Prof. Dr. Carsten B. Schmidt-Weber
Academic Career and Research Areas
Professor Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Schmidt-Weber has been the director of the Center for Allergy and Environment (ZAUM) since 2010 and leads the virtual Munich Allergy Research Center (MARC). ZAUM is funded equally by TUM and the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft München – a unique arrangement in the field of research.
Professor Schmidt-Weber studied biochemistry and immunology in Darmstadt and Erlangen. He then went to Harvard Medical School in Boston and worked at the Schweizerische Institut für Allergie und Asthma in Davos where he carried out the thesis research for his postdoctoral teaching qualification (habilitation). From October 2007 to March 2010 he worked and conducted research at Imperial College in London. Since 2010 he has been professor of the newly founded Chair of Molecular Allergology at TUM. He is the secretary of the immunology section of the European Academy for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), a member of the Collegium International Allergologicum and the German Society for Immunology (DGFI). He has published over 50 original works as well as much-quoted review and book articles in presitigous professional journals.
Key Publications (all publications)
Jakwerth CA, et al.:”17q21 Variants Disturb Mucosal Host Defense in Childhood Asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Apr 15;209(8):947-959.
AbstractGeiselhöringer AL et al: „Dominant immune tolerance in the intestinal tract imposed by RelB-dependent migratory dendritic cells regulates protective type 2 immunity.“ Nat Commun. 2024 15(1-17).
AbstractZissler UM et al: “Early IL-10 producing B-cells and coinciding Th/Tr17 shifts during three year grass-pollen AIT” EBioMedicine. 2018 36:475-88.
AbstractQuaranta M, et al: “Intraindividual genome expression analysis reveals a specific molecular signature of psoriasis and eczema.“ Science translational medicine. 2014;6(244).
AbstractEyerich S, et al: “Mutual antagonism of T cells causing psoriasis and atopic eczema.” The New England journal of medicine. 2011;365(3):231-8.
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