Freddy Radtke
Professor
School of Life Science
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Switzerland
Biography
Freddy Radtke obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zürich in 1994. In 1995, he started his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Michel Aguet at Genentech, Inc. (San Francisco, USA). In 1997, he returned to Switzerland with Michel Aguet and finished his postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in Lausanne. From 1999‑2005, he was a group leader and Associate Member at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Freddy Radtke then joined ISREC in January 2006 as a senior scientist and in July 2006, he was appointed Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences.
Research Interest
Molecular biology; molecular mechanisms controlling stem cell maintenance, lineage commitment and differentiation in self-renewing systems such as the hematopoietic system, the skin and the gut.
