Frank Tacke, MD, PhD

Frank Tacke was originally educated at the medical school in Hannover, Germany, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Later he stayed at University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, working on new gene therapy strategies (1998-1999) as well as for a post-doctoral research training (2004-2006) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, working on monocyte/macrophage and dendritic cell biology. Since 2006, he is a clinical physician and leader of a research laboratory at the University Hospital Aachen, Germany. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Critical Care Medicine. His research interests are: Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, Liver Immunology, Viral Hepatitis, Gastroenterology, Critical Care Medicine, and Monocyte/Macrophage Biology. In 2012, Frank Tacke was appointed as an Associate Professor (W2-professorship) at the RWTH University Aachen.

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Terms of Appointment: August 2017 - August 2019