Percy Knolle

TUM School of Medicine and Health

Professor Knolle’s (*1962) area of expertise is the regulation of immune responses in peripheral tissues. His work focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which tissue-resident immunocompetent cells control effector T cell responses as the basis for the development of new immunotherapies.

Prof. Knolle studied medicine at the Universities of Frankfurt, Birmingham (UK), Geneva and Strasbourg, completing his MD thesis at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. He later specialized in internal medicine and hepatology at the University Hospital Mainz. Beginning in 1997, he was Junior Research Group leader at the Center of Molecular Biology Heidelberg. In 2002, he was appointed to a full professorship in Molecular Medicine and became the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Oncology at the University of Bonn. He also served as co-coordinator of the collaborative research center (SFB 704) and excellence cluster ImmunoSensation. In 2013, he was appointed to a full professorship and named founding director of the Institute of Molecular Immunology at TUM.