Sarcoma Conference

The Sarcoma Conference has been an interdisciplinary symposium for sarcoma research that has been held annually since 2011 . The venue is generally Berlin, in 2015 it was Münster . The initiators of the conference are among others the German Interdisciplinary Sarcoma Group and the patient organization Das Lebenshaus.

purpose

The Sarcoma Conference is the annual meeting point for therapists, researchers and patient representatives who deal with sarcomas in German-speaking countries. Progress made in Germany is permanently presented to the public and discussed with national and international experts. For practitioners, it serves as a training platform through which they can acquire established knowledge. In particular, the aim is to improve the clinical and qualitative management of sarcomas from diagnostics to therapies and follow-up.

Advisory Board

The advisory board of the conference consists of (as of 2018):

Sebastian Bauer , Essen Thomas Brodowicz , Vienna Reinhard Büttner , Bonn Uta Dirksen , Essen

Hans Roland Dürr , Munich Victor Grünwald , Essen Florian Haller, Erlangen Peter Hohenberger , Mannheim

Bernd Kasper , Mannheim Christoph Kettelhack , Basel Lars Lindner , Munich Peter Reichardt , Berlin

Matthias Schwarzbach , Frankfurt-Höchst Per-Ulf Tunn , Berlin Eva Wardelmann , Münster Markus Wartenberg, Wölfersheim

International research award

The conference awards the renowned "International Research Prize of the Sarcoma Conference" every year. The prize sponsored by the GISG German Interdisciplinary Sarcoma Group - GISG and the patient organization for GIST / sarcomas in Germany Das Lebenshaus eV is endowed with 10,000 euros and has been divided equally into categories A (outstanding scientific achievements in the field of clinical or experimental sarcoma research) and B (special career involvement in the diagnosis and therapy of patients with sarcoma diseases).

Award winners

• 2011: Adrien Daigeler , Employer's Liability Insurance Association Ludwigshafen
• 2012: Lars Steinsträßer , Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
• 2013: Jens Jakob , Mannheim University Hospital
• 2014: Marcus Renner Pathological Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• 2015:
  • Thomas Grünewald , working group leader at the Pathological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
  • Bernd Kasper , Mannheim University Hospital
• 2016:
  • Abbas Agaimy , Deputy Director of the Institute for Pathology at the University Hospital Erlangen
  • Florian Haller , University Hospital Erlangen
• 2017: Eleni Tomazou, St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung e. V., Vienna, Austria
• 2018: Priya Chudasama, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) , Heidelberg
• 2019: Marcel Trautmann, Institute for Pathology (Gerhard Domagk Institute), University Hospital Münster

Web links

• Internet presence of the Sarcoma Conference
• Sarcoma Conference 2016: Individual patient management is mandatory , In Focus Oncology , May 2016, Volume 19, Issue 5, pp. 52–53
• Sarcoma Conference 2015: Sarcoma Therapy - An Interdisciplinary Challenge , In Focus Oncology, April 2015, Volume 18, Issue 4, pp. 60–63

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Research Prize of the Sarcoma Conference 2015 , Deutsches Ärzteblatt from February 2015