German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
The DKFZ is Germany's largest cancer research institute, where Harald zur Hausen linked HPV to cervical cancer (Nobel 2008).
HPV discovery, CNS tumour methylation classification, NCT network, cancer prevention research.
- HPV / prevention
- CNS tumour classification
- NCT network
Andreas Trumpp is a stem cell biologist studying how dormant cancer cells seed metastases and resist therapy.
Co-created the DNA methylation classifier that changed how brain tumours are diagnosed worldwide.
Against the consensus that herpes was to blame, he proposed in 1976 that papillomaviruses cause cervical cancer and isolated HPV16 and HPV18 from tumours in 1983-84, making vaccination and HPV testing possible. Nobel Prize 2008.
Epidemiologist whose studies underpin colonoscopy and stool-test screening for bowel cancer.
Michael Baumann is a radiation oncologist who leads Germany's national cancer research centre.
Runs the NCT/DKTK MASTER programme that sequences whole genomes of rare and young-adult cancers to guide therapy.
Paediatric oncologist whose genomic work redefined childhood brain tumours into molecular subgroups.
Nuclear medicine physician whose group invented FAPI PET tracers and pioneered PSMA and FAP radioligand therapy.