Dr. sc. hum. Dominique Scherer
Scientific Staff
(Medical Biometry)
Focus
Pharmacogenetics in primary, secondary and tertiary cancer prevention; Personalized cancer prevention and treatment using genetic biomarkers; Effect of inflammation on cancer susceptibility and prognosis
Medical/Professional background
- since 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow Statistical Genetics Group
Institute of Medical Biometry
University of Heidelberg, Germany- 2011 – 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow and Deputy Group Leader
Molecular Epidemiology Group, Division of Preventive Oncology
National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany- 2010 – 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics
Stanford University, USA- 2009 – 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
in collaboration with the Clinic of Dermatology, Würzburg, Germany- 2006 – 2009
PhD in Molecular Genetic Epidemiology
German Cancer Research Center/Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg Medical Faculty, Germany- 2006
Diploma in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Pharmacology
Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
Research Projects
H2020 Research Project ‘Establishment and Exploitation of a European-Latin American Research Consortium towards Eradication of Preventable Gallbladder Cancer’
ERA-NET on Translational Cancer Research “A randomized, 2x2 biomarker prevention trial of low-dose aspirin and metformin in colon cancer patients.”
