Gestärkte Immunzellen für den Kampf gegen Krebs
Welcome to the Hudecek Lab – The home of CAR T
Our research
We are developing novel personalized immune-based cancer treatments that involve reprogramming of the patient’s own immune system cells which are then used to target and destroy cancer cells.
Our approach
We are equipping T cells (white blood cells) with a biosensor (chimeric antigen receptor, CAR) to help them detect and eliminate cancer cells.
Latest publications

Maucher M, Srour M, Danhof S, Einsele H, Hudecek M, Yakoub-Agha I (2021)
Current Limitations and Perspectives of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T-Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Cancers; 13(24):6157.
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Hayden PJ, Roddie C, Bader P, Basak GW, Bonig H, Bonini C, Chabannon C, Ciceri F, Corbacioglu S, Ellard R, Sanchez-Guijo F, Jäger U, Hildebrandt M, Hudecek M et al. (2021)
Management of adults and children receiving CAR T-cell therapy: 2021 best practice recommendations of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and the Joint Accreditation Committee of ISCT and EBMT (JACIE) and the European Haematology Association (EHA).
Ann Oncol; S0923-7534(21)04876-6.
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Luu, M, Visekruna, A (2021)
Microbial metabolites: novel therapeutic tools for boosting cancer therapies.
Trends in Cell Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11.
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Jetani, H, Navarro-Bailón, A, Maucheret, M et al. (2021)
Siglec-6 is a novel target for CAR T-cell therapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Blood 2021.
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Luu, M, Riester, Z, Baldrich, A et al. (2021)
Microbial short-chain fatty acids modulate CD8+ T cell responses and improve adoptive immunotherapy for cancer.
Nat Commun 12, 4077.
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Prommersberger, S, Reiser, M, Beckmann, J et al. (2021)
CARAMBA: a first-in-human clinical trial with SLAMF7 CAR-T cells prepared by virus-free Sleeping Beauty gene transfer to treat multiple myeloma.
Gene Ther 28, 560–571.
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Da Vià, M.C., Dietrich, O., Truger, M. et al. (2021)
Homozygous BCMA gene deletion in response to anti-BCMA CAR T cells in a patient with multiple myeloma.
Nat Med 27, 616–619.
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Prommersberger S, Hudecek M, Nerreter T. (2020)
Antibody-Based CAR T Cells Produced by Lentiviral Transduction.
Curr Protoc Immunol. Mar;128(1):e93.
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Contact person
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
Michael Hudecek
Director and Research Group Leader Translational CAR-T Research Program