FORTRESS is an open forum for basic researchers, clinical scientists, PhD candidates, post docs, laboratory technologists, patient advocates and other interested parties working in the field of sarcoma research.
This meeting is a scientific initiative by the University Hospitals (UZ Leuven) of KU Leuven (Belgium) and the West German Cancer Center, University of Duisburg/Essen (Germany), an annual academic meeting alternating between Leuven and Essen and taking place in two very different, equally spectacular UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The meeting is intended to facilitate active exchange between sarcoma scientists and to lead to interaction and collaborative projects and has a much different scope than established clinical sarcoma meetings.
FORTRESS has an inclusive character, features work in all fields of mesenchymal malignancies, from soft tissue sarcoma (including gastrointestinal stromal tumour) to bone sarcoma, from "paediatric/adolescent" sarcomas to orphan and more common adult entities.
Sebastian
Bauer
Prof. Sebastian Bauer holds a Professorship for Personalized Tumortherapy at the University Hopital Essen and is the Director of the Sarcoma Center at the West German Cancer Center and the group leader of the Translational Sarcoma Research Group.
Uta
Dirksen
Prof. Uta Dirksen heads the pediatric sarcoma focus at the West German Cancer Center Essen and is the Deputy Director of the Children's Clinic III. Prof. Dirksen additionally leads the internaitonal Ewing study group.
Patrick
Schöffski
Prof. Patrick Schöffski ist the Head of the Department of General Medical Oncology at
University Hospitals Leuven and Department of Oncology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology
KU Leuven
Agnieszka
Wozniak
Associate Prof. Faculty of Medicine
Laboratory of Experimental Oncology
Department of Oncology
KU Leuven
Julia Ketzer
Project Coordinator
Sarcoma Center Essen & Translational Sarcoma Research Group
West German Cancer Center
University Hospital Essen
WTZ-F EG r0.014
Sarcoma Center Essen
West German Cancer Center
University Hospital Essen
WTZ-F EG room 0.014
Hufelandstr. 55
45147 Essen