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German immunologist and nephrologist

Christian Kurts (born 27 November 1964 in Helmstedt, Germany) is a German immunologist and nephrologist.

Career

Since 2009, Christian Kurts has been the Director Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany. In 2016, he founded the Bonn & Melbourne Research and Graduate training group (Bo&MeRanG) and remains a Co-Spokesperson of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-funded program.

Scientific interests

Christian Kurts in known for publications in the fields of cross-presentation, and immune tolerance as well as his work on the function of dendritic cells in a variety of organs, with a particular focus on the urogenital tract.

Awards

In 2012, he shared the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize with Gunther Hartmann for their "seminal discoveries concerning the mode of action of the body’s endogenous defence systems."

References

  1. "Prof. Dr. med. Christian Kurts" (PDF).
  2. "Bo&MeRanG Bonn & Melbourne / GRK 2168". Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
  3. Burgdorf, Sven; Kautz, Andreas; Böhnert, Volker; Knolle, Percy A.; Kurts, Christian (27 April 2007). "Distinct Pathways of Antigen Uptake and Intracellular Routing in CD4 and CD8 T Cell Activation". Science. 316 (5824). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 612–616. Bibcode:2007Sci...316..612B. doi:10.1126/science.1137971. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17463291. S2CID 40811442.
  4. ^ Kurts, Christian; Robinson, Bruce W. S.; Knolle, Percy A. (2010). "Cross-priming in health and disease". Nature Reviews Immunology. 10 (6). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 403–414. doi:10.1038/nri2780. ISSN 1474-1733. PMID 20498667. S2CID 25318142.
  5. Semmling, Verena; Lukacs-Kornek, Veronika; Thaiss, Christoph A; Quast, Thomas; Hochheiser, Katharina; Panzer, Ulf; Rossjohn, Jamie; Perlmutter, Patrick; Cao, Jia; Godfrey, Dale I; Savage, Paul B; Knolle, Percy A; Kolanus, Waldemar; Förster, Irmgard; Kurts, Christian (28 February 2010). "Alternative cross-priming through CCL17-CCR4-mediated attraction of CTLs toward NKT cell–licensed DCs". Nature Immunology. 11 (4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 313–320. doi:10.1038/ni.1848. ISSN 1529-2908. PMID 20190758. S2CID 31211161.
  6. Heymann, Felix; Meyer-Schwesinger, Catherine; Hamilton-Williams, Emma E.; Hammerich, Linda; Panzer, Ulf; Kaden, Sylvia; Quaggin, Susan E.; Floege, Jürgen; Gröne, Hermann-Josef; Kurts, Christian (1 May 2009). "Kidney dendritic cell activation is required for progression of renal disease in a mouse model of glomerular injury". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 119 (5). American Society for Clinical Investigation: 1286–1297. doi:10.1172/jci38399. ISSN 0021-9738. PMC 2673875. PMID 19381017.
  7. Engel, Daniel R; Koscielny, Arne; Wehner, Sven; Maurer, Juliane; Schiwon, Marzena; Franken, Lars; Schumak, Beatrix; Limmer, Andreas; Sparwasser, Tim; Hirner, Andreas; Knolle, Percy A; Kalff, Jörg C; Kurts, Christian (28 November 2010). "T helper type 1 memory cells disseminate postoperative ileus over the entire intestinal tract". Nature Medicine. 16 (12). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1407–1413. doi:10.1038/nm.2255. ISSN 1078-8956. PMID 21113155. S2CID 23226382.
  8. Kurts, Christian; Panzer, Ulf; Anders, Hans-Joachim; Rees, Andrew J. (16 September 2013). "The immune system and kidney disease: basic concepts and clinical implications". Nature Reviews Immunology. 13 (10). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 738–753. doi:10.1038/nri3523. ISSN 1474-1733. PMID 24037418. S2CID 205492119.
  9. Schiwon, Marzena; Weisheit, Christina; Franken, Lars; Gutweiler, Sebastian; Dixit, Akanksha; Meyer-Schwesinger, Catherine; Pohl, Judith-Mira; Maurice, Nicholas J.; Thiebes, Stephanie; Lorenz, Kristina; Quast, Thomas; Fuhrmann, Martin; Baumgarten, Georg; Lohse, Martin J.; Opdenakker, Ghislain; Bernhagen, Jürgen; Bucala, Rick; Panzer, Ulf; Kolanus, Waldemar; Gröne, Hermann-Josef; Garbi, Natalio; Kastenmüller, Wolfgang; Knolle, Percy A.; Kurts, Christian; Engel, Daniel R. (2014). "Crosstalk between Sentinel and Helper Macrophages Permits Neutrophil Migration into Infected Uroepithelium". Cell. 156 (3). Elsevier BV: 456–468. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.01.006. ISSN 0092-8674. PMC 4258064. PMID 24485454.
  10. "DFG, German Research Foundation – Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann & Prof. Dr. Christian Kurts". www.dfg.de.



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