Dept. of Neurosurgery, Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich,
Munich, Bayern, Germany
I am a PGY-5 resident physican and clinican-scientist (PD Dr. med.) in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University School of Medicine in Munich, Germany. I completed my medical degree at the Saarland University School of Medicine between 2012-2019, and was a visiting medical student and postgraduate researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, the Harvard Medical School, and various other medical schools in Europe. I still have strong ties to the Yale School of Medicine (Prof. Joachim Baehring) and the Harvard Medical School (Prof. Joerg Dietrich). My basic research interests include novel therapies (particularly CAR T-cells or TAM/M-depleting agents) for primary and secondary CNS malignancies, and I am particularly interested in translating such therapeutic interventions into local approaches (and for this purpose, I currently characterize the side effects of novel immunotherapeutics to the brain). In this context, I am also strongly involved in the RANO resect group where we study the association between extent of surgical tumor resection and outcome across molecular glioma subtypes.
