German immunologist

Hedda Wardemann is an immunologist and Professor in the Division of B cell immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany.

Education and scientific career

Hedda Wardemann studied Biology at the Albert-Ludwig-University in Freiburg from 1992 until 1998. In 1998 she started as a doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, where she graduated in 2001.

Wardemann moved to New York, United States, to work as a PostDoc in the laboratory of Michel C. Nussenzweig at the Rockefeller University until 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she held a position as Research Assistant Professor in Nussenzweigs group before she opened her junior research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. Since 2014 Hedda Wardemann heads the B cell immunology division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany.