Dirk Hunter

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Dirk Jäger (born August 1, 1964 in Mainz ) is a German oncologist and managing director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg . As medical director, he also heads the Medical Oncology Department, which means that he is responsible for the entire clinical area of ​​the NCT. In addition, Jäger is head of the Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Immunity at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.

Career

After attending the Carlo-Mierendorff-Schule (elementary school) in Mainz-Kostheim , Jäger went to the old-language Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz. After graduating from high school in 1983, he studied medicine in Lübeck and Freiburg from 1985 to 1991 . From 1990 to 1991 he completed his practical year at the Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital . In 1991 he was at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with Eduard Farthmann about the dissertation topic , the phenomenon of translocation of bacteria and bacterial products for colonoscopies doctorate . From 1992 to 1993 he was an intern under Jürgen Schölmerich at the Medical Clinic I of the University of Regensburg . From 1993 to 1995 Jäger was an assistant doctor under Thomas Poralla in the medical clinic at the St. Joseph Hospital in Berlin . As a senior physician , he from 1995 to 1998 at the II. Medical Clinic of Frankfurt Hospital Northwest . In 1998 he successfully completed the specialist examination for internal medicine . He then received a two-year research fellowship at the Cancer Research Institute in New York City . His main research focus there was the identification of new tumor antigens in breast cancer and melanoma . From 2000 to 2003 Jäger was employed as a senior physician at the 2nd Medical Clinic, Hematology-Oncology in the Northwest Hospital under Alexander Knuth . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine at the Mainz University Hospital . In the same year he received recognition of the specialization in hematology and internal oncology. Jäger then worked until 2005 as a senior physician at the clinic and polyclinic for oncology at the University Hospital Zurich . On July 1, 2005, he went to the National Center for Tumor Diseases in Heidelberg as Director of the Department of Medical Oncology.

Others

Jäger's sister Elke Jäger is chief physician at the Clinic for Oncology and Hematology at the Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications (selection)

  • JN Kather, N. Halama, D. Jaeger: Genomics and emerging biomarkers for immunotherapy of colorectal cancer. In: Seminars in cancer biology. Volume 52, Pt 210 2018, pp. 189-197, doi : 10.1016 / j.semcancer.2018.02.010 , PMID 29501787 (review).
  • with Stefanie Zschäbitz: Bladder carcinoma in elderly and geriatric patients. In: Matthias Ebert, Nicolai Härtel, Ulrich Wedding: Geriatric Oncology. Springer-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-48727-3 , pp. 461–472 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • I. Zörnig, N. Halama, J. Lorenzo Bermejo, C. Ziegelmeier, E. Dickes, A. Migdoll, I. Kaiser, T. Waterboer, M. Pawlita, N. Grabe, S. Ugurel, D. Schadendorf, C . Falk, SB Eichmüller, D. Jäger: Prognostic significance of spontaneous antibody responses against tumor-associated antigens in malignant melanoma patients. In: International Journal of Cancer . Volume 136, Number 1, January 2015, pp. 138-151, doi : 10.1002 / ijc.28980 , PMID 24839182 .
  • N. Halama, I. Zoernig, A. Berthel, C. Kahlert, F. Klupp, M. Suarez-Carmona, T. Suetterlin, K. Brand, J. Krauss, F. Lasitschka, T. Lerchl, C. Luckner- Minden, A. Ulrich, M. Koch, J. Weitz, M. Schneider, MW Buechler, L. Zitvogel, T. Herrmann, A. Benner, C. Kunz, S. Luecke, C. Springfeld, N. Grabe, CS Falk, D. Jaeger: Tumoral Immune Cell Exploitation in Colorectal Cancer Metastases Can Be Targeted Effectively by Anti-CCR5 Therapy in Cancer Patients. In: Cancer cell. Volume 29, number 4, April 2016, pp. 587-601, doi : 10.1016 / j.ccell.2016.03.005 , PMID 27070705 .

Awards

  • Rose-Marie-Finnell Memorial Fellowship for Breast Cancer Research, 1998
  • AVON Award for breast cancer research, Cancer Research Institute, 2001
  • Investigators Award, Cancer Research Institute, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elena Hungerland: "Oncology is developing rapidly." In: helmholtz.de. February 9, 2018, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Immunity , accessed on February 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dirk Jäger - NCT National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg. In: nct-heidelberg.de. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Curriculum Vitae at aok-bw-presse.de, from June 22, 2009 (PDF; 20 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oncologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz