Philipp Starkl

Philipp studied Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna and received his PhD in Immunology from the Medical University of Vienna. He then moved to the US to join Steve Galli’s lab at Stanford University as PostDoc to continue and extend his work on mast cells and type 2 immunity. Philipp’s work in the Galli lab investigated the fundamental question related to the biological functions of allergic immune responses. His research found and characterized a new role of IgE antibodies and mast cells as key components of adaptive immune protection against insect and reptile venoms. Philipp then returned to Austria and joined Sylvia Knapp at CeMM (Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) and the Medical University of Vienna as Senior PostDoc to study infectious diseases. Since 2023, Philipp is an independent group leader at the Department of Medicine I of the Medical University of Vienna. An important focus of his lab is the interplay between microbial infections and type 2 immunity in barrier organs to better understand the long-term consequences of inflammation for the development of future immune responses.