Institute Group Leaders awarded promotions by the University
We are delighted to announce that Florian Markowetz and Nitzan Rosenfeld have been promoted to Professors in the University of Cambridge Senior Academic Promotions.
Both have been assigned to the Department of Oncology, where their professorships will take effect from 1 October 2022.
Florian Markowetz has been promoted to Professor of Computational Oncology, in the Department of Oncology. His team develops computational methods to link genomic profiles with quantitative measures of phenotypes, leading towards a comprehensive systems genetics understanding of cancer.
Nitzan Rosenfeld has been promoted to Professor within the Department of Oncology. Nitzan’s expertise is in liquid biopsy and translational cancer research. His research group has established applications of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) sequencing to analyze ctDNA from blood samples of cancer patients.
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