Tad Holak
Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Biography
Professor Tad A. Holak is a collaborator of Nobel Prize laureate, Prof. Robert Huber and Prof. A. Dömling. Between 1988 and 2011, he was the group leader of the Biological NMR Structure Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany). Since 2012, he has also been the head of the Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Group at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). During this time, he has successfully led several projects funded by the National Science Center of Poland, the Foundation for Polish Science, and EU funds. Professor Holak’s research focuses on structural studies of proteins involved in cancer and other human diseases. He and his collaborators have developed novel small-molecule inhibitors of PD-1/PD-L1 and Mdm2-p53 protein-protein interactions as potential new treatments for human cancers. Professor Holak has co-authored more than 230 scientific papers, including articles published in Nature, PNAS, JACS, and the EMBO Journal.