Rainer Spang

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Rainer Spang (born February 27, 1966 in Lüxem ) is a German bioinformatician .

Life

Spang grew up in Lüxem . He has been Professor of Bioinformatics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Regensburg since 2007 . He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Bonn . For his doctorate (1999) he went to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg in the working group of Martin Vingron . From 2001 to 2006 he was group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Martin Vingron's department.

Act

Rainer Spang works on bioinformatic methods to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of cancer.

Fonts

  • With Burkhard Hirsch, Michael Hummel, Stephan Bentink, Fariba Fouladi, Raphael Zollinger, Harald Stein and Horst Dürkop: CD30-induced signaling is absent in Hodgkin's cells but present in anaplastic large cell lymphoma cells , Am. J. Pathol. 2008 172 (2): 510-520, 2008
  • With Denis Kostka: Microarray based diagnosis profits from better documentation of gene expression signatures PLoS Comp. Biol. 4: e22, 2008
  • With Florian Markowetz: Inferring cellular networks - a review BMC Bioinformatics 8 (Suppl. 6): S5, 2007
  • With Michael Hummel, Stefan Bentink, Hilmar Berger, Wolfram Klapper, Swen Wessendorf, Thomas FE Barth, Heinz-Wolfram Bernd, Sergio B. Cogliatti, Judith Dierlamm, Alfred C. Feller, Martin-Leo Hansmann, Eugenia Haralambieva, Lana Harder, Dirk Hasenclever, Michael Kühn, Dido Lenze, Peter Lichter, Jose Ignacio Martin-Subero, Peter Möller, Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink, German Ott, Reza M. Parwaresch, Christiane Pott, Andreas Rosenwald, Maciej Rosolowski, Carsten Schwaenen, Benjamin Stürzenhofecker, Monika Szczepanowski, Heiko Trautmann, Hans-Heinrich Wacker, Markus Löffler, Lorenz Trümper, Harald Stein, and Reiner Siebert: A biologic definition of Burkitt's lymphoma from transcriptional and genomic profiling NEJM 354: 2419-2430, 2006
  • With Mike West, Carrie Blanchette, Holly Dressman, Erich Huang, Seiichi Ishida, Harry Zuzan, John A. Olson Jr., Jeffrey R. Marks, and Joseph R. Nevins: Predicting the clinical status of human breast cancer by using gene expression profiles PNAS 98: 11462-11467, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Spang, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bioinformatician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüxem