Thorsten Stiewe MD

Dr. Thorsten Stiewe studied medicine and chemistry in Essen and Baltimore (USA) in the years 1989-1997. He then completed his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research and Cancer Therapy, University of Essen. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a junior group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center, DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg. In 2006 he habilitated in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at, University of Wurzburg, Germany.

From 2007 to 2010 he is Professor (W2, tenure) of Molecular Oncology, Department of Haematology and Oncology, Philipps-University of Marburg (since 2010 Professor (W3, tenure). Since 2015 he has been Director of the Institute of Molecular Oncology and Head of Genomics Core Facility, Philipps-University of Marburg. He is a member of numerous scientific associations and was awarded the Hessischer Tierschutzforschungspreis (2014) and the C.G. Schmidt Medal (2007), among others.