Enhancing preclinical predictivity: what is going wrong between preclinical in vitro/in vivo and clinical in vivo settings?

Christian Schmees is heading the Tumor Biology group at the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Tuebingen University in 2002. Since 2006 he holds a PhD (with highest honors) in cancer immunology from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His thesis resulted in the identification of gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase as the major factor for T cell specific immune evasion of the tumorigenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori. As a post-doc he joined the laboratories of Carl-Henrik Heldin at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) in Uppsala, Sweden (2006-2010) and Philippe Bastiaens at the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany (2010-2011). He received fellowships from the German Research Foundation and the LICR to support his research on differential regulation of intracellular PDGF α- and β-receptor trafficking in cancer cells. In 2011 he joined the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tuebingen (NMI) as a senior scientist in tumor biology and was appointed Head of Tumor Biology in 2014. Ongoing projects in his group are focusing on the development of clinically relevant cellular model systems for drug development and target validation in translational oncology. These approaches are combined with gene editing and silencing technologies as well as protein profiling and immunophenotyping platforms for mode-of-action analyses of different compound classes. Dr. Schmees is member of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT).

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