Frank Lyko's Biography

Frank Lyko, Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center

Frank Lyko is a Professor of Epigenetics at the University of Heidelberg and heads the Division of Epigenetics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1998. After postdoctoral work with Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA) he joined the German Cancer Research Center as a group leader in 2001. His current research activities focus on the role of DNA methylation in phenotypic plasticity, the analysis of RNA methylation and the development of epigenetic cancer therapies.