Dr. rer. nat. Katja Klausz

Facts

Phone: +49-431-500-22789
Affiliations: Division of Antibody-based Immunotherapy / University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Clinic for Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Oncology / University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
Address: Rosalind-Franklin-Str. 12, 24105 Kiel

Curriculum vitae

Research Experience

since 05/2022Group leader in the Divison of Antibody-Based Immunotherapy (leader: Prof. Dr. Matthias Peipp), Clinic for Internal Medicine II at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
New immunotherapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma
since 01/2011Project leader/scientist in the research group of Prof. Peipp at the Division for Stem Cell and Immunotherapy of the Clinic for Internal Medicine II of the UKSH, Campus Kiel
Development and characterization of antibodies and derived molecules for the therapy of hemato-oncological diseases
06/2009 – 12/2010             Project leader/scientist in the research group of Prof. Valerius at the Divison for Stem Cell and Immunotherapy, UKSH, Campus Kiel
Industry-sponsored project (Genmab) to evaluate effector functions of human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibodies for solid tumors
11/2005 – 05/2009Multiple research stays of several months at the A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences in Kuopio, Finland

Education/Training

11/2005 – 05/2009Research assistant (PhD student) at the Clinic for Internal Medicine of the UKSH, Campus Kiel, and scientific PhD student in the Department of Cell Biology of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (CAU)
0/1999 – 11/2005Degree in biology, University of Rostock
Major: microbiology
Minor: molecular biology/genetics, immunology, medical microbiology

Fundings

2022Intramural funding (for habilitation) of the medical faculty, CAU Kiel
2020 – 2021Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) GO-Bio initial
2016 – 2019Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS)
2015 – 2016Werner und Klara Kreitz-Stiftung
2014 – 2015Intramural funding (junior funding) of the medical faculty, CAU Kiel
since 2017Several industrial-funded projects

Other

Training as a representative according to the gene technology act (§ 15 GenTSV)
Qualification for the management of animal experimentation projects (FELASA C)

Project-related publications

Participating Institutes