Franziska Blaeschke
Principal Investigator
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) University Hospital Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 242
69120 Heidelberg
- +49 6221 421370
- franziska.blaeschke@kitz-heidelberg.de
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Current position
Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Hopp Children's Cancer Center
Academic training
| 2016–2021 | PhD Program, Munich Medical Research School, LMU, Munich, Germany |
| 2007–2014 | Medical School at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany |
Advanced academic qualifications
| 2021 | PhD: Supervisors: Prof. Tobias Feuchtinger, Prof. Sebastian Kobold, Prof. Dirk Busch, „Immunotherapy of pediatric acute lymphoblastic B-cell leukaemia using gene-modified T cells”, LMU, Munich, Germany |
| 2016 | MD: Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Burdach, “Generation of Ewing‘s sarcoma antigens CHM1- and EZH2-selective and HLA-A*0201-restricted TCR-transgenic T cells“, TUM, Munich, Germany |
Postgraduate positions
| Since 2024 | Junior Research Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Hopp Children’s Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany Cancer |
| Since 2024 | Resident in Paediatrics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2019–2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Alex Marson’s Laboratory, Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| 2015–2019 | Resident/Clinician Scientist and Clinical Trial Member, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU, Munich, Germany |
| 2014–2015 | Resident in Paediatrics, University Children’s Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
Miscellaneous (Honors, Awards)
| 2025 | Henrik Kreibohm Award (Henrik Kreibohm Foundation) |
| 2025 | Human Frontier Science Program Early Career Grant |
| 2025 | Erna Brunner Prize (Stiftung des Fördervereins für krebskranke Kinder Tübingen) |
| 2024 | Kind Philipp Award for pediatric oncology (Kind Philipp Foundation) |
| 2024 | Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Award (Förderstiftung MHH plus) |
| 2024 | Research Award of the DAG-HSZT (German Working Group for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy) |
| 2023 | Robert and Linda Mahley Career Advancement Award (Gladstone Institutes) |
| 2022 | 2022 ASH Abstract Achievement Award (American Society of Hematology) |
| 2022 | Dr. Hildegard and Heinrich Fuchs Foundation Award for the best MD/PhD thesis, Medical Faculty, LMU |
| 2022 | 2nd Emerging Investigators EHA-EBMT Joint Fellowship Award in the Field of Cell Therapy and Immunotherapy 2022 |
| 2022 | Mentor Fellowship (SEP High School Intern Program, University of California, San Francisco |
| 2021 | Research Award Young Scientists IO 2021, Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation Immuno-Oncology |
| 2019–2022 | German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Fellowship (30 months) |
| 2019 | Care-for-Rare Foundation, Research Fellowship (6 months) |
Publications listed in PubMed®
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