PD Dr. Thomas Broggini, PhD
Principal Investigator · Head of Laboratory · Working Group Leader
Thomas Broggini leads the Translational Neurosurgery Laboratory at the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Frankfurt. His work combines optical imaging, small-animal microsurgery and advanced sequencing to understand how metastasis forms — in mouse and in patients — and how the cerebral vasculature governs what reaches the brain.
His route into science was not the usual one: he trained first as a chemistry laboratory technician in Switzerland, worked in industry, and only then studied biotechnology — an apprenticeship-first path he still credits for how he approaches an experiment.
