I am fascinated by molecular mechanisms and aim to apply new knowledge for health. If mutually respected, basic and translational research will be able to learn a lot from each other.
- Education
2003 PhD in Biochemistry, University of Frankfurt, Germany
1998 Diploma in Biochemistry (equivalent to 300 ECTS), University of Frankfurt, Germany
- Work Experience
2023 – now International Scientific Coordinator, Josep Carreras Leukaemia research Institute (IJC), Spain
2015 – now Group Leader, IJC, Spain
2010 – 2014 Junior Group Leader, Institute for Predictive and Personalised Cancer Medicine, Spain
2004 – 2009 Postdoc, Lab of Luciano di Croce, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
1998 – 2003 PhD student, Lab of Axel Ullrich, Max Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
1998 (6 month) Visiting undergraduate student, Lab of Steve Watson, University of Oxford, UK
1997 (3 month) Intern, Berlex Biosciences, USA
1996 (2 month) Intern, Schering AG, Germany
- Teaching, training organization and mentoring
Coordinator of the postdoc program training program CarrerasLeaders and the PhD training program CarrerasPathfinders funded by HE MSCA actions.
Coordinator or co-coordinator of three consecutive MSCA innovative training networks for PhD students (2015 ChroMe, 2020 INTERCEPT-MDS, 2024 NUCLEAR). Lecturer of included scientific and soft skill training modules.
Director of 8 completed PhD thesis: Melanija Posavec Marjanovic (2014), Anna Palau (2016), David Corujo (2019), Sarah Hurtado-Bagès (2019), Michael Maher (2021), Iva Guberovic (2021), Marguerite-Marie Le Pannérer (2022), Eve Dias (2025)
Director of 5 ongoing PhD thesis
Director of 12 Master thesis.
Lecturer in 3 Master programs (UB and UAB).
2017 + 2022 Lecturer in the Course on Epigenetics at Institute Curie, France.
Mentor of the junior PI Elisabetta Mereu
- Organization of scientific symposia and congresses
2015 – now Group Leader, IJC, Spain
2022 Spetses Summer School on Cancer Epigenetics, 100 trainees, 25 instructors, Greece
2021 EMBO workshop on Histone Variants, 140 participants, Spain
2019 Scientific inauguration conference of the IJC, 120 participants, Spain
2018 Spetses Summer School on Chromatin and Metabolism, 100 trainees, Greece
2013–2017 Coordinator of the International Series of Barcelona Conferences on Epigenetics and Cancer (BCEC), 200-300 participants per year, Spain. For more info click here.
2017 EMBO workshop on Histone Variants, 120 participants, Germany
- Commissions of Trust
2023–2024 • Associate Editor, Clinical Epigenetics, Springer Nature, Germany
2023–now • Regular Member, EHA Research Committee, International
2018–2021 • Member, Internal Scientific Advisory Committee, IGTP, Spain
2018–2020 • Member, Funding and evaluation panel, BW Stiftung, Germany
2017 • Panel member, Committee Philanthropy Fund, IRB, Spain
2015 • Panel member, Commission CE11, National Funding Agency ANR, France
2014– • External member, TAB incl. University of Zurich, Switzerland
2011-2012 • Member, Selection Panel, FP7 InterPod program, CRG, Spain
2009– • Thesis defense committee member incl. UB, UAB, UPF, Univ. Oslo, Norway
2009– • Reviewer for various journals, including Nature Struct. Mol. Biol., Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications and Science Advances
2010– • Reviewer for funding agencies incl. ERC, MRC-UK, and ANR-France
- Communication and output
46 lectures at institutes since 2010, including Max-Planck-Institutes (Germany), Institute Curie (France), Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Hubrecht Institute (Netherlands), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (USA).
60 talks at symposia and conferences since 2017, including Keystone, EMBO and EMBL meetings.
75 publications (of these >80% in Q1, 20 in D1 and 42 as first or corresponding author). For the full list in Pubmed click here.
2 R packages deposited at BioconductoR with more than 30.000 downloads per year (check out our resources).
6 cell lines generated and deposited at DSMZ.
- Institutional activities
2023– Coordinator of International Research, IJC, Spain
2011– Co-Organizer of bi-weekly training seminars for PhD students and postdocs, Spain
2018–2020 Committee for Excellence in Human Resource Management, IJC, Spain
2011–2015 Coordinator of the series of weekly invited seminars, IMPPC and IJC, Spain
2011–2014 Initiator and organizer of annual Campus Symposia, 6 Institutions, Spain
2011–2013 Initiator and coordinator of the Campus summer party, Biomedical Campus Can Ruti, Spain
- Honors and awards
2022 Best Talk, Epigenetics and Health and Disease Conference, Belgium
2012 Invited Associate Member, European Network of Excellence EpiGeneSys, EC
2008 Prize for Best Oral Presentation, Young Researcher Symposium, CRG, Spain
2006 DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Research Society, Germany
2005 EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Ministry of Science, Spain
1996 German Scholarship Foundation (Deutsche Studienstiftung), Germany
- Recent grant support
International / Institutional
CarrerasPathfinders: Doctoral Program – Enabling the next generation in search of blood cancer cures (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-COFUND-01-101126688)
Funding agency: European Commission
Duration: 5 years (start 01.09.2024).
