Epigenomics of hormone-driven cancers - German Cancer Research Center

Major Research Direction

In the Epigenomics of hormone-driven cancers group, current projects focus on

The role of 5-hydroxymethylation in human adipogenesis
Profiling DNA hydroxy-/methylation and chromatin accessibility in human intervention studies
Epigenetic mechanisms in cancer and metastasis development, with a focus on breast and prostate cancer
Developing biomarkers for endogenous endocrine resistance in breast cancer
Characterizing the enhancer methylome in prostate cancer
The pan-prostate cancer methylome landscape