Christian Kurts (born 27 November 1964 in

Helmstedt Helmstedt (; Eastphalian: ''Helmstidde'') is a town on the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. The historic university and Hanseatic city conserves an important monumental heritage of ...

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) is a German immunologist and nephrologist.

Career

Since 2009, Christian Kurts has been the Director Institute of Experimental Immunology,

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. In 2016, he founded the Bonn & Melbourne Research and Graduate training group (Bo&MeRanG) and remains a Co-Spokesperson of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-funded program.

Scientific interests

Christian Kurts in known for publications in the fields of

cross-presentation Cross-presentation is the ability of certain professional antigen-presenting cells (mostly dendritic cells) to take up, process and present ''extracellular'' antigens with MHC class I molecules to CD8 T cells (cytotoxic T cells). Cross-priming, the ...

, and immune tolerance as well as his work on the function of dendritic cells in a variety of organs, with a particular focus on the

urogenital tract The genitourinary system, or urogenital system, are the organs of the reproductive system and the urinary system. These are grouped together because of their proximity to each other, their common embryological origin and the use of common pathwa ...

Awards

In 2012, he shared the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

with

Gunther Hartmann Gunther Hartmann (born 7 December 1966 in Leutkirch) is a German immunologist and clinical pharmacologist. Since 2007 he has been the Director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of the Unive ...

for their "seminal discoveries concerning the mode of action of the body’s endogenous defence systems."

References

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners German immunologists German medical researchers German nephrologists 1964 births Living people Physicians from Lower Saxony {{Germany-scientist-stub