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Benjamin Ostendorf

Benjamin Ostendorf

Max Eder group leader at Charité University Medicine

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Career: 5

Max Eder group leader

Charité University Medicine

On-site

Jan 2022 - Present

Attending physician (Funktionsoberarzt)

Charité University Medicine Berlin (Dpt. of Hematology/Oncology/Tumor Immunology)

On-site

Aug 2025 - Present

Resident and Internal Medicine specialist

Charité University Medicine Berlin (Dpt. of Hematology/Oncology/Tumor Immunology)

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025

Postdoc

The Rockefeller University (Tavazoie Lab)

New York, New York, US · On-site

Jun 2015 - Oct 2021

Resident

Charité University Medicine Berlin (Dpt. of Hematology/Oncology/Tumor Immunology)

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Nov 2011 - Apr 2015

Publications: 29

A MERTK-Targeting Antibody–Drug Conjugate Selectively Depletes M2 Tumor-Associated Macrophages and MERTK-Expressing Cancer Cells

Cancer Research

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-25-2998

Shugaku Takeda, Subhasree Sridhar, Daniel Schefer, Celia Andreu-Agullo, Pui C. Lo, Minhee Lee, Robert Busby, David M. Darst, Anne Assmus, Suresh Anaganti, Nils Halberg, Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Ivo C. Lorenz, Sohail F. Tavazoie, Masoud F. Tavazoie, Isabel Kurth

Apr 2026

Liver-X-receptor agonism enhances T cell priming and activation to promote anti-tumor immunity

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1084/jem.20252290

Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Jonathan G. Goldstein, Shuang Liu, Foster C. Gonsalves, Jana Bilanovic, Mathias Yuan, Ji-Young Kim, Christopher Rouya, Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Apr 2026

PROTECTOR / FIRE‑10: study protocol for a prospective, randomized, open-label, multicenter phase III trial to investigate the efficacy of preoperative systemic therapy in advanced colon cancer.

BMC cancer

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1186/s12885-026-15682-3

Siegel R, Dittrich L, Plewe J, Denecke T, Leonhardi J, Tannapfel A, Reinacher-Schick A, Raschzok N, Sauer IM, Lauscher J, Lorenzen S, Götze T, Jelas I, Stahler A, Kurreck A, Ballhausen A, Ostendorf BN, Haase O, Pratschke J, Stintzing S, Modest DP

Mar 2026

BEscreen: a versatile toolkit to design base editing libraries

Nucleic Acids Research

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf406

Philipp G Schneider, Shuang Liu, Lars Bullinger, Benjamin N Ostendorf

Jul 2025

Common hereditary variants of the APOE gene and posttransplant outcome in acute myeloid leukemia.

Blood

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024026886

Ronnacker J, Grau M, Klasmeier M, Klesse C, Baldauf H, Abert S, Berdel AF, Füsser FT, Sandmann S, Albring J, Reicherts C, Call S, Marx J, Floeth M, Eßeling E, Kolloch L, Berning P, Scheller A, Wethmar K, Schmidt H, Schlüter B, Berdel WE, Ostendorf BN, Tavazoie SF, Mikesch JH, Lenz G, Fleischhauer K, Schetelig J, Stelljes M, Schliemann C

2025

Neuronal substance P drives metastasis through an extracellular RNA–TLR7 axis

Nature

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07767-5

Veena Padmanaban, Isabel Keller, Ethan S. Seltzer, Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Zachary Kerner, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Sep 2024

Apolipoprotein E2 Stimulates Protein Synthesis and Promotes Melanoma Progression and Metastasis

Cancer Research

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-1252

Nneoma Adaku, Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Wenbin Mei, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Sep 2023

Common human genetic variants of APOE impact murine COVID-19 mortality

Nature

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05344-2

Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Mira A. Patel, Jana Bilanovic, H.-Heinrich Hoffmann, Sebastian E. Carrasco, Charles M. Rice, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Nov 2022

Functional genetic screen identifies ITPR3/calcium/RELB axis as a driver of colorectal cancer metastatic liver colonization.

