Henning Walczak

Professor Henning Walczak is Professor of Cancer Biology at University College London (UCL), Chair of the Centre for Cell Death, Cancer and Inflammation (CCCI) at UCL’s Cancer Institute and Co-Director of the Cancer Research UK UCL Cancer Centre.

Following his PhD in 1995 at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Immunex Corporation in Seattle (WA, USA). In 1998 he returned to the DKFZ where he became group leader in 2000 following receipt of a BioFuture Prize awarded by the German Ministry for Science and Education. In 2007 he was appointed as Chair of Tumour Immunology at Imperial College London, and joined UCL in 2013 to assume his current position.