Anja Hauser

The research interest of Anja Hauser is focused on the analysis of immune responses in the tissue context.

Anja studied Veterinary Medicine in Hannover. She did her PhD on plasma cell migration and tissue niches supporting the survival of those cells in the bone marrow. This sparked her interest in the interactions between immune cells and their microenvironment.

She went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, CT, USA), where she used intravital 2-photon microscopy to analyze B cell selection in germinal centers.

Since 2012, she is Professor for Immune Dynamics and Intravital Microscopy at Charité – Universitätsmedizin and Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin.

Anja is convinced that technology development is a strong driver for discovery and enjoys working in an interdisciplinary environment, aiming at developing optical microscopy to enable discovery in tissue immunology.

In recent years, she has increasingly focused on translational immunology, partly because she was already using multiplex microscopy long before the devices for this technology were commercially available.