Prof. Dr. Christian Buchholz Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany

Christian Buchholz, PhD, heads the Section of Molecular Biotechnology and Gene Therapy at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut and is Associate Professor for Biochemistry at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. Dr. Buchholz holds a PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry and a diploma in Microbiology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. At the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Dr. Buchholz... read moreis for more than 20 years active in the gene therapy field. His research into the safety and efficacy of gene transfer vectors resulted in more than 130 articles focussing on the engineering of viral vectors to understand their cell entry and improve their applicability in molecular medicine. Making use of viral vectors targeted to T cell surface markers, his team has provided proof-of-principle for the in vivo generation of human CAR T cells.