Helmut Salih

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Helmut Rainer Salih (* 1970 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) is a German hemato-oncologist and immunologist .

Life

Salih studied human medicine (1990–1997) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate from 1994 to 1997 at the Institute for Antimicrobial Therapy and Infection Immunology, Munich. Interrupted by a two-year postdoctoral stay at the BMS Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA, he completed his specialist training in Munich and Tübingen from 1997 to 2005 . From 2006 Salih worked at the Medical Clinic II (hematology, oncology, rheumatology, immunology) at the University Hospital Tübingen until he was appointed to the W3 professorship for translational immunology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2014 . Since then he has headed the Clinical Cooperation Unit (KKE) Translational Immunology in the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK) at the German Cancer Research Center , partner location Tübingen and has been Medical Director of the KKE Translational Immunology at the University Hospital Tübingen since April 2019.

Act

At the center of Salih's scientific and clinical work is the development of new immunotherapy strategies for the treatment of cancer diseases through to use on patients. This applies in particular to new types of anti-tumor antibodies and includes all steps, from basic research as the basis for new therapeutic concepts to the manufacture of new drugs and their evaluation in early clinical studies . In 2020 z. B. the testing of an Fc-optimized FLT3 antibody on patients with AML (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT02789254) and a bispecific PSMAxCD3 antibody on patients with prostate cancer (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT04104607). Salih is the author of over 130 scientific publications (as of 3/2020) as well as the inventor of numerous patent applications .

Awards (selection)

  • CESAR Prize for Translational Research 2013
  • Franziska-Kolb Prize for Leukemia Research from Ulm University 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. pubmeddev: salih hr - PubMed - NCBI. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .