• Study of Medicine at the University Hamburg
• M.D. thesis in the Medizinische Kernklinik, UKE
• Assistant Physician at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Study of Molecular Biology at the Centre of Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
• DFG Fellowship at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona Switzerland
• Clinical Specialization in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
• Habilitation in Internal Medicine, University Hamburg
• Leader of the Clinical Research Unit 228 “Immunopathogenesis of GN”
• W3 Professor at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Deputy Coordinator of the SFB 1192
• Leader of the Section Translational Immunology, UKE

• Franz-Volhard-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Nephrologie

• Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.

  Wang H, Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Jauch-Speer SL, Peters A, Kaffke A, Bonn S, Huber TB, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U, Asada N.Nat Commun. 2025 May

• The integrated stress response pathway controls cytokine production in tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells.

  Asada N, Ginsberg P, Paust HJ, Song N, Riedel JH, Turner JE, Peters A, Kaffke A, Engesser J, Wang H, Zhao Y, Khatri R, Gild P, Dahlem R, Diercks BP, Das S, Ignatova Z, Huber TB, Prinz I, Gagliani N, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U. Nat Immunol. 2025 Apr

• Kidney immunology from pathophysiology to clinical translation.

  Christian Kurts, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Christian F Krebs, Ulf PanzerNat Rev Immunol. 2025 Jan

• Immune profiling-based targeting of pathogenic T cells with ustekinumab in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.

  Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Asada N, Riedel JH, Sivayoganathan V, Peters A, Kaffke A, Jauch-Speer SL, Goldbeck-Strieder T, Puelles VG, Wenzel UO, Steinmetz OM, Hoxha E, Turner JE, Mittrücker HW, Wiech T, Huber TB, Bonn S, Krebs CF, Panzer U. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep

• CD4+ T cells produce GM-CSF and drive immune-mediated glomerular disease by licensing monocyte-derived cells to produce MMP12.

  Hans-Joachim Paust, Ning Song, Donatella De Feo, Nariaki Asada, Selma Tuzlak, Yu Zhao, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Malte Hellmig, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Anett Peters, Anna Kaffke, Alina Borchers, Ulrich O Wenzel, Oliver M Steinmetz, Gisa Tiegs, Elisabeth Meister, Matthias Mack, Christian Kurts, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Maja T Lindenmeyer, Elion Hoxha, Rolf A K Stahl, Tobias B Huber, Stefan Bonn, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Thorsten Wiech, Jan-Eric Turner, Burkhard Becher, Christian F Krebs, Ulf PanzerSci Transl Med. 2023 Mar

• Kidney-resident innate-like memory γδ T cells control chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection of mice

  Bertram T, Reimers D, Lory NC, Schmidt C, Schmid J, C Heinig L, Bradtke P, Rattay G, Zielinski S, Hellmig M, Bartsch P, Rohde H, Nuñez S, Rosemblatt MV, Bono MR, Gagliani N, Sandrock I, Panzer U, Krebs CF, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Prinz I, Mittrücker HWProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

  Anne Mueller, Yu Zhao, Hakan Cicek, Hans-Joachim Paust, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Alexandra Linke, Claudia Wegscheid, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Stefan Bonn, Immo Prinz, Ulf Panzer, Gisa Tiegs, Christian F Krebs, Katrin NeumannAm Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

• Endogenous IL-22 is dispensable for tissue protection in experimental glomerulonephritis.

  Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Xiong T, Weinert E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Dumoutier L, Renauld JC, Huber S, Panzer U, Turner JEAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr

• Development and validation of a renal risk score in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Tennstedt P, Vettorazzi E, Busch M, Nitschke M, Jabs W, Özcan F, Wendt R, Hausberg M, Sellin L, Panzer U, Huber T, Waldherr R, Hopfer H, Stahl R, Wiech TKidney Int. 2018 Dec

• T cell-derived IFN-γ downregulates protective group 2 innate lymphoid cells in murine lupus erythematosus. 

  Düster M, Becker M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Panzer U, Turner JEEur J Immunol. 2018 Aug

• Organisation of lymphocytic infiltrates in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Herden E, Goldmann B, Langbehn U, Busch M, Jabs W, Steinmetz O, Panzer U, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech THistopathology. 2018 Jun

• Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes in the Kidney.

  Jan-Eric Turner, Martina Becker, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Ulf Panzer J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Feb

• Host DNases prevent vascular occlusion by neutrophil extracellular traps.

  Jiménez-Alcázar M, Rangaswamy C, Panda R, Bitterling J, Simsek YJ, Long AT, Bilyy R, Krenn V, Renné C, Renné T, Kluge S, Panzer U, Mizuta R, Mannherz HG, Kitamura D, Herrmann M, Napirei M, Fuchs TAScience. 2017 Dec

• IL-33-mediated expansion of type 2 innate lymphoid cells protects from progressive glomerulosclerosis

  Riedel JH, Becker M, Kopp K, Düster M, Brix SR, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Kluth LA, Gnirck AC, Attar M, Krohn S, Fehse B, Stahl RA, Panzer U, Turner JEJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul

• Autoimmune Renal Disease Is Exacerbated by S1P-Receptor-1-Dependent Intestinal Th17 Cell Migration to the Kidney.

  Krebs CF, Paust HJ, Krohn S, Koyro T, Brix SR, Riedel JH, Bartsch P, Wiech T, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Huang J, Fischer N, Busch P, Mittrucker HW, Steinhoff U, Stockinger B, Perez LG, Wenzel UO, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Gagliani N, Stahl RAK, Huber S, Turner JE, Panzer U. Immunity. 2016 Nov

• Inhibitor of NFκB Kinase Subunit 2 Blockade Hinders the Initiation but Ag-gravates the Progression of crescentic glomerulonephritis.

  Gotot J, Piotrowski E, Otte MS, Tittel AP, Guo L, Yao C, Ziegelbauer K, Panzer U, Garbi N, Kurts C, Thaiss FJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Jul

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• CXCL5 Drives Neutrophil Recruitment in TH17-Mediated GN
  Disteldorf E, Krebs CF, Paust HJ, Turner JE, Nouailles G, Tittel A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stege G, Brix S, Velden J, Wiech T, Helmchen U, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Bennstein SB, Kaffke A, Llanto C, Lira SA, Mittrücker HW, Stahl RAK, Kurts C, Kaufmann SHE, Panzer U.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015

• The immune system and kidney disease: basic concepts and clinical implications.
  Kurts C*, Panzer U*, Anders HJ, Rees AJ*contributed equally
  Nat Rev Immunol. 2013

• Micro-RNA-155 drives TH17 immune response and tissue injury in experimental crescentic GN.
  Krebs CF, Kapffer S, Paust HJ, Schmidt T, Bennstein SB, Peters A, Stege G, Brix SR, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Müller RU, Turner JE, Steinmetz OM, Wolf G, Stahl RA, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013

• Immature renal DC recruit regulatory CXCR6+ iNKT cells to attenuate crescentic GN.
  Riedel JH, Paust HJ, Turner JE, Tittel AP, Krebs C, Disteldorf E, Tiegs G, Velden J, Mittrücker HW, Garbi N, Stahl RA, Steinmetz OM, Kurts C, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012

• The IL-23 / Th17 axis contributes to renal tissue damage in experimental glomerulonephritis.
  Paust HJ, Turner JE, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Heymann F, Hölscher C, Wolf G, Kurts C, Mittrücker HW, Stahl RA, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009

• Study of Biochemistry at the University of Potsdam
• PhD thesis at the Medical Department, Division of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology, Charité - University Hospital Berlin
• Research assistant at the Medical Department, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - University Hospital Berlin
• Research assistant at the Institute of Experimental Immunology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

• Pathogenic T-Cell Responses in Immune-Mediated Glomerulonephritis

  Linke A, Tiegs G, Neumann K. Cells. 2022 May

• Antigen Cross-Presentation by Murine Proximal Tubular Epithelial Cells Induces Cytotoxic and Inflammatory CD8 + T Cells

  Linke A, Cicek H, Müller A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Melderis S, Wiech T, Wegscheid C, Ridder J, Steinmetz OM, Diehl L, Tiegs G, Neumann K.Cells. 2022 Apr

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

  Anne Mueller, Yu Zhao, Hakan Cicek, Hans-Joachim Paust, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Alexandra Linke, Claudia Wegscheid, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Stefan Bonn, Immo Prinz, Ulf Panzer, Gisa Tiegs, Christian F Krebs, Katrin NeumannAm Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

Renal proximal tubular epithelial cells exert immunomodulatory function by driving inflammatory CD4+ T-cell responses.
Breda PC, Wiech T, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Grahammer F, Huber TB, Panzer U, Tiegs G, Neumann K
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr

The co-inhibitory molecule PD-L1 contributes to regulatory T cell-mediated protection in murine crescentic glomerulonephritis.
Neumann K, Ostmann A, Breda PC, Ochel A, Tacke F, Paust HJ, Panzer U, Tiegs G
Sci Rep 2019 Feb

Interferon-g-dependent immune responses contribute to the pathogenesis of sclerosing cholangitis in mice.
Ravichandran G*, Neumann K*, Berkhout L, Weidemann S, Langeneckert AE, Schwinge D, Poch T, Huber S, Schiller B, Hess LU, Ziegler AE, Oldhafer KJ, Barikbin B, Schramm C, Altfeld M, Tiegs G
J Hepatol 2019 Jun

Deletion of tumour necrosis factor α receptor 1 elicits an increased TH17 immune response in the chronically inflamed liver.
Berkhout L, Barikbin R, Schiller B, Ravichandran G, Krech T, Neumann K, Sass G, Tiegs G
Sci Rep 2019 Mar

CEACAM1 controls IL-2-dependent regulatory T cell induction in immune-mediated hepatitis.
Horst AK, Wegscheid C, Schaefers C, Schiller B, Neumann K, Lunemann S, Langeneckert AE, Oldhafer KJ, Weiler-Normann C, Lang KS, Singer BB, Altfeld M, Diehl L, Tiegs G
Hepatology 2018 Jul

A pro-inflammatory role of type 2 innate lymphoid cells in murine immune-mediated hepatitis.
Neumann K, Karimi K, Meiners J, Voetlause R, Steinmann S, Dammermann W, Lüth S, Asghari F, Wegscheid C, Horst A, Tiegs G
J Immunol 2017 Jan

Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells induce immunosuppressive IL-10-producing Th1 cells via the Notch pathway.
Neumann K, Rudolph C, Neumann C, Janke M, Amsen D, Scheffold A
Eur J Immunol. 2015 Jul

Chemokine Transfer by Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Contributes to the Recruitment of CD4+ T Cells into the Murine Liver.
Neumann K, Erben U, Kruse N, Wechsung K, Schumann M, Klugewitz K, Scheffold A, Kühl AA
PLoS One. 2015 Jun

Role of Blimp-1 in programing Th effector cells into IL-10 producers.
Neumann C, Heinrich F, Neumann K, Junghans V, Mashreghi MF, Ahlers J, Janke M, Rudolph C, Mockel-Tenbrinck N, Kühl AA, Heimesaat MM, Esser C, Im SH, Radbruch A, Rutz S, Scheffold A
J Exp Med. 2014 Aug

Connecting liver and gut: murine liver sinusoidal endothelium induces gut tropism of CD4+ T cells via retinoic acid.
Neumann K, Kruse N, Szilagyi B, Erben U, Rudolph C, Flach A, Zeitz M, Hamann A, Klugewitz K
Hepatology. 2012 Jun

• Since 2021 Professor (W3) and Director, Institute of Systems Immunology, UKE
• Since 2015 Professor for Mucosal Immunology, Institute of Immunology, MHH
• 2007 – 2015 Group leader at the Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School
• 2003 – 2007 Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Bernard Malissen at CIML – Centre d’Immunology de Marseille-Luminy, France
• 2002 – 2003 Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. of Immunology, Berlin
• 1998 – 2002 PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. of Immunology, Berlin
• 1997 – 1998 Research scholar, Dept. of Biochemistry, Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

• Sir Hans Krebs Preis (2013)

• Mueller A, Zhao Y, Cicek H, Paust HJ, Sivayoganathan A, Linke A, Wegscheid C, Wiech T, Huber TB, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Bonn S, Prinz I, Panzer U, Tiegs G, Krebs CF, Neumann K.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Jun
  
  

• Performance comparison of TCR-pMHC prediction tools reveals a strong data dependency.
  Deng L, Ly C, Abdollahi S, Zhao Y, Prinz I and Bonn S.
  Front Immunol. 2023 Apr

• Professor and Director of the Institute of Medical Systems Biology at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
• Senior researcher, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
• Head of the genomic core, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany
• Independent Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany
• Postdoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Advisors: Eileen Furlong, PhD & Ann-Claude Gavin, PhD
• PhD Thesis, University of Heidelberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research (MPI-MR), Heidelberg, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Seeburg
• Master thesis, Universität Bayreuth, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Deutschland

• Invitation to the symposium “Sino-German Frontiers of Science” of the Alexander von Humboldt-Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• EMBL interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship (eIPOD)
• EMBO and Marie-Curie travel grants for advanced training in bioinformatics

• Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.
  Huiying Wang, Jonas Engesser, Robin Khatri, Darius P Schaub, Hans-Joachim Paust, Zeba Sultana, Saskia-Larissa Jauch-Speer, Anett Peters, Anna Kaffke, Stefan Bonn, Tobias B Huber, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Christian F Krebs, Ulf Panzer, Nariaki Asada 
  Nat Commun. 2025 May
  
  
• Immune profiling-based targeting of pathogenic T cells with ustekinumab in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.
  Jonas Engesser, Robin Khatri, Darius P Schaub, Yu Zhao, Hans-Joachim Paust, Zeba Sultana, Nariaki Asada, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Varshi Sivayoganathan, Anett Peters, Anna Kaffke, Saskia-Larissa Jauch-Speer, Thiago Goldbeck-Strieder, Victor G Puelles, Ulrich O Wenzel, Oliver M Steinmetz, Elion Hoxha, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Stefan Bonn, Christian F Krebs, Ulf Panzer.
  Nat Commun. 2024 Sep
  
  

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T Cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.
  Mueller A, Zhao Y, Cicek H, Paust HJ, Sivayoganathan A, Linke A, Wegscheid C, Wiech T, Huber TB, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Bonn S, Prinz I, Panzer U, Tiegs G, Krebs CF, Neumann K.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Jun

• Performance comparison of TCR-pMHC prediction tools reveals a strong data dependency.
  Deng L, Ly C, Abdollahi S, Zhao Y, Prinz I and Bonn S.
  Front Immunol. 2023 Apr

• Study of Medicine at the University of Cologne and Hamburg
• M.D. thesis in the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg (ZMNH)
• Assistant Physician at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Postdoc at the Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash, Australia
• Clinical Specialization in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
• Habilitation in Internal Medicine, University of Hamburg
• Consultant (Oberarzt) at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• aPL Professorship

• Hans-U.-Zollinger-Research-Award of the German Society of Nephrology (2015)
• Braun´s Award for Internal Medicine (2015)

• The CCR6/CCL20 axis expands RORγt+ Tregs to protect from glomerulonephritis.

  Georg R Herrnstadt, Christoph B Niehus, Torben Ramcke , Julia Hagenstein, Laura-Isabell Ehnold, Anna Nosko, Matthias T Warkotsch, Frederic C Feindt, Simon Melderis, Hans-Joachim Paust, Varshi Sivayoganathan, Saskia-Larissa Jauch-Speer, Milagros N Wong, Daniela Indenbirken, Christian F Krebs, Tobias B Huber, Ulf Panzer, Victor G Puelles, Malte A Kluger, Oliver M Steinmetz.Kidney Int. 2023 Mar

• The Amphiregulin/EGFR axis protects from lupus nephritis via downregulation of pathogenic CD4+ T helper cell responses.

  Simon Melderis, Matthias T Warkotsch, Julien Dang, Julia Hagenstein, Laura-Isabell Ehnold, Georg R Herrnstadt, Christoph B Niehus, Frederic C Feindt, Dominik Kylies, Victor G Puelles, Carmen Berasain, Matias A Avila, Katrin Neumann, Gisa Tiegs, Tobias B Huber, Pierre-Louis Tharaux, Oliver M Steinmetz.J Autoimmun 2022 May

• Antigen Cross-Presentation by Murine Proximal Tubular Epithelial Cells Induces Cytotoxic and Inflammatory CD8 + T Cells

  Linke A, Cicek H, Müller A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Melderis S, Wiech T, Wegscheid C, Ridder J, Steinmetz OM, Diehl L, Tiegs G, Neumann K.Cells. 2022 Apr

• Amphiregulin Aggravates Glomerulonephritis via Recruitment and Activation of Myeloid Cells.

  Melderis S, Hagenstein J, Warkotsch MT, Dang J, Herrnstadt GR, Niehus CB, Neumann K, Panzer U, Berasain C, Avila MA, Tharaux PL, Tiegs G, Steinmetz OM.J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Sep

• A Novel Role for IL-6 Receptor Classic Signaling: Induction of ROR γ t+Foxp3+ Tregs with Enhanced Suppressive Capacity.

  Julia Hagenstein, Simon Melderis, Anna Nosko, Matthias T Warkotsch, Johannes V Richter, Torben Ramcke, Georg R Herrnstadt, Jürgen Scheller, Isabell Yan, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Malte A Kluger, Oliver M Steinmetz.J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Aug

• IL-10 Receptor Signaling Empowers Regulatory T Cells to Control Th17 Responses and Protect from GN. 

  Diefenhardt P, Nosko A, Kluger MA, Richter JV, Wegscheid C, Kobayashi Y, Tiegs G, Huber S, Flavell RA, Stahl RAK, Steinmetz OM.J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Jul

• Organisation of lymphocytic infiltrates in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Herden E, Goldmann B, Langbehn U, Busch M, Jabs W, Steinmetz O, Panzer U, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech THistopathology. 2018 Jun

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• Treg17 cells are programmed by Stat3 to suppress Th17 responses in systemic lupus
  Kluger M, Melderis S, Nosko A, Goerke B, Luig M, Meyer M, Turner J, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wegscheid C, Tiegs G, Stahl R, Panzer U, Steinmetz O
  Kidney Int. 2016
  
  
• RORγt+Foxp3+ Cells are an Independent Bifunctional Regulatory T Cell Lineage and Mediate Crescentic GN
  Kluger M, Meyer M, Nosko A, Goerke B, Luig M, Wegscheid C, Tiegs G, Stahl R, Panzer U, Steinmetz O
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016
  
  
• Inflammation-Induced IL-6 Functions as a Natural Brake on Macrophages and Limits GN.
  Luig M, Kluger MA, Goerke B, Meyer M, Nosko A, Yan I, Scheller J, Mittrücker HW, Rose-John S, Stahl RAK, Panzer U, Steinmetz OM:
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015
  
  
• Stat3 Programs Th17-Specific Regulatory T Cells to Control GN.
  Kluger MA, Luig M, Wegscheid C, Goerke B, Paust HJ, Brix S, Yan I, Mittrücker HW, Hagl B, Renner ED, Tiegs G, Wiech T, Stahl RAK, Panzer U, Steinmetz OM
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014

• B-cell-derived IL-10 does not vitally contribute to the clinical course of glomerulonephritis.
  Kluger MA, Ostmann A, Luig M, Meyer MC, Goerke B, Paust HJ, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stahl RA, Panzer U, Tiegs G, Steinmetz OM
  Eur J Immunol. 2014
  
  
• Plasticity of Th17 cells in Peyer's patches is responsible for the induction of T cell-dependent IgA responses.
  Hirota K, Turner JE, Villa M, Duarte JH, Demengeot J, Steinmetz OM, Stockinger B
  Nat Immunol. 2013
  
  
• The Th17-defining transcription factor RORγt promotes glomerulonephritis.
  Steinmetz OM, Summers SA, Gan PY, Semple T, Holdsworth SR, Kitching AR
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011

• Study of Biology at the University of Mainz
• Diploma thesis, 1^st Department of Medicine, Section Pathophysiology University of Mainz
• Ph.D. thesis, 1^st Department of Medicine, Section Pathophysiology University of Mainz
• Postdoc in the Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
• Postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada
• Group leader in the Division of Immunology, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
• Habilitation in Immunology and Medical Microbiology at the Free University of Berlin
• W2 Professor at the Institute for Immunology, UKE Hamburg

• Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.

