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Virus Vector Technologies

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm has contributed to and shaped human gene therapy using viral vectors for >25 years, including his doctoral and postdoctoral work with Prof. Jürgen Kleinschmidt (DKFZ Heidelberg, 1995-2001) followed by a 6-year training in the lab of gene therapy pioneer Prof. Mark Kay at Stanford University (USA). Since 2007, he heads the interdisciplinary research group “Virus-Host Interactions” at BioQuant that develops and applies stateof-the-art viral vector technologies (also the title of his professorship; W2 since 2017, W3 since 2022).

Our team

Name Position Email Telephone Room

Emre Kul

 emre.kul@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Tianxin Ma

 tianxin-angela.ma@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Miguel Palma Marques

 miguel.marques@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Portelli Sharon

 sharon.portelli@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 422

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm

 Group Leader dirk.grimm@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51331 464

Martina Weiss

 Administration martina.weiss@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51339, 56-6750 461, 502a

Emma Gerstmann

 Technician emma.gerstmann@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 503

Chiara Krämer

 Technician chiara.kraemer@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51338 502

Lena Naber

 Technician lena.naber@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51289, 51341 323, 503

Ellen Wiedtke

 Technician ellen.wiedtke@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51341 503a

Jutta Stephan

 Technician jutta.stephan@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Kleopatra Rapti

 Postdoctoral Researcher kleopatra.rapti@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51340 503

Dr. Poonam Vishwakarma

 Postdoctoral Researcher poonam@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 461

Dr. Man Xu

 Postdoctoral Researcher man.xu@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51289 323, 502, 503

Dr. Deepak Kumar Gupta

 Postdoctoral Researcher deepak-kumar.gupta@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 461

Dr. Teng-Wei Koay

 Postdoctoral Researcher teng-wei.koay@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 323

Dr. Kristian Leite

 Postdoctoral Researcher kristian.leite@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51341 503

Dr. Olena Maiakovska

 Postdoctoral Researcher olena.maiakovska@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51287 542

Dr. Sergio David Moreno Velasquez

 Postdoctoral Researcher sergio-david.moreno@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 322

Jan Bieri

 Research Associate jan.bieri@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 322

Yumi Sano

 Doctoral Researcher yumi.sano@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51338 502

Conradin Baumgartl

 Doctoral Researcher conradin.baumgartl@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51288 323

Nico Fischer

 Doctoral Researcher nico.fischer@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51338 502

Felix Bubeck

 Doctoral Researcher felix.bubeck@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51286 323

Heinz-Georg Hildebrand

 Doctoral Researcher heinz-georg.hildebrand@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de   503

Jixin Liu

 Doctoral Researcher jixin.liu@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51338 502

Lars Maurer

 Doctoral Researcher   503

Ning Meng

 Doctoral Researcher ning.meng@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51265 503

Jessika Strauß

 Student Assistant s0706271@stud.uni-frankfurt.de 402

Linda Luise Ruck

 Student Assistant linda.ruck@stud.uni-heidelberg.de 403, 455

Katya Georgieva

 Student Assistant katya.georgieva@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Sophia Krastev

 Student Assistant sophia.krastev@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Daniel Triebel

 Student daniel.triebel@stud.uni-heidelberg.de

Patrick De la Camp

 Student patrick.de_la_camp@stud.uni-heidelberg.de 403

Ante Mrkonjic

 Student an4765mr-s@student.lu.se

Natalia Tsironi

 Student Natalia.Tsironi@stud.uni-heidelberg.de

Sabrina Weis

 Student sabrina.weis@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de 51211, 51212 461

Timur Bozkurt

 Student timur.bozkurt@stud.uni-heidelberg.de 403

Eva Baur

 Student eva.baur@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Anna Schneider

 Student anna.schneider02@stud.uni-heidelberg.de 51340 403