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SPEAKERS
SPECIAL LECTURES
The 55th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Immunology (DGfI) will feature two outstanding invited speakers whose work has profoundly shaped modern immunology.
We are especially honored to welcome Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, awarded for his groundbreaking discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance and regulatory T cells (Tregs).
His seminal work revealed fundamental mechanisms by which the immune system prevents harmful autoreactivity, transforming our understanding of autoimmunity, cancer, and transplantation immunology.
We are also delighted to welcome Professor Federica Sallusto, one of the world’s leading experts in human T‑cell biology. Her pioneering research on T‑cell differentiation, memory, and trafficking—including the identification of central and effector memory T cells as well as Th17 and Th22 subsets—has had a lasting impact on both basic and translational immunology.
With Professor Sakaguchi and Professor Sallusto, the 55th DGfI Annual Meeting brings together two extraordinary scientific leaders whose discoveries continue to shape the present and future of immunological research.
PLENARY SESSIONS
Systemsimmunology und AI
Jan Baumbach
Network Medicine GPT – A Foundation Model for Disease Mechanism Mining and Drug Repurposing
Immunobiology of infection
Enabling Technologies
Immunoncology
Mathias Heikenwälder
Tailored modulation of the tumor micro-environment by combinatorial immune-check point treatment overcomes therapy resistance of liver cancer
MAIN SESSIONS
Immunity in the Central nervous System
Immune responses in Joints and Connective Tissues
Immunity in the Skin
Immunotherapy and Mechanisms
Benjamin Youngblood
Translating epigenetic mechanisms of T cell exhaustion into durable immunotherapy
Karl Sebastian Lang
Anti-tumoral immunity induced by optimized tumor-tropic arenaviruses and its potential clinical benefits
Cardiovascular immunology
Immunity in the Kidneys
Hans-Joachim Anders
The immunology behind novel therapies for immune-mediated KDntation 1
Christian Kurts
Immune mechanisms underlying inflammatory and infectious kidney disease
Daniela Krause
Harnessing extracellular matrix proteins for modification of normal and malignant haematopoiesis
Bone marrow and Haematopoiesis
Kathrin de la Rosa
Leveraging Antibody Repertoires for Biomarker Discovery and Innovative Prevention Strategies
Immunity in the Lungs
Birgit Sawatzki
Rewiring T Cell Function in Acute Infection: Molecular Drivers of Lung Immunopathology and Post-Infectious Sequelae
Immunotherapy and Immunoengineering
Immunity in the Liver
Petra Bacher
T cell mediated immunity to fungal microbes in inflammatory bowel diseases
Immunity in the Intestine
