Dominik Saul was born in Goslar, Germany, in 1988. He studied medicine in Goettingen from 2007 until 2013 and began his training as an orthopedic and trauma surgeon at the Georg-August University in Goettingen. During his residency, he performed research on bone and fracture healing and was awarded the Venia Legendi (habilitation) in Experimental Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in 2019. After completing his residency, he acquired a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) scholarship for the study of cellular senescence in bone healing in Professor Khosla’s lab at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (USA). From 2020 until 2022, he focused on cellular senescence in the healing bone. With a strong focus on bioinformatics and single-cell RNA-sequencing, he discovered coherent mechanisms of senescent cells across tissues and organs. Dominik still has ongoing collaborations with his colleagues from Rochester and obtained the rank of an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in 2022. After turning back to the BG Clinic in Tuebingen, he obtained the title of an Adjunct Professor (APL) at the University of Tuebingen in 2024. Dominik assumed the position as a group leader at the Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Diseases where he and his team will focus on cellular senescence in cancer and bone metastasis.
