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I Got Awarded as Best Young Scientist
The German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM) has awarded me as best author under 35 years in the field of hematology/oncology on their annual meeting. I was honoured for my publication:
Die N-Cadherin / [beta]-Catenin Interaktion spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei Selbsterhalt und Differenzierung humaner hämatopoetischer Stammzellen.
The honour and my gratitude goes to my co-authors, especially Larissa Pietsch.
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ASH-Meeting 2007 in Atlanta
Every year the American Society of Hematology (ASH) invites to their meeting that lasts several days. This month I had the opportunity to attend to this biggest meeting for hematology/oncology worldwide. The Event took place in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. read more »
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Alternative screening method for positive pLKO-Clones
Referring to the Addgene’s cloning protocol for the lentiviral vector pLKO.1 I would like to propose an alternative screening method für positive clones. read more »
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Our Discovery Hits the News
The German Rhombos Nachrichtenservice wrote:
Trojanereinsatz gegen Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs Stammzellen spielen eine Rolle beim Wachstum von Geschwülsten und könnten in modifizierter Form einen therapeutischen Ansatz bieten.
The complete text of the newsflash can be found at
http://www.rhombos.de/shop/a/show/story/?1155.
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EPC Award for Best Basic Science Paper
Meine Kooperation mit der Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Ingrid Herr (Molekulare Onkochirurgie) und PD. Peter Büchler (Viszeralchirurgie) über die Rolle von mesenchymalen Stammzellen bei der Entstehung und der Therapie des duktalen Pankreaskarzinoms trägt erste Früchte: Beim diesjährigen 39. Treffen des European Pancreatic Club (EPC) in Newcastle, UK erhielt unsere Publikation “BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FOR THERAPY OF PANCREATIC CANCER” den Preis als bestes Grundlagenpaper (”EPC 2007 Award for best basic science paper”). Mein Glückwunsch und Dankeschön für die gute Zusammenarbeit gilt insbesondere meinen Koautoren aus der AG Herr.
Keystone-Meeting 2007
Vom 03. bis 08. März 2007 hatte ich die Gelegenheit das jährliche Stammzellmeeting in Keystone, Colorado zu besuchen. Vier Tage lang gab es exzellente Vorträge, Seminare und Postersessions rund um die Themen normale und leukämische Stammzellen und Stammzellnische.
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First script submitted to the DGCH
I’ll be speaking at the annual meeting of the german surgical society (DGCH) which takes place in munich from April, 5 to April, 8. During the “surgical forum” i will be giving a lecture about the role of notch-signalling for the neurovascular developement in pancreas carcinomas. the script will then be published to the surgical DGCH-yearbook, which, unfortunately, isn’t citated by medline.
Busy Days
The last days were filled with bustling activity and brought big changes. two weeks ago my new mentor Peter and i went to the clinic for tumor biology in freiburg to learn a new technique called “spheroid-assay”. this assay can be used to analyse the three-dimensional groth of new blood vessels in a cell culture. we spent the whole day peeking into culture plates, medium flasks and microscopes, thorougly writing down everything. the guys there were great (esp. big thank you to holger and oliver)! So, in the next few months Peter and myself will establish the spheroid-assay at our lab at the pancreas research center in heidelberg.
last week i got a phone call from the surgery’s residency director asking me to begin my clinical work next monday (!) initially i was supposed to start my residency in april… just the other day i gave the first “release candidate” of my medical thesis to dr. schwartz-albiez, who is my supervisor at the dkfz. i keep my fingers crossed that he agrees on submitting the work without further editing. yipee! today i got my medical identity card. now i am officially enabled to get all those fine drugs and pills (just for my own requirements) at the pharmacy
