Director of Research

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Florian Markowetz is Professor of Computational Oncology at the University of Cambridge and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. He is a co-founder and director at Tailor Bio, a genomics start-up developing a pan-cancer precision medicine platform.

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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute University of Cambridge Li Ka Shing Centre Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0RE

High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma organoids as models of chromosomal instability

E-pub date: 11 May 2023
Journal name: Elife

Author Correction: The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers.

E-pub date: 1 Feb 2023
Journal name: Nature

Predicting response to cytotoxic chemotherapy

E-pub date: 31 Jan 2023
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Last revised: 
11/11/2022
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