New approach to classify brain tumors

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:57:00 +0100

The scientific journal Nature published online a new method to classify brain tumors. The methylation signature of more than 8000 brain tumor samples was analyzed by an international consortium led by the Univ. of Heidelberg Neuropathology team and German Cancer Research Center and involved also our colleagues from Erlangen UKER. “We are ready to apply this technique for our daily diagnostic routine”, tells Prof. Blümcke, director of the Neuropathology Institute at UKER. “Please do not hesitate to ask further questions”.

Start of a new DFG-funded project related to protein aggregation myopathies

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:04:00 +0100

The project entitled „Cellular mechanisms leading to desminopathy: Segregation, aggregation and proteostasis imbalance of desmin mutants in muscle cells and tissue“ aims to clarify the cellular mechanisms that are responsible for the specific sorting of wildtype versus mutant intermediate filament proteins in the context of human protein aggregate myopathies. and cardiomyopathies due to hetero- and homozygous desmin mutations.

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New approach to classify brain tumors

Start of a new DFG-funded project related to protein aggregation myopathies