Florian R. Greten - Biography#

After finishing Mecical School at the University of Hamburg in 1998, he started as an intern at the Department of Medicine of the University of Ulm before joinig the lab of Dr Michael Karin at UCSD from January 2001 until October 2004. He returned to Germany to the Technical University of Muncih to finish his residency at the Klinikum rechts der Isar. He obatined an Emmy-Noether Junir Group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to set up his indpendent scientific group. In 2010 he became Professor of Molecular Gastrointestinal Oncology (W2) at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich before he became Chair of Tumor Biology at the Medical Faculty of the Goethe University in Frankfurt in August 2013. At the same time he took over the directorship of the Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Georg-Speyer-Haus.

He organized or acted as a co-organizer on various international meetings and has been elected member of the DFG committee ‘Hinterzartener Kreis der DFG für Krebsforschung’ (2015-2020), which organizes the annual Lake Como Cancer meeting. Since 2019 he is chairing the Grants Committee “Clinical and Basic Research” of the Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid). In 2016 he established an interdisciplinary consortium the DFG-funded Research Unit (www.for2438.de) on ‘Cell Plasticity in Colorectal Carcinogenesis’. Moreover, together with clinical colleagues he established a new translational cancer research center (Frankfurt Cancer Institute, FCI; fci.health) and obtained close to € 42 Mio in a competitive grant program (LOEWE program) by the Hessian Ministry of Science to fund innovative research concepts based on clinical observations and is acting as the Speaker of the FCI.