The NCT-Directorate Heidelberg heads the NCT and oversees the development and implementation of strategic and operative measures. It consists of seven representatives of the research focuses at DKFZ and the Medical Directors from the departments of surgery, hematological oncology, medical oncology, neurooncology, pathology, radiation oncology at the Heidelberg University Hospital and representatives of the Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg.
Two managing directors and two deputy managing directors make up the Executive Board.
NCT Directorate
Prof. Dr. Dirk Jäger
Managing Director, NCT Heidelberg
Medical Director: Department of Medical Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital/NCT
Head of the CCU Applied Tumor-Immunity, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Debus
Deputy Managing Director, NCT Heidelberg
Medical Director: Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy, Heidelberg University Hospital
Director: Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT)
Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter
Deputy Managing Director, NCT Heidelberg
Head: Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Bartenschlager
Head: Division of Virus-associated Carcinogenesis,
Coordinator: Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer,
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Brenner
Head: Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research,
Head (in ch.): Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Markus W. Büchler
Medical Director: Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Carsten Müller-Tidow
Medical Director: Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, Heidelberg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Hans-Reimer Rodewald
Head: Division of Cellular Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmacher
Medical Director: General Pathology and Pathologic Anatomy, Heidelberg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Phys. Heinz-Peter Schlemmer
Head: Division of Radiology,
Coordinator: Research Program Imaging and Radiooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Michael Thomas
Chief physician: Department of Oncology of Thoracic Tumors, Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg at Heidelberg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Andreas Trumpp
Head: Division of Stem Cells and Cancer,
Coordinator: Research Program Cell Biology and Tumor Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
Medical Director: Department of Neurology and Polyclinic, Heidelberg University Hospital