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Prof. Trumpp explains that just like their healthy counterparts, cancer stem cells can renew themselves in an unlimited manner, which makes them immortal and therefore so dangerous to the organism. They are often not only the cause of cancerous disease, but also in many cases responsible for tumour recurrence and metastasis. According to the Heidelberg scientist, radiation and chemotherapy have little or no effect on cancer stem cells, because they can enter a reversible deep dormant state. The surviving cancer stem cells are then able to regenerate a tumour or metastases even after an initially successful treatment of the original tumour. One of the researcher’s most important goals is to identify these often rare cancer stem cells and develop tools to target them for destruction. Andreas Trumpp heads the Stem Cells and Cancer Division at the German Cancer Research Center and is Director of the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM gGmbH).
His lecture “Cancer Stem Cells“ on 18 September is aimed at pupils in the last years of grammar school. Afterwards Prof. Trumpp and researchers from the Centre for Organismal Studies will join attendees for discussion in small groups. The event on 19 September is focused on the topic “Cancer and Metastasis Stem Cells in Hematopoietic and Solid Tumors“ and is reserved for scientists of the Heidelberg research hub. There will also be plenty of opportunity for discussion and knowledge exchange after the lecture. The „Bertalanffy Lecture at COS“ is sponsored by the Klaus Tschira Foundation
Information on participating / attending:
The lecture on 18 September is aimed at pupils in the last years of grammar school.
The event on 19 September is reserved for scientists of the Heidelberg research hub.
Date:
09/18/2014 14:00 - 09/19/2014 17:00
Event venue:
Centre for Organismal Studies
Im Neuenheimer Feld 230
Ludwig-von-Bertalanffy-Hörsaal
69120 Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Teachers and pupils
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Biology
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
09/15/2014
Sender/author:
Marietta Fuhrmann-Koch
Department:
Kommunikation und Marketing
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event48371
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