  Wang H, Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Jauch-Speer SL, Peters A, Kaffke A, Bonn S, Huber TB, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U, Asada N.Nat Commun. 2025 May

• The integrated stress response pathway controls cytokine production in tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells.

  Asada N, Ginsberg P, Paust HJ, Song N, Riedel JH, Turner JE, Peters A, Kaffke A, Engesser J, Wang H, Zhao Y, Khatri R, Gild P, Dahlem R, Diercks BP, Das S, Ignatova Z, Huber TB, Prinz I, Gagliani N, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U. Nat Immunol. 2025 Apr

• Immune profiling-based targeting of pathogenic T cells with ustekinumab in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.

  Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Asada N, Riedel JH, Sivayoganathan V, Peters A, Kaffke A, Jauch-Speer SL, Goldbeck-Strieder T, Puelles VG, Wenzel UO, Steinmetz OM, Hoxha E, Turner JE, Mittrücker HW, Wiech T, Huber TB, Bonn S, Krebs CF#, Panzer U.  Nat Commun. 2024 Sep

• Kidney-resident innate-like memory γδ T cells control chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection of mice

  Bertram T, Reimers D, Lory NC, Schmidt C, Schmid J, C Heinig L, Bradtke P, Rattay G, Zielinski S, Hellmig M, Bartsch P, Rohde H, Nuñez S, Rosemblatt MV, Bono MR, Gagliani N, Sandrock I, Panzer U, Krebs CF, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Prinz I, Mittrücker HWProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan

• Pathogen-induced tissue-resident memory TH17 (TRM17) cells amplify autoimmune kidney disease.

  Krebs CF, Reimers D, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Bartsch P, Nuñez S, Rosemblatt MV, Hellmig M, Kilian C, Borchers A, Enk LUB, Zinke M, Becker M, Schmid J, Klinge S, Wong MN, Puelles VG, Schmidt C, Bertram T, Stumpf N, Hoxha E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Rink M, Kurts C, Franzenburg S, Koch-Nolte F, Turner JE, Riedel JH, Huber S, Gagliani N, Huber TB, Wiech T, Rohde H, Bono MR, Bonn S, Panzer U, Mittrücker HW.Sci Immunol. 2020 Aug

• Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes in the Kidney.

  Jan-Eric Turner, Martina Becker, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Ulf Panzer J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Feb

• Interferon Regulatory Factor 4 controls TH1 cell effector function and metabolism.
  Mahnke J, Schumacher V, Ahrens S, Käding N, Feldhoff LM, Huber M, Rupp J, Raczkowski F, Mittrücker H-W
  Sci Rep. 2016
  
  
• ADAM17 controls IL-6 signaling by cleavage of the murine IL-6Rα from the cell surface of leukocytes during inflammatory responses.
  Yan I, Schwarz J, Lücke K, Schumacher N, Schumacher V, Schmidt S, Rabe B, Saftig P, Donners M, Rose-John S, Mittrücker H-W*, Chalaris A*. *contributed equally
  J Leukoc Biol. 2016
  
  
• CXCR3+ regulatory T cells control TH1 responses in crescentic GN.
  Paust HJ, Riedel JH, Krebs CF, Turner JE, Brix SR, Krohn S, Velden J, Wiech T, Kaffke A, Peters A, Bennstein SB, Kapffer S, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wegscheid C, Tiegs G, Thaiss F, Mittrücker H-W, Steinmetz OM, Stahl RA, Panzer U.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016
  
  
• TH1 and TH17 cells promote crescent formation in experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis.
  Hünemörder S, Treder J, Ahrens S, Schumacher V, Paust HJ, Menter T, Matthys P, Kamradt T, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Panzer U, Hopfer H, Mittrücker H-W (2015).
  J Pathol. 2015
  
  
• Glomerulopathy induced by immunization with a peptide derived from the Goodpasture antigen α3IV-NC1.
  Hopfer H, Hünemörder S, Treder J, Turner J-E, Paust H-J, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Hopfer U, Sachs M, Peters A, Bucher-Kocaoglu B, Ahrens S, Panzer U, Mittrücker H-W (2015).
  J Immunol. 2015
  
  
• CXCL5 drives neutrophil recruitment in TH17-mediated GN.
  Disteldorf EM, Krebs CF, Paust HJ, Turner JE, Nouailles G, Tittel A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stege G, Brix S, Velden J, Wiech T, Helmchen U, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Bennstein SB, Kaffke A, Llanto C, Lira SA, Mittrücker HW, Stahl RA, Kurts C, Kaufmann SH, Panzer U.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015
  
  
• The transcription factor Interferon Regulatory Factor 4 is required for the generation of protective effector CD8+ T cells.
  Raczkowski F, Ritter J, Heesch K, Schumacher V, Höcker L, Raifer H, Klein M, Bopp T, Harb H, Kesper DA, Pfefferle PI, Grusdat M, Lang PA, Mittrücker H-W*, Huber M*. (*contributed equally)
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013
  
  
• Characterization of the renal CD4+ T-cell response in experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis.
  Hopfer H, Holzer J, Hünemörder S, Paust HJ, Sachs M, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Turner JE, Panzer U, Mittrücker H-W
  Kidney Int. 2012

• Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
• Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
• Bachelor’s Thesis, Ospedale San Raffaele (IT)
• Master’s Thesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical
School (USA)
• Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (IT)
• International lab experience as Ph.D. student, Yale School of Medicine (USA)
• Postdoctoral fellow, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Immunobiology (USA)
• Assistant Professor (25%) of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (SE)
• W3 Professor of Gastrointestinal Carcinogenesis, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)

• Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.

  Wang H, Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Jauch-Speer SL, Peters A, Kaffke A, Bonn S, Huber TB, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U, Asada N.Nat Commun. 2025 May

• The integrated stress response pathway controls cytokine production in tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells.

  Asada N, Ginsberg P, Paust HJ, Song N, Riedel JH, Turner JE, Peters A, Kaffke A, Engesser J, Wang H, Zhao Y, Khatri R, Gild P, Dahlem R, Diercks BP, Das S, Ignatova Z, Huber TB, Prinz I, Gagliani N, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U. Nat Immunol. 2025 Apr

• Immune profiling-based targeting of pathogenic T cells with ustekinumab in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.

  Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Asada N, Riedel JH, Sivayoganathan V, Peters A, Kaffke A, Jauch-Speer SL, Goldbeck-Strieder T, Puelles VG, Wenzel UO, Steinmetz OM, Hoxha E, Turner JE, Mittrücker HW, Wiech T, Huber TB, Bonn S, Krebs CF#, Panzer U.  Nat Commun. 2024 Sep

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiß C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lütgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• Pathogen-induced tissue-resident memory TH17 (TRM17) cells amplify autoimmune kidney disease.

  Krebs CF, Reimers D, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Bartsch P, Nuñez S, Rosemblatt MV, Hellmig M, Kilian C, Borchers A, Enk LUB, Zinke M, Becker M, Schmid J, Klinge S, Wong MN, Puelles VG, Schmidt C, Bertram T, Stumpf N, Hoxha E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Rink M, Kurts C, Franzenburg S, Koch-Nolte F, Turner JE, Riedel JH, Huber S, Gagliani N, Huber TB, Wiech T, Rohde H, Bono MR, Bonn S, Panzer U, Mittrücker HW.Sci Immunol. 2020 Aug

• TH17 cell plasticity: The role of dendritic cells and molecular mechanisms.
  Agalioti T, Villablanca EJ, Huber S, Gagliani N.
  J Autoimmun. 2018
  
  
• Intestinal IFN-γ-producing Tr1-cells co-express CCR5 and PD-1, and down-regulate IL-10 in the inflamed gut of IBD patients.
  Alfen JS*, Larghi P*, Facciotti F*, Gagliani N*, Bosotti R, Paroni M, Maglie S, Gruarin P, Vasco CM, Ranzani V, Frusteri C, Iseppon A, Moro M, Crosti MC, Gatti S, Pagani M, Caprioli F, Abrignani S, Flavell RA, Geginat J.
  J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018
  
  
• Macrophage function in tissue repair and remodeling requires IL-4 or IL-13 with apoptotic cells.
  Bosurgi L, Cao Y G, Cabeza-Cabrerizo M, Tucci A, Hughes L D, Kong Y, Weinstein J S, Licona-Limon P, Schmid E T, Pelorosso F, Gagliani N, Craft J E, Flavell R A, Ghosh S, Rothlin C V.
  Science. 2017
  
  
• A pathogenic role for T cell-derived IL-22BP in inflammatory bowel disease.
  Pelczar, P., M. Witkowski, L. G. Perez, J. Kempski, A. G. Hammel, L. Brockmann, D. Kleinschmidt, S. Wende, C. Haueis, T. Bedke, M. Witkowski, S. Krasemann, S. Steurer, C. J. Booth, P. Busch, A. Konig, U. Rauch, D. Benten, J. R. Izbicki, T. Rosch, A. W. Lohse, T. Strowig, N. Gagliani*, R. A. Flavell*, and S. Huber*. *contributed equally
  Science. 2016
  
  
• Th17 cells transdifferentiate into regulatory T cells during resolution of inflammation.
  Gagliani, N., M. C. Amezcua Vesely, A. Iseppon, L. Brockmann, H. Xu, N. W. Palm, M. R. de Zoete, P. Licona-Limon, R. S. Paiva, T. Ching, C. Weaver, X. Zi, X. Pan, R. Fan, L. X. Garmire, M. J. Cotton, Y. Drier, B. Bernstein, J. Geginat, B. Stockinger, E. Esplugues, S. Huber*, and R. A. Flavell*. *contributed equally
  Nature. 2015
  
  
• The Fire Within: Microbes inflame tumor.
  Gagliani N*, Bo H*, Huber S*, Elinav E*, Flavell RA.
  Cell. 2014
  
  
• Coexpression of CD49b and LAG-3 identifies human and mouse T regulatory type 1 cells.
  Gagliani N*, Magnani CF*, Huber S*, Gianolini ME, Pala M, Licona-Limon P, Guo B, Herbert DR, Bulfone A, Trentini F, Di Serio C, Bacchetta R, Andreani M, Brockmann L, Gregori S, Flavell RA, Roncarolo MG. *contributed equally
  Nat Med. 2013
  
  
• Th17 cells express interleukin-10 receptor and are controlled by Foxp3 and Foxp3+ regulatory CD4+ T cells in an interleukin-10-dependent manner.
  Huber S*, Gagliani N*, Esplugues E*, O'Connor WJr, Huber FJ, Chaudhry A, Kamanaka M, Kobayashi Y, Booth CJ, Rudensky AY, Roncarolo MG, Battaglia M, Flavell RA. *contributed equally
  Immunity. 2011

• Study of Medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg
• M.D. thesis at the Institut für Immunologie, summa cum laude
• Clinical Specialization in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
• Research scholarship from the medical faculty at the UKE
• Stipent of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nephrologie and Deutsche Nierenstiftung
• Habilitation in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University Hamburg
• Consultant (Oberarzt), III. Medizinische Klinik, Translationale Immunologie, UKE

• Medac-Award for Immunology (doctoral thesis) (2006)
• Adalbert-Buding-Award from the Deutsche Hochdruckliga (2011)
• Dr.-Martini-Preis of the Dr.-Martini-Stiftung in Hamburg (2014)
• Hans-U.-Zollinger-Research-Award of the German Society of Nephrology (2017)

• Type I interferon drives T cell cytotoxicity by upregulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 in autoimmune kidney diseases in mice.

  Wang H, Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Jauch-Speer SL, Peters A, Kaffke A, Bonn S, Huber TB, Mittrücker HW, Krebs CF, Panzer U, Asada N.Nat Commun. 2025 May

• Targeting T cell plasticity in kidney and gut inflammation by pooled single-cell CRISPR screening.

  Enk LUB, Hellmig M, Riecken K, Kilian C, Datlinger P, Jauch-Speer SL, Neben T, Sultana Z, Sivayoganathan V, Borchers A, Paust HJ, Zhao Y, Asada N, Liu S, Agalioti T, Pelczar P, Wiech T, Bock C, Huber TB, Huber S, Bonn S, Gagliani N, Fehse B, Panzer U, Krebs CF.  Sci Immunol. 2024 Jun

• Immune profiling-based targeting of pathogenic T cells with ustekinumab in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.

  Engesser J, Khatri R, Schaub DP, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Sultana Z, Asada N, Riedel JH, Sivayoganathan V, Peters A, Kaffke A, Jauch-Speer SL, Goldbeck-Strieder T, Puelles VG, Wenzel UO, Steinmetz OM, Hoxha E, Turner JE, Mittrücker HW, Wiech T, Huber TB, Bonn S, Krebs CF#, Panzer U.  Nat Commun. 2024 Sep

• Kidney-resident innate-like memory γδ T cells control chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection of mice

  Bertram T, Reimers D, Lory NC, Schmidt C, Schmid J, C Heinig L, Bradtke P, Rattay G, Zielinski S, Hellmig M, Bartsch P, Rohde H, Nuñez S, Rosemblatt MV, Bono MR, Gagliani N, Sandrock I, Panzer U, Krebs CF, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Prinz I, Mittrücker HWProc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients.

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiss C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lutgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF. Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• Pathogen-induced tissue-resident memory T(H)17 (T(RM)17) cells amplify autoimmune kidney disease.

  Krebs CF, Reimers D, Zhao Y, Paust HJ, Bartsch P, Nunez S, Rosemblatt MV, Hellmig M, Kilian C, Borchers A, Enk LUB, Zinke M, Becker M, Schmid J, Klinge S, Wong MN, Puelles VG, Schmidt C, Bertram T, Stumpf N, Hoxha E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Rink M, Kurts C, Franzenburg S, Koch-Nolte F, Turner JE, Riedel JH, Huber S, Gagliani N, Huber TB, Wiech T, Rohde H, Bono MR, Bonn S, Panzer U, Mittrucker HW. Sci Immunol. 2020 Aug

• Drawing a single-cell landscape of the human kidney in (pseudo)-space and time.

  Krebs CF, Schlitzer A, Kurts C.Kidney Int. 2020 May

• Autoimmune Renal Disease Is Exacerbated by S1P-Receptor-1-Dependent Intestinal Th17 Cell Migration to the Kidney.

  Krebs CF, Paust HJ, Krohn S, Koyro T, Brix SR, Riedel JH, Bartsch P, Wiech T, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Huang J, Fischer N, Busch P, Mittrucker HW, Steinhoff U, Stockinger B, Perez LG, Wenzel UO, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Gagliani N, Stahl RAK, Huber S, Turner JE, Panzer U. Immunity. 2016 Nov

• Immune Mechanisms in Arterial Hypertension

  Wenzel U, Turner J, Krebs C, Kurts C, Harrison D, Ehmke H J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Mar

• CXCL5 drives neutrophil recruitment in TH17-mediated GN.
  Disteldorf EM, Krebs CF, Paust HJ, Turner JE, Nouailles G, Tittel A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stege G, Brix S, Velden J, Wiech T, Helmchen U, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Bennstein SB, Kaffke A, Llanto C, Lira SA, Mittrücker HW, Stahl RA, Kurts C, Kaufmann SH, Panzer U.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015
  
  
• Micro-RNA-155 drives TH17 immune response and tissue injury in experimental crescentic GN.
  Krebs CF, Kapffer S, Paust HJ, Schmidt T, Bennstein SB, Peters A, Stege G, Brix SR, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Müller RU, Turner JE, Steinmetz OM, Wolf G, Stahl RA, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013
  
  
• Immature renal DC recruit regulatory CXCR6+ iNKT cells to attenuate crescentic GN.
  Riedel JH, Paust HJ, Turner JE, Tittel AP, Krebs C, Disteldorf E, Tiegs G, Velden J, Mittrücker HW, Garbi N, Stahl RA, Steinmetz OM, Kurts C, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012
  
  
• CD38 controls ADP-ribosyltransferase-2-catalyzed ADP-ribosylation of T cell surface proteins.
  Krebs C, Adriouch S, Braasch F, Koestner W, Leiter EH, Seman M, Lund FE, Oppenheimer N, Haag F, Koch-Nolte F.
  J Immunol. 2005
  
  
• NAD-induced T cell death: ADP-ribosylation of cell surface proteins by ART2 activates the cytolytic P2X7 purinoceptor.
  Seman M, Adriouch S, Scheuplein F, Krebs C, Freese D, Glowacki G, Deterre P, Haag F, Koch-Nolte F.
  Immunity. 2003

• Study of Medicine, University Ulm, Heidelberg, and Mainz
• M.D. thesis, I. Medizinische Klinik, Universität Mainz
• Assistant Physician at the I. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Postdoctoral fellow/ research affiliate at the Department of Immunobiology, Yale University, School of Medicine
• Research group leader, I. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Peter Hans Hofschneider Professor (W2) of Molecular Immunology and Gastroenterology at the I. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Senior Physician (Oberarzt) at the I. Medizinische Klinik
• Heisenberg Professor (W3) of Intestinal Immune Regulation

• Dr.-Martini Award from the Dr.-Martini Foundation, Germany (2009)
• Postdoctoral research fellowship award from the Crohns and Colitis foundation of America (2011)
• Ernst Jung-Karriere-Förderpreis from the Ernst Jung Foundation, Germany (2012)
• Dr.-Liselotte-Brauns Award from the Liselotte-Brauns Foundation, Germany (2013)
• Theodor-Frerichs Award from the German association for Internal Medicine (DGIM), Germany (2017)

• Multicytokine-producing CD4+ T cells characterize the livers of patients with NASH.

