Dr. Lennart Riemann (PhD) has been awarded the Infection Biology PhD Prize, supported by RESIST and endowed with €1,000. The prize recognizes his dissertation entitled “Systems Immunology Approaches for Human Immune Profiling in Vaccination and Aging,” in which he investigated modern systems immunology methods for analyzing human immune responses.
Riemann completed his medical studies in Heidelberg before moving to Hanover as part of the TITUS Clinician Scientist Program. There, he conducted research at the Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology, and Neonatology under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gesine Hansen and at the Institute of Immunology under Prof. Dr. Reinhold Förster. During this time, he also completed his doctorate in the international doctoral program “Infection Biology” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Förster.
His scientific work focuses on bioinformatic analyses of extensive omics and clinical data sets from different cohorts. These include the RESIST Senior Individuals (SI) cohort, various vaccination cohorts, and the ALLIANCE vaccination cohort. Riemann focused in particular on computer-assisted evaluations of high-dimensional flow cytometry data, transcriptomics data sets, and the integration of various omics levels. The aim of these approaches is to better understand complex immune profiles and systematically record differences in vaccine responses, for example between high and low responders to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
His cumulative dissertation summarizes the modern data analysis methods he developed and applied, as well as key findings from the RESIST-SI cohort and a study on mRNA COVID-19 high and low responders, and is based on three scientific publications.
The Infection Biology PhD Prize is awarded regularly as part of the doctoral program and is sponsored by RESIST. The award recognizes outstanding dissertations in the field of infection biology.