Nikolas K Haass 30th Lorne Cancer Conference 2018

Nikolas K Haass

Nikolas Haass, MD/PhD/FACD Professorial Research Fellow; Head, Experimental Melanoma Therapy Group; Director of Higher Degree Research Frazer Institute; Faculty of Medicine; The University of Queensland; Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Academic Lead of the Translational Research Institute (TRI) Microscopy Core Facility Nikolas Haass is a clinician scientist and academic leader with research in melanoma cell biology and experimental melanoma therapy. He received his degree in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1990-1998). He graduated summa cum laude with a PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Heidelberg (1993-1999) and trained in clinical dermatology at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1999-2003). In 2003 he moved to Philadelphia, PA, USA, for a German Research Foundation (DFG)-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship in Meenhard Herlyn’s lab at The Wistar Institute at University of Pennsylvania (2003-2007). From there he was recruited as an associate faculty member and senior lecturer to the Centenary Institute and to the Department of Dermatology at University of Sydney (2007-2013). In 2013 he commenced his current position as Professor for Cutaneous Oncology at the Frazer Institute at The University of Queensland. Using cutting-edge technology, including real-time cell cycle imaging in 3D culture and in vivo, his team studies the role of dynamic melanoma heterogeneity in melanomagenesis with the goal to develop novel therapeutic approaches by simultaneously targeting different tumor cell subpopulations. His laboratory and team are in the unique position to combine sophisticated imaging and biosensor approaches with biochemical methods to provide unprecedented insight to the mechanisms of tumor heterogeneity, tumor-stroma interactions, and cancer immunology. His contribution to the field is best evidenced by 98 original papers and invited reviews in leading biomedical journals. Many of his papers have a large impact in the field (>7800 citations in total, and 20 papers cited >100 times each). Some of his papers were evaluated by Faculty 1000 Biology as recommended and exceptional.

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