Metabolic and Immune Imaging Biomarkers

The research activities of this group are dedicated to new metabolism and immune system-directed predictive and prognostic imaging biomarkers. This includes the use of antibody derivatives, peptides, or small molecules for evaluating the functional expression of specific molecules or characterizing metabolic or immune-modulatory cells and mechanisms, primarily in tumor microenvironment. Such biomarkers enable a non-invasive assessment of targets suitable for antibodies or other therapeutic strategies targeting a specific antigen. They also identify tumor targets suitable for immuno-oncological strategies, including combination therapies, and allow for the visualization of immune components crucial to the tumor microenvironment. This also includes approaches for non-invasive monitoring of biodistribution, trafficking and fate of immune cells in order to preclinically evaluate mechanisms of their tissue-specific colonization and possibly their therapeutic efficacy. Additionally, we pursue innovative approaches leading to the identification of pharmacodynamic and response biomarkers.

Recent key publications

Projects (multicenter)

  • Development and preclinical characterization of radio(immune)theranostic approaches targeting human fibroblast activation protein (FAP) within in the Helmholtz International Laboratory MHELTHERA(3)

Research initiatives

Further publications on our hypotheses and approaches

  • ref. targeting receptor tyrosine kinases: [1](7)

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Jens Pietzsch

Head Radio­pharma­ceutical and Chemical Biology
j.pietzschAthzdr.de
Phone: +49 351 260 2622


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Links of the content

(1) https://jeccr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13046-023-02912-w
(2) https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/11/9420
(3) https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=1202
(4) https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=32577&pNid=2853&pLang=de
(5) https://dresden-concept.de/dresden-concept-research-groups/
(6) https://www.digs-bb.de/research/research-groups/triantafyllos-chavakis
(7) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsomega.0c01058