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The first tandems of the new funding line were selected in January 2025 and began their two-year funding period in spring 2025. The tandem partners come from Dresden, Erlangen, Hanover, Berlin and Mainz and are briefly introduced below.

GCT Project: Curative approaches for autoimmune diseases with tolerizing cellular therapy

Dr. Maria Hastermann and Dr. rer. nat. Nadine Strempel

Dr. Maria Hastermann

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

AG Clinical Neuroimmunology
Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC)

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Fields of Research:

  • Neuroimmunology
  • T Cell Biology/Advanced Cell Therapies
  • Animal Disease Models
  • hPSC Derived Disease Models

 

Contact:

maria.hastermann@charite.de

Dr. rer. nat. Nadine Strempel

Translational Scientist

Elected Fellow Representative

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

AG Friedemann Paul (ECRC) 

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Fields of Research:

  • Immunology/Advanced Cell Therapies
  • mRNA Design and Translation
  • Neurobiology
  • Immunobiology/Virology

 

Contact:

nadine.strempel@charite.de

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GCT Project: Nanoparticle mediated Cardiac Repair (NapaCaRe)

Dr. med. Jan Beer and Dr. rer. nat. Tim Stüdemann

Dr. med. Jan Beer

Junior Clinician Scientist

Elected Fellow Representative

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery

University Medical Center,
Johannes-Gutenberg University,
Mainz, Germany

 

Fields of Research:

  • Translational Medicine
  • Cardiac Regeneration
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Cell Therapy
  • Perioperative Immunomodulation

 

Contact:

beerjan1@uni-mainz.de

Dr. rer. nat. Tim Stüdemann

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

TRON gGmbH Mainz

 

Fields of Research:

  • Stem Cells
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Cardiac Regeneration
  • Cell Therapy

 

Contact:

tim.stuedemann@tron-mainz.de

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GCT Project: Optimized tumor therapy by integrating T cell receptor avidity analyses

Dr. med. Tabaël Lee Turan and Dr. rer nat. Lucie Loyal

Dr. med. Tabaël Lee Turan

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

HTCC, Clinic for Dermatology

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Fields of Research:

  • Critical Illnesses
  • Autoimmunity
  • Biomarkers
  • Trace Elements

 

Contact:

tabael-lee.turan@charite.de

Dr. rer nat. Lucie Loyal

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)

 

Fields of Research:

  • Immunology
  • T cells
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Skin Organoids
  • Cancer Immunotherapy

 

Contact:

lucie.loyal@charite.de

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GCT Project: Exploring the therapeutic potential of hiPSC-derived basal cells (iBCs) in the context of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) utilizing an in vitro cell therapy model

Dr. med. Ben Ole Staar and Dr. rer. nat. Laura von Schledorn

Dr. med. Ben Ole Staar

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Clinic for Pneumology and Infectious Diseases

Hannover Medical School

 

Fields of Research:

  • Primary ciliary dyskinesia
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Respiratory infections

 

Contact:

staar.ben@mh-hannover.de

Dr. rer. nat. Laura von Schledorn

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO)
Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant, and Vascular Surgery (HTTG)
 

Hannover Medical School

 

Fields of Research:

  • Human pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC)
  • In vitro lung models
  • Primary ciliary dyskinesia

     

Contact:

vonschledorn.laura@mh-hannover.de

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GCT Project: Pioneering Molecular Surgery with CRISPR Technologies for Personalized Lung Cancer Therapy

Dr. med. Annina Meerz and Dr. rer. nat. Shady Sayed

Dr. med. Annina Meerz

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I
Thoracic Oncology Group

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus 
Dresden, Germany

 

Fields of Research:

  • Lung Organoids
  • Precision Oncology
  • Tumorimmunology

 

Contact:

annina.meerz@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Dr. rer. nat. Shady Sayed

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Medical Systems Biology, Frank Buchholz AG 

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus 
Dresden, Germany

 

