Prof. Dr. med. Marion Subklewe

Leiterin des MCCG – Munich Center for Cell and Gene Therapy

Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III am LMU Klinikum

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Marion Subklewe ist Professorin für Innere Medizin an der LMU München, Fachärztin für Hämatologie und Onkologie und Direktorin des Munich Center for Cell and Gene Therapy. Sie leitet das Laboratory for Translational Cancer Immunology am Genzentrum München sowie das CAR-T- und Immuntherapieprogramm des LMU Klinikums.

Ihre Arbeit verbindet Grundlagenforschung, klinische Entwicklung und Versorgung. Als Prüfärztin in über fünfzig Phase-I- bis III-Studien und als Initiatorin eigener akademischer Studien hat sie den Weg neuartiger Zelltherapien von der Zielstruktur bis zur Erstanwendung am Menschen mehrfach selbst verantwortet. International sichtbar ist sie auf zwei Feldern: in der Entwicklung neuer zellulärer und antikörperbasierter Therapien für Erkrankungen, für die es bislang keine wirksamen Optionen gibt, allen voran die akute myeloische Leukämie, und in der Erforschung therapieassoziierter Toxizität, deren Ergebnisse in nationale und internationale Leitlinien eingegangen sind. Clarivate führt sie als Highly Cited Researcher.

Als Direktorin versteht sie ihre Rolle als die einer Enablerin: Sie führt mehr als fünfzehn Kliniken und Institute zu einer Plattform zusammen, auf der jede Fachrichtung des Standorts Zugang zur gesamten translationalen Infrastruktur findet.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Marion Subklewe

  • Director of the Munich Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Consultant in the Department of Hematology/Oncology, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III, LMU Medizin, Munich
  • Laboratory for Translational Cancer Immunology, Gene Center, LMU

  • Degree: Study of Medicine at the University of Aachen and the University of Cologne

    Doctorate: Internal Medicine with focus on Hematology/Oncology, University of Cologne

    Medical Boards: Internal Medicine (2005), Hematology and Internal Oncology (2007)

    2007: Habilitation in Internal Medicine, Charité, "Development of immunotherapeutic approaches for EBV-associated malignancies"

    2014: W2 Professorship in Internal Medicine with focus on Cellular Therapy, LMU Munich

  • Member of the Walter Siegenthaler Gesellschaft
  • Member of the LMU-KUM Faculty Council (2023)
  • Member of the Research Strategy Committee ("Forschungskommission")
  • Speaker of the LMU Munich site within the SFB-TR338 (TUM and Würzburg)
  • Speaker of the Medical & Clinician-Scientist Program of the LMU Medical Faculty
  • Founder and Speaker of "FAME" (Female Academia Medicine Excellence), a consortium of female professors at the Medical Faculty of the LMU
  • Member of the DFG Fachkollegium (Hämatologie/Onkologie)
  • Member of the Deutsche Krebshilfe section "Med./Wiss. Nachwuchsförderung"
  • Member of the Deutsche Krebshilfe CCC Network expert group "Immunonkologie"
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the José Carreras Foundation
  • Head of the "Molecular Oncology" module within the Elite Master Program Human Biology – Principles in Health & Disease of the Faculties of Biology and Medicine, LMU
  • Member of the steering committee of "GO-CART", a joint consortium of EHA and EBMT
  • Member of the steering and organizing committee of the International Symposium "Acute Leukemias" and of iTOC (Immunotherapy of Cancer)

Collaborative research activities: Deutsches Konsortium für Translationale Krebsforschung (DKTK); Bayerisches Zentrum für Krebsforschung (BZKF); SFB-TR338 initiative "T cell engineering"; JÖSTER Stiftung, CAR 360 degree, a collaborative project of the LMU; Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network "MIRACLE" (funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme); MetaboTargetAML project (funded by the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine, EP PerMed, under the European Union's Horizon Europe programme, grant agreement no. 101137129)

Grant reviews: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Deutsche Krebshilfe; José Carreras Stiftung; Wilhelm Sander Stiftung; Cancer Research UK; Leukemia and Lymphoma; OeGHO; Dutch Cancer Society; Worldwide Cancer Research

Editorial work and manuscript reviews: Editor of EJC; Editor of Blood Immunology and Cellular Therapy; Editorial Board of Blood; reviewer for Nature, Science, Cell, Leukemia, Lancet Hematology, NEJM, PLOS ONE, J International Immunology, Journal of Hematology & Oncology, Haematologica, British Journal of Hematology, Journal of Immunotherapy, Oncoimmunology, Oncotarget, Blood Reviews, Blood Advances

Memberships: Bund deutscher Internisten (BdI); European Association for Hematology (EHA); American Society for Hematology (ASH); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie (DGHO); Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)

  • Highly Cited Researcher 2024, 2025
  • HemaSphere Award 2025, Top Cited Clinical Article
  • EHA Educational Presentation 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026
  • Pfleger Preis 2024
  • ASH Educational (CART Tox) 2023
  • ASH Educational (AML) 2023
  • Grand Rounds MD Anderson Cancer Center 2018, 2020, and Moffitt Cancer Center 2022
  • ASH Abstract Achievement Awards 2011, 2016, 2018, 2020–2025
  • M4 Award 2015: startup support for the development of novel multifunctional antibodies
  • Therese von Bayern-Award 2012
  • Best Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the LMU 2011
  • Rahel-Hirsch Scholarship 2005–2007 at the Charité
  • Cure for Lymphoma Foundation Fellow 1999–2000
  • Scholarship of the DFG 1996–1999

