Dr. Oskar Staufer

Dr. Oskar Staufer

Head of Immuno-Materials
Phone: +49 (0)681-9300-281

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017 – 2020      

PhD in Biology (summa cum laude), Heidelberg University
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Prof. Joachim P. Spatz)


2015 – 2017      

M.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany


2011 – 2015     

B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University
Dept. for Biophysical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany


Academic Positions

Since 2022      

Research Group Leader
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken Germany


Since 2022      

Adjunct Research Group Leader
Max Planck Bristol Center for Minimal Biology, Bristol, UK


2021 – 2022     

Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK


2020 – 2021     

Postdoctoral Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany


Awards, Fellowships and Recognitions

  • Alois Lauer Research Prize for Medicine, Alois Lauer Foundation
  • Member of Junge Akademie Mainz, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, German Science Foundation
  • Daimler and Benz Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society
  • Young Investigator Award, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Karl-von-Frisch Award, German Life Science Organization (vBio)
  • Individual Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska Curie Program, European Commission
  • Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Science Foundation
  • Add-on Postdoctoral Fellowship, Joachim Herz Foundation
  • PhD-Fellowship, Max Planck School Matter to Life
  • PhD-Fellowship, Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling Graduate School
  • Exchange Fellowship, Elisabeth Meurer Foundation
  • Study Fellowship, German National Merit Fundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Publications

2026
Synthetic Cell-Based Tissues for Bottom-Up Assembly of Artificial Lymphatic Organs

Burgstaller, Anna | Nink, Tamara | Walter, Niklas | Lopez Lopez, Erick Angel | Chang, Shin-Fang | Staufer, Oskar

DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202503498

Advanced Healthcare Materials ,
2026, 15 (5), e03498.

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2025
Restoring NK Cell Cytotoxicity Post-Cryopreservation via Synthetic Cells

Zhou, Xiangda | Zhang, Sijia | Yang, Wenjuan | Gonder, Susanne | Sadjadi, Zeinab | Piernitzki, Nils | Moter, Alina | Sharma, Shulagna | Largeot, Anne | Küchler, Nadja | Kaschek, Lea | Schäfer, Gertrud | Schwarz, Eva C. | Eichler, Hermann | Ullrich, Evelyn | Rieger, Heiko | Staufer, Oskar | Paggetti, Jérome | Moussay, Etienne | Hoth, Markus | Qu, Bin

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202505731

Advanced Science ,
2025, 12 (42), e05731.

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Solution structure and synaptic analyses reveal determinants of bispecific T cell engager potency

Leithner, Alexander | Staufer, Oskar | Mitra, Tanmay | Liberta, Falk | Valvo, Salvatore | Kutuzov, Mikhail | Dada, Hannah | Spaeth, Jacob | Zhou, Weijie | Schiele, Felix | Reindl, Sophia | Nar, Herbert | Hoerer, Stefan | Crames, Maureen | Comeau, Stephen | Young, David | Low, Sarah | Jenkins, Edward | Davis, Simon J. | Klenerman, David | Nixon, Andrew | Pefaur, Noah | Wyatt, David | Dushek, Omer | Kasturirangan, Srinath | Dustin, Michael L.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425781122

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ,
2025, 122 (22), e2425781122.

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Synthetic cells in tissue engineering

Burgstaller, Anna | Madureira, Sara | Staufer, Oskar

DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2024.103252

Current Opinion in Biotechnology ,
2025, 92 103252.

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Self-assembly of hybrid 3D cultures by integrating living and synthetic cells

Piernitzki, Nils | Gao, Ning | Gasparoni, Gilles | Krauß, Louisa M. | Schulze-Hentrisch, Julia | Dustin, Michael | Schrul, Bianca | Györffy, Balázs | Mann, Stephen | Staufer, Oskar

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66789-3

Nature Communications ,
2025, 16 11073.

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2024
From Theory to Therapy: The Advancements of Extracellular Vesicles in Immunotherapy

Advanced Therapeutics ,
2024, 7 (3), 2300340.

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Breaking the bottleneck of synthetic cells

Nature nanotechnology ,
2024, 19 3-4.

Membranes on the move: The functional role of the extracellular vesicle membrane for contact-dependent cellular signalling

Journal of extracellular vesicles ,
2024, 13 (4), e12436.

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Functional Integration of Synthetic Cells into 3D Microfluidic Devices for Artificial Organ-On-Chip Technologies

Hakami, Niki | Burgstaller, Anna | Gao, Ning | Rutz, Angela | Mann, Stephen | Staufer, Oskar

DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202303334

Advanced Healthcare Materials ,
2024, 13 (22), 2303334.

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Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles (MISEV2023): From basic to advanced approaches

Welsh, Joshua A. | Goberdhan, Deborah C. I. | O'Driscoll, Lorraine | Buzas, Edit I. | Blenkiron, Cherie | Bussolati, Benedetta | Cai, Houjian | Di Vizio, Dolores | Driedonks, Tom A. P. | Erdbrügger, Uta | Falcon-Perez, Juan M. | Fu, Qing-Ling | Hill, Andrew F. | Lenassi, Metka | Lim, Sai Kiang | Mahoney, Mỹ G. | Mohanty, Sujata | Möller, Andreas | Nieuwland, Rienk | Ochiya, Takahiro | Sahoo, Susmita | Torrecilhas, Ana C. | Zheng, Lei | Zijlstra, Andries | Abuelreich, Sarah | Bagabas, Reem | Bergese, Paolo | Bridges, Esther M. | Brucale, Marco | Burger, Dylan | Carney, Randy P. | Cocucci, Emanuele | Crescitelli, Rossella | Hanser, Edveena | Harris, Adrian L. | Haughey, Norman J. | Hendrix, An | Ivanov, Alexander R. | Jovanovic-Talisman, Tijana | Kruh-Garcia, Nicole A. | Ku'ulei-Lyn Faustino, Vroniqa | Kyburz, Diego | Lässer, Cecilia | Lennon, Kathleen M. | Lötvall, Jan | Maddox, Adam L. | Martens-Uzunova, Elena S. | Mizenko, Rachel R. | Newman, Lauren A. | Ridolfi, Andrea | Rohde, Eva | Rojalin, Tatu | Rowland, Andrew | Saftics, Andras | Sandau, Ursula S. | Saugstad, Julie A. | Shekari, Faezeh | Swift, Simon | Ter-Ovanesyan, Dmitry | Tosar, Juan P. | Useckaite, Zivile | Valle, Francesco | Varga, Zoltan | van der Pol, Edwin | van Herwijnen, Martijn J. C. | Wauben, Marca H. M. | Wehman, Ann M. | Williams, Sarah | Zendrini, Andrea | Zimmerman, Alan J. | MISEV Consortium | Théry, Clotilde | Witwer, Kenneth W. | Staufer, Oskar

DOI: 10.1002/jev2.12404

Journal of extracellular vesicles ,
2024, 13 (2), e12404.

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