Birgit S. Sawitzki PhD

Prof. Birgit Sawitzki is the scientific director of the Research Center of Immunosciences and a group leader at the Institute of Medical Immunology at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. Previously she completed a postdoc at the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford. She is Council member of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Under guidance immune monitoring tools for analysing the immunological profile of transplant patients have been developed. Her team is coordinating the immune monitoring of three big multi-centre investigator-driven clinical trials, sponsored by the EC, aiming on personalized treatment and eventually tolerance induction in transplant patients. She has been deciphering mechanisms underlying tolerance induction in preclinical mouse models and in patients.