Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Prof Dr med Frank Winkler is a neurologist and a professor of experimental neuro-oncology and managing senior physician in the Department of Neurology at the University of Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany.
His work has been published in Nature, Cell, Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, Science, Neuro-Oncology, Blood, among others. Dr Winkler is involved in >25 phase 1-3 clinical trials. In 2022 he received the German Cancer Award.
The research group, located in the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), is interested in cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain tumor progression. By combining state-of-the-art technologies, the ultimate aim is to achieve fundamental progress in our understanding of these challenging diseases, and to explore novel avenues of treatment and prevention in investigator-initiated trial concepts. The emerging field of “Cancer Neuroscience” is increasingly an overarching topic of our research.