Reinhard Hinterleitner
Principal Investigator
Dr. Reinhard Hinterleitner is the principal investigator of the lab. Reinhard studied Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna. He received his PhD from the Medical University of Innsbruck where he worked on T cell signaling and cancer immunotherapies in the lab of Prof. Gottfried Baier. In 2013, Reinhard joined the lab Prof. Bana Jabri at the University of Chicago where he performed his Postdoctoral research on the intestinal immune system. Reinhard joined the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Immunology in 2018, where he leads his own lab trying to understand the crosstalk between intestinal microbes and the host mucosal immune system.
In his free-time Reinhard likes to travel and is up to all kinds of outdoor adventures. He is also eager to try all kinds of foods including insects.
