CMMC Researchers
Overview - Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Dr. Miguel A Alejandre Alcázar
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 38
Dr. Alessandro Annibaldi
CMMC | Lab. for Cell Death, Inflammation and Immunity - CMMC Research Building
CMMC - Co-PI - A 09
CMMC - PI - JRG 12
Dr. Philipp Antczak
CMMC | Lab. for Computational Biology of Ageing - CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - assoc. JRG 06 and CAP 20
Prof. Dr. Stephan Baldus
Department III of Internal Medicine | General and interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, angiology, pneumology and internal intensive care medicine
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 01
Executive Board Member
Dr. Hyatt Balke-Want
Dept. I for Internal Medicine | University Hospital Cologne
Junior Research Group Leader
CMMC - PI - CAP 36
Dr. Hisham Bazzi
University of Michigan Medical School
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
CMMC - PI - A 01 (up to 2024)
Prof. Dr. Johannes Brägelmann
Translational Oncology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB)
CMMC - PI - CAP 18 (up to 5/2025)
PD Dr. Sebastian Brähler
Department II of Internal Medicine | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - CAP 17
CMMC - Co-PI - B 01
Prof. Dr. Jens C Brüning
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine
CMMC - PI - C 03
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Büttner
Institute for Pathology
CMMC - PI - A 03
CMMC - Co-PI - A 06
Executive Board Member
PD Dr. Markus Chmielewski
Department I of Internal Medicine | Lab. for Tumor Genetics and Cellular Immunotherapy - TRIO Research Building
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 30
Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen
Department of Ophthalmology | Translational Experimental Ophthalmology Cologne (TEO-C)
CMMC - PI - B 04
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Matthias Fischer
Department of Exp. Pediatric Oncology | Clinic of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
CMMC - PI - A 04
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fischer
Center for Pharmacology and the Institutes I (acting) and II for Pharmacology
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 44
Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher
CMMC | CMMC Research Building
Managing Director | Scientific Coordinator
Head - Skin Cancer Prev. Project - PP 1
DIE SONNE UND WIR
Dr. Robert Haensel-Hertsch
CMMC / Lab “Structure and stability of the (Epi)Genome”
CMMC - PI - JRG 10
Prof. Dr. Matthias Hammerschmidt
Institute for Zoology | Biocenter Cologne
CMMC - PI - C 06
Executive Board Member
Dr. Andreas Hombach
Department I of Internal Medicine | Lab. for Tumor Genetics and Cellular Immunotherapy | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 29
PD Dr. Ron Daniel Jachimowicz
Department I of Internal Medicine | MPI of Ageing
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 36
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Jantsch
Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
CMMC - PI - B 05
Prof. Dr. Hamid Kashkar
Institute for Molecular Immunology | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - B 06
Head - Flow Cytometry Core Unit
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Kath-Schorr
Department of Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry | Math.-Nat. Faculty
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 42
Dr. Lara-Jane Kepser
Department of Molecular and Translational Neurosciences | Institute II for Anatomy
CMMC - Co-PI - C 17
Prof. Dr. Jens P Klußmann
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Natalia Kononenko
Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - C 08
Prof. Dr. Tatiana Korotkova
Institute for Vegetative Physiology
CMMC - PI - C 09
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Krieg
Translational Matrix Biology
CMMC - PI - SRG 02
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Martin Krönke
Institute for Med. Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Marcus Krüger
Institute for Genetics | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 40
Head - CECAD / CMMC Proteomics Facility
Prof. Dr. Leo Kurian
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University | Faculty of Medicine
CMMC - PI - A 08 (up to 2023)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann
Department of General Ophthalmology | Lab. for Experimental Immunology of the Eye
CMMC - PI - B 07
Prof. Dr. Esther Mahabir-Brenner
CMMC
Head - Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) | RG Comparative Medicine
CMMC - PI - Lab. of Comparative Medicine
Prof. Dr. Berenike Maier
Institute for Biological Physics | Center for Molecular Biosciences
CMMC - PI - B 08
Dr. Stefan Müller
CMMC | CECAD Research Building
Head - CECAD/CMMC Proteomics Facility
Prof. Dr. Christoph Neumann-Haefelin
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 49
PD Dr. Catherin Niemann
CMMC | Institute for Biochemistry | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 14
IPMM Program - Scientific Coordinator I CMMC Tissue Embedding and Histology & Microscopy - Head
Prof. Dr. Carien M Niessen
Department of Cell Biology of the Skin | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - C 12
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Martin Peifer
Department of Translational Genomics | CMMC Research Center
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 16
Dr. Nieves Peltzer
Department of Translational Genomics | CMMC | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 46
(former assoc. JRG 03 and CAP 24)
Dr. Valentina Piano
Institute for Human Genetics | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - CAP 32
CMMC - Co-PI - C 18
JRG Leader - Institute for Human Genetics Cologne
Dr. Simon Pöpsel
CMMC | Lab. for Chromatin Biochemistry | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - JRG 11
former CMMC - Co-PI - A 12
Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosenkranz
Department III of Internal Medicine - CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - C 13
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan Rybniker
Department I of Internal Medicine | Translational Research Unit | Infectious Diseases (TRU-ID)
CMMC - PI - B 10
CMMC - former PI - CAP 08
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Hans A Schlößer
CMMC | Department of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 45
CMMC - former PI - CAP 12
Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher
Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - A 10
Prof. Dr. Dr. Michal-Ruth Schweiger
Institute for Translational Epigenetics
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 35
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Wilhelm Stoffel
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Wilhelm Stoffel, who died on June 24, 2025, at the age of 97.
Prof. Dr. Renata Stripecke
Department I of Internal Medicine | Institute of Translational Immune-Oncology | Chair of Translational Immune-Oncology
CMMC - Co-PI - A 09
Dr. Débora B Trentini Schmidt
CMMC | Lab. for Protein Quality Control and Stress Response
CMMC - PI - assoc. JRG 05
CMMC - PI - CAP 33
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic
Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - B 11
Prof. Dr. Dr. Roland T. Ullrich
Department I of Internal Medicine | CMMC Research Center
CMMC - PI - assoc. RG 23
Prof. Dr. Johannes Vogt
Department of Molecular and Translational Neurosciences | Institute II of Anatomy
CMMC - PI - C 17
Prof. Dr. Silvia von Karstedt
Department of Translational Genomics | CECAD Research Center
CMMC - PI - A 07
Prof. Dr. Holger Winkels
Department III of Internal Medicine | Experimental Cardiology
CMMC - PI - B 12
Prof. Dr. Brunhilde Wirth
Institute for Human Genetics | CMMC Research Building
CMMC - PI - C 18
Executive Board Member
Prof. Dr. Thomas Wunderlich
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Preventive Medicine | Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
CMMC - PI - A 11
