Biography – Prof. Dr. Derya Tilki
- Studied medicine in Hamburg and Boston
- Urology residency in the Urological Clinic at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
- 2009 German Research Foundation scholar with one-year research stay at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, USA
- 2009 Habilitation in Urology, topic: “Mechanisms of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in urological tumours”
- 2010–2012 (Acting) consultant in the Urological Clinic at LMU Munich
- 2012–2014 Specialisation in uro-oncological surgery in the Urological Clinic at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, USA
- 2014 Consultant at the Martini-Klinik and Urology Clinic at UKE in Hamburg; appointed consultant (faculty member) in 2015
- 2015 Appointed professor
- Numerous academic publications, book chapters and research prizes
- Reviewer for numerous national and international scientific journals
- Alumna of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- Surgical focus: Open and robotic-assisted, nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy
- Member of the German Urology Society (DGU), European Association of Urology (EAU) and American Urological Association (AUA)