Dr. Percy Knolle

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Biography

Prof. Percy Knolle focuses on understanding the regulation of immune responses in the liver. He has discovered mechanisms that influence immune surveillance and cause immune-mediated tissue damage. As a specialist in internal medicine, his goal is to translate basic research in immunology and tissue immunity into clinical applications in the context of infection, cancer, and autoimmunity. He is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors at the Center of Infection Prevention at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prof. Knolle studied medicine at universities in Frankfurt, Birmingham, Geneva, and Strasbourg, performed his MD at the German Cancer Research Center, and trained as a specialist in internal medicine with a focus on hepatology at the 1st Medical Department of the University Hospital Mainz. He was appointed as a full professor of molecular medicine at the University of Bonn in 2002, founded the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology there, and in 2013 he became a full professor of molecular immunology at TUM's School of Medicine and the School of Life Sciences. He is also the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Immunology at the School of Medicine and Health at TUM.

Research Interests

Experience

Full Professor

2013-01-01 — Present

Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany

Full professor in Molecular Immunology at the Technical University of Munich.

Full Professor

2002-01-01 — 2013-01-01

University of Bonn • Bonn, Germany

Full professor of Molecular Medicine and founded the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology.

Research Group Leader

— Present

German Cancer Research Center • Heidelberg, Germany

Led a research group in Molecular Biology.

Awards

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Research Award

2001-01-01