Research Group
Cohorts in Infectious Disease and Cancer Research
AG Kohorten in der Infektions- und Krebsforschung
“Dear Visitor,
Thank you for checking us out! Our research group “Cohorts in Infectious Disease and Cancer Research” harbors all components of data-driven health research and rests on three main pillars: (i) epidemiology and data science, ranging from dataset design, over processing pipelines for clinical phenotyping to multivariable regression and machine learning analyses, (ii) medicine, ranging from study development to patient deployment with unique research targets, and (iii) IT with database, software, and app development.
Based on this work, our group coordinates national and international cohort consortia and real-world data collections, e.g. the German National COVID-19 cohort (NAPKON), the Clinical Communication Platform of the German Cancer Consortium (CCP), The impact of colonization with MDRO in complex surgical patients (TIARA), the Lean European Open Survey on SARS-CoV-2 (LEOSS), the Impact of Prescription Quality, Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship on Gut Microbiota Domination by Healthcare-Associated Pathogens (PILGRIM) consortium, the Translational Platform HIV (TP-HIV)
We also participate in numerous national and international cohort trials and real-world data hubs, e.g. the EU Horizon2020 Connecting European Cohorts to Increase Common and Effective Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (ORCHESTRA) effort or the DIGital Institute for Cancer Outcomes REsearch (DIGICORE).
One day, we shall have a proper homepage where we present you the many beautiful facets of our work and all the details on the many other projects we are involved in. But for now, we need to focus on our new and exciting projects and have to leave you with this microsite, where you can explore the fantastic people that carry this group forward and find means to contact them.
If you want to know more about us or start a collaboration, please contact us anytime.
Best wishes,
Janne Vehreschild”

Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Janne Vehreschild
Group Leader
Our Team
Our Team is currently located in Cologne and Frankfurt and affiliated with four German institutions: the University Hospital Frankfurt (UKF, associated with the Goethe University Frankfurt), the University Hospital Cologne (UKK, associated with the University of Cologne), the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK, associated with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg).
Organisation & Staff
Team: Organisation

Astrid Farowski
Finance, Controlling and Procurement

Nicole Katzschke
Office Management

Ludwig Montag
Coordinator IT Product and Process Management


Ludwig Montag
Coordinator IT Product and Process Management

Gabriel Sauer
Staff
Team: Study Operations

M. Sc. Isabel Bröhl
Project Management

B. Sc. Audrey Brinker
Student Assistent

B. Sc. Kristina Knaub
Project Assistent

B. Sc. Vildan Rüzgar
Project Assistent

M. Sc. Shimita Raquib
Project Management
Scientific Teams
Team: Clinical Epidemiology of Cancer

Dr. phil. Daniel Maier
Project Lead

M. Sc. Stefanie Andreas
Project Lead

M. Sc. Katharina Appel
Research Associate

Lisa Falchetto
Doctoral Student (MD)
Lisa Falchetto
Doctoral Student (MD)

Dr. phil. Bernd Bender
Research Associate

M. Sc. Fabienne Fox
Research Associate

M. A., M. Sc. Svenja Hahn
Research Associate

Dr. rer. nat. Sandra Meyer
Scientific Coordinator DKTK/CCP

B. Sc. Bastian Reiter
Physician, Research Associate

Isabel Schnorr
Physician
Isabel Schnorr
Physician

M. Sc. Linnea Schumann

Dipl.-Biol. Barbara Uhl
Scientific Coordinator DKTK/CCP
Dipl.-Biol. Barbara Uhl
Scientific Coordinator DKTK/CCP
Team: COVID-19 & HIV

Dr. phil. Margarete Scherer
Teamlead, Research Associate

Dr. rer. nat. Susana Nunes de Miranda
Research Associate

Lene Tscharntke
Doctoral Student (MD)
Lene Tscharntke
Doctoral Student (MD)

Patricia Sakwinski
Doctoral Student (MD)
Patricia Sakwinski
Doctoral Student (MD)
Team: Immunocompromised Host

David Brilz
Doctoral Student (MD)

Marie Engelhard
Research Associate (M.Sc.)

Marie Laug
Doctoral Student (MD)

Pascal Pischer
Doctoral Student (MD)
Pascal Pischer
Doctoral Student (MD)

Katharina Tilch
Doctoral Student (MD)
Team: Translational Infection Research

Dr. rer. nat. Ramsia Geisler
Teamlead, Research Associate


Dr. rer. nat. Ramsia Geisler
Teamlead, Research Associate

B. Sc. Melissa Beste
Student Assistant

Dr. Meta Bönniger
Research Associate

M. Sc. Karin Fiedler
Research Associate
IT Team

Markus Brechtel
Teamlead, DevOps Security Engineer

Christian Akele
Trainee

Aleksandr Belonozhkin
Software Developer

Elias Hamacher
Developer

Chin-Huang Lee
Developer

Robert Martincevic
Developer

Tom-Robin Raja
DevOps Engineer

B. Sc. Nils Tulke
Developer and Study Coordinator
B. Sc. Nils Tulke
Developer and Study Coordinator

Dr. rer. nat. Vasilii Tulskii
Senior DevOps Engineer