Dennis Plenker, PhD (he/him/his)

Xilis, North Carolina, United States

Dennis Plenker is the Director of Research & Development at Xilis Inc. He earned his Ph.D. in Genetics at the Institute of Translational Genomics at the University of Cologne. Dennis is driven by using patients models for personalized medicine to ultimately improve patient care. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Dennis was leading the human organoid platform, established with his team more than 100 organoids for the Human Cancer Model Initiative, built and performed high-throughput screening screens and helped to initiate the PASS-01 clinical trial involving clinical feasibility of organoids. Since then, Dennis worked at the Organoid group at Loxo Oncology at Lilly before moving on to Xilis. At Xilis Dennis is driving the technology, diagnostics and the technical translation of patient-derived models using MicroOrganoSpheres (MOS) including evaluation the feasibility of MOS technology for partnerships, diagnostic applications as well as assay development.

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Presentation(s):

• What can geometry do for you? - A practical, “how to” toolbox for the development of physiologically relevant 3D models

  Sunday, February 4, 2024
  8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST