Wolfgang Wick

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Wolfgang Wick (born April 20, 1970 in Bonn ) is a German doctor and professor of neurology and medical director of the department for neuro-oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital .

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Wick completed his studies in Bonn, from 1993 to 1994 at King's College London and from 1996 to 1997 at Harvard Medical School in Boston. After completing his doctorate on the subject of detection of a metastasis-associated putative tumor suppressor gene on human chromosome 15q with Otmar Wiestler at the Institute for Neuropathology in Bonn, training as a specialist in neurology at the Neurological University Clinic in Tübingen followed until 2003.

In 2003 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the molecular mechanisms of invasion and migration of malignant gliomas . In 2006 he was awarded the Pette Prize of the German Society for Neurology (DGN). Since 2007 he has been Professor and Medical Director of the Department of Neuro-Oncology at the Neurological Clinic and the National Tumor Center at Heidelberg University Hospital. The main focus of work and research at Wick is the treatment of brain tumors , especially glioblastoma . Wolfgang Wick is a member of the ESMO research group for brain tumors. Web of Science lists 248 publications. Wick has an h-index of 44 and is author of 17 articles that have been cited more than 100 times.

Wick has been a member of the board of the neurooncological working group of the German Cancer Society since 2007, a member of the board of the European Association for Neurooncology (EANO) since 2008, spokesman for the Brain Tumor Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) since 2009 and since 2010 Member of the board of directors of the European Cancer Organization (ECCO).

Awards

Source: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online

  • 2001: Attempo Prize for Neurobiology from the University of Tübingen
  • 2003: Novartis research award for doctors at the Tübingen University Hospital
  • 2005: Prize for Neuro-Oncology from the Sibylle Assmus Foundation
  • 2006: Pette Prize of the German Society for Neurology
  • 2015: German Cancer Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Previous winners ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Heidelberg study on brain tumors: Leipzig researchers helped decipher the fatal chain reaction ( memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) October 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Elderly people with glioma also benefit from chemotherapy , Ärzte Zeitung, May 12, 2012
  4. ↑ Personalized medicine: Tailor-made cancer therapy , Pharmazeutische Zeitung, 4/2013
  5. Jump up ↑ Hope in Metastatic Melanoma , Der Standard, May 18, 2012

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SURNAME Wick, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn