Dr. Nicola Dikow
Consultant at the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Human Genetics
Heidelberg University Hospital
Dr. Nicola Dikow is a consultant at the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Human Genetics at Heidelberg University Hospital specializing in genetic tumor predisposition.
She studied human medicine in Heidelberg and in Clermont Ferrand, France. In 2002 she received her medical registration and wrote her doctoral thesis on the molecular analysis of tuberous sclerosis. Since 2003, she has been a physician, researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Human Genetics.
In 2008 she received her board registration as a clinical geneticist. Her research deals with genetic causes of intellectual disability, dysmorphism and malformation, and clinical and psychological consequences of receiving genetic test results.
Since 2012, she has been in charge of the coordination of the interdisciplinary consultation for patients with a genetic predisposition for breast- and ovarian cancer as well as research activities within the German consortium for hereditary breast- and ovarian cancer.
Her current focus of interest revolves around rare tumor predisposition syndromes in children and adults and the development of evidence based cancer screening recommendations for affected patients and their families.
Nicola Dikow is also interested in ethical questions such as the management of secondary findings in a clinical diagnostic or research setting. When she is not at the hospital, she is a passionate piano player.
