Coordinator
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Prof. Dr. med. T. Acker
(RA „Cancer Evolution & Progression“)Director
Institute for Neuropathology
University Hospital Gießen Marburg
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
Arndtstrasse 16
D – 35392 Gießen
till.acker@patho.med.uni-giessen.deVice Dean for Research
Faculty of Human Medicine
Klinikstrasse 29
D – 35392 Gießen
- Prof. Dr. med. T. Acker (representing the RA „Cancer Evolution & Progression“). Till Acker is W3 Professor and director of the institute of neuropathology in Giessen and at present president of the German society of neuropathology and neuroanatomy. He is deputy speaker of MIRACUM, a consortium of ten university clinics funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research aiming to improve use of big data for health care and patient-centered collaborative research. Since 2021, he is also speaker of LOEWE consortium „iCANx – Cancer – Lung (Disease) Crosstalk: Tumor and Organ Microenvironment“. Since 2015, Till Acker is dean of research of the JLU-FM and coordinats research funding and training programs for medical students and clinical/medical scientist. Till Acker serves as a reviewer and advisor for several national / international funding agencies as well various scientific journals including Nature, Nature Cell Biology, JEM, JNCI. Ongoing work focuses on the understanding of how stress-sensing mechanisms shape the aggressive tumor phenotype and regulate therapy resistance. His lab has pioneered work on the microenvironmental role of HIFs and the stress sensors PHDs in setting the hallmarks of cancer including metastasis and invasion, tumor stem cells, angiogenesis and proliferative signalling. Clinically, his group is particularly interested in the translational discovery and application of biomarkers through next generation sequencing techniques and applied AI for the differential diagnosis and the prediction of therapy responses in brain tumors. He has published 99 peer-reviewed publications. Till Acker received a Max-Eder-Junior Research Group grant from the German Cancer Aid and is lecturer for Neuropathology at the Justus-Liebig University. He has been supervisor to 17 medical theses and 9 Ph.D. students.