Integrative Blood Biology Network

Steering Committee

Initial Steering Committee

Prof. Dr. Carsten Müller-Tidow

Director, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology

Heidelberg University Hospital


Prof. Dr. Motomu Tanaka

W3 Professor, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

Dynamic phenotyping and theoretical modeling of human hematopoietic stem cells in defined microenvironments

Prof. Dr. Martina Muckenthaler

Head of Molecular Medicine, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology, Immunology and Pneumology

Heidelberg University Hospital

Dr. Judith Zaugg

Group leader at Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit

To understand how alterations of the bone marrow niche contribute to Leukemia development, therapy resistance and relapse

Dr. Michael Milsom

Head of Experimental Hematology

HI-STEM Heidelberg Institute for stem cell Technology and experimental Medicine


Prof. Dr. Andreas Trumpp

Head of Division "Stem Cells and Cancer" and Managing Director of HI-STEM

Heidelberg Interactive Network on Blood Biology

Prof. Dr. Wolf-Karsten Hofmann

Director, Department of Hematology and Oncology

University Medical Center Mannheim



Prof. Dr. Anna Marciniak-Czochra

Group Leader, Applied Analysis and Modelling in Biosciences

Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM), Heidelberg University


Dr. Marieke Essers

Division Head 'Inflammatory Stress in Stem Cells', DKFZ

Group Leader, HI-STEM gGmbH