Philipp J. Jost

Philipp J. Jost (PJ) is full Professor of Clinical Oncology and Chair of the Clinical Department of Oncology and the University Palliative Care Unit at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He is a board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist having received training at the Technical University of Munich, the Imperial College London as well as the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. As a physician scientist, his lab focuses on the basic principles of oncogenic signaling, cell death and inflammation with a clear emphasis on the clinical context. His lab contributed to the fundamental concept of cell death-induced inflammation as a tumor suppressive mechanism in leukemia (Höckendorf et al, Cancer Cell 2016). This work served as a stepping stone to show various aspects of cell death-induced inflammation in cancer. His work was published as lead author in journals such as Nature, Cancer Cell, Molecular Cell. His work was awarded with an endowed Mildred Scheel-Professorship award (not accepted due to transition to MU Graz), a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) award and the excellence program award of the German Cancer Aid (Max Eder-Program). His lab received funding from HFSP, the German Research Foundation (CRC/SFB, FOR) and several research foundation. The Jost lab offers state-of-the-art basic science technology such as in vivo activating and inhibiting CRISPR-Cas9 mouse models as well as direct access to primary patient material thereby bridging both basic science with a clinical focus.