Department of Neurosurgery Heidelberg University Hospital
Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Christine Jungk works as senior consultant neurosurgeon and managing physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany chaired by Prof. Unterberg. She received her MD degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and her specialty neurosurgery training at the Heidelberg Department of Neurosurgery. Since 2011, she has been in charge of the hospital’s neurosurgical neuro-oncology service.
Dr. Jungk’s clinical expertise includes neurosurgical neuro-oncology with a special interest in awake glioma surgery, intraoperative neuromonitoring and intraoperative imaging including iMRI and 5-ALA as well as skull base surgery. Her clinical research is focused on molecular and clinical prognostic factors in gliomas of different WHO grades with a special interest in the prognostic impact of maximum tumor resections. Within a nation-wide consortium investigating clinical and molecular features of clinically aggressive meningiomas, she has recently started to elucidate neurocognition and health-related quality of life in these patients.
Since her medical thesis dealing with the isolation, and characterization of human and rodent neural progenitor cells as potential source for cell transplantation, Dr. Jungk has been engaged in several translational research projects at the Division of Experimental Neurosurgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, chaired by Prof. Herold Mende. Among others, she has been working on the functional and prognostic role of the subventricular zone as (tumor) stem cell niche in glioblastoma.
Furthermore, Dr. Jungk enjoys teaching young neurosurgeons in the field of neuro-oncology, among others within the International Neurosurgery Residents Course endorsed by the WFNS and within the Division of Neuro-Oncology of the German Society of Neurosurgery.
