Anton Henssen

Anton Henssen

Anton G. Henssen is a professor of Functional Cancer Genomics at the Charité University Medicine, Berlin. He received an M.D. in neuroscience from the RWTH Aachen prior to joining the Children’s university hospital in Essen in 2012. He did his post-doctoral training in cancer biology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center until 2016. His research interests focus on genome remodeling in cancer and his research group currently investigates the role of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer. In addition, he serves as head of preclinical cancer research for the pediatric oncology department at the Charité and runs a research group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC). He is a founder of a biotech startup that develops new treatments for cancer patients. He is part of an international research team (eDyNAmiC) that recently received the CRUK/NIH Cancer Grand Challenge grant and he was recently honored with the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis (Kategorie Nachwuchs) for his contribution to the field ofextrachromosomal DNA in cancer.