Immunotherapy | German Center for Infection Research

Short description

The aim of immunotherapy is to influence the body’s own in order to fight infections or cancer.

Detailed description

Immunotherapies are especially important for patients suffering from immunodeficiencies to boost their . In case of autoimmune diseases, on the other hand, the immune system should be weakened, which is also called immunotherapy.

Sep 2019

Front Immunol

Hepatitis E Virus (HEV)-Specific T Cell Receptor Cross-Recognition: Implications for Immunotherapy

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Soon CF et al.

Jul 2019

Nervenarzt

Diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis under immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis : Current status and recommendations in Germany

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Bittner S et al.

Apr 2013

Innate Immun

Intrahepatic myeloid-cell aggregates enable local proliferation of CD8+ T cells and successful immunotherapy against chronic viral liver infection

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Huang L-R et al.

Successful T cell engineering with gene scissors

The idea of genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells and deploying them against infections and tumors has been around since the 1980s. But to this day modified T cells are still not as

Rybniker Lab at the University Hospital Cologne

Tuberculosis: Inhibiting host cell death with immunotherapy

Tuberculosis treatment still entails the intake several antibiotics over a period of many months and is torturous for many patients. The pathogen’s increasing multidrug resistance additionally

Apr 2013

PLoS One

MHC multimer-guided and cell culture-independent isolation of functional T cell receptors from single cells facilitates TCR identification for immunotherapy

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Dössinger G et al.

In the lab: Prof Gunther Hartmann (center), Prof Winfried Barchet (right) and Dr. Thomas Zillinger (left) from the ImmunoSensation cluster of excellence at the University of Bonn.

Molecules directed against tumor cells patented

Researchers at the ImmunoSensation cluster of excellence at the University of Bonn have managed to do what many scientists dream of: together with researchers from the USA, they have patented new

Cell products are prepared in special clean room facilities

Immunotherapy: Memory T cells to protect against infection

In a clinical trial at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), leukaemia patients are being administered specially purified immune cells, so-called memory T cells, for the first time after a