Elisa Kieback

Elisa is Chief Technology Officer and co-founded T-knife together with Prof. Thomas Blankenstein. She studied Biology at the Universities of Dresden, Heidelberg, and Glasgow and obtained a PhD in Immunology. She was named one of the 100 most visionary women in 2006 (by the initiative „Germany – Land of Ideas”). In 2010, she received the Marthe-Vogt Award honoring outstanding young female scientists. For the past 15 years she has studied TCRs and their therapeutic application as a researcher. Her work resulted in numerous patents in the field of adoptive T cell therapy.