The Joachim Kalden Lecture was introduced in 2009 to honor the late Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. mult. Joachim Kalden (1937-2021). Prof. Kalden was head of the Department of Medicine 3 (Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergology, Hematology and Oncology) at the University Hospital Erlangen from 1976 until his retirement in 2006 and one of the founding fathers of immunological research in Erlangen. For this special seminar series, which takes place once a year, we invite internationally renowned immunologists, who speak about either their latest research or their lifetime scientific accomplishments.
Joachim Kalden Lecture 2024
11.06.2024
Prof. Carola Vinuesa
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Past Joachim Kalden Lecturers
2023
Prof. Hans-Georg Rammensee
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Interfakultäres Institut für Zellbiologie, Abteilung Immunologie, Tübingen
“The peptides presented by HLA-molecules: essential in health and disease”
2022
Dr. Anne O’Garra
Laboratory of Immunoregulation & Infection, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
“Cytokines orchestrating immune responses in lung disease with a focus on tuberculosis:
Transcriptional signatures reveal the immune response underlying progression and pathogenesis”
2019
Prof. Dolores Schendel
Medigene AG, Martinsried
“My Journey to Join the Frontline in TCR-T Immunotherapies”
2018
Prof. Bruce Walker
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA, USA
“Toward a HIV vaccine: Learning from patients at the heart of the epidemic”
2017
Prof. Tak Wah Mak
Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Kanada
“The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse”
2016
Prof. Fiona Powrie
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK
“Gut reactions: Immune pathways in the intestine in health and disease”
2015
Prof. Alain Fischer
Hôpital Necker-Enfant Malades, Paris, France
“Primary T cell immunodeficiencies: from pathophysiology to therapy“
2014
Prof. Dontscho Kerjaschki
Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University Vienna, Austria
“Lymphatics in Inflammation”
2013
Prof. Andreas Radbruch
Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin – A Leibniz Institute
“The resting and the restless immunological memory”
2012
Prof. Klaus Rajewsky
Immune Regulation and Cancer, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine
“Modeling Epstein-Barr-Virus infection, immune surveillance and B cell lymphomas in mice”
2011
Prof. Ralph M. Steinman, Nobelprize of Medicine 2011
The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
“Dendritic cell-targeted protein vaccines”
2010
Prof. Charles Dinarello
University of Colorado, Aurora, USA
“Interleukin-1ß and the treatment of auto-inflammatory diseases”
2009
Prof. Harald zur Hausen, Nobelprize of Medicine 2008
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
“Infections and human cancers: facts and perspectives”