  Woestemeier A, Scognamiglio P, Zhao Y, Wagner J, Muscate F, Casar C, Siracusa F, Cortesi F, Agalioti T, Müller S, Sagebiel A, Konczalla L, Wahib R, Karstens KF, Giannou AD, Duprée A, Wolter S, Wong MN, Mühlig AK, Bielecka AA, Bansal V, Zhang T, Mann O, Puelles VG, Huber TB, Lohse AW, Izbicki JR, Palm NW, Bonn S, Huber S, Gagliani N. JCI Insight. 2023 Jan

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiß C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lütgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• Endogenous IL-22 is dispensable for tissue protection in experimental glomerulonephritis.

  Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Xiong T, Weinert E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Dumoutier L, Renauld JC, Huber S, Panzer U, Turner JEAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr

• A pathogenic role for T cell-derived IL-22BP in inflammatory bowel disease.
  Pelczar, P., M. Witkowski, L. G. Perez, J. Kempski, A. G. Hammel, L. Brockmann, D. Kleinschmidt, S. Wende, C. Haueis, T. Bedke, M. Witkowski, S. Krasemann, S. Steurer, C. J. Booth, P. Busch, A. Konig, U. Rauch, D. Benten, J. R. Izbicki, T. Rosch, A. W. Lohse, T. Strowig, N. Gagliani*, R. A. Flavell*, and S. Huber*. *contributed equally
  Science. 2016
  
  
• Th17 cells transdifferentiate into regulatory T cells during resolution of inflammation.
  Gagliani, N., M. C. Amezcua Vesely, A. Iseppon, L. Brockmann, H. Xu, N. W. Palm, M. R. de Zoete, P. Licona-Limon, R. S. Paiva, T. Ching, C. Weaver, X. Zi, X. Pan, R. Fan, L. X. Garmire, M. J. Cotton, Y. Drier, B. Bernstein, J. Geginat, B. Stockinger, E. Esplugues, S. Huber*, and R. A. Flavell*. *contributed equally
  Nature. 2015
  
  
• Coexpression of CD49b and LAG-3 identifies human and mouse T regulatory type 1 cells.
  Gagliani N*, Magnani CF*, Huber S*, Gianolini ME, Pala M, Licona-Limon P, Guo B, Herbert DR, Bulfone A, Trentini F, Di Serio C, Bacchetta R, Andreani M, Brockmann L, Gregori S, Flavell RA, Roncarolo MG. *contributed equally
  Nat Med. 2013
  
  
• IL-22BP is regulated by the inflammasome and modulates tumorigenesis in the intestine.
  Huber S*, Gagliani N*, Zenewicz LA, Huber FJ, Bosurgi L, Hu B, Hedl M, Zhang W, O’Connor W, Murphy AJ, Valenzuela DM, Yancopoulos GD, Booth CJ, Cho JH, Ouyang W, Abraham C, Flavell RA *contributed equally
  Nature. 2012
  
  
• Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine.
  Esplugues E*, Huber S*, Gagliani N, Hauser AE, Town T, Wan YY, O'Connor WJr, Rongvaux A, Van Rooijen N, Haberman AM, Iwakura Y, Kuchroo VK, Kolls JK, Bluestone JA, Herold KC, Flavell RA. *contributed equally
  Nature. 2011
  
  
• Th17 cells express interleukin-10 receptor and are controlled by Foxp3 and Foxp3+ regulatory CD4+ T cells in an interleukin-10-dependent manner.
  Huber S*, Gagliani N*, Esplugues E*, O'Connor WJr, Huber FJ, Chaudhry A, Kamanaka M, Kobayashi Y, Booth CJ, Rudensky AY, Roncarolo MG, Battaglia M, Flavell RA. *contributed equally
  Immunity. 2011

• Study of Human Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• MD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• PhD, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
• Junior Group Leader, Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
• Specialist in Pediatrics, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Junior Group Leader, Department Virus Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Germany
• Head of the Division for Regenerative Medicine and Immunology (Heisenberg), III. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

• Exchange Student Award, Royal Dutch Academy for Sciences (2004)
• Award for M.D.-Ph.D. trajectory with a specialization in Pediatrics, by Dutch Research Council (2006)
• Ph.D. Award, Dutch Society for Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases (2013)

• Macrophages boosting human skin morphogenesis.
  Baumdick ME, Bunders MJ.
  Trends Immunol. 2025 Jan
  
  
• NKp44/HLA-DP-dependent regulation of CD8 effector T cells by NK cells.
  Padoan B, Casar C, Krause J, Schultheiss C, Baumdick ME, Niehrs A, Zecher BF, Pujantell M, Yuki Y, Martin M, Remmerswaal EBM, Dekker T, van der Bom-Baylon ND, Noble JA, Carrington M, Bemelman FJ, van Lier RAW, Binder M, Gagliani N, Bunders MJ, Altfeld M.
  Cell Rep. 2024 Apr 
  
  

• HLA-DP on Epithelial Cells Enables Tissue Damage by NKp44+ Natural Killer Cells in Ulcerative Colitis.
  Baumdick ME, Niehrs A, Degenhardt F, Schwerk M, Hinrichs O, Jordan-Paiz A, Padoan B, Wegner LHM, Schloer S, Zecher BF, Malsy J, Joshi VR, Illig C, Schröder-Schwarz J, Möller KJ; Hamburg Intestinal Tissue Study Group; Martin MP, Yuki Y, Ozawa M, Sauter J, Schmidt AH, Perez D, Giannou AD, Carrington M, Davis RS, Schumacher U, Sauter G, Huber S, Puelles VG, Melling N, Franke A; International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium; Altfeld M, Bunders MJ.
  Gastroenterology. 2023 Oct

• A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry based method for the quantification of adenosine nucleotides and NAD precursors and products in various biological samples.
  Hiefner J, Rische J, Bunders MJ, Worthmann A.
  Front Immunol. 2023 Sep

• Study of Medicine at the University of Göttingen
• M.D. thesis at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen
• Assistant Physician at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• DFG Research Fellowship at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London
• Clinical Specialization in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
• Junior Research Group Leader funded by the DFG Emmy-Noether-Programm (Topic: “Innate Lymphoid Cells in Renal Inflammation”)
• Habilitation and “Venia legend” for Internal Medicine and Nephroloy
• Consultant Physician at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE

• Award of the Walter-Hörl-Fellowship of the German Kidney Foundation (2013)
• Hans-U.-Zollinger-Research-Award of the German Society of Nephrology (2018)

• Conventional NK Cells and Type 1 Innate Lymphoid Cells Do Not Influence Pathogenesis of Experimental Glomerulonephritis.

  Constantin Rickassel, Ann-Christin Gnirck, Nikhat Shaikh, Virginia Adamiak, Alex Waterhölter, Yakup Tanriver, Katrin Neumann, Tobias B Huber, Georg Gasteiger, Ulf Panzer, Jan-Eric Turner J Immunol. 2022 Apr

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Tissue-specific therapy in immune-mediated kidney diseases: new ARGuments for targeting the IL-23/IL-17 axis.

  Krebs CF, Tuner JE, Riedel JH, Panzer UJ Clin Invest. 2021 Jun

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiß C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lütgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• Innate Lymphoid Cells in Renal Inflammation.

  Becker M, Gnirck AC, Turner JEFront Immunol. 2020 Jan

• Endogenous IL-22 is dispensable for tissue protection in experimental glomerulonephritis.

  Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Xiong T, Weinert E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Dumoutier L, Renauld JC, Huber S, Panzer U, Turner JEAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr

• T cell-derived IFN-γ downregulates protective group 2 innate lymphoid cells in murine lupus erythematosus. 

  Düster M, Becker M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Panzer U, Turner JEEur J Immunol. 2018 Aug

• Innate lymphoid cells in autoimmunity and chronic inflammatory diseases. 

  Xiong T, Turner JESemin Immunopathol. 2018 Jul

• Innate Lymphoid Cells – Key players in tissue-specific immunity. 

  Turner JE, Gasteiger GSemin Immunopathol. 2018 Jul

• Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes in the Kidney.

  Jan-Eric Turner, Martina Becker, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Ulf Panzer J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Feb

• Natural killers: the bad guys in fibrosis? 

  Turner JEKidney Int. 2017 Jul

• IL-33-mediated expansion of type 2 innate lymphoid cells protects from progressive glomerulosclerosis

  Riedel JH, Becker M, Kopp K, Düster M, Brix SR, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Kluth LA, Gnirck AC, Attar M, Krohn S, Fehse B, Stahl RA, Panzer U, Turner JEJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul

• Immune Mechanisms in Arterial Hypertension

  Wenzel U, Turner J, Krebs C, Kurts C, Harrison D, Ehmke H J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Mar

• IL-9-mediated survival of type 2 innate lymphoid cells promotes damage control in helminth-induced lung inflammation.
  Turner JE, Morrison PJ, Wilhelm C, Wilson M, Ahlfors H, Renauld JC, Panzer U, Helmby H, Stockinger B
  J Exp Med. 2013
  
  
• Plasticity of Th17 cells in Peyer's patches is responsible for the induction of T cell-dependent IgA responses.
  Hirota K, Turner JE, Villa M, Duarte JH, Demengeot J, Steinmetz OM, Stockinger B
  Nat Immunol. 2013
  
  
• IL-22 mediates goblet cell hyperplasia and worm expulsion in intestinal helminth infection.
  Turner JE, Stockinger B, Helmby H
  PLoS Pathog. 2013
  
  
• IL-17A production by renal gd T cells promotes kidney injury in crescentic GN.
  Turner JE, Krebs C, Tittel AP, Paust HJ, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Bennstein SB, Steinmetz OM, Prinz I, Magnus T, Korn T, Stahl RA, Kurts C, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012
  
  
• CCR6 recruits regulatory T cells and Th17 cells to the kidney in glomerulonephritis.
  Turner JE, Paust HJ, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Riedel JH, Erhardt A, Wegscheid C, Velden J, Fehr S, Mittrucker HW, Tiegs G, Stahl RA, Panzer U
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010
  
  
• The many lives of IL-9: a question of survival?
  Wilhelm C, Turner JE, Van Snick J, Stockinger B
  Nat Immunol. 2012
  
  
• The Th17 immune response in renal inflammation.
  Turner JE, Paust HJ, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U
  Kidney Int. 2010

• Study of Medicine and physics at the University of Göttingen
• M.D. thesis, Dept. of Immunology at the University of Göttingen,
• Medical Officer and Research Fellow at the Department of Nephrology, Medical School Hannover (MHH)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia
• Habilitation (lectureship) for Experimental Nephrology
• Board certification for Internal Medicine
• Research group leader, Dept. of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen
• Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
• Full C3 Professor of Molecular Immunology University of Bonn
• Director Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Bonn
• Co-speaker SFB TR57 “Organ-Fibrosis”, organizing the Bonn site
• Co-speaker SFB 704
• Elected member German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Speaker international graduate school GRK 2168 Bo&MeRanG
  (Bonn & Melbourne Research and Graduate training Group)
• Board member DFG Excellence Cluster “ImmunoSensation²”, Bonn

• Sir Hans Krebs Preis for Basic Medical Research (1999)
• Hans-U.-Zollinger-Award of the German Society for Nephrology (2010)
• Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize of the DFG (2012)

• Kidney immunology from pathophysiology to clinical translation.

  Christian Kurts, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Christian F Krebs, Ulf PanzerNat Rev Immunol. 2025 Jan

• Immune tolerance against infused FVIII in hemophilia A is mediated by PD-L1+ Tregs

  Janine Becker-Gotot, Mirjam Meissner, Vadim Kotov, Blanca Jurado-Mestre, Andrea Maione, Andreas Pannek, Thilo Albert, Chrystel Flores, Frank A Schildberg, Paul A Gleeson, Birgit M Reipert, Johannes Oldenburg, Christian KurtsJ Clin Invest. 2022 Nov

• Monocyte-derived macrophages aggravate pulmonary vasculitis via cGAS/STING/IFN-mediated nucleic acid sensing.

  Nina Kessler, Susanne F Viehmann, Calvin Krollmann, Karola Mai, Katharina M Kirschner, Hella Luksch, Prasanti Kotagiri, Alexander M C Böhner, Dennis Huugen, Carina C de Oliveira Mann, Simon Otten, Stefanie A I Weiss, Thomas Zillinger, Kristiyana Dobrikova, Dieter E Jenne, Rayk Behrendt, Andrea Ablasser, Eva Bartok, Gunther Hartmann, Karl-Peter Hopfner, Paul A Lyons, Peter Boor, Angela Rösen-Wolff, Lino L Teichmann, Peter Heeringa, Christian Kurts, Natalio GarbiJ Exp Med. 2022 Oct

• Generation of an alpaca serum that induces immune-mediated crescentic glomerulonephritis in mice.

  Ermanila Dhana, Daniela Klaus, Alexander Böhner, Florian Schmidt, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Peter Boor, Sonja Djudjaj, Christian KurtsJ Immunol Methods. 2022 Aug

• Renal Denervation Exacerbates LPS- and Antibody-induced Acute Kidney Injury, but Protects from Pyelonephritis in Mice.

  Alexander M C Böhner, Alice M Jacob, Christoph Heuser, Natascha E Stumpf, Alexander Effland, Zeinab Abdullah, Catherine Meyer-Schwesiger, Sibylle von Vietinghoff, Christian Kurts J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Oct

• Drawing a single-cell landscape of the human kidney in (pseudo)-space and time.

  Krebs CF, Schlitzer A, Kurts C.Kidney Int. 2020 May

• A high-salt diet compromises antibacterial neutrophil responses through hormonal perturbation.

  Jobin K, Stumpf NE, Schwab S, Eichler M, Neubert P, Rauh M, Adamowski M, Babyak O, Hinze D, Sivalingam S, Weisheit C, Hochheiser K, Schmidt SV, Meissner M, Garbi N, Abdullah Z, Wenzel U, Hölzel M, Jantsch J, Kurts C Sci Transl Med. 2020 Mar

• Novel 3D analysis using optical tissue clearing documents the evolution of murine rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.

  Puelles VG, Fleck D, Ortz L, Papadouri S, Strieder T, Böhner AMC, van der Wolde JW, Vogt M, Saritas T, Kuppe C, Fuss A, Menzel S, Klinkhammer BM, Müller-Newen G, Heymann F, Decker L, Braun F, Kretz O, Huber TB, Susaki EA, Ueda HR, Boor P, Floege J, Kramann R, Kurts C, Bertram JF, Spehr M, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, Moeller MJ. Kidney Int. 2019 Aug

• The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II induced hypertension

  Ahadzadeh E, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Steffens P, Prüßner L, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wanner N, Paust H, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech T, Kurts C, Seniuk A, Ehmke H, Wenzel UAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Sep

• Salt, inflammation, IL-17 and hypertension.

  Wenzel UO, Bode M, Kurts C, Ehmke H.Br J Pharmacol. 2018 May

• Pro-longed IKKβ inhibition improves ongoing CTL antitumor responses by incapacitating regulatory T cells.

  Heuser C, Gotot J, Piotrowski EC, Philipp MS, Courrèges JF, Otte MS, Guo L, Schmid-Burgk JL, Hornung V, Heine AK, Knolle PA, Garbi N, Serfling E, Evaristo C, Thaiss F, Kurts C.Cell Rep. 2017 Oct

• Fully automated evaluation of total glomerular num-ber and capillary tuft size in murine nephritic kidneys using lightsheet microscopy.

  Klingberg A, Hasenberg A, Ludwig-Portugall I, Medyukhina A, Männ L, Brenzel A, Engel DR, Figge MT, Kurts C, Matthias GunzerJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Feb

• Inhibitor of NFκB Kinase Subunit 2 Blockade Hinders the Initiation but Ag-gravates the Progression of crescentic glomerulonephritis.

  Gotot J, Piotrowski E, Otte MS, Tittel AP, Guo L, Yao C, Ziegelbauer K, Panzer U, Garbi N, Kurts C, Thaiss FJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Jul

• A NLRP3-specific inflammasome inhibitor potently attenuates crystal-induced kidney fibrosis in vivo.

  Ludwig-Portugall I,*, Bartok E,* Dhana E, Evers BDG, Primiano MJ, Hall PJ, Franklin BS, Hornung V, Hartmann G, Boor P, Latz E, Kurts C.Kidney Int 2016

• The complement receptor C5aR1 contributes to renal damage but protects the heart in angiotensin II-induced hypertension. 

  Weiss S, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stahl RA, Ehmke H, Kurts C, Zipfel PF, Köhl J, Wenzel UOAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2016 Jun

• Immune Mechanisms in Arterial Hypertension

  Wenzel U, Turner J, Krebs C, Kurts C, Harrison D, Ehmke H J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Mar

• Assessing core competences of medical students with a test for flight school applicants
  Harendza S, Soll H, Prediger S, Kadmon M, Berberat PO, Oubaid V
  BMC Med Educ. 2019
  
  
• Perceived strain of undergraduate medical students during a simulated first day of residency.
  Fürstenberg S, Prediger S, Kadmon M, Berberat PO, Harendza S
  BMC Med Educ. 2018
  
  
• Verbal and non-verbal communication skills including empathy during history taking of undergraduate medical students.
  Vogel D, Meyer M, Harendza S
  BMC Med Educ. 2018
  
  
• Implementation of a Clinical Reasoning Course in the Internal Medicine trimester of the final year of undergraduate medical training and its effect on students’ case presentation and differential diagnostic skills.
  Harendza S, Krenz I, Klinge A, Wendt U, Janneck M
  GMS J Med Educ. 2017
  
  
• Is perfect good? – Dimensions of perfectionism in newly admitted medical students.
  Seeliger H, Harendza S
  BMC Med Educ. 2017
  
  
• Competencies for first year residents – physicians’ views form medical schools with different undergraduate curricula.
  Fürstenberg S, Schick K, Deppermann J, Prediger S, Berberat PO, Kadmon M, Harendza S (2017).
  BMC Med Educ. 2017
  
  
• Influence of motivation, self-efficacy and situational factors on the teaching quality of clinical educators.
  Dybowski C, Sehner S, Harendza S (2017).
  BMC Med Educ. 2017
  
  
• Analysis of educational research at a medical faculty in Germany and suggestions for strategic development – a case study.
  Prediger S, Harendza S (2016).
  GMS J Med Educ. 2016
  
  
• Psychometric properties of the newly developed Physician Teaching Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PTSQ).
  Dybowski C, Kriston L, Harendza S (2016).
  BMC Med Educ. 2016
  
  
• Translating medical documents into plain language enhances communication skills in medical students – A pilot study.
  Bittner A, Jonietz A, Bittner J, Beickert L, Harendza S (2015)
  Patient Educ Couns. 2015

• Study of Medicine at the University Hamburg
• Study of Molecular Biology at the Centre of Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
• M.D. thesis at the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UKE
• Assistant Physician at the III. Department of Medicine, UKE
• Grant from the Werner Otto Stiftung
• Gerok Position at the Clinical Research Unit 228 “Immunopathogenesis and Therapy of Glomerulonephritis”
• Co-Applicant in Project 6 of the Clinical Research Unit 228 “Immunopathogenesis and Therapy of Glomerulonephritis”
• Project leader of Project B1 of the CRC 1192: Immune-Mediated Glomerular Diseases - Basic Concepts and Clinical Implications
• Board Certification (Facharzt) in Nephrology and Internal Medicine
• Habilitation in Nephrology and Internal Medicine
• Else Kröner Exzellenzstipendium (Fellowship)
• Consultant (Oberarzt) at the III. Department of Medicine, UKE
• Heisenberg-Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

• Scholarship of the University of Hamburg (2004)
• „Best abstracts“ at the XLVII ERA-EDTA Congress (2010)
• „Best oral presentations“ at the DGfN Congress (2012)
• Heinrich Nether Promotion Price for Molecular Biology (2010)
• Nils-Alwall-Award of the German Society of Nephrology (2016)
• Teacher of the Year 2018

• Pathogenicity of Human Anti-PLA 2 R1 Antibodies in Minipigs: A Pilot Study.

