Dr. Cord Brakebusch

Biography

Cord Brakebusch studied Biochemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany, where he received his diploma in 1989. He completed his PhD work on TNF receptors in the lab of David Wallach at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, graduating in 1993 from the University of Hannover. Subsequently, he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship with Axel Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, focusing on the anti-cancer properties of extracellular matrix compounds. In 1996, Brakebusch joined Reinhard Fässler's group to learn how to generate and analyze mice with targeted mutations, particularly investigating the function of β1 integrin in vivo. In 1998, he followed Fässler to the University of Lund in Sweden, where he obtained a fellowship from the Swedish Medical Research Council as an assistant professor. He received the prestigious Heisenberg Fellowship in 2002, which enabled him to establish an independent research group focusing on the function of Rho GTPases in vivo at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. In 2006, he moved to Copenhagen and became a professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the director of the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility. Additionally, he has been the group leader at BRIC since 2007. His primary fields of research include Rho GTPase function in cancer and inflammation using mouse models.

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