Interview: Predictive markers in colorectal cancer: where are we now?

Heinz-Josef Lenz speaks to Ruth Williamson, Commissioning Editor: Heinz-Josef Lenz is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine, and holds the Kathryn Balakrishnan Chair for Cancer Research. He is associate director of clinical research and co-chair of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program at the University of Southern California (USC) Center for Molecular Pathways and Drug Discovery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles (CA, USA). Dr Lenz received his medical degree from Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat in Mainz, Germany, and went on to complete a residency in hematology and oncology at the Eberhard-Karls Universitat Tubingen, Germany, before completing clerkships in oncology and hematology at George Washington University (WA, USA) and the Beth Israel Hospital of Harvard Medical School (MA, USA), respectively. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at...