  Linda Reinhard, Thorsten Wiech, Aline Reitmeier, Moritz Lassé, Maya Machalitza, Asmus Heumann, Nicoletta Ferru, Desiree Loreth, Marie-Luise Schröder, Arvid Hutzfeldt, Felix R Stahl, Sven Peine, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Markus M Rinschen, Rolf A K Stahl, Elion HoxhaJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

• False positivity for PLA2R1 antibody measured by ELISA in a nephrotic patient with no membranous nephropathy.

  Elion Hoxha, Linda Reinhard, Thomas Castedello, Jan U BeckerKidney Int. 2023 Feb

• Bacterial infection possibly causing autoimmunity: Tropheryma whipplei and membranous nephropathy.

  Thorsten Wiech, Linda Reinhard, Sonia Wulf, Alfio Edoardo Giuffrida, Elisa Longhitano, Rosario Caruso, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Rolf A K Stahl, Peter F Zipfel, Judith Kikhney, Annette Moter, Elion Hoxha, Domenico SantoroLancet. 2022 Nov

• Netrin G1 Is a Novel Target Antigen in Primary Membranous Nephropathy.

  Linda Reinhard, Maya Machalitza, Thorsten Wiech, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Moritz Lassé, Markus M Rinschen, Nicoletta Ferru, Jan Hinrich Bräsen, Friederike Drömann, Peter Maria Rob, Sanjeev Sethi, Elion Hoxha, Rolf A K StahlJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Oct

• Membranous nephropathy: new pathogenic mechanisms and their clinical implications.

  Elion Hoxha, Linda Reinhard, Rolf A K StahlNat Rev Nephrol. 2022 Apr

• Perspectives in membranous nephropathy

  Tomas NM, Huber TB, Hoxha E.  Cell Tissue Res. 2021 Apr

• A New Chemiluminescence Immunoassay for Phospholipase A2 Receptor 1 Autoantibodies Allows Early Identification of Autoantibody Recurrence in Patients With Membranous Nephropathy.

  Elion Hoxha, Rolf A K Stahl, Linda Reinhard, Alexander Kühnl, Wolfgang Schlumberger, Cornelia DähnrichKidney Int. Rep. 2021 Jan

• Is primary membranous nephropathy a complement mediated disease?

  Linda Reinhard, Rolf A K Stahl, Elion HoxhaMol Immunol. 2020 Dec

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• The genetic architecture of membranous nephropathy and its potential to improve non-invasive diagnosis.

  Jingyuan Xie, Lili Liu, Nikol Mladkova, [...] Elion Hoxha, Rolf A K Stahl, [...] Robert Kleta, Nan Chen, Krzysztof KirylukNat Commun. 2020 Mar

• Clinical Relevance of Domain-Specific Phospholipase A2 Receptor 1 Antibody Levels in Patients with Membranous Nephropathy.

  Linda Reinhard, Gunther Zahner, Stephan Menzel, Friedrich Koch-Nolt, Rolf A K Stahl, Elion HoxhaJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Jan

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• Spontaneous remission of proteinuria is a frequent event in phospholipase A2 receptor antibody negative patients with membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Harendza S, Pinnschmidt HO, Tomas NM, Helmchen U, Panzer U, Stahl RA.
  Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2015

• CC Chemokine Ligand 18 in ANCA-Associated Crescentic GN.
  Brix SR, Stege G, Disteldorf E, Hoxha E, Krebs C, Krohn S, Otto B, Klätschke K, Herden E, Heymann F, Lira SA, Tacke F, Wolf G, Busch M, Jabs WJ, Özcan F, Keller F, Beige J, Wagner K, Helmchen U, Noriega M, Wiech T, Panzer U, Stahl RA
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015

• PLA2R antibody levels and clinical outcome in patients with membranous nephropathy and non-nephrotic range proteinuria under treatment with inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system.
  Hoxha E, Harendza S, Pinnschmidt H, Panzer U, Stahl RAK.
  PLoS One. 2014

• Rituximab treatment for relapsing minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a systematic review.
  Kronbichler A, Kerschbaum J, Fernandez-Fresnedo G, Hoxha E, Kurschat CE, Busch M, Bruchfeld A, Mayer G, Rudnicki M.
  Am J Nephrol. 2014

• Thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A in idiopathic membranous nephropathy
  Tomas, NM*, Beck, LH*, Jr., Meyer-Schwesinger, C, Seitz-Polski, B, Ma, H, Zahner, G, Dolla, G, Hoxha, E, Helmchen, U, Dabert-Gay, AS, Debayle, D, Merchant, M, Klein, J, Salant, DJ, Stahl, RA, Lambeau, G
  N Engl J Med. 2014

• M-type phospholipase A2 receptor autoantibodies and renal function in patients with primary membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Harendza S, Pinnschmidt H, Panzer U, Stahl RA
  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014

• Phospholipase A2 Receptor autoantibodies and clinical outcome in patients with primary membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Thiele I, Zahner G, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RA
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014

• Development of a standardized ELISA for the determination of autoantibodies against human M-type phospholipase A2 receptor in primary membranous nephropathy.
  Dähnrich C, Komorowski L, Probst C, Seitz-Polski B, Esnault V, Wetzels JF, Hofstra JM, Hoxha E, Stahl RA, Lambeau G, Stöcker W, Schlumberger W.
  Clin Chim Acta. 2013

• Enhanced expression of the M-type phospholipase A2 receptor in glomeruli correlates with serum receptor antibodies in primary membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Kneißler U, Stege G, Zahner G, Thiele I, Panzer U, Harendza S, Helmchen U, Stahl RAK.
  Kidney Int. 2012

• Renal IL-17 expression in human ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.
  Velden J, Paust HJ, Hoxha E, Turner JE, Steinmetz OM, Wolf G, Jabs WJ, Özcan F, Beige J, Heering PJ, Schröder S, Kneißler U, Disteldorf E, Mittrücker HW, Stahl RA, Helmchen U, Panzer U.
  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2012

• An immunofluorescence test for phospholipase-A2-receptor antibodies and its clinical usefulness in patients with membranous glomerulonephritis.
  Hoxha E, Harendza S, Zahner G, Panzer U, Steinmetz O, Fechner K, Helmchen U, Stahl RA
  Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2011

• Rituximab in adult patients with immunosuppressive-dependent minimal change disease.
  Hoxha E, Stahl RAK, Harendza S.
  Clin Nephrol. 2011

• Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-l1 activity induces polyubiquitin accumulation in podocytes and increases proteinuria in rat membranous nephropathy.
  Meyer-Schwesinger C, Sievert H, Meyer TN, Hoxha E, Sachs M, Klupp E-M, Münster S, Balabanov S, Carrier L, Helmchen U, Thaiss F, Stahl RAK.
  Am J Pathol. 2011

• Posttranscriptional regulation of the p85a adapter subunit of Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in human leukemia cells.
  Hoffmann BT, Hoxha E, Mohr E, Schulz K, Jücker M.
  Leuk Lymphoma. 2011

• PLA2R Autoantibodies and recurrent membranous nephropathy after transplantation.
  Stahl RAK, Hoxha E, Fechner K.
  N Engl J Med. 2010

•  Study of Medicine, University Heidelberg
• Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• Visiting Student, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, New York, USA (Prof. A. J. Hudspeth, MD, PhD)
• D. Thesis (Magna cum laude), Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. A. Draghun)
• Assistant Physician, III. Department of Medicine, UKE
• Clinician Scientist and Postdoctoral Associate, AG Huber / AG Tomas, III. Department of Medicine, UKE
• Scholarship RECORD – Research Center On Rare Kidney Diseasea – Program, University Hospitals Erlangen / Köln / Hamburg
• Scholarship iPRIME Clinician Scientist program, UKE

• Frerichs-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin  
• Publikationspreis der Else-Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung für die Publikation ,,Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies’’ im New England Journal of Medicine

• Non-invasive diagnosis of anti-nephrin–associated podocytopathy.
  Hengel FE, Chong MCZ, Leung WY, Dehde S, Mühlig A, Janneck M, Wu HHL, Huber TB, Ponnusamy A, Tomas NM.
  Kidney Int Rep. 2025 May
• Potential and pitfalls of measuring circulating anti-nephrin autoantibodies in glomerular diseases.
  Hengel FE, Huber TB, Tomas NM.
  Clin Kidney J. 2025 Apr
• Anti-nephrin autoantibodies in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome may inform treatment strategy
  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Yilmaz A, Bayasit AK, Ozaltin F, Paripovic D, Emma F, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Hogan J, Schaefer F, Tomas NM, Huber TB.
  Kidney Int. 2025 Feb
• Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions.
  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Kretz O, Engesser J, Zimmermann T, Huber TB*, Tomas NM.
  J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan
  
• Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies.
  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Lassé M, Zahner G, Seifert L, Schnarre A, Kretz O, Demir F, Pinnschmidt HO, Grahammer F, Lucas R, Mehner LM, Zimmermann T, Billing AM, Oh J, Mitrotti A, Pontrelli P, Debiec H, Dossier C, Colucci M, Emma F, Smoyer WE, Weins A, Schaefer F, Alachkar N, Diemert A, Hogan J, Hoxha E, Wiech T, Rinschen MM, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Gesualdo L, Tomas NM, Huber TB.
  N Engl J Med. 2024 Aug

• Study of Medicine, Universities of Freiburg, Vienna, South Florida (USA)
• MD in Physiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, summa cum laude
• Residency and Fellow in Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
• Emmy Noether Program – Phase I/ Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology & Pathology, Washington University St. Louis, USA
• USMLE US-American Full Medical Licence
  Emmy Noether Program – Phase II/ Group leader, University Freiburg
• Habilitation, University Freiburg
  Board Exam in Internal Medicine and Nephrology
• Attending Physician, Department of Medicine IV, University Freiburg
• Associated Member of the BIOSS Excellence Cluster, Freiburg
• Heisenberg Fellowship, University Freiburg
• W3-Heisenbergprofessorship, University Medical Center Freiburg
• Deputy Chair, Department of Medicine IV, University Freiburg
• Co-Chair Else Kröner-Fresenius Kolleg “NAKSYS”, University Medical Center Freiburg
• Director and Chairman of the III. Department of Medicine, UKE, Hamburg
• Chair Else Kröner-Fresenius Kolleg “iPRIME”, UKE

DFG programs awarded:

• Emmy Noether Program – Phase I/ Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology & Pathology, Washington University St. Louis, USA (2003-2006)
• Emmy Noether Program – Phase II/ Group leader, University Medical Center Freiburg (2006-2011)
• Heisenberg Fellow, University Medical Center Freiburg (2011-2013)
• W3-Heisenbergprofessorship, University Medical Center Freiburg (2013-2017)

Other:

• Young Nephrologist Award of the German Renal Society (2002)
• Carl Ludwig Award of the German Renal Society (2004)
• PI of the SGBM Graduate School, Freiburg (since 2006)
• Member of the German and American Renal Society (since 2007)
• Associated Member of the BIOSS Excellence Cluster, Freiburg (since 2008)
• Hans U. Zollinger Research Award of German Renal Society (2009)
• Franz-Volhard Award of the German Renal Society (2010)
• Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Heart Association (2012)
• Elected Member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (2014)
• Recipient of the European Research Council Grant(2014)
• Co-Chair Else Kröner-Fresenius Kolleg “NAKSYS”, University Medical Center Freiburg (2017)
• Chair Else Kröner-Fresenius Kolleg “iPRIME”, UKE (2018)

• Anti-nephrin autoantibodies in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome may inform treatment strategy.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Yilmaz A, Bayasit AK, Ozaltin F, Paripovic D, Emma F, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Hogan J, Schaefer F, Tomas NM, Huber TB. Kidney Int. 2025 Jun

• Optimized protocol for the multiomics processing of cryopreserved human kidney tissue.

  Gies SE, Hänzelmann S, Kylies D, Lassé M, Lagies S, Hausmann F, Khatri R, Zolotarev N, Poets M, Zhang T, Demir F, Billing AM, Quaas J, Meister E, Engesser J, Mühlig AK, Lu S, Liu S, Chilla S, Edenhofer I, Czogalla J, Braun F, Kammerer B, Puelles VG, Bonn S, Rinschen MM, Lindenmeyer M, Huber TB. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2024 Nov

• Multicytokine-producing CD4+ T cells characterize the livers of patients with NASH.

  Woestemeier A, Scognamiglio P, Zhao Y, Wagner J, Muscate F, Casar C, Siracusa F, Cortesi F, Agalioti T, Müller S, Sagebiel A, Konczalla L, Wahib R, Karstens KF, Giannou AD, Duprée A, Wolter S, Wong MN, Mühlig AK, Bielecka AA, Bansal V, Zhang T, Mann O, Puelles VG, Huber TB, Lohse AW, Izbicki JR, Palm NW, Bonn S, Huber S, Gagliani N. JCI Insight. 2023 Jan

• The calcium-sensing receptor stabilizes podocyte function in proteinuric humans and mice.

  Mühlig AK, Steingröver J, Heidelbach HS, Wingerath M, Sachs W, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Choi HY, Lim BJ, Patry C, Hoffmann GF, Endlich N, Bracke K, Weiß M, Guse AH, Lassé M, Rinschen MM, Braun F, Huber TB, Puelles VG, Schmitt CP, Oh J. Kidney Int. 2022 Jun

• Non-invasive diagnosis of anti-nephrin–associated podocytopathy.

  Hengel FE, Chong MCZ, Leung WY, Dehde S, Mühlig A, Janneck M, Wu HHL, Huber TB, Ponnusamy A, Tomas NM. Kidney Int Rep. 2025 May

• Potential and pitfalls of measuring circulating anti-nephrin autoantibodies in glomerular diseases.

  Hengel FE, Huber TB, Tomas NM. Clin Kidney J. 2025 Apr

• Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Kretz O, Engesser J, Zimmermann T, Huber TB*, Tomas NM.  J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan

• Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Lassé M, Zahner G, Seifert L, Schnarre A, Kretz O, Demir F, Pinnschmidt HO, Grahammer F, Lucas R, Mehner LM, Zimmermann T, Billing AM, Oh J, Mitrotti A, Pontrelli P, Debiec H, Dossier C, Colucci M, Emma F, Smoyer WE, Weins A, Schaefer F, Alachkar N, Diemert A, Hogan J, Hoxha E, Wiech T, Rinschen MM, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Gesualdo L, Tomas NM, Huber TB.  N Engl J Med. 2024 Aug

• A slit-diaphragm-associated protein network for dynamic control of renal filtration.

  Maciej K Kocylowski, Hande Aypek, Wolfgang Bildl, Martin Helmstädter, Philipp Trachte, Bernhard Dumoulin, Sina Wittösch, Lukas Kühne, Ute Aukschun, Carolin Teetzen, Oliver Kretz, Botond Gaal, Akos Kulik, Corinne Antignac, Geraldine Mollet, Anna Köttgen, Burulca Göcmen, Jochen Schwenk, Uwe Schulte, Tobias B Huber, Bernd Fakler, Florian Grahammer Nat Commun. 2022 Oct

• Loss of the collagen IV modifier prolyl 3-hydroxylase 2 causes thin basement membrane nephropathy

  Aypek H, Krisp C, Lu S, Liu S, Kylies D, Kretz O, Wu G, Moritz M, Amann K, Benz K, Tong P, Hu ZM, Alsulaiman SM, Khan AO, Grohmann M, Wagner T, Müller-Deile J, Schlüter H, Puelles VG, Bergmann C, Huber TB, Grahammer F. J Clin Invest. 2022 May

• Molecular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism

  Wanner N, Andrieux G, Badia-I-Mompel P, Edler C, Pfefferle S, Lindenmeyer MT, Schmidt-Lauber C, Czogalla J, Wong MN, Okabayashi Y, Braun F, Lütgehetmann M, Meister E, Lu S, Noriega MLM, Günther T, Grundhoff A, Fischer N, Bräuninger H, Lindner D, Westermann D, Haas F, Roedl K, Kluge S, Addo MM, Huber S, Lohse AW, Reiser J, Ondruschka B, Sperhake JP, Saez-Rodriguez J, Boerries M, Hayek SS, Aepfelbacher M, Scaturro P, Puelles VG, Huber TB. Nat Metab. 2022 Mar

• IL-17 Receptor C Signaling Controls CD4+ TH17 Immune Responses and Tissue Injury in Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases

  Tilman Schmidt, Jonas Luebbe, Christoph Kilian, Jan-Hendrik Riedel, Sonja Hiekmann, Nariaki Asada, Pauline Ginsberg, Lennart Robben, Ning Song, Anna Kaffke, Anett Peters, Alina Borchers, Richard A. Flavell, Nicola Gagliani, Penelope Pelzcar, Samuel Huber, Tobias B. Huber, Jan-Eric Turner, Hans-Joachim Paust, Christian F. Krebs, Ulf PanzerJASN 2021 Dec

• Perspectives in membranous nephropathy

  Tomas NM, Huber TB, Hoxha E.  Cell Tissue Res. 2021 Apr

• SRGAP1 Controls Small Rho GTPases To Regulate Podocyte Foot Process Maintenance

  Rogg M, Maier JI, Dotzauer R, Artelt N, Kretz O, Helmstädter M, Abed A, Sammarco A, Sigle A, Sellung D, Dinse P, Reiche K, Yasuda-Yamahara M, Biniossek ML, Walz G, Werner M, Endlich N, Schilling O, Huber TB, Schell C.  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Mar

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiß C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lütgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• Podocytes maintain high basal levels of autophagy independent of mtor signaling.

