Lab Members

The research program of the Immunology Section covers two areas: 1. We study innate and adaptive immune responses to viral infections, in particular infections of the liver, to better understand the pathogenesis of the disease and to develop vaccines and effective antiviral therapies. 2. We evaluate how hepatic and systemic immune responses are regulated by the gastrointestinal microbiome.

Dr. Hild received his M.D. from the University of Münster, Germany in November 2015 with a dissertation on migration and chemotaxis of pancreatic stellate cells.  After clinical residency in the Department of Transplantation Medicine at the University of Muenster, Germany he joined the Immunology Section in 2018 to study the effect of the gut microbiome on disease activity and progression in inflammatory liver diseases.

Dr. Kefalakes graduated from the University of Crete, Heraklion and received her doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany. After postgraduate training in both clinical medicine and virology at the University of Duisburg/Essen she joined the Immunology Section in 2016. Her work focusses on innate and adaptive immune responses in hepatitis D virus infection.

Dr. Nishio received his MD and PhD from Osaka University, Japan and joined the Immunology Section in 2017. In his postdoctoral fellowship he is studying the immunopathogenesis of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection.

Current position: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Gastroenterology, University Clinic, Essen-Duisburg, Germany

Current position: Associate Professor, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Current position: Professeur des écoles, Académie de Paris, Paris, France

Current position: Academic physician scientist , lecturer, Department of Medicine, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Current position: Head, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinic Fallingbostel, Fallingbostel, Germany

Current position: Lecturer and attending (academic physician scientist), Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Bari, Italy

Current position: Attending (academic physician scientist), Internal Medicine, First Medical Clinic and Policlinic, University of Hamburg, Germany

Current position: Attending physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shin-Yurigaoka General Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Current position: Associate Professor and Director, BioMedical Research Center, Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Current position: Associate Professor, Medicine, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney Australia

Next position: Internist, University of Cologne, Germany

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh, India

Current position: Research Fellow, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Current position: Research Scientist, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Current position: Lecturer and Attending (academic physician scientist), Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany

Current position: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea

Current position: Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia

Current position: Associate Director of Biomarker Discovery and Research at the Immune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD, USA

Current position: Program Director, Division of Skin and Rheumatic Diseases, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Current position: Clinical Resident, Transplantation Medicine, University Clinc Münster, Germany

Current position: Professor, Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Diabetology, GRN-Klinik Weinheim, Germany

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA

Current position: Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, CA

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Madiscon-Wisconsin, WI

Current position: Instructor, Dept of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC

Current position: Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

Current position: Medical Advisor, Pierre Fabre Pharma, Freiburg, Germany

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Current position: Emergency Medicine Resident, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Current position: MD PhD Student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Current position: Medical Student, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Current position: Internal Medicine Resident, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Current position: Medical Student, Tufts University, Boston, MA

Current position: MD PhD Student, University of Virginia

Current position: PhD Student, MIT

Current position: Medical Student, Mayo Clinic