Karin Wisskirchen is the Managing Director of SCG Cell Therapy in Germany and Head of Cell Therapy Research at SCG globally. Prior to joining SCG in 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Virology (Technical University of Munich) where she led the preclinical development and translational research for adoptive T cell therapy of chronic hepatitis B and HBV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma. Before that, Karin received her PhD from the same institution where she discovered the HBV-specific T cell receptor that is now clinically applied by SCG. She holds a degree in biology from the Philipps University of Marburg, where she already majored in virology and completed her diploma thesis on HBV disinfection at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen. Her scientific work has been honored with multiple awards from both the field of hepatology as well as cell therapy, including the "GASL price of the YAEL foundation" in 2020 for excellent published liver research for her publication in the JCI, and the "Young Investigator Award" of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT, 2014 and 2016).
