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Dr. Robert Kratzke
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- 424 Harvard St SE, First Floor, Suite M100, Minneapolis
- (612) 626-0400
- kratz003@umn.edu
Dr. Robert A. Kratzke is the Skoglund Professor of Lung Cancer Research as well as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Section of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation. He received his medical degree from the University of Washington Medical School, in 1983. Dr. Kratzke completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also worked at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research from 1988 to 1990 as a research fellow.
After his time at the McArdle Laboratory, Dr. Kratzke went on to the National Cancer Institutes (NCI) of Health as a medical oncology fellow. He stayed with the NCI as a researcher until 1994.
From 1993 to 1994, Dr. Kratzke was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He also worked as a Staff Physician at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, in the Section of Hematology/Oncology, from 1994 to 2004.
Dr. Kratzke is an expert in the study and treatment of renal and lung cancers. Mesothelioma is of particular interest to him and a lot of his research has studied the abnormalities and changes in the molecules of mesothelioma and lung cancer cells. The focal point of these studies is the loss of functioning of cell cycle regulator genes in cancer. Other studies involving mesothelioma have found that a certain gene product is missing in most every case of mesothelioma. Because of this, Dr. Kratzke and his research team are looking at the possibility of using gene replacement as a therapy for mesothelioma.
In collaboration with his colleague Dr. Michael Maddaus of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. Kratzke is researching the detection of micrometatstatic disease in lung cancer and the characterization of the acquire molecular abnormalities in the micrometastases.
Dr. Kratzke has been widely published in various professional journals, including Lung Cancer, Cancer, Gene Therapy, Oncogene, Chest, Cancer Research, the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.
Dr. Kratzke can be reached through the University of Minnesota Medical School.