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Prof. Dr.
Christoph Neumann-Haefelin
Clinical education and employment
Since 2021
since 2013
Head of Gerok-Liver Center Freiburg, Medical Center – University of Freiburg
since 2011
Attending in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
2011
Internal Medicine Board exam
2003
MD at the Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. H.E. Blum; since 2013 Prof. Dr. R. Thimme)
2003
Clinical observer (PJ), University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, and Kantonsspital Winterthur, Switzerland
1996 - 2003
Medical student, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany
Scientific education
2012
Habilitation in Medicine, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany since 2010 Emmy Noether Group leader, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
2009
Sabbatical at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Boston, USA (group of Prof. Todd M. Allen)
2003 - 2009
Research Associate in the group of Prof. Dr. R. Thimme, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
1998 - 2001
Doctoral thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. M. Müller, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany (grade: summa cum laude)
Karimzadeh H, Kiraithe MM, Oberhardt V, Salimi Alizei E, Bockmann J, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Budeus B, Hoffmann D, Wedemeyer H, Cornberg M, Krawczyk A, Rashidi-Alavijeh J, Rodríguez-Frías F, Casillas R, Buti M, Smedile A, Alavian SM, Heinold A, Emmerich F, Panning M, Gostick E, Price DA, Timm J, Hofmann M, Raziorrouh B, Thimme R, Protzer U, Roggendorf M, Neumann-Haefelin C. 2019. Mutations in hepatitis D virus allow it to escape detection by CD8+ T cells and evolve at the population level. Gastroenterology. 156(6):1820-1833. Kemming J, Reeves E, Nitschke K, Widmeier V, Emmerich F, Hermle T, Gostick E, Walker A, Timm J, Price DA, Hofmann M, Thimme R, James E, Neumann-Haefelin C. 2019. ERAP1 allotypes shape the epitope repertoire of virus-specific CD8(+) T cell responses in acute hepatitis C virus infection. J Hepatol. 70(6):1072-1081.Schuch A, Salimi Alizei E, Heim K, Wieland D, Kiraithe MM, Kemming J, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Sogukpinar Ö, Ni Y, Urban S, Zimmermann P, Nassal M, Emmerich F, Price DA, Bengsch B, Luxenburger H, Neumann-Haefelin C, Hofmann M, Thimme R. 2019. Phenotypic and functional differences of HBV core-specific versus HBV polymerase-specific CD8+ T cells in chronically HBV-infected patients with low viral load. Gut. 68(5):905-915. Jacobi FJ, Wild K, Smits M, Zoldan K, Csernalabics B, Flecken T, Lang J, Ehrenmann P, Emmerich F, Hofmann M, Thimme R, Neumann-Haefelin C, Boettler T. 2019. OX40 stimulation and PD-L1 blockade synergistically augment HBV-specific CD4 T cells in patients with HBeAg-negative infection. J Hepatol. 70(6):1103-1113.Luxenburger H, Graß F, Baermann J, Boettler T, Marget M, Emmerich F, Panning M, Thimme R, Nitschke K, Neumann-Haefelin C. 2018. Differential virus-specific CD8(+) T-cell epitope repertoire in hepatitis C virus genotype 1 versus 4. J Viral Hepat. 25(7):779–790. Wieland D, Kemming J, Schuch A, Emmerich F, Knolle P, Neumann-Haefelin C, Held W, Zehn D, Hofmann M, Thimme R. 2017. TCF1(+) hepatitis C virus-specific CD8(+) T cells are maintained after cessation of chronic antigen stimulation. Nat Commun. 8:15050. Nitschke K, Barriga A, Schmidt J, Timm J, Viazov S, Kuntzen T, Kim AY, Lauer GM, Allen TM, Gaudieri S, Rauch A, Lange CM, Sarrazin C, Eiermann T, Sidney J, Sette A, Thimme R, López D, Neumann-Haefelin C. 2014. HLA-B*27 subtype specificity determines targeting and viral evolution of a hepatitis C virus-specific CD8+ T cell epitope. J Hepatol 60(1):22-29Schmidt J, Iversen AK, Tenzer S, Gostick E, Price DA, Lohmann V, Distler U, Bowness P, Schild H, Blum HE, Klenerman P, Neumann-Haefelin C*/Thimme R*. 2012. Rapid antigen processing and presentation of a protective and immunodominant HLA-B*27-restricted hepatitis C virus-specific CD8+ T-cell epitope. PLoS Pathog 8(11):e1003042. *co-corresponding authorsNeumann-Haefelin C, Oniangue-Ndza C, Kuntzen T, Schmidt J, Nitschke K, Sidney J, Caillet-Saguy C, Binder M, Kersting N, Kemper MW, Power KA, Ingber S, Reyor LL, Hills-Evans K, Kim AY, Lauer GM, Lohmann V, Sette A, Henn MR, Bressanelli S, Thimme R, Allen TM. 2011. Human leukocyte antigen B27 selects for rare escape mutations that significantly impair hepatitis C virus replication and require compensatory mutations. Hepatology 54(4):1157-1166. Dazert E*/Neumann-Haefelin C*, Bressanelli S, Fitzmaurice K, Kort J, Timm J, McKiernan S, Kelleher D, Gruener N, Tavis JE, Rosen HR, Shaw J, Bowness P, Blum HE, Klenerman P, Bartenschlager R, Thimme R. 2009. Loss of viral fitness and cross-recognition by CD8+ T cells limit HCV escape from a protective HLA-B27-restricted human immune response. J Clin Invest 119(2):376-386.
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- Department of Medicine II
University Hospital Freiburg
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79106 Freiburg - christoph.neumann-haefelin@uniklinik-freiburg.de