University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Patrick Roth, MD, is a senior leading physician at the Department of Neurology and the coordinating physician of the Brain Tumor Center at the University Hospital Zurich. He earned his medical degree from the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 2003. He received postgraduate training in Neurology at the University of Tübingen and the University Hospital Zurich. He specializes in the interdisciplinary management of brain tumor patients with a preclinical and clinical research focus on the immunology and immunotherapy of brain tumors as well as the development of novel therapeutic strategies. He wa a member of the Executive Board of EANO and is the President of the Working Group CNS Tumors within the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research. He acts as the study coordinator of the EORTC 1709/CCTG CE.8 trial, a randomized phase 3 trial for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma assessing the activity marizomib, a novel brain-penetrant proteasome inhibitor.