Peter Steinberger PhD

Peter Steinberger has studied Biology in Graz and Vienna and did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Rudolf Valenta at the University of Vienna (1992-1996). Following postdoctoral studies with Carlos Barbas 3rd at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California (1996-1999), he joined the group of Walter Knapp at the Institute of Immunology. Since 2007 he heads the research group “Immune Receptors and T cell activation” at this institution.
,br/> His research focuses on receptor-ligand interaction and the regulation of T cell responses. A major part of his work deals with costimulatory and coinhibitory pathways that promote or inhibit human T cell responses, respectively. His group engineers molecular and cellular tools to dissect the role of individual receptors to T cell activation processes.