Christina Zielinski BSc, MSc

Professor Zielinski (b. 1979) conducts research on the immunological principles underlying chronic inflammatory diseases and infections in humans. Through a better understanding of the regulation of human T-cells she seeks to identify molecular switches that might provide new diagnostic and therapeutic options when dealing with infections and autoimmune diseases.

Professor Zielinski studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and at Harvard and Duke University. During her studies she spent a year as a research fellow at Yale University supported by a grant from the German National Academic Foundation. As a recipient of a DFG grant she spent over three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Biomedicine in Bellinzona (Switzerland) in the research group of Federica Sallusto.