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July 29, 2019 Poster Presentation at ISTH Melbourne
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July 19, 2019 “We are a University of Excellence”
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June 28, 2019 Successful defense of our project in the SFB1192 in Hamburg
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May 23, 2019 We are part of the new DFG funded SFB TR "Aortic diseases"
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May 15, 2019 Institute took part in "Tag der Immunologie"
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March 14, 2019 BMBF funding for BM-Axis program with Melbourne Uni extended for 3 years
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February 01, 2019 Welcome Prof. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek
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November 21, 2018 Best Poster award for Marie-Sophie Philipp from Bo&MeRang at CoE
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September 27, 2018 Excellence Cluster ImmunoSensation renewed for 7 years!
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August 31, 2018 Five review articles on diet, blood pressure and kidney inflammation published
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May 17, 2018 We contribute 2 projects to the newly approved SFBTR "Nucleic acid immunity" Bonn-Munich-Dresden
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March 28, 2018 New publication on the role of regulatory T cells in autoimmunity
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March 05, 2018 The flow cytometric core facility has approval for 5 (!) new sorters/analyzers
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October 17, 2017 New Publication in Cell Reports: Prolonged IKKβ Inhibition Improves Ongoing CTL Antitumor Responses by Incapacitating Regulatory T Cells
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September 12, 2017 Anna Brewitz receives Otto-Westphal-Award of the German Society of Immunology for the best PhD thesis 2016
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July 27, 2017 BMBF approves BM-AXIS, which funds joint research and teaching activities between Bonn and Melbourne University
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June 19, 2017 New publication in GUT: Irf4-dependent CD103+CD11b+ DCS and the intestinal microbiome regulate gut peristalsis
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March 09, 2017 First price for Lisa Charlotte Norkus at 13th Immunology Spring School
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February 21, 2017 New publication in IMMUNITY: CD8 T Cells Orchestrate pDC-XCR1+ DC Spatial and Functional Cooperativity to Optimize Priming
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December 07, 2016 3rd funding period for SFB TR57 on Liver- and Kidney Fibrosis approved
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July 26, 2016 3 new publications in JASN and Kidney Int on immunoregulation in kidney inflammation
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July 20, 2016 Fighting life-threatening bacteria without antibiotics published in GUT
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March 09, 2016 New Publication in Nature Immunology: Immune factor allows viral infections to become chronic
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November 09, 2015 The DFG approves a new international graduate training program on immune regulation with Melbourne University, the leading Australian University
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August 26, 2015 We are partner in the RELENT EU consortium on autoimmunity
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August 19, 2015 New immune helper function published in CELL
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July 01, 2014 Daniel Engel leaves the IMMEI to become professor at Essen University
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June 10, 2014 Christian Kurts became elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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January 31, 2014 New paradigm for the defense against bacterial infections published in CELL
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November 26, 2013 After the departure of P. Knolle to Munich, the IMMEI is discontinued. The IMM and IEI will be distinct institutes.
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November 21, 2013 Third funding period of the SFB704 granted by the DFG (Co-Speaker Christian Kurts)
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September 16, 2013 Review on immune-mediated kidney disease in Nat Rev Immunol
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September 03, 2013 JCI paper on a kidney-specific chemokine receptor with therapeutic potential in glomerulonephritis
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April 14, 2013 New approach of improving the immune response against virus hepatitis in Nat Immunol
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January 24, 2013 New paradigm for memory T cell re-activation published in Immunity
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January 01, 2013 Wolfgang Kastenmüller (NIH) has joined the IMMEI as full professor
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November 20, 2012 Second funding period of SFB TR57 approved (Co-speaker Christian Kurts for Bonn site)
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August 30, 2012 New CTL effector mechanism against hepatitis in Cell Reports
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June 15, 2012 We are partners in the new DFG Excellence Cluster "ImmunoSensation"
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June 11, 2012 New B cell tolerance mechanism published in PNAS
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February 27, 2012 Christian Kurts receives Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize
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February 26, 2012 New transgenic tool to study dendritic cells in vivo published in Nature Methods
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February 24, 2012 Review Article on hepatic infections in Nat Rev Immunol
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September 29, 2011 Daniel Engel receives the Fritz-and-Ursula-Melchers Award 2011 from DGFI
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June 14, 2011 Natalio Garbi (German Cancer Research Center) joins the IMMEI
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November 29, 2010 Immune mechanisms underlying postoperative ileus published in Nat Medicine
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November 10, 2010 Review Article on hepatic immune tolerance in Nat Rev Immunol
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June 27, 2010 C. Kurts receives Hans-U.-Zollinger-Award of the German Society for Nephrology
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June 01, 2010 Review Article on Cross-Priming
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February 28, 2010 Alternative Cross-priming mechanism with implications for vaccination published in Nat Immunol
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November 30, 2009 The new website is online!
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November 18, 2009 Second funding period of SFB704 approved (Co-speaker Percy Knolle)
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September 08, 2009 Work mechanism of Pioglitazone in experimental encephalomyelitis published in J Exp Med
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May 05, 2009 KFO228 (Hamburg - Bonn) with participation of the IMMEI approved by the DFG
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April 20, 2009 JCI article describing a new mechanism of glomerulonephritis progression
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December 03, 2008 SFB TR57 (Aachen-Bonn) with participation of the IMMEI approved by the DFG
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July 04, 2008 Sven Burgdorf receives Georges-Köhler-Award of DGFI
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March 28, 2008 Cell-biological mechanism of cross-presentation published in Nat Immunol
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April 27, 2007 Endocytosis mechanisms and the cell biology of antigen presentation published in Science
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