  • Head of the Immunotherapy Program, LMU University Hospital Munich
  • Head of the CAR T Program, LMU University Hospital Munich
  • Head of the Core Facility "iFLOW" at the Medical Faculty of the University Hospital Munich
  • Head of the Flow Cytometry & Sorting unit within the Leukemia Diagnostics lab (certified 2011, accredited 2012)
  • Founder and Speaker of the national "Harmonize MRD Flow" Consortium
  • Founder and Speaker of the harmonization of "CART Quantification" of the DGHO AK Labormedizin
  • Member of the ELN Working Group "MRD"
  • Member of the Hematological Board Committee; Member of the Toxboard Immuno-oncology; Head of the CART Board Committee

Principal Investigator in more than 50 oligo- and multicentric Phase I/II/III trials (CAR T, T-cell recruiting antibodies, monoclonal antibodies, immunochemotherapy, small molecules) in leukemia, lymphoma, GI tumors, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.


Investigator-initiated trials

  • ERASE: Rezeptor-aktivierte, in vitro stimulierte T-Zellen für Hochrisiko-AML (BZKF)
  • A phase I first-in-human study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and efficacy of CD33-targeted Adapter-CAR T cells for the treatment of adult patients with R/R AML (BMBF)
  • AARON Study: An open-label phase II study of relatlimab (BMS-986016) with nivolumab (BMS-936558) in combination with 5-azacytidine for the treatment of patients with R/R AML and newly diagnosed AML
  • DLI Target: Donor lymphocyte infusion plus blinatumomab
  • New generation dendritic cell vaccine for immunotherapy in AML (BayImmunet)


Further trials

  • A phase 2, open-label, single-arm, multicohort, multicenter trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of JCAR017 in adult subjects with relapsed or refractory indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Transcend FL). Celgene Corporation; Phase II
  • A global randomized multicenter phase 3 trial to compare the efficacy and safety of JCAR017 to standard of care in adult subjects with high-risk, transplant-eligible relapsed or refractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (Transform). Celgene Corporation; Phase III
  • A phase 1/2 multicenter study evaluating the safety and efficacy of KTE-X19 in adult subjects with relapsed/refractory B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (r/r ALL). Gilead; 2015-005009-35; Phase I/II
  • A phase I/II safety, dose finding and feasibility trial of MB-CART19.1 in patients with relapsed or refractory CD19-positive B-cell malignancies. Miltenyi Biotec GmbH; Phase I/II
  • A phase 1 first-in-human study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and efficacy of AMG 427 in subjects with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Amgen; 2018-001389-40; Phase I
  • A phase 1 first-in-human study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and efficacy of AMG 673 administered as short-term intravenous infusions in subjects with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Amgen Inc.; 2017-002980-16; Phase I
  • A phase 1 first-in-human study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and efficacy of AMG 330 administered as continuous intravenous infusion in subjects with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Amgen Inc.; 2014-004462-20; Phase I
  • An open-label, multicenter, phase 1b study of JNJ-74494550 (cusatuzumab; anti-CD70 monoclonal antibody) in combination with background therapy for the treatment of subjects with acute myeloid leukemia. Janssen; 2019-002808-41; Phase I
  • A phase 1, first-in-human, dose escalation study of JNJ-67571244 (bispecific antibody targeting CD33 and CD3) in subjects with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Janssen-Cilag; 2018-004452-37; Phase I
  • A phase II trial for the treatment of older patients with newly diagnosed CD19-positive, Ph/BCR-ABL-negative B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with sequential dose-reduced chemotherapy and blinatumomab. University Frankfurt am Main; 2017-002853-13; Phase II
  • Therapieoptimierung bei erwachsenen Patienten mit neu diagnostizierter akuter lymphatischer Leukämie (ALL) oder lymphoblastischem Lymphom (LBL) durch individualisierte, gezielte und intensivierte Therapie. University Frankfurt am Main; 2013-003466-13; Phase III
  • A multicenter, single-arm study to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the BiTE antibody blinatumomab in adult patients with minimal residual disease (MRD) of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Blast Successor Trial). University Frankfurt am Main; 2015-000733-76; Phase II
  • Midostaurin + gemtuzumab ozogamicin combination in first-line standard therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (MOSAIC). Technische Universität Dresden; 2019-03863-23; Phase I/II
  • A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, multicenter phase II study to assess the efficacy of BL-8040 addition to consolidation therapy in AML patients. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; 2014-002702-21; Phase II
  • A phase II randomized, open-label, multicenter study of the safety and efficacy of IMCgp100 compared with investigator's choice in HLA-A*0201-positive patients with previously untreated advanced uveal melanoma. Immunocore, Ltd.; 2015-003153-18; Phase II
  • A phase 3, multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of AG-120 in combination with azacitidine in subjects older than 18 years of age with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia with an IDH1 mutation. Agios Pharmaceuticals; 2016-004907-30; Phase III
  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Roche; 2020-001154-22; Phase III
  • First-in-man study with MEN1112, a CD157-targeted monoclonal antibody, in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia. Menarini Ricerche S.p.A.; 2014-002433-59; Phase I
  • A phase 3, multicenter, randomized, open-label study of guadecitabine (SGI-110) versus treatment choice in adults with previously treated acute myeloid leukemia. Astex Pharmaceuticals; 2015-005256-97; Phase III