Amount awarded: 1.881.600 €
PI(s): Marcus Buschbeck (IJC, Coordinator),
Participants: 14 doctoral candidates at IJC to be chosen through a competitive selection process.
International / Institutional
Title: CarrerasLeaders: Postdoctoral Program – Empowering Future Leaders to Fight Blood Cancers (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-COFUND-01-101081347)
Funding agency: European Commission
Duration: 5 years (start 01.01.2023).
Amount awarded: 2.292.480 €
PI(s): Marcus Buschbeck (IJC, Coordinator),
Participants: Postdocs at IJC to be chosen through a competitive selection process.
National cancer association AECC
EPISTROMA – Epigenetic re-education of the bone marrow stroma niche as a therapeutic approach for preventing blood cancer (PRYGN222668BUSC; 2022-2025)
PI: Marcus Buschbeck (IJC)
Status: funded with 300.000 €
National grant (MCIU)
NucleoSense – Enhancer regulation and nuclear metabolite sensing by histone variants (PID2021-126907NB-I00, 2022-2025)
PI: Marcus Buschbeck
Status: Funded, 280.000 € (ranked A, + associated PhD fellowship awarded)
European Marie Skłodowska Curie European Training Network
INTERCEPT-MDS: Exploring cell-to-cell heterogeneity and exploiting epigenetic regulation for the interception of myeloid disease cells (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020-953407; 2021-2024)
Participants: Marcus Buschbeck (IJC, Coordinator), Götze (TUM-MED, Germany), Esteller (IJC), Berdasco (IJC), Medyouf (GSH, Germany), Schneider (Erasmus, Netherlands), Haferlach (MLL, Germany), McCormack (UiB, Norway), Götz (BioBam Bioinformatics SL, Spain), Santini (UniFi, Italy), Puissant, Itzykson (INSERM, France), Grebien (MedVetUni, Austria).
Status: Funded, 3.120.455 €, Subproject: 452.500 €
International collaborative project from Fundació La Marató de TV3 (Spain)
Exploring and exploiting histone variants as drug targets in AML. (257/C/2019; 2020 – 2023)
PIs: Marcus Buschbeck (IJC, coordination), Florian Heidel (UKD, Germany)
Status: Funded, subproject with 150.000 €
European Marie Skłodowska Curie European Training Network
Chromatin-metabolism interactions as targets for healthy living (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675610) – ChroMe (2016-2020)
PI and Vice-coordinator: Marcus Buschbeck (IJC)
Status: Funded, 3.825.128 €, Subproject: 452.500 €
National coordinated excellence project (ISCIII-MINECO, Proyecto Integrado de Excelencia, PIE16/00011)
RESPONSE – Biomarkers and combinatorial drug targets for a personalized therapy for three major cancers (2017-2019)
Coordinator: Marcus Buschbeck; Co-PIs: Rafael Rosell, Sonia Forcales, Eva Martinez-Balibrea, Lurdes Zamora, Lorenzo Pasquali
Status: Funded, 482.053 €
- Fellowships received by lab members
MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship awarded to Dr. Marina Farkas (2024-2026)
AECC Senior postdoctoral Investigator award to Dr. Jeannine Diesch (-2027)
DFG Postdoctoral Walter Benjamin fellowship for Dr. René Winkler (684496, -2025)
EMBO Postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Marina Farkas (-2024)
MCI Predoctoral fellowship for Oliver Meers (PRE2019-088529, -2024)
ISCIII Sara Borrell postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Diesch (CD17/00084, -2022)
MINECO FPI predoctoral fellowship for Ms. Le Pannèrer (BES-2016-077251, -2021)
MINECO Juan de la Cierva for Dr. Jeannine Diesch (FJCI-2014-22983, -2018)
MECD FPU predoctoral fellowship for David Corujo (FPU14/06542, -2019)
MINECO Juan de la Cierva for Dr. Julien Douet (JCI-2011-10831, -2015)
MINECO Ramón y Cajal for Dr. Marcus Buschbeck (RYC2010-07337, -2015)
FEBS Postdoctoral long-term fellowship for Dr. Catherine Creppe (-2014)
AGAUR Beatriu de Pinós – Postdoctoral long-term fellowship for Dr. Julien Douet (-2012)
EMBO Postdoctoral long-term fellowship for Dr. Catherine Creppe (-2010)
MINECO FPI predoctoral fellowship to Neus Cantariño (-2014)
AGAUR FI predoctoral fellowship to Melanija Posavec Marjanovic (-2013)
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