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Marc-EricHalatsch
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Ulm
Steinhövelstraße 9
D-89075
Ulm
Germany
email: halatsch@aol.com
Phone: +49 731 50055003
Fax: +49 731 50055002
Fields of Interest: Neurosurgery, Neurooncology, Molecular and Cell Biology
Marc-Eric Halatsch, born in Hannover, Germany, had been an elected member of the German National Academic Foundation (competitive selection of 0.5% of students from all faculties) from 1987-1993.
Marc obtained his medical degree in 1993 at the Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany. From 1996-1998, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Takao Ohnuma´s Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Division of Neoplastic Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), New York City. Marc won the prestigious Samuel Bronfman Medicine Research Award at MSSM for his original approach to selectively inhibit deletion-mutant epidermal growth factor receptor messenger RNA expression in glioblastoma multiforme cells by a targeted hairpin ribozyme.
Marc has received grant support from several U.S. and German sources and has chaired or co-chaired scientific sessions during international oncology meetings. He is co-inventor of the U.S. provisional patent application OS-10018PV ("Combined treatment with artesunate and an epidermal growth factor receptor kinase inhibitor"; license granted on November 15, 2004).
Marc is a Professor of Neurosurgery and focussing on clinical and experimental neurosurgical oncology. Being an active member of several professional organizations, international journal reviewer panels and the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation, Marc also became the German representative of the Young Neurosurgeons´ Committee of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) for the term of 2003-2007 and completed the international EANS training course.
Professor Dr. Halatsch is a senior consultant in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Ulm, Germany. Besides his interest in neurosurgical oncology, he was awarded the certificate "Spinal Neurosurgery" by the German Society for Neurosurgery and the certificate "Advanced Medical Didactics" by the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.