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Florian Markowetz

Florian Markowetz is a 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. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.

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Vita

2017 - 2022
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder

since 02/2014
Senior group leader (tenured) at Univ. of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Institute

01/2009 - 02/2014
Junior group leader at Univ. of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Institute

07/2006 - 12/2008
Postdoctoral research in the Lewis-Sigler Insitute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, Princeton, USA. Advisor: OG Troyanskaya

01/2002 - 06/2006
Doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. Advisors: R Spang, M Vingron

06/1999 - 12/2001
Research assistant at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Advisor: M Vingron

Degrees

Computational Biology: Dr. rer. nat.
Free University Berlin, Germany, 2006
[ thesis ]

Philosophy: Magister Artium
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2002
[ thesis ]

Mathematics: Diplom-Mathematiker
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2001
[ thesis ]

Awards and Honors

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2017

CRUK Future Leader Price, 2016

Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, 2006

PhD summa cum laude, Free University Berlin

Florian Markowetz
CR UK - CRI
Li Ka Shing Centre
Robinson Way
Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
e: first.last@cruk.cam.ac.uk
p: +44 (0) 1223 769 628
0000-0002-2784-5308

I collect scientific B-sides on my blog.

Talks online

Bertinoro CONTRA workshop 2018

Newton Institute 2016

Keynote at LICSB 2010

Lecture at Hamilton Institute, Maynooth, 2009

MPG Otto Warburg Internat. Summer School 2007 on Computational Systems Biology: talk 1, talk 2.

Conflicts of Interest

I am a co-founder, share-holder, and director of Tailor.bio, a genomics start-up aiming to improve precision medicine for cancers with high levels of chromosomal instability. I am a named inventor an patent applications for the technology underlying Tailor Bio.

Publications

Complete list at http://markowetzlab.org/publications.php

Professional activities

Talks, seminars, workshops: See the events page for a summary of recent and up-coming talks as well as conferences Florian (co-)organizes
Associate Editor for BMC Cancer (since 2010); PLOS Computational Biology (since 2016); Biostatistics (since 2016)
Conference program committee member ISMB (2007-), ECCB (2007-), RECOMB-seq/CCB (2015-), AISTATS (2010). ISMB track chair ’Applied Bioinformatics’ (2016). ECCB theme co-chair 'Genomes' (2016)
Conference Steering Committee for CRUK Big Data Analytics Conference Serie (since 2016)
Journal reviewer for Nature, Nature Methods, Nature Genetics, Molecular Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, PLoS Comp Bio, Genome Biology, Annals of Applied Statistics and others
Grant reviewer for ERC, CRUK, Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC, ESF, FWF and others
Funding committees of CRUK, Health Research Board Ireland
Scientific Advisory Board of CRUK Early Detection Program (since 2016)
Member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

the Markowetz lab

Integrative Cancer Biology @ Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute