07/02/2017

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DKTK Berlin: Prof. Schulte wins the Dr. Maresch-Klingelhöffer Research Prize 2016

On 24 January, Prof. Johannes H. Schulte was presented with the Dr. Maresch-Klingelhöffer Research Prize by the Frankfurter Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder, a German childhood cancer foundation, for his paper on “Mutational dynamics between primary and relapse neuroblastoma”, which was published in Nature Genetics.

Dr Jürgen Vogt (left), Chairman of the foundation, and Prof. Schulte (right). (© Frankfurter Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder)

Prof. Schulte is an oncologist who conducts research in the Pediatrics Department of Charité Medical Center, in the Oncology and Hematology Division at Campus Virchow-Klinikum in Berlin. He also conducts research within the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). His research paper looked at tumor evolution and its significance for personalized cancer medicine, using the example of neuroblastoma, a very frequent type of childhood cancer.

The Frankfurter Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder has been awarding the Dr. Maresch-Klingelhöffer Research Prize since 2008. It comes with prize money of EUR 10,000 and is awarded to the best paper by emerging researchers working in research fields in the area of pediatric oncology and hematology.

 

Link to research team:

https://paedonko.charite.de/forschung/ag_schulte/