Frank Bradke

Early life and education

Frank Bradke was born on 16 October 1969 in what was then West Berlin. From 1989 to 1995, Bradke attended a special program in which he was simultaneous enrolled as a student at the Free University of Berlin and the University College London in which he received a Diplom in Biochemistry from the German university and a Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and Developmental Biology from the British university. He was later a doctoral student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and award a Ph.D. in Biology in 1999. After receiving his doctorate, Bradke moved to the United States in 2000 to work as a postdoctoral fellow under Marc Tessier-Lavigne, first at University of California, San Francisco and later at Stanford University.