Felix Meissner

Felix Meissner is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Innate Immunity (University Hospital Bonn), leading the Department of Systems Immunology and Proteomics since 2021. He studied biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and Scripps Institute, earned a PhD at MPI for Infection Biology, and conducted postdoctoral research at MPI of Biochemistry and UCSF.

• Education: Biochemistry (Free University of Berlin, Scripps Institute); PhD (MPI for Infection Biology)
• Career: Postdoc (MPI Biochemistry, UCSF); Independent Group Leader (MPI Martinsried); Department Head (III Bonn since 2021)

His research focuses on immune signaling circuits that regulate inflammation using mass spectrometry proteomics, with applications in chronic diseases and cancer. The lab has pioneered unbiased secretomics and EASI-tag technologies for quantitative proteomics.

Recent publications reveal trends in spatial proteomics for cancer subtyping, intercellular communication networks in immunity, and apoptosis regulation in chemotherapy response. Collaborative DFG-funded projects (SFB 1335, SFB 1454) and BMBF grants support his work.

The lab team includes PhD students like Diana Fink, postdocs such as Felix Weiss, and alumni like Jingyuan Cheng. Based at the Biomedical Center (BMZ 2) in Bonn, his group also operates at MPI Martinsried.