Coordinator: Jörg Kleeff, M.D., attending surgeon

kleeff@chir.med.tu-muenchen.de

Education

1990 - 1992 Medical School, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

1992 - 1996 Medical School, Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich, Germany

Scientific curriculum

1997 Dissertation at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany (Prof. Dr. K. von der Helm)

2005 Habilitation: „Mechanisms of aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer on the molecular level – TGFbeta signalling“ (Prof. Dr. M. W. Büchler) University of Heidelberg, Germany

Professional curriculum

1997 - 1999 Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Murray Korc, University of California, Irvine

1999 - 2001 Resident, University of Bern, Inselspital, Department of General Surgery (Chairman: Prof. Dr. M. W. Büchler)

2001 - 2005 Resident, University of Heidelberg, Department of General Surgery (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. M. W. Büchler)

2005 - 2007 Attending Surgeon, University of Heidelberg, Department of General Surgery (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. M. W. Büchler)

07/2007 - present Senior Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Scientific Reviewer

Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, Anti-Cancer Drugs, BMC Gastroenterology, Chemotherapy, Clinical Cancer Research, Clinical & Experimental Metastasis, Digestive Surgery, Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, Gastroenterology, Gut, International Journal of Cancer, Journal of Clinical Pathology, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Molecular Cancer, Pancreas, Pancreatology

Reviewer for funding societies

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS), Diabetes UK

Awards & Appointments

Honorary Professor of the R.E. Kavetsky Institute of experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (2003)

Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA (2007) - www.cancer-systems-biology.org

Prizes

Fellowship Award: University of California Research and Education Grant on Gene Therapy for Cancer (University of California; 1997-1999)

Travel Award for Young Investigators (American Pancreatic Association; 1998)

Travel Scholarship for Young Researchers (European Pancreatic Club; 1999)