  Tillmann Bork, Wei Liang, Kosuke Yamahara, Philipp Lee, Zhejia Tian, Shuya Liu, Christoph Schell, Kathrin Thedieck, Bjoern Hartleben, Ketan Patel , Pierre-Louis Tharaux, Olivia Lenoir, Tobias B HuberAutophagy. 2020 Nov

• The proteomic landscape of small urinary extracellular vesicles during kidney transplantation

  Braun F, Rinschen M, Buchner D, Bohl K, Plagmann I, Bachurski D, Richard Späth M, Antczak P, Göbel H, Klein C, Lackmann JW, Kretz O, Puelles VG, Wahba R, Hallek M, Schermer B, Benzing T, Huber TB, Beyer A, Stippel D, Kurschat CE, Müller RU.  J Extracell Vesicles. 2020 Oct

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism associates with acute kidney injury

  Braun F, Luetgehetmann M, Pferfferle S, Wong M, Carsten A, Lindenmeyer M, Noerz, D, Heinrich F, Meißner K, Wichmann D, Kluge S, Gross O, Pueschel K, Schroeder AS, Edler C, Aepfelbacher M, Puelles V, Huber TB.The Lancet. 2020 Aug

• Neural metabolic imbalance induced by MOF dysfunction triggers pericyte activation and breakdown of vasculature.

  Sheikh BN, Guhathakurta S, Tsang TH, Schwabenland M, Renschler G, Herquel B, Bhardwaj V, Holz H, Stehle T, Bondareva O, Aizarani N, Mossad O, Kretz O, Reichardt W, Chatterjee A, Braun LJ, Thevenon J, Sartelet H, Blank T, Grün D, von Elverfeldt D, Huber TB, Vestweber D, Avilov S, Prinz M, Buescher JM, Akhtar A.Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Jul

• A reciprocal regulation of spermidine and autophagy in podocytes maintains the filtration barrier.

  Liang W, Yamahara K, Hernando-Erhard C, Lagies S, Wanner N, Liang H, Schell C, Kammerer B, Huber TB, Bork T.Kidney Int. 2020 Jun

• Microbiota-Induced Type I Interferons Instruct a Poised Basal State of Dendritic Cells.

  Schaupp L, Muth S, Rogell L, Kofoed-Branzk M, Melchior F, Lienenklaus S, Ganal-Vonarburg SC, Klein M, Guendel F, Hain T, Schütze K, Grundmann U, Schmitt V, Dorsch M, Spanier J, Larsen PK, Schwanz T, Jäckel S, Reinhardt C, Bopp T, Danckwardt S, Mahnke K, Heinz GA, Mashreghi MF, Durek P, Kalinke U, Kretz O, Huber TB, Weiss S, Wilhelm C, Macpherson AJ, Schild H, Diefenbach A, Probst HC.Cell. 2020 May

• Multi-organ and renal tropism of SARS-CoV-2

  Puelles VG, Lütgehetmann M, Lindenmeyer MT, Sperhake JP, Wong MN, Allweiss L, Chilla S, Heinemann A, Nicola Wanner N, Liu S, Braun F, Lu S, Pfefferle S, Schröder AS, Edler C, Gross O, Glatzel M, Wichmann D, Wiech T, Stefan Kluge S, Pueschel K, Aepfelbacher M, Huber TBNew England Journal of Medicine. 2020 May

• COVID-19-associated nephritis: early warning for disease severity and complications?

  Gross O, Moerer O, Weber M, Huber TB, Scheithauer SThe Lancet. Published Online 2020 May

• A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients

  Meyer-Schwesinger C*, Tomas NM*, Dehde S, Seifert L, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Wiech T, Koch-Nolte F, Huber TB, Zahner G.Kidney Int. 2020 May* contributed equally

• Cellular and Molecular Probing of Intact Human Organs.

  Zhao S, Todorov MI, Cai R, -Maskari RA, Steinke H, Kemter E, Mai H, Rong Z, Warmer M, Stanic K, Schoppe O, Paetzold JC, Gesierich B, Wong MN, Huber TB, Duering M, Bruns OT, Menze B, Lipfert J, Puelles VG, Wolf E, Bechmann I, Ertürk A.Cell. 2020 Feb

• Renal clearance of polymeric nanoparticles by mimicry of glycan surface of viruses.

  Wyss PP, Lamichhane SP, Abed A, Vonwil D, Kretz O, Huber TB, Sarem M, Shastri VP. Biomaterials. 2020 Feb

• Podocytes maintain high basal levels of autophagy independent of mtor signaling.

  Bork T, Liang W, Yamahara K, Lee P, Tian Z, Liu S, Schell C, Thedieck K, Hartleben B, Patel K, Tharaux PL, Lenoir O, Huber TB. Autophagy. 2019 Dec

• Primary decidual zone formation requires Scribble for pregnancy success in mice.

  Yuan J, Aikawa S, Deng W, Bartos A, Walz G, Grahammer F, Huber TB, Sun X, Dey SK. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov

• mTOR-mediated podocyte hypertrophy regulates glomerular integrity in mice and humans.

  Puelles VG, van der Wolde JW, Wanner N, Scheppach MW, Cullen-McEwen LA, Bork T, Lindenmeyer MT, Gernhold L, Wong MN, Braun F, Cohen CD, Kett MM, Kuppe C, Kramann R, Saritas T, van Roeyen CR, Moeller MJ, Tribolet L, Rebello R, Sun YB, Li J, Müller-Newen G, Hughson MD, Hoy WE, Person F, Wiech T, Ricardo SD, Kerr PG, Denton KM, Furic L, Huber TB, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, Bertram JF. JCI Insight. 2019 Sep

• Novel 3D analysis using optical tissue clearing documents the evolution of murine rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.

  Puelles VG, Fleck D, Ortz L, Papadouri S, Strieder T, Böhner AMC, van der Wolde JW, Vogt M, Saritas T, Kuppe C, Fuss A, Menzel S, Klinkhammer BM, Müller-Newen G, Heymann F, Decker L, Braun F, Kretz O, Huber TB, Susaki EA, Ueda HR, Boor P, Floege J, Kramann R, Kurts C, Bertram JF, Spehr M, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, Moeller MJ. Kidney Int. 2019 Aug

• Anaerobic Glycolysis Maintains the Glomerular Filtration Barrier Independent of Mitochondrial Metabolism and Dynamics.

  Brinkkoetter PT, Bork T, Salou S, Liang W, Mizi A, Özel C, Koehler S, Hagmann HH, Ising C, Kuczkowski A, Schnyder S, Abed A, Schermer B, Benzing T, Kretz O, Puelles VG, Lagies S, Schlimpert M, Kammerer B, Handschin C, Schell C, Huber TBCell Rep. 2019 Apr

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

  Anne Mueller, Yu Zhao, Hakan Cicek, Hans-Joachim Paust, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Alexandra Linke, Claudia Wegscheid, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Stefan Bonn, Immo Prinz, Ulf Panzer, Gisa Tiegs, Christian F Krebs, Katrin NeumannAm Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

• DNA Methyltransferase 1 Controls Nephron Progenitor Cell Renewal and Differentiation.

  Wanner N, Vornweg J, Combes A, Wilson S, Plappert J, Rafflenbeul G, Puelles V, Rahman R, Liwinski T, Lindner S, Grahammer F, Kretz O, Wlodek M, Romano T, Moritz K, Boerries M, Busch H, Bonn S, Little M, Bechtel-Walz W, Huber TJ Am Soc Nephrol.. 2019 Jan

• Development and validation of a renal risk score in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Tennstedt P, Vettorazzi E, Busch M, Nitschke M, Jabs W, Özcan F, Wendt R, Hausberg M, Sellin L, Panzer U, Huber T, Waldherr R, Hopfer H, Stahl R, Wiech TKidney Int. 2018 Dec

• ARP3 Controls the Podocyte Architecture at the Kidney Filtration Barrier.

  Schell C, Sabass B, Helmstaedter M, Geist F, Abed A, Yasuda-Yamahara M, Sigle A, Maier JI, Grahammer F, Siegerist F, Artelt N, Endlich N, Kerjaschki D, Arnold HH, Dengjel J, Rogg M, Huber TB. Dev Cell. 2018 Dec

• The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II induced hypertension

  Ahadzadeh E, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Steffens P, Prüßner L, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wanner N, Paust H, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech T, Kurts C, Seniuk A, Ehmke H, Wenzel UAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Sep

• Organisation of lymphocytic infiltrates in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Herden E, Goldmann B, Langbehn U, Busch M, Jabs W, Steinmetz O, Panzer U, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech THistopathology. 2018 Jun

• A Multi-layered Quantitative In Vivo Expression Atlas of the Podocyte Unravels Kidney Disease Candidate Genes.

  Rinschen MM, Gödel M, Grahammer F, Zschiedrich S, Helmstädter M, Kretz O, Zarei M, Braun DA, Dittrich S, Pahmeyer C, Schroder P, Teetzen C, Gee H, Daouk G, Pohl M, Kuhn E, Schermer B, Küttner V, Boerries M, Busch H, Schiffer M, Bergmann C, Krüger M, Hildebrandt F, Dengjel J, Benzing T, Huber TB. Cell Rep. 2018 May

• DNA Methyltransferase 1 Controls Nephron Progenitor Cell Renewal and Differentiation.
  Wanner N, Vornweg J, Combes A, Wilson S, Plappert J, Rafflenbeul G, Puelles V, Rahman R, Liwinski T, Lindner S, Grahammer F, Kretz O, Wlodek M, Romano T, Moritz K, Boerries M, Busch H, Bonn S, Little M, Bechtel-Walz W, Huber T
  J Am Soc Nephrol.. 2019 Jan

• A Multi-layered Quantitative In Vivo Expression Atlas of the Podocyte Unravels Kidney Disease Candidate Genes.
  Rinschen MM, Gödel M, Grahammer F, Zschiedrich S, Helmstädter M, Kretz O, Zarei M, Braun DA, Dittrich S, Pahmeyer C, Schroder P, Teetzen C, Gee H, Daouk G, Pohl M, Kuhn E, Schermer B, Küttner V, Boerries M, Busch H, Schiffer M, Bergmann C, Krüger M, Hildebrandt F, Dengjel J, Benzing T, Huber TB. 
  Cell Rep. 2018 May

• ARP3 Controls the Podocyte Architecture at the Kidney Filtration Barrier.
  Schell C, Sabass B, Helmstaedter M, Geist F, Abed A, Yasuda-Yamahara M, Sigle A, Maier JI, Grahammer F, Siegerist F, Artelt N, Endlich N, Kerjaschki D, Arnold HH, Dengjel J, Rogg M, Huber TB. 
  Dev Cell. 2018 Dec

• The FERM protein EPB41L5 regulates actomyosin contractility and focal adhesion formation to maintain the kidney filtration barrier.
  Schell C, Rogg M, Suhm M, Helmstadter M, Sellung D, Yasuda-Yamahara M, Kretz O, Kuttner V, Suleiman H, Kollipara L, Zahedi RP, Sickmann A, Eimer S, Shaw AS, Kramer-Zucker A, Hirano-Kobayashi M, Abe T, Aizawa S, Grahammer F, Hartleben B, Dengjel J, and Huber TB.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017
  
  
• mTORC2 critically regulates renal potassium handling.
  Grahammer F, Nesterov V, Ahmed A, Steinhardt F, Sandner L, Arnold F, Cordts T, Negrea S, Bertog M, Ruegg MA, Hall MN, Walz G, Korbmacher C, Artunc F, and Huber TB.
  J Clin Invest. 2016
  
  
• Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate through Metabolic Programming.
  Buck MD, O'Sullivan D, Klein Geltink RI, Curtis JD, Chang CH, Sanin DE, Qiu J, Kretz O, Braas D, van der Windt GJ, Chen Q, Huang SC, O'Neill CM, Edelson BT, Pearce EJ, Sesaki H, Huber TB, Rambold AS, and Pearce EL.
  Cell. 2016
  
  
• Thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.
  Godel M, Grahammer F, and Huber TB.
  N Engl J Med. 2015
  
  
• Calciphylaxis.
  Zhou Q, Neubauer J, Kern JS, Grotz W, Walz G, and Huber TB.
  Lancet. 2014
  
  
• mTORC1 maintains renal tubular homeostasis and is essential in response to ischemic stress.
  Grahammer F, Haenisch N, Steinhardt F, Sandner L, Roerden M, Arnold F, Cordts T, Wanner N, Reichardt W, Kerjaschki D, Ruegg MA, Hall MN, Moulin P, Busch H, Boerries M, Walz G, Artunc F, and Huber TB.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014
  
  
• Role of mTOR in podocyte function and diabetic nephropathy in humans and mice.
  Godel M, Hartleben B, Herbach N, Liu S, Zschiedrich S, Lu S, Debreczeni-Mor A, Lindenmeyer MT, Rastaldi MP, Hartleben G, Wiech T, Fornoni A, Nelson RG, Kretzler M, Wanke R, Pavenstadt H, Kerjaschki D, Cohen CD, Hall MN, Ruegg MA, Inoki K, Walz G, and Huber TB.
  J Clin Invest. 2011
  
  
• Autophagy influences glomerular disease susceptibility and maintains podocyte homeostasis in aging mice.
  Hartleben B, Godel M, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Liu S, Ulrich T, Kobler S, Wiech T, Grahammer F, Arnold SJ, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Pavenstadt H, Kerjaschki D, Mizushima N, Shaw AS, Walz G, and Huber TB.
  J Clin Invest. 2010

• Study of Chemistry, Universities of Karlsruhe and Freiburg
• PhD in Structural Biology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Postdoc at EMBL, Structural & Computational Biology, Heidelberg
• Head of the Hamburg Unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL Hamburg)
• EMBL Senior Scientist and member of EMBL Directorate
• Habilitation, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Professor at the Hamburg University Clinical Center Eppendorf (UKE)
• Founding and Research Director of the Center for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)

• DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship
• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Honorary doctor, University of Oulu, Finland
• Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina"

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wilmans did not participate during the first funding period.

• Structural diversity in the atomic resolution 3D fingerprint of the titin M-band segment. 
  Chatziefthimiou SD, Hornburg P, Sauer F, Mueller S, Ugurlar D, Xu ER, Wilmanns M
  PLoS One. 2019
• Mechanism of conditional partner selectivity in MITF/TFE family transcription factors with a conserved coiled coil stammer motif. 
  Pogenberg V, Ballesteros-Álvarez J, Schober R, Sigvaldadóttir I, Obarska-Kosinska A, Milewski M, Schindl R, Ögmundsdóttir MH, Steingrímsson E, Wilmanns M.
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2020
• Model-based local density sharpening of cryo-EM maps.
  Jakobi AJ, Wilmanns M, Sachse C.
  Elife. 2017
• In cellulo serial crystallography of alcohol oxidase crystals inside yeast cells.
  Jakobi AJ, Passon DM, Knoops K, Stellato F, Liang M, White TA, Seine T, Messerschmidt M, Chapman HN, Wilmanns M.
  IUCrJ. 2016
• Superhelical architecture of the myosin filament-linking protein myomesin with unusual elastic properties.
  Pinotsis N, Chatziefthimiou SD, Berkemeier F, Beuron F, Mavridis IM, Konarev PV, Svergun DI, Morris E, Rief M, Wilmanns M.
  PLoS Biol. 2012
• Fast-folding alpha-helices as reversible strain absorbers in the muscle protein myomesin.
  Berkemeier F, Bertz M, Xiao S, Pinotsis N, Wilmanns M, Gräter F, Rief M.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011
• Telethonin deficiency is associated with maladaptation to biomechanical stress in the mammalian heart.
  Knöll R, Linke WA, Zou P, Miocic S, Kostin S, Buyandelger B, Ku CH, Neef S, Bug M, Schäfer K, Knöll G, Felkin LE, Wessels J, Toischer K, Hagn F, Kessler H, Didié M, Quentin T, Maier LS, Teucher N, Unsöld B, Schmidt A, Birks EJ, Gunkel S, Lang P, Granzier H, Zimmermann WH, Field LJ, Faulkner G, Dobbelstein M, Barton PJ, Sattler M, Wilmanns M, Chien KR.
  Circ Res. 2011
• Molecular basis of the head-to-tail assembly of giant muscle proteins obscurin-like 1 and titin.
  Sauer F, Vahokoski J, Song YH, Wilmanns M.
  EMBO Rep. 2010
• The titin-telethonin complex is a directed, superstable molecular bond in the muscle Z-disk.
  Bertz M, Wilmanns M, Rief M.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009
• Molecular basis of the C-terminal tail-to-tail assembly of the sarcomeric filament protein myomesin.
  Pinotsis N, Lange S, Perriard JC, Svergun DI, Wilmanns M.
  EMBO J. 2008
• Palindromic assembly of the giant muscle protein titin in the sarcomeric Z-disk. 
  Zou P, Pinotsis N, Lange S, Song YH, Popov A, Mavridis I, Mayans OM, Gautel M, Wilmanns M.
  Nature. 2006

• Studies of Medicine at the University of Freiburg
• Doctorate (Dr. med) at the University of Freiburg and the Harvard
• Medical School, Boston, USA; summa cum laude
• Postdoctoral fellow at the department of nephrology at the University of California, San Diego
• Research assistant at the department of medicine, nephrology at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Habilitation in Experimental Medicine, University Hamburg
• Heisenberg Stipend
• W3 Heisenberg professorship in the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf

• Dr. Martinipreis, UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf

• The calcium-sensing receptor stabilizes podocyte function in proteinuric humans and mice.

  Mühlig AK, Steingröver J, Heidelbach HS, Wingerath M, Sachs W, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Choi HY, Lim BJ, Patry C, Hoffmann GF, Endlich N, Bracke K, Weiß M, Guse AH, Lassé M, Rinschen MM, Braun F, Huber TB, Puelles VG, Schmitt CP, Oh J. Kidney Int. 2022 Jun

• Podocytes Produce and Secrete Functional Complement C3 and Complement Factor H.

  Mühlig AK*, Keir LS*, Abt JC, Heidelbach HS, Horton R, Welsh GI, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Licht C, Coward RJ, Fester L, Saleem MA, Oh J. J Front Immunol. 2020 Aug

• Piezo activity levels need to be tightly regulated to maintain normal morphology and function in pericardial nephrocytes.

  Schulz K, Hazelton-Cavill P, Alornyo KK, Edenhofer I, Lindenmeyer M, Lohr C, Huber TB, Denholm B, Koehler S.  Sci Rep. 2024 Nov

• The proteasome modulates endocytosis specifically in glomerular cells to promote kidney filtration.

  Sachs W, Blume L, Loreth D, Schebsdat L, Hatje F, Koehler S, Wedekind U, Sachs M, Zieliniski S, Brand J, Conze C, Florea BI, Heppner F, Krüger E, Rinschen MM, Kretz O, Thünauer R, Meyer-Schwesinger C. T. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar

• A protective role for Drosophila Filamin in nephrocytes via Yorkie mediated hypertrophy.

  Koehler S, Huber TB, Denholm B. Life Sci Alliance. 2022 Aug

• Scaffold polarity proteins Par3A and Par3B share redundant functions while Par3B acts independent of atypical protein kinase C/Par6 in podocytes to maintain the kidney filtration barrier.

