Sebastian Stintzing, MD, Professor of Medicine is Head of the Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology (CCM) of Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin. His research focuses on predictive and prognostic biomarkers in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer.

In 2012 he received the prestigious Research Fellowship Award from the “Deutsche Krebshilfe” (German Cancer Aid) in Bonn, Germany enabling him to work as a research fellow at the Sharon Carpenter Laboratory at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Prof H.-J. Lenz) from 2012 -2014.

Stintzing received his medical degree from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, completed his internship and started residency at the Department of Gastroenterology, Pulmonology and Hepatology at the University Hospital in Erlangen (Prof. E. Hahn). During this time he was a research fellow at the Laboratory for Hepatology and Oncology at the Department of Gastroenterology (Prof. M. Ocker). He finished residency and specialized for Hematology and Oncology at the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Hospital Grosshadern at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Prof. W. Hiddemann) where he joined the research group “Oncology” (“FIRE-group”) (Prof. V. Heinemann).