Peter FASCHING, MD
University Hospital Erlangen
Germany
Peter Fasching is an Associate Professor of Gynecology and
Obstetrics at the Friedrich-Alexander University ErlangenNuremberg, Germany. He is a specialist of women’s cancers and
specializes on the individualization of breast cancer therapies.
From this experience he takes this knowledge and transfers it in
the research setting into the personalization of breast cancer
prevention, trying to integrate molecular and imaging characteristics into the screening for breast
cancer. Furthermore he aims at the discovery of novel molecular targets for breast cancer
prevention drugs with a more favorable benefit to risk ratio. He is editor of two German journals
concerning with women’s cancers and has co-authored more than 250 peer reviewed research
articles. He is member of several societies such as American, European and German societies for
women’s cancer treatment and prevention. From 2007 to 2012 he was a research fellow at the
University of California at Los Angeles, Division Hematology/Oncology, which is specialized in
the discovery and translation of novel therapeutic targets in cancer treatment.