New MD Positions within GRK2727

• A1.1 Spatially resolved immune checkpoints in compartmentalized muscle and brain inflammation
  Prof. Dr. Lucas Schirmer, UMM, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Mannheim Center for Translational Neuroscience (MCTN)
• B1.4 Role of NK cells in Cancer-Neuro-Immune interaction in NSCLC
  Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Sonja Loges, Division of Personalised Medical Oncology/A420, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
  Dr. med. Janik Engelmann, Division of Personalised Medical Oncology/A420, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
• A2.1 Red blood cells and iron as checkpoints of macrophage polarization and NK cell reactivity
  Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Martina Muckenthaler, Center for Translational Biomedical Iron Research in the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology.
• B1.1 Modulating innate checkpoints for brain tumor immunotherapy 
  Dr. med. Katharina Sahm, MFM/UMM, Mannheim Center for Traslational Neuroscience, Department of Neurology
• B2.1 Governors of innate immunity responses after myocardial infarction: Identifying crucial healing mechanisms
  Prof. Dr. med. Florian Leuschner, Department of Internal Medicine III
• B3.1 Targeting nuclear receptor checkpoints in tumor-associated macrophages from colorectal cancer 
  PD Dr. rer. nat. Elke Burgermeister, UMM, Department of Internal Medicine II
  Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Ebert, UMM, Department of Internal Medicine II
• Immune checkpoint landscape of the failing heart
  Prof. Dr. med. Christian Schulz, MFM/UMM, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Department for Immunopharmacology

• Mapping Natural Killer (NK) cell microenvironments associated to response to checkpoint blockade in metastatic melanoma
  Prof. Dr. Adelheid Cerwenka, MFM/UMM, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Department for Immunobiochemistry
  Prof. Dr. Sònia Tugues MFM/UMM, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Department for Immunology