Birgit is Professor of “Immune Tolerance” at the Institute of Medical Immunology. She has developed validated immune monitoring tools for application in investigator-driven clinical trials. She is coordinating the immune monitoring of three big multi-center investigator-driven clinical trials, sponsored by the European committee, aiming on e.g. personalized treatment and finally tolerance induction in solid organ transplant patients. In the last month Birgit successfully applied her expertise in deciphering the pathomechanisms of severe COVID-19.