Markus G. Manz

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Markus Gabriel Manz (born September 3, 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German hematologist and oncologist .

Life

Markus Manz grew up in Stuttgart. After completing the Waldorf School with the Abitur, he studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where his medical career began and where he obtained his doctorate . Manz later worked and researched at Stanford University Medical School in Stanford , California, at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Bellinzona , Switzerland, and at the University of Tübingen. As of 2017, he is Professor and Clinical Director for Hematology at the University Hospital Zurich , Switzerland. In addition to managing his department, Professor Manz teaches at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and heads his research group with a focus on blood stem cells and blood cancer . He is also a member of several scientific organizations for the promotion and exchange of research on cancer such as the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation, the Henry Kunkel Society and the Cancer Network Zurich, of which he has been director since 2012.

Scientific publications have appeared in journals such as Blood and Science .

Awards

Manz's awards include the Swissbridge Award (2002), the Artur Pappenheim Award (2004), the San Salvatore Foundation Award (2008) and the Ellermann Award Hematology 2009 (2010). In 2016 he received the Otto Naegeli Prize , and in 2017 the Cloëtta Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. a b CV with awards. In: Website of the Clinic for Hematology of the University Hospital Zurich (PDF; 30 kB)
  2. Otto Naegeli Prize
  3. ^ Cloëtta Prize