  Koehler S, Odenthal J, Ludwig V, Jess DU, Höhne M, Jüngst C, Grawe F, Helmstädter M, Janku JL, Bergmann C, Hoyer PF, Hagmann HHH, Walz G, Bloch W, Niessen C, Schermer B, Wodarz A, Denholm B, Benzing T, Iden S, Brinkkoetter PT. Kidney Int. 2021 Dec

• Proteome Analysis of Isolated Podocytes Reveals Stress Responses in Glomerular Sclerosis.

  Koehler S, Kuczkowski A, Kuehne L, Jüngst C, Hoehne M, Grahammer F, Eddy S, Kretzler M, Beck BB, Höhfeld J, Schermer B, Benzing T, Brinkkoetter PT, Rinschen MM. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Mar

• Antigen Cross-Presentation by Murine Proximal Tubular Epithelial Cells Induces Cytotoxic and Inflammatory CD8 + T Cells

  Linke A, Cicek H, Müller A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Melderis S, Wiech T, Wegscheid C, Ridder J, Steinmetz OM, Diehl L, Tiegs G, Neumann K.Cells. 2022 Apr

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients

  Meyer-Schwesinger C*, Tomas NM*, Dehde S, Seifert L, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Wiech T, Koch-Nolte F, Huber TB, Zahner G.Kidney Int. 2020 May* contributed equally

• B6.Rag1 Knockout Mice Generated at the Jackson Laboratory in 2009 Show a Robust Wild-Type Hypertensive Phenotype in Response to Ang II (Angiotensin II).

  Seniuk A, Thiele JL, Stubbe A, Oser P, Rosendahl A, Bode M, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel UO, Ehmke H.Hypertension. 2020 Apr

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

  Anne Mueller, Yu Zhao, Hakan Cicek, Hans-Joachim Paust, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Alexandra Linke, Claudia Wegscheid, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Stefan Bonn, Immo Prinz, Ulf Panzer, Gisa Tiegs, Christian F Krebs, Katrin NeumannAm Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

• Endogenous IL-22 is dispensable for tissue protection in experimental glomerulonephritis.

  Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Xiong T, Weinert E, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Dumoutier L, Renauld JC, Huber S, Panzer U, Turner JEAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr

• The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II induced hypertension

  Ahadzadeh E, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Steffens P, Prüßner L, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wanner N, Paust H, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech T, Kurts C, Seniuk A, Ehmke H, Wenzel UAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Sep

• IL-33-mediated expansion of type 2 innate lymphoid cells protects from progressive glomerulosclerosis

  Riedel JH, Becker M, Kopp K, Düster M, Brix SR, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Kluth LA, Gnirck AC, Attar M, Krohn S, Fehse B, Stahl RA, Panzer U, Turner JEJ Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul

• The complement receptor C5aR1 contributes to renal damage but protects the heart in angiotensin II-induced hypertension. 

  Weiss S, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Stahl RA, Ehmke H, Kurts C, Zipfel PF, Köhl J, Wenzel UOAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2016 Jun

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• The Role of Renal Progenitors in Renal Regeneration

  Meyer-Schwesinger C Nephron. 2016

• Treg17 cells are programmed by Stat3 to suppress Th17 responses in systemic lupus
  Kluger M, Melderis S, Nosko A, Goerke B, Luig M, Meyer M, Turner J, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wegscheid C, Tiegs G, Stahl R, Panzer U, Steinmetz O
  Kidney Int. 2016
  
  
• The Role of Renal Progenitors in Renal Regeneration
  Meyer-Schwesinger C
  Nephron. 2016
  
  
• MicroRNA-193a Regulates the Transdifferentiation of Human Parietal Epithelial Cells toward a Podocyte Phenotype.
  Kietzmann L*, Guhr SS*, Meyer TN, Ni L, Sachs M, Panzer U, Stahl RA, Saleem MA, Kerjaschki D, Gebeshuber CA* and Meyer-Schwesinger C*. *contributed equally
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015
  
  
• Thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A in idiopathic membranous nephropathy
  Tomas, NM*, Beck, LH*, Jr., Meyer-Schwesinger, C, Seitz-Polski, B, Ma, H, Zahner, G, Dolla, G, Hoxha, E, Helmchen, U, Dabert-Gay, AS, Debayle, D, Merchant, M, Klein, J, Salant, DJ, Stahl, RA, Lambeau, G
  N Engl J Med. 2014
  
  
• UCH-L1 induces podocyte hypertrophy in membranous nephropathy by protein accumulation.
  Lohmann F, Sachs M, Meyer TN, Sievert H, Lindenmeyer MT, Wiech T, Cohen CD, Balabanov S, Stahl RAK, Meyer-Schwesinger C
  Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014
  
  
• Alterations in the ubiquitin proteasome system in persistent but not reversible proteinuric diseases.
  Beeken M*, Lindenmeyer MT*, Blattner SM*, Radón V*, Oh J, Meyer TN, Hildebrand D, Schlüter H, Reinicke AT, Knop JH, Vivekanandan-Giri A, Münster S, Sachs M, Wiech T, Pennathur S, Cohen CD, Kretzler M, Stahl RAK, Meyer-Schwesinger C. *contributed equally
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014
  
  
• Crosstalk between sentinel and helper macrophages permits neutrophil migration into infected uroepithelium.
  Schiwon M, Weisheit C, Franken L, Gutweiler S, Dixit A, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Pohl JM, Maurice NJ, Thiebes S, Lorenz K, Quast T, Fuhrmann M, Baumgarten G, Lohse MJ, Opdenakker G, Bernhagen J, Bucala R, Panzer U, Kolanus W, Gröne HJ, Garbi N, Kastenmüller W, Knolle PA, Kurts C*, Engel DR*. *contributed equally
  Cell. 2014
  
  
• The expression of podocyte-specific proteins in parietal epithelial cells is regulated by protein degradation.
  Guhr SS, Sachs M, Wegner A, Becker JU, Meyer TN, Kietzmann L, Schlossarek S, Carrier L, Braig M, Jat PS, Stahl RA, Meyer-Schwesinger C.
  Kidney Int. 2013

• Studies of Medicine at the University of Freiburg
• Doctorate (Dr. med) at the University of Freiburg and the Harvard
• Medical School, Boston, USA; summa cum laude
• Postdoctoral fellow at the department of nephrology at the University of California, San Diego
• Research assistant at the department of medicine, nephrology at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Habilitation in Experimental Medicine, University Hamburg
• Heisenberg Stipend
• W3 Heisenberg professorship in the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf

• Dr. Martinipreis, UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf

• Study of Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke
• M.D. thesis at the Institute of Immunology, University Witten/Herdecke; summa cum laude
• United states medical licensing examination (USMLE)
• Assistant Physician at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Gerok Position at the Clinical Research Unit 228 “Immunopathogenesis and Therapy of Glomerulonephritis”
• Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis, France
• Project leader Emmy Noether Research Group “Molecular Mechanisms of Membranous

• Dr.-Martini-Preis der Dr.-Martini-Stiftung in Hamburg (2017)

• Anti-nephrin autoantibodies in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome may inform treatment strategy.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Yilmaz A, Bayasit AK, Ozaltin F, Paripovic D, Emma F, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Hogan J, Schaefer F, Tomas NM, Huber TB. Kidney Int. 2025 Jun

• ATP-Gated P2X7-Ion Channel on Kidney-Resident Natural Killer T Cells and Memory T Cells in Intrarenal Inflammation.

  Marten Junge, Nastassia Liaukouskaya, Nicole Schwarz, Carolina Pinto-Espinoza, Alessa Z Schaffrath, Björn Rissiek, Christian F Krebs, Guido Rattay, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Nicola M Tomas, Annette Nicke, Friedrich Haag, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Nicola Wanner.  JASN. 2025 Apr

• Non-invasive diagnosis of anti-nephrin–associated podocytopathy.

  Hengel FE, Chong MCZ, Leung WY, Dehde S, Mühlig A, Janneck M, Wu HHL, Huber TB, Ponnusamy A, Tomas NM. Kidney Int Rep. 2025 May

• Potential and pitfalls of measuring circulating anti-nephrin autoantibodies in glomerular diseases.

  Hengel FE, Huber TB, Tomas NM. Clin Kidney J. 2025 Apr

• Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Kretz O, Engesser J, Zimmermann T, Huber TB*, Tomas NM.  J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan

• Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions.

  Felicitas E. Hengel, Silke Dehde, Oliver Kretz, Jonas Engesser, Tom Zimmermann, Tobias B. Huber, Nicola M. Tomas.  J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan

• Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Lassé M, Zahner G, Seifert L, Schnarre A, Kretz O, Demir F, Pinnschmidt HO, Grahammer F, Lucas R, Mehner LM, Zimmermann T, Billing AM, Oh J, Mitrotti A, Pontrelli P, Debiec H, Dossier C, Colucci M, Emma F, Smoyer WE, Weins A, Schaefer F, Alachkar N, Diemert A, Hogan J, Hoxha E, Wiech T, Rinschen MM, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Gesualdo L, Tomas NM, Huber TB.  N Engl J Med. 2024 Aug

• Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Lassé M, Zahner G, Seifert L, Schnarre A, Kretz O, Demir F, Pinnschmidt HO, Grahammer F, Lucas R, Mehner LM, Zimmermann T, Billing AM, Oh J, Mitrotti A, Pontrelli P, Debiec H, Dossier C, Colucci M, Emma F, Smoyer WE, Weins A, Schaefer F, Alachkar N, Diemert A, Hogan J, Hoxha E, Wiech T, Rinschen MM, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Gesualdo L, Tomas NM, Huber TB. N Engl J Med. 2024 Aug

• Podocyte expression of human phospholipase A2 receptor 1 causes immune-mediated membranous nephropathy in mice.

  Nicola M Tomas, Silke Dehde, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Ming Huang, Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer, Johanna Maybaum, Renke Lucas, Jennie L von der Heide, Oliver Kretz, Sarah M S Köllner, Larissa Seifert, Tobias B Huber, Gunther Zahner Kidney int. 2023 Feb

• The classical pathway triggers pathogenic complement activation in membranous nephropathy.

  Larissa Seifert, Gunther Zahner, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Naemi Hickstein, Silke Dehde, Sonia Wulf, Sarah M S Köllner, Renke Lucas, Dominik Kylies, Sarah Froembling, Stephanie Zielinski, Oliver Kretz, Anna Borodovsky, Sergey Biniaminov, Yanyan Wang, Hong Cheng, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Peter F Zipfel, Helmut Hopfer, Victor G Puelles, Ulf Panzer, Tobias B Huber, Thorsten Wiech, Nicola M TomasNat Commun. 2023 Jan

• The classical pathway triggers pathogenic complement activation in membranous nephropathy.

  Larissa Seifert, Gunther Zahner, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Naemi Hickstein, Silke Dehde, Sonia Wulf, Sarah M S Köllner, Renke Lucas, Dominik Kylies, Sarah Froembling, Stephanie Zielinski, Oliver Kretz, Anna Borodovsky, Sergey Biniaminov, Yanyan Wang, Hong Cheng, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Peter F Zipfel, Helmut Hopfer, Victor G Puelles, Ulf Panzer, Tobias B Huber, Thorsten Wiech, Nicola M Tomas. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan

• Across scales: novel insights into kidney health and disease by structural biology.

  Nicola M Tomas, Simon A Mortensen, Matthias Wilmanns, Tobias B Huber Kidney Int. 2021 Apr

• Perspectives in membranous nephropathy

  Tomas NM, Huber TB, Hoxha E.  Cell Tissue Res. 2021 Apr

• A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients

  Meyer-Schwesinger C*, Tomas NM*, Dehde S, Seifert L, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Wiech T, Koch-Nolte F, Huber TB, Zahner G.Kidney Int. 2020 May* contributed equally

• A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients.

  Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Nicola M Tomas, Silke Dehde, Larissa Seifert, Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer, Thorsten Wiech, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Tobias B Huber, Gunther ZahnerKidney Int. 2020 May

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• Thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A in idiopathic membranous nephropathy
  Tomas, NM*, Beck, LH*, Jr., Meyer-Schwesinger, C, Seitz-Polski, B, Ma, H, Zahner, G, Dolla, G, Hoxha, E, Helmchen, U, Dabert-Gay, AS, Debayle, D, Merchant, M, Klein, J, Salant, DJ, Stahl, RA, Lambeau, G
  N Engl J Med. 2014

• Phospholipase A2 Receptor autoantibodies and clinical outcome in patients with primary membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Thiele I, Zahner G, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RA
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014
  
  
• Leukocyte-derived MMP9 is crucial for the recruitment of proinflammatory macrophages in experimental glomerulonephritis.
  Kluger MA, Zahner G, Paust HJ, Schaper M, Magnus T, Panzer U, Stahl RA
  Kidney Int. 2013
  
  
• Enhanced expression of the M-type phospholipase A2 receptor in glomeruli correlates with serum receptor antibodies in primary membranous nephropathy.
  Hoxha E, Kneißler U, Stege G, Zahner G, Thiele I, Panzer U, Harendza S, Helmchen UM, Stahl RA
  Kidney Int. 2012
  
  
• An immunofluorescence test for phospholipase-A2-receptor antibodies and its clinical usefulness in patients with membranous glomerulonephritis.
  Hoxha E, Harendza S, Zahner G, Panzer U, Steinmetz O, Fechner K, Helmchen U, Stahl RA
  Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2011
  
  
• Prostaglandin EP2 and EP4 receptors modulate expression of the chemokine CCL2 (MCP-1) in response to LPS-induced renal glomerular inflammation.
  Zahner G, Schaper M, Panzer U, Kluger M, Stahl RA, Thaiss F, Schneider A
  Biochem J. 2009
  
  
• 15-Deoxy-∆12,14-prostaglandin J2 inhibits INF-gamma- induced JAK/STAT1 signalling pathway activation and IP-10/CXCL10 expression in mesangial cells.
  Panzer U*, Zahner G*, Wienberg U, Steinmetz OM, Peters A, Turner JE, Paust HJ,
  Wolf G, Stahl RA, Schneider A *contributed equally
  Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008
  
  
• Cyclooxygenase-2 overexpression inhibits platelet-derived growth factor-induced mesangial cell
  proliferation through induction of the tumor suppressor gene p53 and the cyclin-dependent kinase
  inhibitors p21waf/cip-1 and p27kip-1.
  Zahner G, Wolf G, Ayoub M, Reinking R, Panzer U, Shankland SJ, Stahl RA
  J Biol Chem. 2002
  
  
• Prostaglandin E2 stimulates expression of matrix metalloproteinase 2 in cultured rat mesangial cells.
  Zahner G, Harendza S, Müller E, Wolf G, Thaiss F, Stahl RA
  Kidney Int. 1997

• Diploma in Molecular Medicine, University of Freiburg
• PhD in Molecular Medicine (summa cum laude), University of Freiburg
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, Prof. Dr. Tobias B. Huber
• Laboratory head, III. Medical Department, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Prof. Dr. Tobias B. Huber

• PhD Fellowship of the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine
• Rainer-Greger Prize for PhD thesis in Nephrology

• ATP-Gated P2X7-Ion Channel on Kidney-Resident Natural Killer T Cells and Memory T Cells in Intrarenal Inflammation.

  Marten Junge, Nastassia Liaukouskaya, Nicole Schwarz, Carolina Pinto-Espinoza, Alessa Z Schaffrath, Björn Rissiek, Christian F Krebs, Guido Rattay, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Nicola M Tomas, Annette Nicke, Friedrich Haag, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Nicola Wanner.  JASN. 2025 Apr

• Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions.

  Felicitas E. Hengel, Silke Dehde, Oliver Kretz, Jonas Engesser, Tom Zimmermann, Tobias B. Huber, Nicola M. Tomas.  J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan

• Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Podocytopathies.

  Hengel FE, Dehde S, Lassé M, Zahner G, Seifert L, Schnarre A, Kretz O, Demir F, Pinnschmidt HO, Grahammer F, Lucas R, Mehner LM, Zimmermann T, Billing AM, Oh J, Mitrotti A, Pontrelli P, Debiec H, Dossier C, Colucci M, Emma F, Smoyer WE, Weins A, Schaefer F, Alachkar N, Diemert A, Hogan J, Hoxha E, Wiech T, Rinschen MM, Ronco P, Vivarelli M, Gesualdo L, Tomas NM, Huber TB. N Engl J Med. 2024 Aug

• The classical pathway triggers pathogenic complement activation in membranous nephropathy.

  Larissa Seifert, Gunther Zahner, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Naemi Hickstein, Silke Dehde, Sonia Wulf, Sarah M S Köllner, Renke Lucas, Dominik Kylies, Sarah Froembling, Stephanie Zielinski, Oliver Kretz, Anna Borodovsky, Sergey Biniaminov, Yanyan Wang, Hong Cheng, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Peter F Zipfel, Helmut Hopfer, Victor G Puelles, Ulf Panzer, Tobias B Huber, Thorsten Wiech, Nicola M Tomas. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan

• Molecular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism

  Wanner N, Andrieux G, Badia-I-Mompel P, Edler C, Pfefferle S, Lindenmeyer MT, Schmidt-Lauber C, Czogalla J, Wong MN, Okabayashi Y, Braun F, Lütgehetmann M, Meister E, Lu S, Noriega MLM, Günther T, Grundhoff A, Fischer N, Bräuninger H, Lindner D, Westermann D, Haas F, Roedl K, Kluge S, Addo MM, Huber S, Lohse AW, Reiser J, Ondruschka B, Sperhake JP, Saez-Rodriguez J, Boerries M, Hayek SS, Aepfelbacher M, Scaturro P, Puelles VG, Huber TB. Nat Metab. 2022 Mar

• A reciprocal regulation of spermidine and autophagy in podocytes maintains the filtration barrier.

  Liang W, Yamahara K, Hernando-Erhard C, Lagies S, Wanner N, Liang H, Schell C, Kammerer B, Huber TB, Bork T.Kidney Int. 2020 Jun

• Multi-organ and renal tropism of SARS-CoV-2

  Puelles VG, Lütgehetmann M, Lindenmeyer MT, Sperhake JP, Wong MN, Allweiss L, Chilla S, Heinemann A, Nicola Wanner N, Liu S, Braun F, Lu S, Pfefferle S, Schröder AS, Edler C, Gross O, Glatzel M, Wichmann D, Wiech T, Stefan Kluge S, Pueschel K, Aepfelbacher M, Huber TBNew England Journal of Medicine. 2020 May

•  mTOR-mediated podocyte hypertrophy regulates glomerular integrity in mice and humans.
  Puelles VG, van der Wolde JW, Wanner N, Scheppach MW, Cullen-McEwen LA, Bork T, Lindenmeyer MT, Gernhold L, Wong MN, Braun F, Cohen CD, Kett MM, Kuppe C, Kramann R, Saritas T, van Roeyen CR, Moeller MJ, Tribolet L, Rebello R, Sun YB, Li J, Müller-Newen G, Hughson MD, Hoy WE, Person F, Wiech T, Ricardo SD, Kerr PG, Denton KM, Furic L, Huber TB, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, Bertram JF.
  JCI Insight. 2019 Sep 19;4(18):e99271.

