Keynote Lecture with Professor Klaus Pantel – Liquid Biopsy: Establishing a new diagnostic concept in oncology

Speaker

• Professor Klaus Pantel Chairman of the Institute of Tumour Biology at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf; Founder of the European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS)
  

  Professor Klaus Pantel

  Chairman of the Institute of Tumour Biology at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf; Founder of the European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS)

  Country: Germany

  Professo Pantel is Chairman of the Institute of Tumour Biology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He graduated in 1986, and after his postdoctoral period in the USA he performed research at the Institute of Immunology, University of Munich for 10 years. The pioneer work of Professo Pantel in the field of cancer micrometastasis, circulating tumor cells and circulating nucleic acids is reflected by more than 550 publications in excellent high ranking biomedical and scientific journals and has been awarded the AACR Outstanding Investigator Award 2010, German Cancer Award 2010, and two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants 2011 and 2019. Moreover, Professor Pantel is the founder of the European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS).