The tumors of the brain

The tumors of the brain are among the more rare cancers. For the affected patients, they are often a personal catastrophe dar. The medicine is in the brain tumors face numerous challenges. First, in the brain occur a relatively large number of different tumor entities. The disease is often variable and treatment measures in this organ is naturally limited. In recent years, with methods of cell biology, molecular biology and genomics have succeeded in fundamental insights into the origin of tumors of the nervous system to win. Imaging techniques have the brain tumor diagnosis is improved significantly. However, the treatment outlook remains unfavorable. Hence, the neuro-oncology now faces a major challenge, findings from the laboratory into the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and in particular to transfer. As part of the presentation will Otmar Wiestler some strategies and groundbreaking findings imagine.

Otmar D. Wiestler Freiburg has studied medicine and was also a PhD (1984). After a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, USA, he became first assistant physician, and later Head of the department of neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology of the University Hospital of Zurich. In Zurich, the Habilitation in the field of pathology (1990). In 1992 he became director of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn, since 2004 he has been Chairman of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Wiestler is inter alia a member of the Medical Advisory Board and Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Krebshilfe, he directs the Technical Theoretical Medicine of the German Research Foundation, is Chairman of the Board of the Stem Cell Network North Rhine-Westphalia and CEO of medical technology platform LIFE & BRAIN GmbH in Bonn. His research topics include: Molecular genetic basis of tumor formation in the nervous system, neural stem cells and Reconstructive Neurobiology, Pathogenesis of human temporal lobe epilepsies. In 2001, chose the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina member Otmar Wiestler (Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine).

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