseases research (CIID) | Spokesperson Infectious Diseases, Immunology |
![]() | Frischknecht, Friedrich | UHD, CIID | Infectious Diseases |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Heinzelmann, Nora | UHD, Institute for Philosophy + Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM) | Ethics, Philosophy |
![]() | Höfer, Thomas | DKFZ HD | Immunology, Computing, Oncology |
![]() | Huber, Wolfgang | EMBL HD | Computing, Machine Learning |
![]() | Kreshuk, Anna | EMBL HD | Computing, Machine Learning |
![]() | Loges, Sonja | UHD, MA Cancer Center + DKFZ HD | Oncology |
![]() | Mücksch, Frauke | UHD, CIID | Infectious Diseases |
![]() | Niopek, Dominik | UHD, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) | Synthetic Biology |
![]() | Papavasiliou, Nina | DKFZ HD | Immunology |
![]() | Platten, Michael | UHD, Department of Neurology + DKFZ HD | Co Spokesperson Immunology, Oncology |
![]() | Roers, Axel | UHD, Institute of Immunology | Immunology |
![]() | Roth, Susanne | UHD, Department of Surgery | Oncology |
![]() | Selhuber-Unkel, Christine | UHD, IMSEAM | Engineering Molecular Systems |
![]() | Spatz, Joachim | UHD, IMSEAM + MPImR HD | Engineering Molecular Systems, Synthetic Biology |
![]() | Stoecklin, Georg | UHD, MI3 | Immunology |
![]() | Typas, Athanasios | EMBL HD | Infectious Diseases |
![]() | Wade, Rebecca | UHD ZMBH + HITS, HD | Computing |
![]() | Wardemann, Hedda | DKFZ HD | Immunology |
![]() | Winkler, Eva | UHD, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) | Ethics |
| Principal investigators | Association | Research Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Friedrich, Mirko | DKFZ | Hematology and immune engineering |
![]() | Gerstung, Moritz | DKFZ HD | Artificial intelligence in oncology |
![]() | Harbottle, Richard | DKFZ HD | DNA vecotrs |
![]() | Hartmann, Felix | DKFZ HD | System immunology and single cell biology |
![]() | Herrmann, Carl | UHD, IPMB | Biomedical genomics |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Laketa, Vibor | UHD, CIID | Establishment and application of advanced microscopy infrastructure (Core Facility Head) |
![]() | Liu, Haikun | DKFZ HD | Molecular neurogenetics |
![]() | 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) |
![]() | Platzman, Ilia | MPImR HD | Construction of cells |
![]() | Puschhof, Jens | DKFZ HD | Epithelium microbiome interactions |
![]() | Ruggieri, Alessia | UHD, CIID | Translational control by RNA viruses |
![]() | Pashapour, Sadaf | UHD, IMSEAM | Microfabrication and microfluidics (Core Facility Head) |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Sun, Chong | DKFZ HD | Immune regulation in cancer |
![]() | Thacker, Vivek | UKHD | Human organ-chip/organoid models to study chronic infectious diseases |
![]() | Thomas, Franziska | UHD, Organic Chemistry Institute | Custom miniproteins for synthetic biology, medicinal chemistry and biomimetic materials |
![]() | Ungerechts, Guy | NCT | Virotherapy |
















































