Christoph Wilhelm
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wilhelm
Zugehörigkeiten
  • Institut für klinische Chemie und klinische Pharmakologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Forschungsschwerpunkte
  • dietary immunology
  • immunometabolism
  • mucosal immunology
Long-term interest in studying mucosal immunology, innate lymphoid cells and immunometabolism. My scientific focus is to understand how immune cells protect the body’s barrier sites such as the lung and gut and to understand how exogenous and endogenous metabolites control barrier immunity in health and disease. The overall aim of this research is to understand the metabolic, nutritional and physiological consequences of westernization on protective immunity and immune-mediated pathologies.
Ausgewählte Publikationen

Karagiannis F, Peukert K, Surace L, Michla M, Nikolka F, Fox M, Weiss P, Feuerborn C, Maier P, Schulz S, Al B, Seeliger B, Welte T, David S, Grondman I, de Nooijer AH, Pickkers P, Kleiner JL, Berger MM, Brenner T, Putensen C; Bonn COVIMMUNE Consortium, Kato H, Garbi N, Netea MG, Hiller K, Placek K*, Bode C*#, Wilhelm C*#. Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19. Nature 2022. *Equal contribution authors, #Corresponding authors

Karagiannis F, Kharabi Masouleh S, Wunderling K, Surendar J, Schmitt V, Kazakov A, Michla M, Hölzel M, Thiele C & Wilhelm C. Lipid droplet formation drives pathogenic type 2 innate lymphoid cells in airway inflammation. Immunity 2020.

Wilhelm C*#, Harrison OJ1#, Pelletier M, Spencer SP, Urban JF Jr, Ploch M, Ramalingam TR, Siegel R, Belkaid Y*. Critical role of fatty acid metabolism in ILC2 mediated barrier protection during malnutrition and helminth infection. J Exp Med 2016. *Corresponding authors, # equal contribution

Spencer SP*, Wilhelm C*, Yang Q, Hall JA, Bouladoux N, Boyd A, Nutman TB, Urban JF Jr, Wang J, Ramalingam TR, Bhandoola A, Wynn TA, Belkaid Y. Adaptation of innate lymphoid cells to a micronutrient deficiency promotes type 2 barrier immunity. Science 2014 *Primary authors contributed equally to this work.

Christoph Wilhelm
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wilhelm
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