Hedda Wardemann

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Hedda Wardemann
NationalityGerman
Education Albert-Ludwig-University
Alma mater Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Scientific career
Fields Immunology
Institutions German Cancer Research Center

Hedda Wardemann is an immunologist and Professor in the Division of B cell immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. [1]

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Education and scientific career

Hedda Wardemann studied Biology at the Albert-Ludwig-University in Freiburg from 1992 until 1998. In 1998 she started as a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, where she graduated in 2001. [2]

Wardemann moved to New York, United States, to work as a PostDoc in the laboratory of Michel C. Nussenzweig at the Rockefeller University until 2003. [2] From 2003 to 2005, she held a position as Research Assistant Professor in Nussenzweigs group before she opened her junior research group at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. [3] Since 2014 Hedda Wardemann heads the B cell immunology division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. [1]

In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Academy of Europe: Wardemann Hedda". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  3. "Molecular Immunology". www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 12 December 2019.