Spatial Biology Core Facility

Lejla obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biology – Genetics from the University of Sarajevo. In 2024, she joined the Institute of Neurology (Edinger Institute) at University Hospital Frankfurt as a PhD student. Her work focuses on the spatial and functional characterization of lymphoid structures and the tumor microenvironment in brain tumors through the application of spatial technologies. In early 2026, she moved to the Georg-Speyer-Haus to continue her doctoral research, affiliated with the Spatial Biology Core Facility.

Jennifer earned her PhD in Molecular Virology from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. After postdoctoral research at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), where she developed nanobodies as antivirals against norovirus, she joined the Edinger Institute at Frankfurt University Hospital in 2021. There, she and her colleagues established the Spatial Biology Lab and used spatial technologies to study the tumour microenvironment in brain tumours, with a focus on tertiary lymphoid structures. In 2026, she moved to Georg-Speyer-Haus, where the lab now operates as a core facility and she continues her research.

Dr. Jonathan Schupp is Staff Scientist at the Frankfurt Cancer Institute Immunomonitoring Platform. Within this platform, he is a member of the Core Facility Spatial Biology Lab at the GSH. He completed his studies in Biomedical Chemistry as a Diplom-Chemiker at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and subsequently earned his doctorate at the University Medical Center Mainz in the laboratory of Prof. Andrea Tüttenberg within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 1066 “Nanodimensional Polymeric Therapeutics for Tumor Therapy.” He then moved to the Edinger Institute in Frankfurt, Germany’s oldest brain research institute, in January 2021, where he worked as an FCI Staff Scientist supporting other scientists through the operation of research infrastructure. In January 2026, he moved in the same role to the Georg-Speyer-Haus to support the establishment of the Spatial Biology Core Facility there.