Jurgen C. Becker MD, PhD

Jurgen C. Becker received his medical degree from the Medical School of Hannover for his work on the immune regulatory capacity of natural killer cells in the adaptive immune system. After finishing medical school he was first trained in Dermatology at the University of Würzburg and then as well in Tumor Immunology at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, and the Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen. For his characterization of the impact of therapeutic interventions on the adaptive immune responses against melanoma in preclinical models, he received a PhD in Immunology. 

In 2003 he became a full professor for Dermato-Oncology in Würzburg, where he coordinated a Clinical Research Group focusing on the tumor microenvironment. In 2010, he was appointed as director of General Dermatology at the Medical University of Graz. There, in parallel to his clinical duties, he successfully attracted the FP7 EU-project IMMOMEC (IMmune MOdulating strategies for the treatment of MErkel cell Carcinoma, www.immomec.eu) and became the deputy speaker of the graduate training program DK-MOLIN (Doktoratskolleg MOLecular fundamentals of INflammation, www.medunigraz.at/DK-MOLIN/).