Roland Rad
Technical University Munich
Host: Maria Sibilia
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About the Speaker
Prof. Roland Rad graduated from TUM in 2001 with a degree in medicine and completed his doctoral studies and clinical training at the Department of Medicine II, Klinikum rechts der Isar (TUM). Between 2006 and 2013, he worked with Prof. Allan Bradley as a postdoctoral fellow and senior clinical scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. In 2012, he was appointed Professor for Translational GI Oncology at TUM and at the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK) at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ, Heidelberg). Since 2018, he has also served as Director of the Institute of Molecular Oncology and Functional Genomics at TUM.
Selected Awards
- Dr. Emil Salzer Prize, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ, 2014)
- Rising Star Award, United European Gastroenterology (UEG, 2014)
- Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG, 2006)
- Dietmar-Zumpf Award, Dietmar Zumpf Foundation (2004)
- Fellowship, Bund der Freunde der Technischen Universität München (2004)