Members | Leducq Fellows
Florian Jaudas, DVM, PhD

Florian Jaudas (DVM, PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in Eckhard Wolf’s lab at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He specializes in developing and analyzing transgenic pig models with a strong emphasis on the translational aspects of porcine immunity. With expertise in molecular biology and large-animal experimentation, his key focus as a Leducq Fellow is on generating intra- and interspecies hematopoietic chimeras by performing in-utero hematopoietic stem cell transfers in pigs.

Representative publications include:

Jaudas F, Bartenschlager F, Shashikadze B, Santamaria G, Reichart D, Schnell A, Stöckl JB, Degroote RL, Cambra JM, Graeber SY, Bähr A, Kartmann H, Stefanska M, Liu H, Naumann-Bartsch N, Bruns H, Berges J, Hanselmann L, Stirm M, Krebs S, Deeg CA, Blum H, Schulz C, Zawada D, Janda M, Caballero-Posadas I, Kunzelmann K, Moretti A, Laugwitz KL, Kupatt C, Saalmüller A, Fröhlich T, Wolf E, Mall MA, Mundhenk L, Gerner W, Klymiuk N. Perinatal dysfunction of innate immunity in cystic fibrosis. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Jan 22;17(782):eadk9145. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adk9145. PMID:39841805. go to article

Stirm M, Shashikadze B, Blutke A, Kemter E, Lange A, Stöckl JB, Jaudas F, Laane L, Kurome M, Keßler B, Zakhartchenko V, Bähr A, Klymiuk N, Nagashima H, Walter MC, Wurst W, Kupatt C, Fröhlich T, Wolf E. Systemic deletion of DMD exon 51 rescues clinically severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a pig model lacking DMD exon 52. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jul 18;120(29):e2301250120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301250120. PMID:37428903. go to article