Peter Friedl MD, PhD

Peter Friedl holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at the St. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Starting 11/2011, he additionally holds a 20% joint-appointment as head of the imaging section at the David H. Koch Center, Department of Genitourinary Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

He received his M.D. from the University of Bochum (1992) and the Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1996), After a decade of clinical work as a Dermatologist (1996-2006) he now focuses exclusively on basic and translational research. His research topics are the time-resolved visualization of cell-matrix interactions and cell patterning during cancer invasion and immune cell interactions with reference to integrins and other adhesion mechanisms, surface proteases, and cytoskeletal regulators.