The first meeting of the working group complement system („Arbeitskreis Komplementsystem“- AKKS) took place at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg on March 21, 2019. Christian Karsten...

This year, the Junior Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology e.V. Lübeck (“Junior-Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie”, Junior-GBM) awarded for the first time the Molecular...

Five members of the IRGT 1911 were invited to join the doctoral retreat of the FWF-funded Doctoral Program HOROS (HOst Response to Opportunistic infectionS), headed by the University of Innsbruck in...

In a joint effort, the Köhl lab at the University of Lübeck and the Hogan lab at Cincinnati Children's Hospital uncovered a novel role for the C5a/C5aR1 axis in food allergy. Food-induced...

A joint publication from the Karsten group (ISEF) and the Schmidt group (Dermatology) is now accessible in Frontiers in Immunology. Abstract: Bullous pemphigoid (BP), the most frequent autoimmune...

Researchers from the Karsten and Köhl group found a novel role for C5a in regulating the function of B-1 cells. These cells constitute a unique subpopulation of lymphocytes residing mainly in body...