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Professor Petya Apostolova has accepted her position as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Experimental Hematology
She will take up her new position on 1 November 2023.
Professor Apostolova studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (Germany) with electives in Vienna, Sofia, and Basel. After finishing her doctorate in 2013, she completed her specialist physician training in internal medicine at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg. From 2019 to 2021, she conducted research at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg. Since 2021, she has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore (USA) with support from the German Research Foundation.
Her academic work examines questions of how hematological cancers can be cured using immunotherapy. She particularly focuses on exploring metabolic processes in tumor and immune cells that govern survival, cellular function and interactions between cells. By investigating these aspects of tumor biology, Apostolova aims to develop innovative concepts for cancer immunotherapies