Paving the Way to VideoTranscriptomics: Benchmarking Spatial Transcriptomics and Building Image Alignment for Spatiotemporal Glioblastoma Immune Mapping

Daniel Kirschenbaum is a physician scientist and practicing neuropathologist, working at the University Hospital Zurich and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). His work focuses on understanding the dynamic behavior of immune cells in brain tumours. By combining clinical insight with innovative single-cell technologies, he aims to reveal how immune responses unfold in real time. His long-term vision is to chart the behavior and interactions of immune cells in cancer, and how these could be harnessed to treat aggressive cancers such as glioblastoma. For this, he develops tools that capture immune processes as they happen, with special emphasis on the temporal dimension of biology.