Sven Diederichs

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Sven Diederichs is Group Leader of the division ‘Cancer Research’ at the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. Diederichs spent three years (2005-2008) as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre. For his research on cancer, Diederichs was awarded several prizes, including the 2014 Liver Cancer Research Award of the German Society for Gastrointestinal Diseases and Bayer Health Care and the Dr. Hella Bühler Prize in 2013. Diederichs’ specific interest lies in how the RNA gene Malat-1 can determine the occurrence of lung cancer with or without metastasis.