Dr. Oskar Staufer, INM – Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH

Dr. Oskar Staufer

Research Scientist
Phone: +49 (0)681-9300-281

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017 – 2020      

PhD in Biology (summa cum laude), Heidelberg UniversityMax Planck Institute for Medical Research (Prof. Joachim P. Spatz)


2015 – 2017      

M.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany


2011 – 2015     

B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Dept. for Biophysical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany


Academic Positions

Since 2022      

Research Group Leader
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken Germany


Since 2022      

Adjunct Research Group Leader
Max Planck Bristol Center for Minimal Biology, Bristol, UK


2021 – 2022     

Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK


2020 – 2021     

Postdoctoral Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany


Awards, Fellowships and Recognitions

  • Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, German Science Foundation
  • Daimler and Benz Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society
  • Young Investigator Award, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Karl-von-Frisch Award, German Life Science Organization (vBio)
  • Individual Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska Curie Program, European Commission
  • Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Science Foundation
  • Add-on Postdoctoral Fellowship, Joachim Herz Foundation
  • PhD-Fellowship, Max Planck School Matter to Life
  • PhD-Fellowship, Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling Graduate School
  • Exchange Fellowship, Elisabeth Meurer Foundation
  • Study Fellowship, German National Merit Fundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Publications

2024
Functional Integration of Synthetic Cells into 3D Microfluidic Devices for Artificial Organ-On-Chip Technologies

Hakami, Niki | Burgstaller, Anna | Gao, Ning | Rutz, Angela | Mann, Stephen | Staufer, Oskar

Advanced Healthcare Materials , 2024, 13 (22), 2303334.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adhm.202303334

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Synthetic Immunology—Building Immunity from the Bottom-Up with Synthetic Cells

Staufer, Oskar

Advanced NanoBiomed Research , 2024, 4 (9), 2400037.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anbr.202400037

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Soft Synthetic Cells with Mobile Membrane Ligands for Ex Vivo Expansion of Therapy-Relevant T Cell Phenotypes

Burgstaller, Anna | Piernitzki, Nils | Küchler, Nadja | Koch, Marcus | Kister, Thomas | Eichler, Hermann | Kraus, Tobias | Schwarz, Eva C. | Dustin, Michael | Lautenschlaeger, Franziska | Staufer, Oskar

Small , 2024, 20 (37), 2401844.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202401844

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Membranes on the move: The functional role of the extracellular vesicle membrane for contact-dependent cellular signalling

Jahnke, Kevin | Staufer, Oskar

Journal of extracellular vesicles , 2024, 13 (4), e12436.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jev2.12436

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From Theory to Therapy: The Advancements of Extracellular Vesicles in Immunotherapy
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2023
In vitro generated antibodies guide thermostable ADDomer nanoparticle design for nasal vaccination and passive immunization against SARS-CoV-2

Buzas, Dora | Bunzel, Adrian | Staufer, Oskar | Milodowski, Emily J. | Edmunds, Grace L. | Bufton, Joshua | Vidana Mateo, Beatrice V. | Yadav, Sathish K.N. | Gupta, Kapil | Fletcher, Charlotte | Williamson, Maia K. | Harrison, Alexandra | Borucu, Ufuk | Capin, Julien | Francis, Ore | Balchin, Georgia | Hall, Sophie | Vega, Mirella V. | Durbesson, Fabien | Lingappa, Srikanth | Vincentelli, Renaud | Roe, Joe | Wooldridge, Linda | Burt, Rachel | Anderson, Ross J. L. | Mulholland, Adrian | Bristol UNCOVER Group | Hare, Jonathan | Bailey, Mick | Davidson, Andrew D. | Finn, Adam | Morgan, David | Mann, Jamie | Spatz, Joachim | Garzoni, Frederic

Antibody therapeutics , 2023, 6 (4), 277-297.
https://academic.oup.com/abt/advance-article/doi/10.1093/abt/tbad024/7320073

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Evolutionary design of explainable algorithms for biomedical image segmentation

Cortacero, Kévin | McKenzie, Brienne | Müller, Sabina | Khazen, Roxana | Lafouresse, Fanny | Corsaut, Gaelle | Van Acker, Nathalie | Frenois, Francois-Xavier | Lamant, Laurence | Meyer, Nicolas | Vergier, Béatrice | Wilson, Dennis G. | Luga, Hervé | Staufer, Oskar | Dustin, Michael L. | Valitutti, Salvatore | Cussat-Blanc, Sylvain

Nature Communications , 2023, 14 7112.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42664-x

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Breaking the bottleneck of synthetic cells
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