It is with great pleasure that we welcome our first MD student, Franziska Huf, to the team. As the Gaebler Group continues to expand, we anticipate further exciting additions to our team. Please stay tuned for upcoming opportunities to join us.
Geraldine, Peter and Cengiz are delighted to announce that the cutting edge, collaborative study comparing vaccine-elicited immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamster models is finally published in Nature Microbiology! Many thanks to our key co-operators Julia, Dusan, Emanuel and Jakob at the MDC and FU Berlin! Always a delight working with you! The study evaluates the efficacy of a live-attenuated nasal vaccine, sCPD9, developed by the FU Berlin, in comparison to currently available COVID-19 vaccines including the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 and the adenovirus-vectored spike vaccine Ad2-spike in hamsters infected with SARS-CoV-2. The findings highlight the extensive mucosal and systemic immunity elicited by the live-attenuated nasal vaccine sCPD9, which results in superior protection of the host compared to other vaccination strategies, following SARS-CoV-2 infection. We hope that this work will pave the way for further investigations of nasal live-attenuated vaccines and the advantages conferred by evoking strong localized and mucosal immunity!
Nouailles, G. et al. (2023). Live-attenuated vaccine sCPD9 elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamsters. Nature Microbiology.
It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to Romina, but we are also delighted to be able to call her our alumni and wish her a very successful future in her new chapter! All the very best Romina!
The team enjoyed presenting their projects at the DGP Congress in Düsseldorf! Thank you to Peter, Romina and Lisa for the valuable representation of our group.
Safe travels to Peter, Lisa and Romina who are on their way to the 63rd DGP Congress in Düsseldorf! Peter will give a talk on „Interspecies analysis to dissect cellular transcriptomic signatures of humans and hamsters in COVID-19“, Romina on „Experimental investigation of adjuvant therapies in severe pneumonia and ventilation“, while Lisa will present her poster titled „Approaching xeno-free cultivation and utilization of pulmonary pathogens in vitro“
Dr. Christian Gaebler receives the German AIDS Award. For further information see the Website of the Charité and of Deutsches Ärzteblatt.
