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. Career. In 2003, Bradke return to Germany to work at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried. In 2011, Bradke moved to the University of Bonn.