Joint Oncology/IRDB Imperial Seminar Series, Thursday 31.02.22 @ 13.30, hosted by Professor Michael Seckl.
We are delighted to have Professor Christian Ottensmeier, Professor of Immuno-oncology, Molecular & Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Systems, University of Liverpool, talk to us about his research.
Christian Ottensmeier graduated and began his training at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany. After a training fellowship in the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, he moved to Southampton in 1994, where he completed his oncology training.
Following completion of his PhD on the molecular immunology of B-cells in the laboratory of Freda Stevenson, he became a Consultant in Medical Oncology at Southampton University Hospitals and Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton in 2001.
In 2007 he was appointed to Chair in Experimental Cancer Medicine in Southampton and in 2019 to an Adjunct Professorship at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, USA.
He joined the University of Liverpool and the Head and Neck Centre as Professor of Immuno-Oncology in August 2020.
Christian’s core interest is the understanding and improvement of immune responses in patients; his aim is to develop immunotherapies against solid cancers. His work focuses on three linked but distinct areas of: the study of cancer-specific immune responses in patients, development and validation of testes to measure these; the aim of both is to enable studies in patients to understand how immune responses to cancer can be improved for clinical benefit of patients.