Cancer ResearchDepartment of Thoracic Surgery

Publications

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Scientific Education & Professional Experience

• since 2020
  DKTK Program Coordinator "Exploitation of Oncogenic Mechanisms" (EOM)
• since 01 / 2016
  Tenured Full Professor (W3) & Division Head of the Division "Cancer Research", Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
• 01 / 2015 - 07 / 2023
  Division Head of the Division "RNA Biology & Cancer", German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
• 01 / 2009 - 12 / 2014
  Junior Group Leader of the Helmholtz-University-Junior Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) & Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg
• 07 / 2008 - 12 / 2014
  Junior Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Heidelberg
• 2005 - 2008
  Postdoctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Haber, Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston
• 2002 - 2004
  PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Münster, Dept. of Medicine, Hematology / Oncology & University of Witten / Herdecke
• 2001 - 2002
  Diploma thesis at the University of Münster, Dept. of Medicine, Hematology / Oncology
• 1999 - 2001
  University of Witten / Herdecke: Biochemistry
• 1996 - 1999
  Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: Biochemistry

Scholarships & Awards

• 2016
  Anniversary Prize of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
• 2014
  Liver Cancer Research Award of the German Society for Gastrointestinal Diseases (DGVS) & Bayer Health Care
• 2013
  Dr. Hella Bühler Prize - endowed with 100.000 Euros for Cancer Research
• 2012
  Binder Innovation Prize of the German Society of Cell Biology (DGZ)
• 2010
  Karl-Freudenberg-Preis of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• 2008
  Presentation Award Miami Winter Symposium “Regulatory RNA in Biology and human Health”
• 2007
  Scholar-in-Training Award of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR): “The role of Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer”
• 2005
  Young Investigator Award of the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina
• 2005
  PhD thesis Award of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO)
• 2003
  Scholar-in-Training Award of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) / Pezcoller Foundation
• 2002 - 2004
  PhD Scholarship Award of the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  "Characterization of Cyclin A1 interacting proteins and analysis of their role in the pathogenesis of human malignancies"
• 1997 - 2001
  Scholarship Award of the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Scientific Community

• since 2024
  Member of the Experimental Technology and Standards (ETS) Workstream
  Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance (AVE)
• 2010 - 2018
  Associate Editor of RNA Biology
• 2010 - 2015
  Member of the Young Academy of Scientists ("Die Junge Akademie") - established by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
• 2009 - 2011
  Group Leader "Genetics & Genomics" in the Life Science College of the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• Member of the selection committee for the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• Reviewer for multiple international peer-reviewed journals as well as national and international funding agencies