Fields of Research:

  • Genome Engineering
  • Cancer Biology
  • Precision Oncology

 

Contact:

shady.sayed@tu-dresden.de

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GCT Project: Harnessing Primary Gynecological Cancer Samples for Next-Generation Cell Therapies

Dr. med. Jan Lennart Stalp and Dr. rer. nat. Ivana Kutle

Dr. med. Jan Lennart Stalp

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics

Hannover Medical School

 

Fields of Research:

  • Translational Gynecologic Oncology
  • CAR NK-based Cell Therapy in Gynecologic Oncology
  • Live-Cell Imaging Cytotoxicity Assays
  • Large Language Models in Multidisciplinary Gynecological Tumor Boards
  • Artificial Intelligence in Gynecologic Oncology

 

Contact:

stalp.jan@mh-hannover.de

 

Dr. rer. nat. Ivana Kutle

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Institute for Experimental Hematology

Hannover Medical School

 

Fields of Research:

  • Advanced Immunotherapies for Solid Tumors
  • CAR NK Cells
  • 3D Tumor Models
  • Organoids
  • Transcriptome Analysis of TME

 

Contact:

kutle.ivana@mh-hannover.de

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GCT Project: Investigating cytokines as biomarkers for macrophage therapy of advanced lung cancer

Dr. Dr. med. Julien Subburayalu and Dr. rer. nat. Sethuraman Subramanian

Dr. Dr. med. Julien Subburayalu

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Medical Clinic I
Dresden University of Technology
Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD)

 

Fields of Research:

  • Specialist Training in Hematology/Oncology
  • Investigator in Cancer Immunotherapy (DKTK)
  • Preclinical experience with Human Macrophages against NSCLC
  • Training in Clinical Studies and Business Administration

 

Contact:

julien.subburayalu@ukdd.de

Dr. rer. nat. Sethuraman Subramanian

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Dresden University of Technology

Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB)
Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD)

 

Fields of Research:

  • Lung Macrophage Biology
  • GMP-Compatible Macrophage Production & Upscaling
  • iPSC-derived Macrophage Culture
  • Genetic Engineering using CRISPR/Cas9

 

Contact:

sethuraman.subramanian1@tu-dresden.de

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GCT Project: Engineered ex vivo expanded regulatory T cells for autologous adoptive transfer therapy of ulcerative colitis

Dr. med. Sebastian Schramm and Dr. rer. nat. Tanja Müller

Dr. med. Sebastian Schramm

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Department of Medicine 1

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

 

Fields of Research:

  • Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMID) of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Immunology/immunotherapy for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases
  • Gastrointestinal microbiome
  • Diagnostic and treatment of portal hypertension
  • Interventional endosonography

 

Contact:

sebastian.schramm@uk-erlangen.de

 

Dr. rer. nat. Tanja Müller

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Translational Research Center (TRC)

Department of Medicine 1

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

 

Fields of Research:

  • Immunology
  • Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases
  • Ex vivo expansion of regulatory T cells
  • Colorectal cancer

 

Contact:

tanja.mueller@uk-erlangen.de

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GCT Project: Combining novel in vitro T cell differentiation systems for improved SCID diagnosis and for T cell product generation

Dr. med. Sarah Dinges and Dr. rer. nat. Christopher Kreßler

Dr. med. Sarah Dinges

Junior Clinician Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine 

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Fields of Research:

  • Immunodeficiencies Affecting T Cellular Immunity
  • Thymic Stromal Cell Development and Function
  • Pediatric Immunology

 

Contact:

sarah-svenja.dinges@charite.de

Dr. rer. nat. Christopher Kreßler

Translational Scientist

nTTP-GCT-Cohort 2025

Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)

 

Fields of Research:

  • iPSC Differentiation
  • T Cells, Regulatory T Cells
  • Epigenetics
  • (Epi-) Genome Engineering

 

Contact:

christopher.kressler@bih-charite.de

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