
Research networks
At Würzburg University Medical School the IZKF research group belongs to the Departments of Medicine II and Pediatrics and is involved in the Graduate School of Life Sciences of the German Excellence Initiative, the Comprehensive Cancer Center Main-Franken, the Research Center for Infectious Diseases, two graduate colleges (Immunomodulation and 3D Infect) and the Clinician-Scientist Program Else-Kröner Forschungskolleg for Interdisciplinary Translational Immunology.
Network partners
Prof. Dr. Ralf C. Bargou
Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Mainfranken, Würzburg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Ria Baumgrass
Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum (DRFZ), Berlin 
Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckhove
Director Regensburger Centrum für Interventionelle Immunologie (RCI), Regensburg University 
PD Dr. rer. nat. Friederike Berberich-Siebelt
Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg 
PD Dr. Niklas Beyersdorf
Institute for Virology and Immunobiololgy, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Dr. Tobias Bopp
Institute for Immunology, University of Mainz 
Dr. Manik Chatterjee
Department of Medicine II, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Hermann Einsele
Director of Medical Clinic und Polyclinic II, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Matthias Eyrich
Department of Pediatrics, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Natalio Garbi
Department of Molecular Immunology, University of Bonn 
PD Dr. Udo Hartwig
Department of Haematology and Oncology, University of Mainz 
Dr. Katrin Heinze
DFG Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Herr
Department of Medicine III, Regensburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Kai Hildner
Department of Medicine I, Erlangen University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hünig
Institute for Virology and Immunobiololgy, University of Würzburg 
PD Dr. Thomas Kerkau 
Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Dr. Sven Krappmann
Institute of Microbiology, University of Erlangen 
Prof. Dr. Richard Kroczek
Department of Molecular Immunology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin 
Prof. Dr. Manfred Lutz 
Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg 
Dr. Anja Mottok 
Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Robert S. Negrin
MD Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University, USA 
Prof. Bernd Pichler
PhD Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, University of Tübingen 
Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch
Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum (DRFZ), Berlin 
Prof. Dr. Matthias Reddehase 
Institute of Virology, University of Mainz 
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rosenwald 
Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Dr. Samuel Samnick
Experimental Nuclear Medicine, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Birgit Sawitzki
Institute of Med. Immunology, Charité Berlin 
Prof. Dr. Paul-Gerhardt Schlegel
Department of Pediatrics, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Edgar Schmitt
Institute for Immunology, University of Mainz 
Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz 
Institute of Pathology, Charité Berlin 
Prof. Dr. Edgar Serfling
Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg 
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Steinbrink 
Department of Dermatology, Mainz University Medical Center 
Prof. Tor B. Stuge
PhD Department of Immunology, Institute for Medical Biology University of Tromsø, Norway 
PD Dr. Uta Syrbe 
Clinic for Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité Berlin 
Prof. Stephen H. Thorne 
Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Prof. Dr. Ari Waisman 
Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Mainz 
Prof. Dr. Harald Wajant 
Department of Molecular Medicine, Dept. of Medicine II, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Jörg Wischhusen
Department of Gynecology, Würzburg University Hospital
PD Dr. Matthias Wölfl 
Department of Pediatrics, Würzburg University Hospital 
Prof. Dr. Robert Zeiser 
Department Internal Medicine I, University Medical Center Freiburg











