Artificial lymphoid organs: From evolutionary origins to future therapies
Thomas Boehm - Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie
Sept 30, 2016
11:00
Main Auditorium
Host: Vorstand
Short Bio - Thomas Boehm:
Department of Developmental Immunology, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.
Thomas Boehm received his M.D. from the University of Frankfurt Medical School, Germany, and trained in paediatrics and biological chemistry. He then moved to the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently, he held professorships at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the German Cancer Centre in Heidelberg, Germany, before taking up his current position at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg. He works on T cell and thymus development in vertebrates and the evolution of adaptive immune systems.