Jana Sonner studied Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg until 2014 and completed her Ph. D. studies in 2017. From 2014 to 2019 she worked in the Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, where she dissected the role of tryptophan metabolism in regulating immune responses in experimental models of multiple sclerosis and glioma. In March 2019 she joined the INIMS as a postdoctoral scientist and is now working on the phenomenon of natural immune tolerance induction during pregnancy, which modulates disease activity in autoimmune neuroinflammation. She is especially interested in how neurons regulate auto-inflammatory T cells in response to peripheral cues. Her research is funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation and the Werner Otto Foundation.
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