Frank Buchholz's Biography

Frank Buchholz, Professor, University of Technology Dresden

Frank Buchholz is full Professor for Medical Systems Biology at the University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus of the University of Technology Dresden. He studied biology at the University Göttingen, received his Diploma in 1992 from the University in Göttingen, and worked from 1994 - 1998 on his Ph.D. thesis at the EMBL in Heidelberg. From 1998 to 2002, he was a Postdoc at UC San Francisco in the Laboratory of Prof. J. Michael Bishop, before he started his own group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden were he performed research from 2002 until 2010. In his current position Frank’s group develops sophisticated genome engineering tools and applies state of the art genomics technologies to unravel the biology of cancer and stem cells.