Prof. Dr. Romana Gerner is a tenure-track Professor at the Technical University of Munich, where she leads a research team focusing on the clinical and functional dimensions of the human microbiome. Her work investigates host-microbiome interactions in health and disease, with a particular focus on translational applications in the field of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases.
She studied medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck and subsequently earned a PhD in Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Following three years of clinical training in internal medicine, she began a postdoctoral fellowship in 2018 at the University of California, San Diego, where she investigated the role of the commensal microbes in mucosal immunity and vaccine-based therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases. In November 2023, she was appointed tenure-track Professor of Clinical Microbiome at TUM and continues to practice medicine in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the TUM University Hospital (link: https://www.med3.mri.tum.de/de: https://www.translatum.tum.de/translatum/forschungsgruppen/gerner-romana-klinisches-mikrobiom/)
Link to ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-6509