My Research Interest in RESIST |
Within RESIST we work in close collaboration with Prof. Reinhold Schmidt and Professor Dr. Torsten Witte (MHH) and with Prof. Bodo Grimbacher (Institute for Immunodeficiency IFI, Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency, CCI, Uniklinikum Freiburg Freiburg). We are interested in identifying the genetic changes in our genome that can cause increased susceptibility to infections and immune-mediated pathology. I’am in particular interested in ADA2 and genes involved in the regulation of the nucleic acid sensing and type-I interferon response. Nucleic acid sensing and type-I interferon response are extraordinary instruments to protect the host from invading pathogens; however if not properly regulated their activation is at risk of triggering potentially life-threatening inflammation, as seen in auto-inflammatory syndromes and more recently in the outbreak of covid 19. Moreover, together with my cooperation partners in Freiburg I am currently developing a bioinformatics immunogenetic platform that integrates bioinformatics pipeline with a dedicated database for the analysis of genetic data in subjects with immune mediated diseases.
Prof. Proietti about his scientific work
Prof. Dr. Michele Proietti – Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Since 2020 Professor for Genetics of Immundysregulation, MHH
2018 – 2020 Junior group leader and Head of the Genetic Unit, CCI Uniklinik Freiburg
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training
2001 Medical degree, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
2006 Doctor in Internal Medicine, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
2010 PhD in Clinical and Experimental Immunology, University of Genova, Italy
Academic and Research Posts
2001 – 2006 Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2006 Physician, Hospital Mama Ashu, Chacas Perú
2007 – 2010 PhD clinical and experimental Immunology University of Genova, Italy
2007 – 2010 Internist, University of Genova, Italy
2010 – 2015 Postdoc, Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Bellinzona, Switzerland
2015 – 2017 Scientist, CCI, Uniklinik Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), AG Grimbacher
Since 2017 Head of the CCI-Genetic-Unit
Since 2018 Junior Group Leader, CCI Uniklinik Freiburg, Germany
Awards and Prizes
2016 Italian Scleroderma Society “GILS”, Award as young researcher in Systemic Sclerosis
2018 Foreign postdoctoral fellow Instute Curie Research Centre

10 Selected Publications
Schepp, Johanna; Proietti, Michele; Frede, Natalie; Buchta, Mary; Hübscher, Katrin; Rojas Restrepo, Jessica; Goldacker, Sigune; Warnatz, Klaus; Pachlopnik Schmid, Jana; Duppenthaler, Andrea; Screening of 181 patients with antibody deficiency for deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 sheds new light on the disease in adulthood, Arthritis & rheumatology, 2017, 69, (8):1689-1700
Schubert, Desirée; Klein, Marie-Christine; Hassdenteufel, Sarah; Caballero-Oteyza, Andrés; Yang, Linlin; Proietti, Michele; Bulashevska, Alla; Kemming, Janine; Kühn, Johannes; Winzer, Sandra; Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2018, 141, (4):1427-1438
Lorenzini, Tiziana; Fliegauf, Manfred; Klammer, Nils; Frede, Natalie; Proietti, Michele; Bulashevska, Alla; Camacho-Ordonez, Nadezhda; Varjosalo, Markku; Kinnunen, Matias; de Vries, Esther; Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2020
Schenk, Ursula; Frascoli, Michela; Proietti, Michele; Geffers, Robert; Traggiai, Elisabetta; Buer, Jan; Ricordi, Camillo; Westendorf, Astrid M; Grassi, Fabio; Sci. Signal., 2011, 4, (162):ra12-ra12
Proietti, Michele; Cornacchione, Vanessa; Jost, Tanja Rezzonico; Romagnani, Andrea; Faliti, Caterina Elisa; Perruzza, Lisa; Rigoni, Rosita; Radaelli, Enrico; Caprioli, Flavio; Preziuso, Silvia; Immunity, 2014, 41, (5):789-801
Proietti, Michele; Perruzza, Lisa; Scribano, Daniela; Pellegrini, Giovanni; D’Antuono, Rocco; Strati, Francesco; Raffaelli, Marco; Gonzalez, Santiago F; Thelen, Marcus; Hardt, Wolf-Dietrich; Nature communications, 2019, 10 , (1):1-Nov.
Filipello, Fabia; Pozzi, Davide; Proietti, Michele; Romagnani, Andrea; Mazzitelli, Sonia; Matteoli, Michela; Verderio, Claudia; Grassi, Fabio; Oncotarget, 2016, 7, (5): 5143
Perruzza, Lisa; Gargari, Giorgio; Proietti, Michele; Fosso, Bruno; D’Erchia, Anna Maria; Faliti, Caterina Elisa; Rezzonico-Jost, Tanja; Scribano, Daniela; Mauri, Laura; Colombo, Diego; Cell reports, 2017, 18, (11):2566-2575
Troilo, Arianna; Wehr, Claudia; Janowska, Iga; Venhoff, Nils; Thiel, Jens; Rawluk, Justyna; Frede, Natalie; Staniek, Julian; Lorenzetti, Raquel; Schleyer, Marei-Theresa; Blood, 2020, 135, (17):1452-1457
Schena, Francesca; Volpi, Stefano; Faliti, Caterina Elisa; Penco, Federica; Santi, Spartaco; Proietti, Michele; Schenk, Ursula; Damonte, Gianluca; Salis, Annalisa; Bellotti, Marta; Cell reports, 2013, 3, (6):1824-1831
