Rita Schmutzler

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Rita Schmutzler (2015)

Rita Schmutzler (* 1958 ) is the director of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer at the University Clinic in Cologne and coordinator of the German Consortium for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer . Schmutzler is a gynecologist and specializes in the care of people with a family history of gynecological tumor diseases such as breast , ovarian and uterine cancer .

Life

From 1979 to 1984, Schmutzler completed her studies in human medicine at the University of Bonn. There she received her doctorate in 1984. In the following year 1985 and 1988 she successfully completed the American medical exams FMGEMS and FLEX. From 1986 to 1992, Schmutzler completed further training in gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Bonn, where from 1994 she also took over the development and management of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer at the Women's Clinic. She has been a university professor since 2003 and director of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer at the University Clinic in Cologne since 2012.

In 1984, Schmutzler started her scientific career as an assistant at the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Bonn. The following year 1985 she received a DAAD scholarship in the field of gynecological endocrinology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA. From 1989 to 1990 she received a DFG scholarship on the subject of gene variants of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer at Mount Medical School, New York, USA.

From 1994 to 1997 a DFG postdoctoral fellowship followed with a postdoctoral qualification in the field of gynecology and obstetrics as well as on the subject of molecular genetic alterations in sporadic breast cancer in 1997. In 2003, Schmutzler became the endowed professor of the German Cancer Aid for molecular gynecological oncology at the University of Cologne's women's clinic appointed. Since 2005 she has been coordinating the 18 centers for familial breast and ovarian cancer in Germany. Since 1994, Schmutzler has made a name for herself as the head of several third-party funded projects for the identification and diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic significance of breast cancer-associated risk genes through the German Cancer Aid Foundation, the German Research Foundation and the BMBF .

Research priorities

Schmutzler's research focuses on gynecological oncology , especially molecular genetics of breast and ovarian cancer , hereditary gynecological tumor diseases and cancer prevention . The aim of her research is to break down the genetic causes of the predisposition and to offer affected women preventive measures in order to either prevent the disease from breaking out or to recognize the disease early enough to be curable.

Prizes and awards

Committees and honorary positions

  • Since 2002: Member of the AGO Mamma of the German Cancer Society .
  • 2004–2013: Member of the specialist committee of the German Cancer Aid Foundation .
  • Since 2007: Member of the S3 guideline commissions for early breast cancer detection and for the diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care of breast cancer of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and the German Cancer Society.
  • Since 2008: Member of the German Research Foundation .
  • Since 2008: Founding member of the self-help group BRCA network to help with familial breast cancer and ovarian cancer .
  • Since 2009: Member of the expert committee on the National Cancer Plan and responsible for the paper on risk-adapted early detection in the field of action.
  • Since 2009: Deputy expert in the genetic diagnostics committee at the Robert Koch Institute Berlin for the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics.
  • Since 2010: Founding member of the BRCA network (self-help of women with familial problems for breast and ovarian cancer)
  • 2010–2012: Board member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • 2010–2013: Member of the Central Ethics Commission at the German Medical Association
  • Since 2011: Head of the Working Group on Hereditary Tumor Diseases (AET) of the German Cancer Society.
  • Since 2012: Founding member of the Adolphe Monkiedje Foundation for the promotion of students at the University of Yaoundé , Cameroon .
  • Since 2012: Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the National Cohort funded by the BMBF.
  • Since 2012: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Biomaterialbank of the RWTH Aachen funded by the BMBF.
  • Since 2014: Member of the scientific advisory board of the IQWIG .
  • Since 2017: Member and Deputy Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)
  • Since 2017: Permanent guest on the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Prof. Dr. Rita Schmutzler - Curriculum vitae ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / familiaerer-brust-und-eierstockkrebs.uk-koeln.de
  2. ↑ Walter Hohlweg Prize 1998 ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 13, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scheringstiftung.de
  3. ↑ Ingrid zu Solms-Stiftung - award winners, accessed on March 16, 2016.
  4. ^ AGO Commission Mamma , accessed on March 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ German Cancer Aid Expert Committee , accessed on March 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Interdisciplinary S3 guideline ( memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care of breast cancer, accessed on March 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.awmf.org
  7. ^ German Research Foundation - Review Boards , term of office 2012–2015, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Genetic Diagnostics Commission , members and deputy members, accessed on March 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ Working Group for Hereditary Tumor Diseases (AET) of the German Cancer Society, accessed on March 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ Adolphe Monkiedje Foundation , accessed on 17 March 2016th
  11. ↑ Ethics Advisory Board of the National Cohort , accessed March 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ Biomaterial Bank of RWTH Aachen University , accessed on March 16, 2016.
  13. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board of IQWIG , accessed on March 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schmutzler, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, director of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer at Cologne University Hospital
DATE OF BIRTH 1958