Awards / Prizes and Honors
2024-2025
MED doctoral scholarship from the Commission for the Promotion of Young of the Medical Faculty Magdeburg for the period from 01.04.2025 to 30.09.2025
Sophia Hahn
Topic: “Age-dependent metabolic processes in human T cells”
MED doctoral scholarship from the Commission for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the Medical Faculty of Magdeburg for the period from December 1, 2023, to March 31, 2025.
Jan-Erik Sander
Thema: „Expansion and characterization of tumor-specific CD8+ T cells“
2022-2023
MED doctoral scholarship from the Commission for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the Medical Faculty of Magdeburg for the period from April 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022.
Michelle Paszkier: Topic: “Age dependence of T-cell responses against fungi and bacteria in cystic fibrosis patients”
MED doctoral scholarship from the Commission for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the Medical Faculty of Magdeburg for the period from April 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022.
Clara Aign: Topic: “The influence of immune checkpoint inhibitors on the adaptive immune system of children, adolescents, and adults”
BMBF site spokesperson for the OVGU sub-projects in the LongCOCID project (network coordinator Dr. Vilser, Jena University Hospital)
https://www.bmbf.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/de/2021/long-covid-faktenblatt.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
Handling Editor (mit Dowling, Härtel, Henneke) bei Frontiers Immunology, Spezialausgabe: "Immunity in Infancy and Impact on Immediate and Long-Term Health". Seit 2021 bereits 22.000 Downloads und 136.000 Views.
2020-2022
Coordinator of the BMBF network SarsImmunExpansion as part of the COVID-19 program
https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/de/sarsimmunexpansion-12104.php
2019
„GC-I³ Paper of the Year", awarded by the Health Campus Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation:
Dr. Mandy Pierau:
„CTLA-4-competent conventional T cells back up regulatory T cells to restrain memory T-helper type 2 cell responses“.
Pierau M, Lingel H, Vogel K, Arra A, Brunner-Weinzierl MC. 2020. Allergy.2020 Mar;75(3):684-687. DOI: 10.1111/all.14042. Epub 2019
Oct 21. PMID: 31505050.
Hugo Junkers Prize 2019
"GC-I³ Paper of the Year", awarded by the Health Campus Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation:
Pierau M, Lingel H, Vogel K, Arra A, Brunner-Weinzierl MC:
„CTLA-4-competent conventional T cells back up regulatory T cells to restrain memory T-helper type 2 cell responses“.
Project: "BiTEMPT - Therapeutic remodeling of cytotoxic T cell responses."
Team Photo: Prof. Dr. Monika Brunner-Weinzierl, Dr. Holger Lingel und Dr. Mandy Pierau
Allergy. 2020 Mar;75(3):684-687. doi: 10.1111/all.14042. Epub 2019 Oct 21. PMID: 31505050.
2018:
"GC-I³ Paper of the year", Awarded by the Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation Health Campus.:
Dr. Katrin Vogel:
„Developmental induction of human T-cell responses against Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus“.
Vogel K, Pierau M, Arra A, Lampe K, Schlüter D, Arens C, Brunner-Weinzierl MC. 2018. Sci. Rep. 8: 16904, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35161-5.
2017:
"GC-I³ Paper of the year", Awarded by the Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation Health Campus.:
Aditya Arra:
„The differentiation and plasticity of Tc17 cells are regulated by CTLA-4-mediated effects on STATs”
Arra A, Lingel H, Kuropka B, Pick J, Schnoeder T, Fischer T, Freund C, Pierau M, Brunner-Weinzierl MC. 2017. Oncoimmunol. 6:e1273300.