• From podocyte biology to novel cures for glomerular disease.
  Torban E, Braun F, Wanner N, Takano T, Goodyer PR, Lennon R, Ronco P, Cybulsky AV, Huber TB.
  Kidney Int. 2019 Oct;96(4):850-861.

• DNA Methyltransferase 1 Controls Nephron Progenitor Cell Renewal and Differentiation.
  Wanner N, Vornweg J, Combes A, Wilson S, Plappert J, Rafflenbeul G, Puelles VG, Rahman RU, Liwinski T, Lindner S, Grahammer F, Kretz O, Wlodek ME, Romano T, Moritz KM, Boerries M, Busch H, Bonn S, Little MH, Bechtel-Walz W, Huber TB.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jan;30(1):63-78.

• The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II-induced hypertension.
  Ahadzadeh E, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Steffens P, Prüßner L, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wanner N, Paust HJ, Huber TB, Stahl RAK, Wiech T, Kurts C, Seniuk A, Ehmke H, Wenzel UO. 
  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Dec 1;315(6):F1526-F1535.

• Gone but not forgotten: resolution of childhood kidney disease and the risk of end-stage kidney disease in adults.
  Wyatt CM, Wanner N.
  Kidney Int. 2018 Jun;93(6):1260-1262.

• New Insights into Podocyte Biology in Glomerular Health and Disease.
  Assady S, Wanner N, Skorecki KL, Huber TB. 
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jun;28(6):1707-1715.

• Epigenetics of kidney disease.
  Wanner N, Bechtel-Walz W. 
  Cell Tissue Res. 2017 Jul;369(1):75-92. doi: 10.1007/s00441-017-2588-x.

• Targeting mTOR Signaling Can Prevent the Progression of FSGS.
  Zschiedrich S, Bork T, Liang W, Wanner N, Eulenbruch K, Munder S, Hartleben B, Kretz O, Gerber S, Simons M, Viau A, Burtin M, Wei C, Reiser J, Herbach N, Rastaldi MP, Cohen CD, Tharaux PL, Terzi F, Walz G, Gödel M, Huber TB.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul;28(7):2144-2157.

• mTOR Regulates Endocytosis and Nutrient Transport in Proximal Tubular Cells.
  Grahammer F, Ramakrishnan SK, Rinschen MM, Larionov AA, Syed M, Khatib H, Roerden M, Sass JO, Helmstaedter M, Osenberg D, Kühne L, Kretz O, Wanner N, Jouret F, Benzing T, Artunc F, Huber TB, Theilig F. 
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jan;28(1):230-241.

1995 – 2002    Study of Medicine at the University Hamburg
2000 – 2004    M.D. thesis at the Medizinische Kernklinik, UKE
2001 - 2011    Resident (Assistenzarzt) at the Institute of Pathology Freiburg
2008 - 2009    Training in Nephropathology, Institute of Pathology Basel
2010                Specialization in Pathology
2012                Habilitation in Pathology at the University Freiburg
Since 2012      Consultant (Oberarzt) at the Institute of Pathology, UKE
Since 2012      W2 Professor at the Institute of Pathology, UKE

• Michael J. Mihatsch & Dusan Ferluga Award of the European Society of Pathology

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• Multi-organ and renal tropism of SARS-CoV-2

  Puelles VG, Lütgehetmann M, Lindenmeyer MT, Sperhake JP, Wong MN, Allweiss L, Chilla S, Heinemann A, Nicola Wanner N, Liu S, Braun F, Lu S, Pfefferle S, Schröder AS, Edler C, Gross O, Glatzel M, Wichmann D, Wiech T, Stefan Kluge S, Pueschel K, Aepfelbacher M, Huber TBNew England Journal of Medicine. 2020 May

• A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients

  Meyer-Schwesinger C*, Tomas NM*, Dehde S, Seifert L, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Wiech T, Koch-Nolte F, Huber TB, Zahner G.Kidney Int. 2020 May* contributed equally

• CFHR Gene Variations Provide Insights in the Pathogenesis of the Kidney Diseases Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and C3 Glomerulopathy.

  Zipfel PF, Wiech T, Stea ED, Skerka C.J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Feb

• Serum FHR1 binding to necrotic-type cells activates monocytic inflammasome and marks necrotic sites in vasculopathies

  Sarah Irmscher, Silke R. Brix, Svante L. H. Zipfel, Luke D. Halder, Sibel Mutlutürk, Sonia Wulf, Evaldas Girdauskas, Hermann Reichenspurner, Rolf A. K. Stahl, Berit Jungnickel, Thorsten Wiech, Peter F. Zipfel & Christine SkerkaNat Commun. 2019 Jul

• Transcriptional and Clonal Characterization of Cytotoxic T cells in Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

  Anne Mueller, Yu Zhao, Hakan Cicek, Hans-Joachim Paust, Amirrtavarshni Sivayoganathan, Alexandra Linke, Claudia Wegscheid, Thorsten Wiech, Tobias B Huber, Catherine Meyer-Schwesinger, Stefan Bonn, Immo Prinz, Ulf Panzer, Gisa Tiegs, Christian F Krebs, Katrin NeumannAm Soc Nephrol. 2023 Mar

• Development and validation of a renal risk score in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Tennstedt P, Vettorazzi E, Busch M, Nitschke M, Jabs W, Özcan F, Wendt R, Hausberg M, Sellin L, Panzer U, Huber T, Waldherr R, Hopfer H, Stahl R, Wiech TKidney Int. 2018 Dec

• Potential role for urine PCR in the diagnosis of Whipple's disease.

  Moter A, Janneck M, Wolters M, Iking-Konert C, Wiessner A, Loddenkemper C, Hartleben B, Lütgehetmann M, Schmidt J, Langbehn U, Janssen S, Geelhaar-Karsch A, Schneider T, Moos V, Rohde H, Kikhney J, Wiech T.Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Oct

• The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II induced hypertension

  Ahadzadeh E, Rosendahl A, Czesla D, Steffens P, Prüßner L, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wanner N, Paust H, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech T, Kurts C, Seniuk A, Ehmke H, Wenzel UAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Sep

• Organisation of lymphocytic infiltrates in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

  Brix S, Noriega M, Herden E, Goldmann B, Langbehn U, Busch M, Jabs W, Steinmetz O, Panzer U, Huber T, Stahl R, Wiech THistopathology. 2018 Jun

• FHR5 Binds to Laminins, Uses Separate C3b and Surface-Binding Sites, and Activates Complement on Malondialdehyde-Acetaldehyde Surfaces.

  Rudnick RB, Chen Q, Stea ED, Hartmann A, Papac-Milicevic N, Person F, Wiesener M, Binder CJ, Wiech T, Skerka C, Zipfel PFJ Immunol. 2018 Apr

• A Mechanism for Cancer-Associated Membranous Nephropathy. 

  Hoxha E, Wiech T, Stahl PR, Zahner G, Tomas NM, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wenzel U, Janneck M, Steinmetz OM, Panzer U, Harendza S, Stahl RAN Engl J Med. 2016 May

• CXCR3+ regulatory T cells control TH1 responses in crescentic GN. 
  Paust HJ, Riedel JH, Krebs CF, Turner JE, Brix SR, Krohn S, Velden J, Wiech T, Kaffke A, Peters A, Bennstein SB, Kapffer S, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wegscheid C, Tiegs G, Thaiss F, Mittrücker H-W, Steinmetz OM, Stahl RA, Panzer U.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Jul;27(7):1933-42.
  

• FAN1 mutations cause karyomegalic interstitial nephritis, linking chronic kidney failure to defective DNA damage repair. 
  Zhou W, Otto EA, Cluckey A, Airik R, Hurd TW, Chaki M, Diaz K, Lach FP, Bennett GR, Gee HY, Ghosh AK, Natarajan S, Thongthip S, Veturi U, Allen SJ, Janssen S, Ramaswami G, Dixon J, Burkhalter F, Spoendlin M, Moch H, Mihatsch MJ, Verine J, Reade R, Soliman H, Godin M, Kiss D, Monga G, Mazzucco G, Amann K, Artunc F, Newland RC, Wiech T, Zschiedrich S, Huber TB, Friedl A, Slaats GG, Joles JA, Goldschmeding R, Washburn J, Giles RH, Levy S, Smogorzewska A, Hildebrandt F. 
  Nat Genet. 2012 Jul 8;44(8):910-5.
  
  
• Histopathological patterns of nephrocalcinosis: a phosphate type can be distinguished from a calcium type. 
  Wiech T, Hopfer H, Gaspert A, Banyai-Falger S, Hausberg M, Schröder J, Werner M, Mihatsch MJ. 
  Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2012 Mar;27(3):1122-31.

• MD thesis, Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Prof. Dr. F. Haag
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at Immunoregulation Section and Laboratory for Complement and Inflammation Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (Dr. B. Afzali/NIDDK and Dr. C. Kemper/NHLBI)
• DFG Fellowship at Immunoregulation Section and Laboratory for Complement and Inflammation Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (Dr. B. Afzali/NIDDK and Dr. C. Kemper/NHLBI)
• Physician, III. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Prof. Dr. T. B. Huber
• Junior group leader supported by the BMBF iSTAR Advanced Clinician Scientist program

• Orloff Science Award from the NIH for work on complement biology

• C5a-licensed phagocytes drive sterilizing immunity during systemic fungal infection.
  Desai JV, Kumar D, Freiwald T, Chauss D, Johnson MD, Abers MS, Steinbrink JM, Perfect JR, Alexander B, Matzaraki V, Snarr BD, Zarakas MA, Oikonomou V, Silva LM, Shivarathri R, Beltran E, Demontel LN, Wang L, Lim JK, Launder D, Conti HR, Swamydas M, McClain MT, Moutsopoulos NM, Kazemian M, Netea MG, Kumar V, Köhl J, Kemper C, Afzali B, Lionakis MS. 
  Cell. 2023 Jun
  
  

• Systematic single-cell pathway analysis to characterize early T cell activation.
  Bibby JA, Agarwal D, Freiwald T, Kunz N, Merle NS, West EE, Singh P, Larochelle A, Chinian F, Mukherjee S, Afzali B, Kemper C, Zhang NR.
  Cell Rep. 2022 Nov

• Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells.
  Chauss D*, Freiwald T*, McGregor R*, Yan B*, Wang L*, Nova-Lamperti E, Kumar D, Zhang Z, Teague H, West EE, Vannella KM, Ramos-Benitez MJ, Bibby J, Kelly A, Malik A, Freeman AF, Schwartz DM, Portilla D, Chertow DS, John S, Lavender P, Kemper C, Lombardi G, Mehta NN, Cooper N, Lionakis MS, Laurence A, Kazemian M, Afzali B.
  Nat Immunol. 2022 Jan

• Mitochondrial C5aR1 activity in macrophages controls IL-1β production underlying sterile inflammation.Mitochondrial C5aR1 activity in macrophages controls IL-1β production underlying sterile inflammation.Mitochondrial C5aR1 activity in macrophages controls IL-1β production underlying sterile inflammation.
  Niyonzima N, Rahman J, Kunz N, West EE, Freiwald T, Desai JV, Merle NS, Gidon A, Sporsheim B, Lionakis MS, Evensen K, Lindberg B, Skagen K, Skjelland M, Singh P, Haug M, Ruseva MM, Kolev M, Bibby J, Marshall O, O'Brien B, Deeks N, Afzali B, Clark RJ, Woodruff TM, Pryor M, Yang ZH, Remaley AT, Mollnes TE, Hewitt SM, Yan B, Kazemian M, Kiss MG, Binder CJ, Halvorsen B, Espevik T, Kemper C.
  Sci Immunol. 2021 Dec
  
  

• SARS-CoV-2 drives JAK1/2-dependent local complement hyperactivation.SARS-CoV-2 drives JAK1/2-dependent local complement hyperactivation.
  Yan B*, Freiwald T*, Chauss D*, Wang L*, West E*, Mirabelli C, Zhang CJ, Nichols EM, Malik N, Gregory R, Bantscheff M, Ghidelli-Disse S, Kolev M, Frum T, Spence JR, Sexton JZ, Alysandratos KD, Kotton DN, Pittaluga S, Bibby J, Niyonzima N, Olson MR, Kordasti S, Portilla D, Wobus CE, Laurence A, Lionakis MS, Kemper C, Afzali B, Kazemian M.
  Sci Immunol. 2021 Apr

• Optimized protocol for the multiomics processing of cryopreserved human kidney tissue.
  Gies SE, Hänzelmann S, Kylies D, Lassé M, Lagies S, Hausmann F, Khatri R, Zolotarev N, Poets M, Zhang T, Demir F, Billing AM, Quaas J, Meister E, Engesser J, Mühlig AK, Lu S, Liu S, Chilla S, Edenhofer I, Czogalla J, Braun F, Kammerer B, Puelles VG, Bonn S, Rinschen MM, Lindenmeyer M, Huber TB.
  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2024 Nov
  
  

• Multicytokine-producing CD4+ T cells characterize the livers of patients with NASH.
  Woestemeier A, Scognamiglio P, Zhao Y, Wagner J, Muscate F, Casar C, Siracusa F, Cortesi F, Agalioti T, Müller S, Sagebiel A, Konczalla L, Wahib R, Karstens KF, Giannou AD, Duprée A, Wolter S, Wong MN, Mühlig AK, Bielecka AA, Bansal V, Zhang T, Mann O, Puelles VG, Huber TB, Lohse AW, Izbicki JR, Palm NW, Bonn S, Huber S, Gagliani N.
  JCI Insight. 2023 Jan

• The calcium-sensing receptor stabilizes podocyte function in proteinuric humans and mice.
  Mühlig AK, Steingröver J, Heidelbach HS, Wingerath M, Sachs W, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Choi HY, Lim BJ, Patry C, Hoffmann GF, Endlich N, Bracke K, Weiß M, Guse AH, Lassé M, Rinschen MM, Braun F, Huber TB, Puelles VG, Schmitt CP, Oh J.
  Kidney Int. 2022 Jun

• Podocytes Produce and Secrete Functional Complement C3 and Complement Factor H.
  Mühlig AK, Keir LS, Abt JC, Heidelbach HS, Horton R, Welsh GI, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Licht C, Coward RJ, Fester L, Saleem MA, Oh J.
  J Front Immunol. 2020 Aug

• Immunohistochemical and serological characterization of membranous nephropathy in children and adolescents.
  Dettmar AK, Wiech T, Kemper MJ, Soave A, Rink M, Oh J, Stahl RAK, Hoxha E.
  Pediatr Nephrol. 2018 Mar

• Medical degree (MD): Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
• PhD in Anatomy, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• Postdoc at Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• Postdoc at Department of Nephrology and Immunology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
• Postdoc at III. Department of Medicine, Hamburg-Eppendorf Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany
• Group Leader at III. Department of Medicine, Hamburg-Eppendorf Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany
• Professor (W1) at Department of Medicine, Hamburg-Eppendorf Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

• Monash University Deputy Dean Award for undergraduate medical teaching (Monash University)
• Anthony Koelmeyer International PhD Excellence Award (Monash University)
• National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Early Career Fellowship (CJ Martin)
• Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
• German Society of Nephrology Research Award

• Optimized protocol for the multiomics processing of cryopreserved human kidney tissue.

  Gies SE, Hänzelmann S, Kylies D, Lassé M, Lagies S, Hausmann F, Khatri R, Zolotarev N, Poets M, Zhang T, Demir F, Billing AM, Quaas J, Meister E, Engesser J, Mühlig AK, Lu S, Liu S, Chilla S, Edenhofer I, Czogalla J, Braun F, Kammerer B, Puelles VG, Bonn S, Rinschen MM, Lindenmeyer M, Huber TB. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2024 Nov

• Multicytokine-producing CD4+ T cells characterize the livers of patients with NASH.

  Woestemeier A, Scognamiglio P, Zhao Y, Wagner J, Muscate F, Casar C, Siracusa F, Cortesi F, Agalioti T, Müller S, Sagebiel A, Konczalla L, Wahib R, Karstens KF, Giannou AD, Duprée A, Wolter S, Wong MN, Mühlig AK, Bielecka AA, Bansal V, Zhang T, Mann O, Puelles VG, Huber TB, Lohse AW, Izbicki JR, Palm NW, Bonn S, Huber S, Gagliani N. JCI Insight. 2023 Jan

• The calcium-sensing receptor stabilizes podocyte function in proteinuric humans and mice.

  Mühlig AK, Steingröver J, Heidelbach HS, Wingerath M, Sachs W, Hermans-Borgmeyer I, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Choi HY, Lim BJ, Patry C, Hoffmann GF, Endlich N, Bracke K, Weiß M, Guse AH, Lassé M, Rinschen MM, Braun F, Huber TB, Puelles VG, Schmitt CP, Oh J. Kidney Int. 2022 Jun

• Loss of the collagen IV modifier prolyl 3-hydroxylase 2 causes thin basement membrane nephropathy

  Aypek H, Krisp C, Lu S, Liu S, Kylies D, Kretz O, Wu G, Moritz M, Amann K, Benz K, Tong P, Hu ZM, Alsulaiman SM, Khan AO, Grohmann M, Wagner T, Müller-Deile J, Schlüter H, Puelles VG, Bergmann C, Huber TB, Grahammer F. J Clin Invest. 2022 May

• Molecular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism

  Wanner N, Andrieux G, Badia-I-Mompel P, Edler C, Pfefferle S, Lindenmeyer MT, Schmidt-Lauber C, Czogalla J, Wong MN, Okabayashi Y, Braun F, Lütgehetmann M, Meister E, Lu S, Noriega MLM, Günther T, Grundhoff A, Fischer N, Bräuninger H, Lindner D, Westermann D, Haas F, Roedl K, Kluge S, Addo MM, Huber S, Lohse AW, Reiser J, Ondruschka B, Sperhake JP, Saez-Rodriguez J, Boerries M, Hayek SS, Aepfelbacher M, Scaturro P, Puelles VG, Huber TB. Nat Metab. 2022 Mar

• Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

  Zhao Y, Kilian C, Turner JE, Bosurgi L, Roedl K, Bartsch P, Gnirck AC, Cortesi F, Schultheiß C, Hellmig M, Enk LUB, Hausmann F, Borchers A, Wong MN, Paust HJ, Siracusa F, Scheibel N, Herrmann M, Rosati E, Bacher P, Kylies D, Jarczak D, Lütgehetmann M, Pfefferle S, Steurer S, Zur-Wiesch JS, Puelles VG, Sperhake JP, Addo MM, Lohse AW, Binder M, Huber S, Huber TB, Kluge S, Bonn S, Panzer U, Gagliani N, Krebs CF Sci Immunol. 2021 Feb

• The proteomic landscape of small urinary extracellular vesicles during kidney transplantation

  Braun F, Rinschen M, Buchner D, Bohl K, Plagmann I, Bachurski D, Richard Späth M, Antczak P, Göbel H, Klein C, Lackmann JW, Kretz O, Puelles VG, Wahba R, Hallek M, Schermer B, Benzing T, Huber TB, Beyer A, Stippel D, Kurschat CE, Müller RU.  J Extracell Vesicles. 2020 Oct

• Interleukin-9 protects from early podocyte injury and progressive glomerulosclerosis in Adriamycin-induced nephropathy.