Developmental Cell

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2022.04.010

Moy RH, Nguyen A, Loo JM, Yamaguchi N, Kajba CM, Santhanam B, Ostendorf BN, Wu YG, Tavazoie S, Tavazoie SF

2022

Functional Genomics In Vivo Reveal Metabolic Dependencies of Pancreatic Cancer Cells.

Cell metabolism

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2020.10.017

Zhu XG, Chudnovskiy A, Baudrier L, Prizer B, Liu Y, Ostendorf BN, Yamaguchi N, Arab A, Tavora B, Timson R, Heissel S, de Stanchina E, Molina H, Birsoy K

Nov 2020

Tumoural activation of TLR3–SLIT2 axis in endothelium drives metastasis

Nature

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2774-y

Bernardo Tavora, Tobias Mederer, Kai J. Wessel, Simon Ruffing, Mahan Sadjadi, Marc Missmahl, Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Xuhang Liu, Ji-Young Kim, Olav Olsen, Alana L. Welm, Hani Goodarzi, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Oct 2020

Common germline variants of the human APOE gene modulate melanoma progression and survival

Nature Medicine

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0879-3

Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Jana Bilanovic, Nneoma Adaku, Kimia N. Tafreshian, Bernardo Tavora, Roger D. Vaughan, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Jul 2020

Autophagy Suppresses Breast Cancer Metastasis.

Developmental cell

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2020.02.005

Ostendorf BN, Tavazoie SF

Mar 2020

Apoe genotyping in cancer prognostics and treatment

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Patent

Tavazoie SF, Ostendorf BN, Tavazoie M, Gonsalves F

2020

Germline genetic determination of cancer progression and survival

Publication
doi.org/10.1101/576181

Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Kimia N. Tafreshian, Nneoma Adaku, Jana Bilanovic, Bernardo Tavora, Sohail F. Tavazoie

Mar 2019

Phenotypic characterization of aberrant stem and progenitor cell populations in myelodysplastic syndromes

PLOS ONE

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197823

Benjamin N. Ostendorf, Konradin Metze, Eva Flenner, Anne Flörcken, Jörg Westermann

May 2018

LXR/ApoE Activation Restricts Innate Immune Suppression in Cancer.

Cell

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.12.026

Tavazoie MF, Pollack I, Tanqueco R, Ostendorf BN, Reis BS, Gonsalves FC, Kurth I, Andreu-Agullo C, Derbyshire ML, Posada J, Takeda S, Tafreshian KN, Tavazoie SF

Jan 2018
Oct 2016

Severe radiotoxicity in an allogeneic transplant recipient with a heterozygous ATM mutation.

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1111/ejh.12400

Ostendorf BN, Terwey TH, Hemmati PG, Böhmer D, Pleyer U, Arnold R

Jul 2015

BCR-ABL Mutation-Guided Therapy for CML Blast Crisis: A Case Report.

Journal Article
doi.org/10.4137/BMI.S22279

Ostendorf BN, Nogai H, Baldus CD, Burmeister T, Arnold R

2015

Nilotinib.

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54490-3_3

Ostendorf BN, le Coutre P, Kim TD, Quintás-Cardama A

2014

Human staphylococcus intermedius infection in a patient with postradiation changes

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Journal Article
doi.org/10.1097/IPC.0b013e31820a52f8

Ostendorf, B.N., Oehler, R.L., Greene, J.N.

2011

Education: 3

The Rockefeller University

PhD, Systems Cancer Biology

Jun 2020

University of Freiburg

Dr. med., Molecular Nephrology

Jan 2014

University of Freiburg

MD, Medical School

Oct 2004 - Jun 2011

Clinical electives at University of South Florida (Tampa, USA), Queen Mary University (London, UK), and Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York City, USA.

Awards: 2

  • Advanced Clinician Scientist Scholarship

    German Society of Internal Medicine

    Jun 2025
  • Digital Clinician Scientist

    Berlin Institute of Health

    Jan 2022

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