Christian Thiede
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Professor of Molecular Hematology
Germany
Christian Thiede is a scientist with 20 years of reserach experience in the field of molecular analysis of human tumors, especially in the field of leukemia and lymphoma. After finishing his medical education at the FU Berlin, he had three years of PostDoctoral training in the Department for Hematology and Oncology at Humboldt University/Charité, Berlin where he worked on the molecular characterization of gastric marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of MALT. He then went to Dresden to build up a research group and a diagnostic laboratory at the newly established Medical Faculty at the University of Technics in Dresden. His major focus is the understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in leukemogenis, alterations involved in treatment resistance, as well as the use of this information to perform targeted treatment and molecular monitoring of treatment response. In the recent three years, his groups has focussed on the use of different Next-Generation Sequencing platforms to perform Whole Exome sequencing as well as Amplicon resequencing for the characterization of leukemic samples from patients with acute myeloid leukemia.