Team

You can reach us:

INFORM_info@DKFZ.de
INFORM_samples@DKFZ.de (issues regarding samples and shipment)

Prof. Dr. med. Olaf Witt

(coordinator INFORM Registry study and INFORM2)
Director Translational Program
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Head, Clinical Cooperation Unit Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Head, KiTZ Clinical Trial Unit (ZIPO) and Brain Tumors
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Pfister

(coordinator INFORM program)
Director Preclinical Program
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Head, Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, DKFZ
Deputy Head, KiTZ Clinical Trial Unit and Brain Tumors
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

David T. W. Jones, PhD

(coordinator molecular diagnostics)
Group Leader, Pediatric Glioma Research Group, DKFZ
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter

(coordinator OMICs workflows)
Head, Molecular Genetics, DKFZ

Prof. Dr. med. Uta Dirksen

(coordinator participating GPOH groups)
Vice Director Pediatrics III, Oncology, Hematology, Immunology, Cardiology, Pulmonology,
West German Cancer Centre, Essen

Dr. Kristian W. Pajtler, MD, MBA

(Clinical Management – INFORM registry)
Group leader – Early Cancer Diagnostics & Reverse Translation
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, DKFZ
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

Maria Filippidou, MD

(Clinical Managment INFORM Greece)
Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, DKFZ

Dr. Cecilia Zuliani

Project management - INFORM registry
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, DKFZ
Clinical Cooperation Unit Pediatric Oncology

Ruth Witt, M.Sc. MA

(Biostatistics and trial management pediatric oncology trials)
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
CCU Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Irina Türüchanow

Data Management INFORM Registry
Central data management of the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (ZDM GPOH)
Medical University Hannover
Pediatric oncology/hematology

Dr. Cornelis van Tilburg, MD

(INFORM2 Clinical Trials)
Consultant Pediatric Oncologist
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
KiTZ Clinical Trial Unit (ZIPO)
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

PD Dr. Till Milde, MD

Consultant Pediatric Oncologist – KiTZ Clinical Trial Unit (ZIPO)
Group leader - Translational brain tumor modeling
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
CCU Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

Prof. Dr. med. Andreas von Deimling

(Evaluation of tumor tissue and verification of actionable targets)
Department of Neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology & Clinical Cooperation Unit (CCU) Neuropathology at the DKFZ
Director

PD Dr. med. Felix Sahm

(Evaluation of tumor tissue and verification of actionable targets)
Department of Neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology & CCU Neuropathology at the DKFZ
Consultant (Oberarzt)

PD Dr. med. David Reuss

(Evaluation of tumor tissue and verification of actionable targets)
Department of Neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology & CCU Neuropathology at the DKFZ
Senior Consultant (Komm. Leitender Oberarzt)

Petra Fiesel

(Coordination of material processing, quality control and verification of actionable targets)
Department of Neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology & CCU Neuropathology at the DKFZ
INFORM sample processing laboratory

Maria Proksch

(Material processing, quality control and verification of actionable targets)
Department of Neuropathology at the Institute of Pathology & CCU Neuropathology at the DKFZ
INFORM sample processing laboratory

Dr. rer. nat. Gnana Prakash Balasubramanian

(Clinical Translational Bioinformatics, Processing, Analysis and Interpretation)
Project Leader – INFORM Bioinformatics
Clinical Bioinformatics Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg

Robert (RJ) Autry, PhD

DKFZ Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, Group Leader – Clinical Bioinformatics Group – Translational Genomics (Clinical Translational Bioinformatics, Processing, Analysis and Interpretation)
Clinical Bioinformatics Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Natalie Jäger, PhD

(Bioinformatics, Data Processing and Analysis)
Group Leader – Clinical Bioinformatics Clinical Bioinformatics Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg

Dr. med. Pascal Johann

(Data collation, interpretation and prioritization)
MD-Postdoc
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, Immunology and Pulmonology, Heidelberg University Hospital

Rolf Kabbe

(INFORM IT-Coordination and Software Development)
IT-Coordinator INFORM-Bioinformatics
Clinical Bioinformatics Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Dr. Christopher Previti

(Clinical Translational Bioinformatics, Processing, Analysis)
INFORM-Bioinformatician
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Omics IT and Data Management Core Facility (ODCF), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Dr. rer. nat. Lena Weiser

(INFORM Informatics Data Management @ ODCF)
Omics IT and Data Management Core Facility (ODCF), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Dr. rer. nat. Kathrin Schramm

Data collation, interpretation and prioritization
Postdoc, Pediatric Glioma Research Group, DKFZ
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Dr. rer. nat. Mirjam Blattner-Johnson

(Data collation, interpretation and prioritization)
Postdoc, DKFZ Pediatric Glioma Research Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Dr. med. Elke Pfaff

(Data collation, interpretation and prioritization)
MD-Postdoc, DKFZ Pediatric Glioma Research Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Dr. med Sebastian Stark

(Data collation, interpretation and prioritization)
MD-Postdoc, DKFZ Pediatric Glioma Research Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Dr. med. Barbara Jones

(Data collation, interpretation and prioritization)
MD-Postdoc, DKFZ Pediatric Glioma Research Group
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)

Dr. Ina Oehme

Group Leader and Deputy Head of Department
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
CCU Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. rer nat. Heike Peterziel

Senior Postdoc
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
CCU Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. rer. nat. Sina Oppermann

Postdoc, Pharmacist
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
CCU Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. med. Nicola Dikow

Assessment and Validation of germline variants
Institute of Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital

Dr. Steffen Hirsch, MD

(Assessment and Validation of germline variants)
Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
Institute of Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital
Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Christian Sutter, Ph.D.

(Bioinformatical evaluation and interpretation of sequence variants)
Lab Manager Sanger Sequencing Core
Staff Scientist, Diagnostics of Hereditary Tumor Predisposition
Institute of Human Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital

Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Wolf

(Genomics and Proteomics Core Facility)
Head of High Throughput Sequencing
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. rer. nat. Angela Schulz

(Genomics and Proteomics Core Facility)
Project Coordinator, High Throughput Sequencing
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. Melanie Bewerunge-Hudler

(Genomics and Proteomics Core Facility)
Head of Microarray-Unit
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)