German Cancer research center

German Cancer Research Center

Germany

The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) is a public, non-profit comprehensive research centre and the largest biomedical research institute in Germany. Its Unit Cancer Prevention (UCP) is devoted to implementing evidence-based programmes in tobacco, alcohol, and HPV prevention. Currently, the DKFZ is setting up, in collaboration with the German Cancer Aid, the National Cancer Prevention Centre, which will combine high-level prevention research, education and training, as well as public relations and policy advice and implement them nationwide via outreach programs and networking.

Katrin Schaller

Katrin Schaller is a biologist and a journalist. After having worked for several years as a freelance journalist, she joined the Cancer Prevention Unit at the German Cancer Research Center in 2005. Since then, she’s been working in tobacco prevention, and, starting in 2014, in alcohol prevention as well. Since 2020, she’ s the interim head of the Cancer Prevention Unit.

Ursula Will

Since February 2021 Medical Head of Prevention Outpatient Clinic, National Cancer Prevention Center, German Cancer Research Center Oct 2001 – Jan 2021 Group Leader E-Mail-Service, Cancer Information Service, German Cancer Research Center.