Biography – Prof. Dr. Thomas Steuber

• Studied medicine in Göttingen and Hamburg
• Since 1999 Employed at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), with clinical and scientific focus on urological oncology, including the diagnosis and treatment of prostate carcinoma
• Since 2003 Urology specialist at UKE
• 2004 German Research Foundation scholar with one-year research stay at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA
• 2006 Habilitation in Urology, topic: “Molecular markers for the diagnosis and prognostic stratification of localised prostate carcinoma”
• 2007 Consultant in urology and paediatric urology at UKE
• 2009 Consultant, member of the Martini-Klinik faculty
• 2009 Additional specialist title awarded in the field of drug therapy for tumour diseases
• Leader of the special consultation clinic for the treatment of advanced prostate carcinoma
• Surgical specialism: Open and robotic-assisted, nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, plus brachytherapy of prostate carcinoma using afterloading and seed techniques
• Numerous academic publications, book chapters and research prizes, predominantly in the field of prostate cancer
• Reviewer for numerous national and international scientific journals
• Member of the German Urology Society (DGU), European Association of Urology (EAU) and American Urological Association (AUA)