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Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Schultheiss

Department of Biomedicine
Profiles & Affiliations

Immune Selection and Dysfunction in Cancer Evolution and Treatment Resistanc

We investigate how immune selection, signaling, and cellular interactions drive cancer development and therapeutic resistance, focusing on mutation–antigen receptor networks in lymphoma and suppressive immune environments in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Selected Publications

Paschold, L., Schultheiss, C., Schmidt-Barbo, P., Klinghammer, K., Hahn, D., Tometten, M., Schafhausen, P., Blaurock, M., Brandt, A., Westgaard, I., Kowoll, S., Stein, A., Hinke, A., & Binder, M. (2025). Inflammation and limited adaptive immunity predict worse outcomes on immunotherapy in head and neck cancer [Journal-article]. Npj Precision Oncology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41698-025-01020-6

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Märkl, Florian, Schultheiß, Christoph, Ali, Murtaza, Chen, Shih-Shih, Zintchenko, Marina, Egli, Lukas, Mietz, Juliane, Chijioke, Obinna, Paschold, Lisa, Spajic, Sebastijan, Holtermann, Anne, Dörr, Janina, Stock, Sophia, Zingg, Andreas, Läubli, Heinz, Piseddu, Ignazio, Anz, David, Minden, Marcus Dühren-von, Zhang, Tianjiao, et al. (2024). Mutation-specific CAR T cells as precision therapy for IGLV3-21R110 expressing high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45378-w

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Schultheiß, C., Paschold, L., Mohebiany, A. N., Escher, M., Kattimani, Y. M., Müller, M., Schmidt-Barbo, P., Mensa-Vilaró, A., Aróstegui, J. I., Boursier, G., de Moreuil, C., Hautala, T., Willscher, E., Jonas, H., Chinchuluun, N., Grosser, B., Märkl, B., Klapper, W., Oommen, P. T., et al. (2024). A20 haploinsufficiency disturbs immune homeostasis and drives the transformation of lymphocytes with permissive antigen receptors [Journal-article]. Science Advances, 10(34). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3975

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Schultheiß, C., Simnica, D., Willscher, E., Oberle, A., Fanchi, L., Bonzanni, N., Wildner, N. H., Schulze Zur Wiesch, J., Weiler-Normann, C., Lohse, A. W., & Binder, M. (2021). Next-Generation Immunosequencing Reveals Pathological T-Cell Architecture in Autoimmune Hepatitis. Hepatology, 73(4), 1436–1448. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.31473

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Schultheiß, C., Paschold, L., Simnica, D., Mohme, M., Willscher, E., von Wenserski, L., Scholz, R., Wieters, I., Dahlke, C., Tolosa, E., Sedding, D. G., Ciesek, S., Addo, M., & Binder, M. (2020). Next-Generation Sequencing of T and B Cell Receptor Repertoires from COVID-19 Patients Showed Signatures Associated with Severity of Disease. Immunity, 53(2), 442–455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.06.024

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