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Prof. Dr. med. vet. Anja Erika Hauser

Leader: Programme Area 1, PA 1 – Cell and Tissue Rheumatology

Group leader: Immune Dynamics

Liaison working group with Charité - Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

+49 (0)30 28460-784

hauser@drfz.de

Biosketch

2024 Founding member of the European Society of Spatial Biology, ESSB
Since 2023 Member, Henry Kunkel Society, USA
2014 Young Leader in Science, Schering Foundation, Germany
2004 – 2005 Brown-Coxe Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2003 Avrion Mitchison Award for Rheumatology, DRFZ, Germany

Scientific Background

Since 2012
Full Professor (W3, tenured) “Immune Dynamics and Intravital Microscopy“, Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité, Germany

2012 – 2018
Full Professor (W3) “Immune Dynamics and Intravital Microscopy“, Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité, Germany

2011
Offer for Professorship (W3, declined), Institute of Molecular Immunology, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Since 2008
Principal Investigator Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ), Berlin, Germany

2004 – 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Immunobiology (Prof. Dr. M.Shlomchik), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

2000 – 2003
Department of Veterinay Immunology, Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. vet. med.); Supervisors: Prof. Rudolf A. Manz (DRFZ Berlin) and Prof. M.F.G. Schmidt (FU Berlin)

1993 – 1999
Studies of Veterinary Medicine, Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Germany

Since 2020
Steering Committee Member: Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1444) “Directed Cellular Self‐Organisation to Advance Bone Regeneration“ (DFG), Germany

Since 2018
Animal Welfare Committee Member, DRFZ Berlin

Since 2017
Spokesperson: “Leibniz Graduate School of Chronic Inflammation”, German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ) & Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

2017-2022
Steering Committee Member: Collaborative Research Center (TRR 130) “B Cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity” (DFG), Germany

Since 2015
Scientific Advisory Board Member: Advanced Medical Bioimaging (AMBIO) Facility, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2013-2022
Spokesperson for Berlin site: Graduate School, Collaborative Research Center (TRR 130) “B Cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity” (TRR 130, DFG), Germany

2013-2017
Spokesperson: “Leibniz Graduate School for Rheumatology”, German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ), Germany

Since 2012
Scientific Head, Core Facility for Intravital Imaging and Advanced Microscopy (CINIMA), DRFZ Berlin

European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB): Founding Member and Vice President (since 2023, organizer of inaugural conference in 2024)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zytometrie (DGfZ): Vice President 2016-2018, President 2018-2020, organizer of annual conference in 2019 and 2020)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh)

Since 2023
Member, Henry Kunkel Society, USA

2014
Young Leader in Science, Schering Foundation, Germany

2004 – 2005
Brown-Coxe Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

2003
Avrion Mitchison Award for Rheumatology, DRFZ, Germany

Important links

Central Laboratory for Microscopy (CINIMA)

TOP 5 PUBLICATIONS

MarShie: a clearing protocol for 3D analysis of single cells throughout the bone marrow at subcellular resolution Mertens TF, Liebheit AT, Ehl J, Kohler R, Rakhymzhan A, Woehler A, Katthän L, Ebel G, Liublin W, Kasapi A, Triantafyllopoulou A, Schulz TJ, Niesner RA, and Hauser AE. MarShie: a clearing protocol for 3D analysis of single cells throughout the bone marrow at subcellular resolution. Nature Communications, 2024. 15(1):1764. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45827-6
Distinct tissue niches direct lung immunopathology via CCL18 and CCL21 in severe COVID-19 Mothes R, Pascual-Reguant A, Koehler R, (…), Niesner RA, Radbruch H, Hauser AE. Distinct tissue niches direct lung immunopathology via CCL18 and CCL21 in severe COVID-19. Nature Communications. 2023; 14(1):791. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36333-2.
Multiplexed histology analyses for the phenotypic and spatial characterization of human innate lymphoid cells Pascual-Reguant A, Köhler R, Mothes R, (…), Romagnani C, Niesner RA, Hauser AE. Multiplexed histology analyses for the phenotypic and spatial characterization of human innate lymphoid cells. Nature Communications. 2021; 12(1):1737. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21994-8.
Longitudinal intravital imaging of the femoral bone marrow reveals plasticity within marrow vasculature Reismann D, Stefanowski J, Günther R, (…), Duda G, Niesner RA#, Hauser AE#. Longitudinal intravital imaging of the femoral bone marrow reveals plasticity within marrow vasculature. Nature Communications. 2017; 8(1):2153. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01538-9. #joint senior authors.
Definition of germinal-center B cell migration in vivo reveals predominant intrazonal circulation patterns Hauser AE, Junt T, Mempel TR, (…), von Andrian UH, Shlomchik MJ, Haberman AM. Definition of germinal-center B cell migration in vivo reveals predominant intrazonal circulation patterns. Immunity 2007; 26(5):655-67. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.04.008.

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New research areas at the DRFZ

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The eye as a window to the brain

Anja Hauser and Raluca Niesner from the DRFZ, together with colleagues from Charité  –  Universitätsmedizin Berlin, have published a new study on retinal imaging in…
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New Insights into bones

DRFZ colleagues from the research groups of Anja Hauser and Raluca Niesner have developed a new method enabling the cellular composition of entire bones to…
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