  Xiong T, Attar M, Gnirck AC, Wunderlich M, Becker M, Rickassel C, Puelles VG, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Wiech T, Nies JF, Divivier M, Fuchs T, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Taipaleenmäki H, Hoxha E, Wirtz S, Huber TB, Panzer U, Turner JE.Kidney Int. 2020 Sep

• SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism associates with acute kidney injury

  Braun F, Luetgehetmann M, Pferfferle S, Wong M, Carsten A, Lindenmeyer M, Noerz, D, Heinrich F, Meißner K, Wichmann D, Kluge S, Gross O, Pueschel K, Schroeder AS, Edler C, Aepfelbacher M, Puelles V, Huber TB.The Lancet. 2020 Aug

• Multi-organ and renal tropism of SARS-CoV-2

  Puelles VG, Lütgehetmann M, Lindenmeyer MT, Sperhake JP, Wong MN, Allweiss L, Chilla S, Heinemann A, Nicola Wanner N, Liu S, Braun F, Lu S, Pfefferle S, Schröder AS, Edler C, Gross O, Glatzel M, Wichmann D, Wiech T, Stefan Kluge S, Pueschel K, Aepfelbacher M, Huber TBNew England Journal of Medicine. 2020 May

• Podocyte number in children and adults: associations with glomerular size and numbers of other glomerular resident cells.
  Puelles VG, RN Douglas-Denton, LA Cullen-McEwen, J Li, MD Hughson, WE Hoy, PG Kerr and JF Bertram.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Sep

• A novel 3D method for counting and sizing podocytes in whole glomeruli: validation in a model of podocyte depletion.
  Puelles VG*, JW van der Wolde*, KE Schulze, KM Short, MN Wong, JG Bensley, LA Cullen-McEwen, G Caruana, SN Hokke, J Li, SD Firth, IS Harper, DJ Nikolic-Paterson, and JF Bertram
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Oct
  *represents equal contributions

• Gli1+ mesenchymal stromal cells are key drivers of bone marrow fibrosis and important cellular therapeutic targets.
  Schneider RK, Mullally A, Dugourd A, Peisker F, Hoogenboezem R, Van Strien PMH, Bindels EM, Heckl D, Büsche G, Fleck D, Müller-Newen G, Wongboonsin J, Ventura Ferreira M, Puelles VG, Saez-Rodriguez J, Ebert BL, Humphreys BD, Kramann R.
  Cell Stem Cell. 2017 Jun

• New insights on glomerular hyperfiltration: a Japanese autopsy study.
  Kanzaki G*, Puelles VG*, LA Cullen-McEwen, WE Hoy, Y Okabayashi, N Tsuboi, A Shimizu, KM Denton, MD Hughson, T Yokoo, and JF Bertram
  JCI Insight. 2017 Oct
  *represents equal contributions

• Optical clearing in kidney reveals potassium-mediated tubule remodeling.
  Saritas T, Puelles VG, P Wellington, McCormick JA, and Ellison DH
  Cell Rep. 2018 Dec 4

• Novel 3D analysis using optical tissue clearing documents the evolution of murine rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.
  Puelles VG, Fleck D, Ortz L, Papadouri S, Strieder T, Boehner A, van der Wolde JW, Vogt M, Saritas T, Kuppe C, Fuss A, Menzel S, Klinkhammer BM, Müller-Newen G, Heymann F, Kretz O, Huber TB, Susaki EA, Ueda HR, Boor P, Floege J, Kramann R, Kurts C, Bertram JF, Spehr M, Nikolic-Paterson DJ, and Moeller MJ
  Kidney Int. 2019 Aug

• The tetraspanin CD9 controls invasive migration and proliferation of parietal epithelial cells and glomerular disease progression.
  Lazareth H*, Henique C*, Lenoir O*, Puelles VG*, Flamant M, Bollée G, Camus M, Guyonnet L, Gaillard F, Chipont A, Robin B, Fabrega S, Camerer E, Dhaun N, Kretz O, Nochy D, Bruneval P, Mesnard L, Thervet E, Karras A, Boucheix C, Le Naour F, Rubinstein E, Alexandrou A, Moeller MJ, Bouzigues C, and Tharaux PL
  Nat Commun. 2019 Jul
  *represents equal contributions

• mTOR-mediated podocyte hypertrophy regulates glomerular integrity in mice and humans.
  Puelles VG, JW van der Wolde;,N Wanner, M Scheppach, LA Cullen-McEwen, T Bork, MT Lindenmeyer, L Gernhold, MN Wong, F Braun, CD Cohen, MM Kett, C Kuppe, R Kramann, T Saritas, C van Roeyen, MJ Moeller, L Tribolet, R Rebello, YBY Sun, J Li, G Müller-Newen, MD Hughson, WE Hoy, F Person, T Wiech, SD Ricardo, PG Kerr, KM Denton, L Furic, TB Huber, DJ Nikolic-Paterson, and JF Bertram
  JCI Insight. 2019 Sep

• Cellular and Molecular Probing of Intact Human Organs.
  Zhao S, Todorov MI, Cai R, AI-Maskari R, Steinke H, Kemter E, Mai H, Rong Z, Warmer M, Aguilera KS, Schoppe O, Paetzold JC, Gesierich B, Wong MN, Huber TB, Düring M, Bruns OT, Menze B, Lipfert J, Puelles VG, Wolf E, Bechmann I, and Ertürk A
  Cell. 2020 Feb

• Multiorgan and renal tropism of SARS-CoV-2.
  Puelles VG*, Lütgehetmann M*, Lindenmeyer MT*, Sperhake JP*, Wong MN, Allweiss L, Chilla S, Heinemann A, Wanner N, Liu S, Braun F, Lu S, Pfefferle S, Schröder AS, Edler C, Gross O, Glatzel M, Wichmann D, Wiech T, Kluge S, Pueschel K, Aepfelbacher M and Huber TB
  N Engl J Med. 2020 May
  *represents equal contributions

• 2020 – present: Principal investigator SFB 1192, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
• 2018 – present: Director of the University Transplant Center, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
• 2017 – present: Deputy head of department, attending physician, III. Department of Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
• 2015 - 2019: Principal investigator KIDGEM and research group leader
• 2012 - 2014: Principal investigator KFO201 and junior research group leader
• 2010 - 2012: Else-Kröner Memorial Scholarship
• 2009 - 2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medicine, Renal Division, University Medical Center Freiburg
• 2008 - 2009: Fellowship, Department of Medicine, Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg
• 2005 - 2008: Residency, Department of Medicine, Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg
• 2003 - 2005: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physiology, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen

• 2016: Carl-Ludwig Award of the German Society of Nephrology
• 2013: Organizing Committee International Podocyte Conference 2014
• 2011: Program Committee Else-Kröner-Fresenius Podocyte Symposium

• mTOR Regulates Endocytosis and Nutrient Transport in Proximal Tubular Cells.
  Grahammer F, Ramakrishnan SK, Rinschen MM, Larionov AA, Syed M, Khatib H, Roerden M, Sass JO, Helmstaedter M, Osenberg D, Kuhne L, Kretz O, Wanner N, Jouret F, Benzing T, Artunc F, Huber TB, and Theilig F.
  J Am Soc Nephrol 2017 Jan
• A flexible, multilayered protein scaffold maintains the slit in between glomerular podocytes.
  Grahammer F, Wigge C, Schell C, Kretz O, Patrakka J, Schneider S, Klose M, Arnold SJ, Habermann A, Brauniger R, Rinschen MM, Volker L, Bregenzer A, Rubbenstroth D, Boerries M, Kerjaschki D, Miner JH, Walz G, Benzing T, Fornoni A, Frangakis AS, and Huber TB.
  JCI Insight 2016 Jun
• mTORC2 critically regulates renal potassium handling.
  Grahammer F, Nesterov V, Ahmed A, Steinhardt F, Sandner L, Arnold F, Cordts T, Negrea S, Bertog M, Ruegg MA, Hall MN, Walz G, Korbmacher C, Artunc F, and Huber TB. 
  J Clin Invest 2016 May
• Thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A in idiopathic membranous nephropathy.
  Godel M, Grahammer F, and Huber TB.
  N Engl J Med 2015 Mar
• mTORC1 maintains renal tubular homeostasis and is essential in response to ischemic stress.
  Grahammer F, Haenisch N, Steinhardt F, Sandner L, Roerden M, Arnold F, Cordts T, Wanner N, Reichardt W, Kerjaschki D, Ruegg MA, Hall MN, Moulin P, Busch H, Boerries M, Walz G, Artunc F, and Huber TB. 
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 Jul
• Unraveling the role of podocyte turnover in glomerular aging and injury.
  Wanner N, Hartleben B, Herbach N, Goedel M, Stickel N, Zeiser R, Walz G, Moeller MJ, Grahammer F*, and Huber TB*.
  J Am Soc Nephrol 2014 Apr
  *contributed equally
• The podocyte slit diaphragm--from a thin grey line to a complex signalling hub.
  Grahammer F, Schell C, and Huber TB.
  Nat Rev Nephrol 2013 Oct
• Molecular fingerprinting of the podocyte reveals novel gene and protein regulatory networks.
  Boerries M*, Grahammer F*, Eiselein S*, Buck M*, Meyer C, Goedel M, Bechtel W, Zschiedrich S, Pfeifer D, Laloë D, Arrondel C, Gonçalves S, Krüger M, Harvey SJ, Busch H, Dengjel J, Huber TB.
  Kidney Int. 2013 Jun
  *contributed equally
• KCNQ1-dependent transport in renal and gastrointestinal epithelia.
  Vallon V*, Grahammer F*, Volkl H, Sandu CD, Richter K, Rexhepaj R, Gerlach U, Rong Q, Pfeifer K, Lang F.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Dec
  *contributed equally
• The cardiac K+ channel KCNQ1 is essential for gastric acid secretion.
  Grahammer F*, Herling AW*, Lang HJ, Schmitt-Gräff A, Wittekindt OH, Nitschke R, Bleich M, Barhanin J, Warth R. 
  Gastroenterology 2001 May
  *contributed equally

• Study of Medicine, WWU Münster
• MD thesis, Internal Medicine D, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany and NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. Supervisor: Eberhard Schlatter, PhDKE
• Scientist, II. Department of Medicine, Cologne, Germany
• Visiting Investigator, Scripps Research, CA, USA
• Full Professor, III. Department of Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
• Associate Professor, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus, Denmark

• Physiological Omics New Investigator Award, American Physiological Society (2020)
• Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology or Medicine, APS(2020)
• Novo Nordisk Foundation Young Investigator Award (2020)
• Research Recognition Award for junior faculty, Renal Section, APS (2018)
• Wissenschaftspreis des Industrieclubs Düsseldorf", Germany (statewide interdisciplinary award for innovative applied research in the area of “life sciences or medicine”) (2018)
• Du Bois-Reymond Award, German Physiological Society, with Keynote at europhysiology (2018)
• Carl-Ludwig-Award, German Nephrology (2018)
• Research Recognition Award for meritorious postdoctoral work, APS (2017)
• Rainer Greger Award for best MD or PhD thesis, German Society of Nephrology (DGFN) (2011)

• Amino acid metabolism in kidney health and disease.
  Knol MGE, Wulfmeyer VC, Müller RU, Rinschen MM.
  Nat Rev Nephrol. 2024 Aug
  
  

• Metabolic Communication by SGLT2 Inhibition.
  Billing AM, Kim YC, Gullaksen S, Schrage B, Raabe J, Hutzfeldt A, Demir F, Kovalenko E, Lassé M, Dugourd A, Fallegger R, Klampe B, Jaegers J, Li Q, Kravtsova O, Crespo-Masip M, Palermo A, Fenton RA, Hoxha E, Blankenberg S, Kirchhof P, Huber TB, Laugesen E, Zeller T, Chrysopoulou M, Saez-Rodriguez J, Magnussen C, Eschenhagen T, Staruschenko A, Siuzdak G, Poulsen PL, Schwab C, Cuello F, Vallon V, Rinschen MM.
  Circulation. 2024 Mar

• An integrated organoid omics map extends modeling potential of kidney disease.
  Lassé M, El Saghir J, Berthier CC, Eddy S, Fischer M, Laufer SD, Kylies D, Hutzfeldt A, Bonin LL, Dumoulin B, Menon R, Vega-Warner V, Eichinger F, Alakwaa F, Fermin D, Billing AM, Minakawa A, McCown PJ, Rose MP, Godfrey B, Meister E, Wiech T, Noriega M, Chrysopoulou M, Brandts P, Ju W, Reinhard L, Hoxha E, Grahammer F, Lindenmeyer MT, Huber TB, Schlüter H, Thiel S, Mariani LH, Puelles VG, Braun F, Kretzler M, Demir F, Harder JL, Rinschen MM.
  Nat Commun. 2023 Aug

• Accelerated lysine metabolism conveys kidney protection in salt-sensitive hypertension.
  Rinschen MM, Palygin O, El-Meanawy A, Domingo-Almenara X, Palermo A, Dissanayake LV, Golosova D, Schafroth MA, Guijas C, Demir F, Jaegers J, Gliozzi ML, Xue J, Hoehne M, Benzing T, Kok BP, Saez E, Bleich M, Himmerkus N, Weisz OA, Cravatt BF, Krüger M, Benton HP, Siuzdak G, Staruschenko A.
  Nat Commun. 2022 Jul

• Proteome Analysis of Isolated Podocytes Reveals Stress Responses in Glomerular Sclerosis.
  Koehler S, Kuczkowski A, Kuehne L, Jüngst C, Hoehne M, Grahammer F, Eddy S, Kretzler M, Beck BB, Höhfeld J, Schermer B, Benzing T, Brinkkoetter PT, Rinschen MM.
  J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Mar

• Chemistry, Technical University Karlsruhe, University of Freiburg
• Diploma in Chemistry, University of Freiburg
• PhD, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg
• Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary College, London (UK), Prof. Dr. M. Warren
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Nephrology Center, IV. Deparment of Medicine, University Hospital of Munich (LMU), Prof Dr. C. Cohen
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physiology and Division of Nephrology, University of Zurich (Switzerland), Prof. Dr. C. Cohen
• Laboratory Head of the Nephrology Lab Zurich, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
• Deputy-Coordinator of the European Renal cDNA Bank-Kroener Fresenius Biobank (ERCB)
• Junior Group leader, Nephrology Center, IV. Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Munich (LMU)
• Laboratory head, III. Department of Medicine, UKE, Prof. Dr. T. B. Huber
• Project Leader/ Study Coordinator of the Hamburg and European Renal Omics Biobank (HERO)
• Principal Investigator BMBF UPTAKE
• Principal Investigator / Co-Coordinator BMBF STOP-FSGS

• Molecular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism.
  Wanner N*, Andrieux G*, Badia-i-Mompel P, Edler C, Pfefferle S, Lindenmeyer M, Schmidt-Lauber C, Czogalla J, Wong MN, Okabayashi Y, Braun F, Lütgehetmann M, Meister E, Lu S, Noriega MLM, Günther T, Grundhoff A, Fischer N, Bräuninger H, Lindner D, Westermann D, Haas F, Roedl K, Kluge S, Addo MM, Huber S, Lohse AW, Reiser J, Ondruschka B, Sperhake JP, Saez-Rodriguez J, Boerries M, Hayek SS, Aepfelbacher M, Scaturro P*, Puelles VG*, Huber TB*.
  Nat Metab 2022 Mar
  
  
• Pro-cachectic factors link experimental and human chronic kidney disease to skeletal muscle wasting.
  Solagna F, Tezze C, Lindenmeyer MT, Lu S, Wu G, Liu S, Zhao Y, Mitchell R, Meyer C, Omairi S, KilicT, Paolini A, Ritvos O, Pasternack A, Matsakas A, Kylies D, Wiesch JS zur, Turner J-E, Wanner N, Nair V, Eichinger F, Menon R, Martin I V., Klinkhammer BM, Hoxha E, Cohen CD, Tharaux P-L, Boor P, Ostendorf T, Kretzler M, Sandri M, Kretz O, Puelles VG*, Patel K*, Huber TB*.
  J Clin Invest. 2021 Jun
  
  

• ADAM10-Mediated Ectodomain Shedding Is an Essential Driver of Podocyte Damage.
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• Endothelial-Specific Deletion of CD146 Protects Against Experimental Glomerulonephritis in Mice.
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• SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism associates with acute kidney injury.
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• Study of Medicine at the University of Frankfurt/Main
• M.D. thesis at the University of Frankfurt/Main
• Internship at the Dept. of Nephrology at the University Hospital Frankfurt/Main
• DFG Postdoctoral Scholarship at the Dept. of Nephrology, VAMC, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• Residency at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Master of Medical Education at the University Bern, Switzerland
• Clinical Specialization for Internal Medicine and for Nephrology
• Habilitation in Internal Medicine at the University of Hamburg
• Consultant (Oberarzt) at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE
• Vice-Dean of Education, Medical Faculty, University Hamburg (2006-2007)
• University Professor (W3) for Internal Medicine/Educational Research at the III. Medizinische Klinik, UKE

• 1992 Carl Oelemann Award (best doctoral thesis in the state of Hesse)
• 2000 Janssen Cilag Award (best basic research project in nephrology)
• 2005 Poster Award of the German Society of Internal Medicine
• 2006 Ars legendi-Award by the Stifterverband for innovation in university teaching
• 2013 Best Paper Award, III. Research in Medical Education Conference, Berlin
• 2015 Fellowship by the Stifterverband for innovation in university teaching
• 2018 Fellowship by the Teaching Laboratory of the University College of the University of Hamburg
• 2019 Hamburg Teaching Award

• Medical students‘ leadership competence in health care: development of a self-assessment scale.
  Barbara Ogurek, Sigrid Harendza.
  BMC Med Educ. 2024 Nov  
  
  

• Unnecessary diagnostic imaging requested by medical students during a first day of residency simulation: an explorative study.
  Julia Gärtner, Lisa Bußenius, Sarah Prediger, Sigrid Harendza.
  BMC Med Educ. 2024 Oct

• Matching of advanced undergraduate medical students’ competence profiles with the required competence profiles of their specialty of choice for postgraduate training.
  Lea Jebram, Sarah Prediger, Viktor Oubaid, Sigrid Harendza.
  BMC Med Educ. 2023 Sep

• “Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam.
  Sigrid Harendza, Lisa Bußenius, Julia Gärtner, Miriam Heuser, Jonathan Ahles, Sarah Prediger.
  GMS J Med Educ. 2023 Apr

• Implicit expression of uncertainty in medical students during different sequences of clinical reasoning in simulated patient handovers.
  Sigrid Harendza, Hans Jakob Bacher, Pascal O Berberat, Martina Kadmon, Julia Gärtner.
  GMS J Med Educ. 2023 Feb