Jens Puschhof
Epithelium Microenvironment Interaction Laboratory, Microbiome and Cancer Division, German Cancer Research Center, DE
More information
Biography
Dr. Jens Puschhof is group leader of the Epithelium Microenvironment Interaction Laboratory in the Microbiome and Cancer Division at German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. His group studies the role of microenvironmental factors in colorectal carcinogenesis using organoid- and organ-on-a-chip co-cultures. Dr. Puschhof graduated with a MSc in Oncology from the University of Oxford and obtained his PhD cum laude from Utrecht University. During his PhD and postdoc in Hans Clevers’s group at the Hubrecht Institute, he and his colleagues developed organoid models of the snake venom gland and made seminal contributions to the understanding microbial impacts on colorectal cancer development.