ABOUT

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.

 

How does FORTRESS work?

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.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

 

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



MEETING COORDINATOR - Essen

Julia Ketzer

Project Coordinator

Sarcoma Center Essen & Translational Sarcoma Research Group

West German Cancer Center

University Hospital Essen

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FORTRESS2025@ume.de