Expertin

Dr.in Adelheid Cerwenka

1986 Golden Ring award for best high school diploma summa cum laude 1996 2-year Schroedinger postdoctoral fellowship award from the Austrian Government 2001 Huang Foundation trainee award from the American Association of Immunologists 2004 Marie Curie Excellence grant

1. A. Cerwenka, D. Bevec, O. Majdic, W. Knapp, and W. Holter. 1994. TGF-b1 is a potent inducer of human effector T cells. J. Immunol. 153: 4367-4377. 2. A. Cerwenka, H. Kovar, O. Majdic and W. Holter. 1996. Fas- and activation-induced apoptosis are reduced in human T cells preactivated in the presence of TGF-b. J. Immunol. 156: 459-464. 3. A. Cerwenka, L. L. Carter, J. B. Reome, S. L. Swain and R. W. Dutton. 1998. In vivo persistence of CD8 polarized T cell subsets producing type 1 or type 2 cytokines. J. Immunol. 161: 97-105. 4. A. Cerwenka, T. M. Morgan, A. G. Harmsen, and R. W. Dutton. 1999. Migration kinetics and final destination of type 1 and type 2 CD8 effector cells predict protection against pulmonary virus infection. J. Exp. Med. 189: 423-434. 5. A. Cerwenka, A. B. H. Bakker, T. McClanahan, J. Wagner, J. Wu, J. H. Phillips, and L. L. Lanier. 2000. Retinoic acid early inducible genes define a ligand family for the activating NKG2D receptor in mice. Immunity, 12: 721-727. 6. A. Cerwenka, J. L. Baron, and L. L. Lanier. 2001. Ectopic expression of retinoic acid early inducible-1 gene (RAE-1) permits NK cell-mediated rejection of a MHC class I-bearing tumor in vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 98:11521-6. 7. A. Cerwenka, L. L. Lanier. 2001. NK cells, viruses and cancer. Nature Immunol. Rev. 1:41-49 8. A. Cerwenka, C.A. OCallaghan, J.A. Hamerman, R. Yadav, W. Ajayi, D.C. Roopenian, S. Joyce, L.L. Lanier. 2002. The minor histocompatibility antigen H60 peptide interacts with both H-2Kb and NKG2D. J. Immunol. 168:3131-3134. 9. A. Cerwenka, L. L. Lanier.2003. NKG2D Ligands: Unconventional MHC molecules exploited by viruses and cancer. Tissue antigens. 2003: 61 (5):335-43. 10. Nausch N, Florin L, Hartenstein B, Angel P, Schorpp-Kistner M, Cerwenka A. Cutting edge: the AP-1 subunit JunB determines NK cell-mediated target cell killing by regulation of the NKG2D-ligand RAE-1epsilon. J Immunol. 2006 Jan 1;176(1):7-11.