Professor Evelyn Ullrich

Prof. Ullrich, MD, is Professor of Cellular Immunology and head of the unit “Experimental Immunology and Cell Therapy” at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She completed her clinical and research training in Freiburg, Erlangen and Paris and is a specialist in internal medicine and immunology. The current research of her group addresses the development of engineered personalized immune cell therapy with focus on NK cells. Currently, Evelyn Ullrich is speaker of the study group “NK cells & ILCs” of the German Society for Immunology (DgfI e.V.). She is an internationally recognized expert in this field, author, reviewer and editor of specialist journals and spokesperson of NK cell consortia funded by the German Cancer Research Center (DKTK) and as part of the Priority and Drug Development Program supported by the German Cancer Aid (Stiftung Deutsche Krebshilfe). Furthermore, she is speaker of a German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded Clinician Scientist program and the Mildred Scheel Career Center (MSNZ) in Frankfurt, which is an excellence program for promoting young scientists in cancer research.