Date of Birth: May 28th, 1966
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia
Contact Address
Ivan Đikić, MD, PhD
Goethe University Medical School
Theodor-Stern-Kai 7
D-60590 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
Phone: 00 49 69 6301 83647
E-Mail: ivan.dikic@biochem2.de
Ivan Dikic received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. After a postdoctoral tenure with Joseph Schlessinger at NYU, New York, USA, he became a group leader at the LICR, Uppsala, Sweden. In 2003, he was appointed a Professor of Biochemistry at the Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany and from 2005 he co-ordinates work in the Tumor Biology Laboratory at the MedILS, Split, Croatia. His group focuses on the emerging role of ubiquitin and Ub-like modifiers as signalling devices controlling intracellular trafficking, gene transcription, DNA repair and cancer pathogenesis. Ivan Dikic is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and is the recipient of several awards, including the Erik Fernstroms Pris in 2002, Boegringer Ingelheim Award 1997-2003, Glaxo SmithKlein Biomedical Award 2006, the AACR Award for the Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research 2006, European Association for Cancer Research Young Researcher Award 2006 and the Binder Innovation Prize 2006.