Diana Dudziak PhD

Dr. Diana Dudziak studied Biology at the University in Bayreuth (Pre-Diploma) and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg (Diploma). She performed her Ph.D. at the Helmholtz Center Munich and focused on Epstein-Barr virus target genes. During her Postdoc time at Rockefeller University in New York in Michel Nussenzweig’s laboratory, she became interested in dendritic cell subpopulations. Starting her lab in Erlangen at the Department of Dermatology and continuing since then, she is fascinated with understanding the function of DCs in the initiation of T cell responses and how to use dendritic cells for immunotherapies in cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases.

Dr. Diana Dudziak received various awards, including the Georges-Kohler Award of the German Society of Immunology (2008), the Ria-Freifrau von Fritsch Award (2009) of the University Hospital Erlangen, and the Paul-Langerhans Award of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung – ADF (2021). Since 2016, she is leading the study group on Dendritic cells (AKDC) and since 2020, she is the speaker of public outreach at the German Society of Immunology. Since 2020, Diana Dudziak is a member of the Fachkolleg Cell-Biology (201) of the German Research Foundation.