Thomas M. Gress

Thomas Gress completed his medical degree at the Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany, where he started his training in Internal Medicine and his basic research on pancreatic diseases. He performed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Genome Analysis laboratory at CR-UK in London (UK). Thereafter he moved to the University of Ulm in Germany where he completed his training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology and founded his research group working on translational and functional genome analyses in pancreatic cancer. Later he was appointed Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Ulm and in 2006 Chair of Gastroenterology and Director of the clinical department of gastroenterology, endocrinology, metabolism and infectiology at the Philipps University of Marburg. His research covers translational and clinical aspects in pancreatology and gastrointestinal oncology, his department being a major referral center for GI-tumours and in particular pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumours. He is the gastroenterologists of the Familial Pancreatic Cancer Registry (FaPaCa), one of the biggest European registries for familial pancreatic cancer, and coordinator of the Marburg ENETS-center of excellence for neuroendocrine tumours. He has coordinated multiple translational research networks focusing on pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumors funded by European Union, the German Ministery for Educationand Research and the German Cancer Aid. His research laboratory focuses on projects studying the role of the tumor micrenvironment in pancreatic cancer and develops multianalyte molecular tests as diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tools for pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. Since 2018 he is the speaker of the DFG-funded Clinical Research Unit 325 at the University of Marburg studying the “clinical relevance of tumor microenvironment interactions in pancreatic cancer”. He is associate editor for pancreatic diseases of the Journal “GUT” , he was member of the UEGW scientific committee from 2014-2017 and since 11/2018 he is president of the International Association of Pancreatology.