Dr Dennis KAPPEI Cancer Science Institute Singapore

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Dr Dennis Kappei is a Principal Investigator and the Head of the Quantitative Proteomics Core at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Research in the Kappei lab focuses on DNA-protein interactions and changes in chromatin composition by quantitative mass spectrometry. Here, a particular focus is on telomeres and their impact on genome stability as well as on related transcriptional regulation at (mutated) promoters or enhancers. Furthermore, their team is invested in establishing workflows for clinical proteomics applications to harness the power of modern mass spectrometry analyses on patient samples.

Dr Kappei obtained his MS degree from Ecole Normale Supérieure and University Paris VI and pursued his graduate studies at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics under the roof of the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering. For his graduate work he was awarded the Georg Helm Prize by TU Dresden.