He has 30 years of experience in research, discovery and teaching. Dr. Tacke is developing metallocenes and metallocarbenes as novel anticancer drugs aiming at difficult to treat forms of cancer like renal-cell cancer and as antibiotics breaking resistance patterns like MRSA. During his career at UCD, Dr. Tacke holds a Ph.D. from WWU Münster and a Habilitation from the Technical University of Karlsruhe. Notably, Dr. Tacke has authored more than 130 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and supervised more than 25 coworkers. Dr. Tacke won the prestigious CESAR Prize 2009 for Translational Anticancer Research for his development of Titanocene Y.