Dr. Miroslaw Kornek

Principal Investigator (PI) at The University of Bonn.

Dr. Miroslaw Kornek is working as a principal investigator at the Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany. His position and research work was funded by the German Cancer Foundation (Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V.) and recently by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). He spent his post-doctoral time at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School from 2008 until 2012 in Dr. Schuppan’s and Dr. Afdhal’s laboratories. After his return to Germany he spent the next years at the University of Saarland, where he established his research group. 2019 he moved back to the University of Bonn.

Since 2008 his research is focused on the clinical aspect of extracellular vesicles, especially on cancer entity-specific extracellular vesicle (EV) signatures that could potentially aid in as a novel liquid biopsy tool for the screening-, identification-, prognosis- and therapy monitoring in hepatobiliary cancers (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miroslaw_Kornek).