Team

Cabezas-Wallscheid Lab

Group Leader Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid

Dr. Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid studied biotechnology (MSc) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Parma (Italy). She earned her PhD on the study of AML1-ETO a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid showed the evolution of transcriptional landscapes and the establishment of cancer stem cell hierarchies based on a novel mouse model at the Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) under the supervision of Dr. Ernesto Bockamp.

During her PhD, she also visited as a guest scientist the laboratory of Prof. David Scadden at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston (USA). Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid performed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Stem Cells and Cancer under the mentorship of Prof. Andreas Trumpp at the DKFZ in Heidelberg (Germany). There, her research focused on the identification of regulatory networks in the adult HSC and multipotent compartment and the investigation of mechanisms involved in maintaining HSC dormancy.

In 2017, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid was appointed as a Group Leader at the MPI-IE in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology headed by Prof. Rudolf Grosschedl. 

In 2023, she was appointed as Full Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Ageing at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid is a renowned researcher who has received several prestigious awards and grants. In 2017, she was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) through a highly competitive starting Ggrant. She was also honored with the 2018 Young Investigator Award by the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN), became an EMBO Young Investigator in 2022, and, more recently, was awarded the 2023 Janet Rowley Prize by the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH). In 2024, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid received further funding by the ERC: SERI-funded Consolidator Grant. In addition, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid actively participates in several research consortia, such as the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS at the University of Freiburg, various Collaborative Research Consortias funded by the DFG (CRC992, CRC1425, CRC1479), MeInBio (RTG2344), and ARCH (H2020-MSCA-ITN), and has also been funded by the José Carreras Foundation (2018 and 2022).