Ivan Đikić

Short Biography

Ivan Đikić (born in Zagreb, Croatia on 28 May 1966) is Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1991, he earned his M.D. degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. After finishing his medical studies he continued to pursue his Ph.D. thesis in molecular biology at the University of Zagreb and at the New York University School of Medicine until 1995. He continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Joseph Schlessinger in New York from 1995 to 1997 before starting his own group at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala (Sweden). In 2002, Ivan was appointed as a Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. He followed in Werner Müller-Esterl's footsteps as Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II in 2009. In addition, Ivan Đikić was the first Scientific Director (2009 - 2013) of the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, a cross-faculty, interdisciplinary institute at Goethe University which was founded as part of the Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes. He is speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 1177 on selective autophagy, and speaker of the LOEWE program "Ubiquitin Networks". Ivan Đikić holds strong links to his homeland Croatia. He has an affiliation as Professor with the School of Medicine University of Split, where he established a outstation lab in Split University and transferring technologies to Croatia. In addition, Dikic has been recognized by one of the highest civilian honours, The Order of Duke Branimir, bestowed by the President of Croatia. Đikić is member of several academic societies, including the number of organizations including the European Molecular Biology Organization (since 2004), the World Academy of Art and Science (since 2008), German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2010), the Croatian Academy of Medical Science, and the European Academy of Sciences.