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Professor Anton Henssen
eDyNAmiC
Clinician scientist and Emmy Noether Group Leader
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine; Charite Berlin
Germany
Meet Anton, co-investigator on eDyNAmiC
Professor Anton Henssen is a peadiatric oncologist who leads the paediatric oncology preclinical research program at the Charité University Hospital and heads a research group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin. His research group that has transformed our understanding of how extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) contributes to genome remodeling in childhood cancers.
Ultimately, his lab tries to find new ways to translate this research to improve cancer therapy. Anton is the recipient of an ERC starting grant and an endowed Mildred-Scheel Professorship. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards such as the Berlin science award and the Kind Philipp Prize.