Nicole Pfarr Ph.D.
Head of the Molecular Diagnostic Unit/Head of the Next Generation Research Facility, Institute of Pathology at the Technical University of Munich
After starting her research work at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) working in the field of congenital human genetic diseases in children, she moved to Heidelberg in 2009 to work at the Thorax clinic of the University Hospital Heidelberg in the field of pulmonary arterial hypertension. In 2013, she joined the team of Professor Wilko Weichert at the Institute of Pathology in Heidelberg. There, she helped integrate the technique of next generation sequencing into the molecular pathology diagnostic laboratory.
In 2015, she started working at the Technical University of Munich in her current positions. In 2021, she was announced as one of the chairs of the German Working Group for Molecular Pathology. Until now, she published more than 100 articles mainly in the field of cancer.