curriculum vitae
Markus Büchler is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg. His group has implemented a tissue service and biobank for collection and immediate processing of blood, bone marrow, serum and tissue samples from CRC patients undergoing resection of the primary tumor or metastases and inaugurated a clinical research unit delineating key mechanisms underlying metastatic progres- sion of colorectal cancer.