Stefan Ambs

Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America

Doctor Genetics
Biography

Dr. Stefan Ambs earned a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tuebingen (1988) and a Master of Public Health degree (Epidemiology) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2005). He completed his Ph.D. thesis (1992) at the Institute of Toxicology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and was trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis (1992-1997), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. He continued his research at a biotechnology company in California and at the Aventis Genomics Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Ambs joined the NCI as a tenure-track investigator in November of 2001. He became a tenured Senior Investigator in 2010. 

Research Intrest

Cancer Biology, Epidemiology, Genetics and Genomics, Health Disparities, Systems Biology 

List of Publications
Wallace TA, Prueitt RL, Yi M, Howe TM, Ambs S (2008) Tumor immunobiological differences in prostate cancer between African-American and European-American men. Cancer Res. 68: 927-936
Glynn SA, Boersma BJ, Dorsey TH, Yi M, Ambs S, et al. (2010) Increased NOS2 predicts poor survival in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer patients. J. Clin. Invest. 120: 3843-3854
Hudson RS, Yi M, Esposito D, Watkins SK, Ambs S et al. (2012) MicroRNA-1 is a candidate tumor suppressor and prognostic marker in human prostate cancer. Nucleic Acids Res. 40: 3689-3703