Wissenschaftliche Leitung

Prof. Dr. Tobias Keck started his medical career at the Department of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg. After two years of research at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in the Pancreas Research lab, he returned to the Department of Surgery at the University of Freiburg and became Vice Chair of the Department in 2009. He was elected Chairmen of the Department of Surgery at the University of Lübeck in 2012, which includes visceral surgery, general surgery, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery as well as transplantation surgery. The main focus of the clinical work of Professor Keck is minimal-invasive oncologic surgery. 

Professor Keck is Chair of the Working chapter of Robotics and Innovation in Surgery of the Association of General and Visceral Surgeons in Germany. He is a member of the Collegiate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and member of numerous societies Since several years he is General Secretary of the German Chapter of the ACS. Additionally, Professor Keck is member of editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. He is Honorary Professor of two Ukrainian Universities, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kiew and Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University. 

The Department of Surgery at the University of Lübeck is German Center of Excellence for minimal-invasive surgery (DGAV).The main focus of research of the Department lies within hepato-pancreato-biliary oncology, oncologic research and minimal-invasive surgery in the clinical context. 

Prof. Dr. Marquardt received his MD degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Division of Toxicology and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany). From 2008-2011 he performed a postdoctoral-fellowship at the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis (CCR/NCI/NIH), Bethesda under the mentorship of Dr. Snorri S. Thorgeirsson where his research focused on the functional and molecular characterization of hepatic cancer stem cells. From 2011 - 2019 he worked as an attending physician in the GI and hepatobiliary oncology section of the Department of Medicine I, University of Mainz, Germany. In 2015 Dr. Marquardt was awarded with a Lichtenberg-Professorship for molecular hepatocarcinogenesis by the Volkswagen Foundation. In November 2019 he was appointed as full professor for Gastroenterology at the University of Lübeck and head of the Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein – Campus Lübeck. Dr. Marquardt serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals including Carcinogenesis, Cancers and BMC Genomics. His clinical focus is hepatobiliary malignancies. Current research activities involve several aspects of translational hepatocarcinogenesis, hepatic cancer stem cells and systems hepatology.