Cord Brakebusch University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cord Brakebusch received his M.SC. in Biochemistry in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1993 from
the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany. In 1993 he became a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. From 1998 until 2001 he was an assistant Professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Dr. Brakebusch was the Heisenberg Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany from 2002-2005 and in 2006 joined the University of Copenhagen as a Professor. He assumed the Directorship of the University’s Transgenic Animal Core Facility in 2006 and since 2007 he has been a Group leader of Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), at the University of Copenhagen.
Dr. Brakebusch’s active research areas are the function of Rho GTPases in vivo with focus on skin and the hematopoietic system using genetically modified mice. Rho GTPases are regulating cell migration, cell-cell and cell-ECM contacts, cell polarity and cell proliferation. They are therefore considered to be very important for tumor development and metastasis formation. Using genetically modified mice we investigate this question in vivo and apply various in vitro models to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Dr. Brakebusch was a recipient of an Assistant Professor Fellowship from the Swedish Research Council, 1999-2001, and was honored with the Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Council from 2002-2005.
In addition to the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Dr. Brakebusch is on the Editorial Board of Small GTPases. His publications include 94 articles in journals including Cell, Genes & Development, Immunity, Cell Stem Cell and Nature Neuroscience; 11 book chapters; more than 16 international patents (Hirsch factor 45).
Affiliations
BRIC - Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark: http://www.bric.ku.dk/
Brakebusch Group: http://www.bric.ku.dk/research/brakebusch_group/
