Ines Block's Biography

Ines Block, PostDoctoral Researcher, Institute for Molecular Medicine (Denmark)

Ines Block studied Biochemistry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald in Germany. During her studies she expanded her knowledge in the development of electrochemical biosensors by performing a research internship at the Mexico State University in Las Cruces (New Mexico, USA). After finishing her Diploma in Biochemistry (equivalent to Msc) she started to work as a PhD student in a project aiming at the generation and application of highly complex peptide arrays in the department of Chip-Based Peptide Libraries at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg (Germany) and the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). In 2009 she graduated (Dr. rer. nat.) in natural sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Since March 2009 Ines Block is postdoctoral fellow in the Molecular Oncology Group of Prof. Dr. Jan Mollenhauer at the Institute of Molecular Medicine of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Here she is working on the systematic identification of breast cancer genes and drug targets through targeted functional genomics. Furthermore she is the head of an innovative screening project with the Lundbeckfonden Center of Excellence NanoCAN, aiming at the development of a biochip-format for the molecular profiling of cancer stem cells.