About me
Who am I?
Maximilian Heeg Postdoc @ Goldrath lab, UCSD Biography
I am a pediatrician whose research interest lies in immunology and immunodeficiencies. My special interest is development of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and T cell tissue residency. In my spare time I like to explore the nature with our dog.
Interests
- Immunology
- Immunodeficiencies
- Programming
- Mountaineering
- Cycling
Education
- Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, 2020 Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg
- Good clinical practice, 2016 ICH-GCP
- International Diploma for Mountain Medicine, 2014 Union Internatioal des Associations d’alpinisme (UIAA)
- MD, 2014 University of Freiburg
Experience
PostDoc
University of California San Diego
Jan 2020 – Present · California
DFG Research Fellowship
Analysis of transcriptional regulators of tissue-resident memory differentiation
Fellow of the Berta-Ottenstein Programme for Clinician Scientists
University of Freiburg
Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 · Germany
Distinct molecular response patterns of activating STAT3 mutation associate with penetrance of lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity
Recidency at the Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency
University of Freiburg
Apr 2016 – Jan 2020 · Germany
Recidency in pediatrics
University of Freiburg
Aug 2014 – Jan 2020 · Germany
Scholarships & Awards
La Jolla Immunology Conference: AAI Oral Presentation Award
Oct 2023
La Jolla Immunology Conference: AAI Young Investigator Award
Oct 2022
Research Fellowships
German Research Foundation · Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Fellow of the Berta-Ottenstein Programme for Clinician Scientists
University Hospital Freiburg · Oct 2016 – Sep 2019
Scholarship for MD students of the Integrated Research and Training Group on Immunodeficiency
SFB620 · Jan 2011
Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation
German National Academic Foundation · Jan 2009 – May 2014