Circulating Tumor Cells Keynote Speakers

Dario Marchetti Endowed Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Dario Marchetti is Professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology and Director of the CTC Core at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Marchetti’s bibliography includes 145 publications, numerous awards, and uninterrupted funding since 1991. He acts as Reviewer of the most relevant journals in cancer research, and on Editorial Boards of “Cancer Microenvironment, “Tumor Viruses”, “Vascular Cell”, “Cancer Letters”, and “Journal of Cellular Biochemistry”, among others. He serves on grant reviewing panels of the National Institutes of Health of USA and Italy, the U.S. Department of Defense, and is a grant Reviewer for other national and international Agencies.
Katharina Pachmann Professor, University of Jena Degrees and Diplomas 1973 Staatsexamen Humanmedizin in München 1974 German Dissertation 1977 Swedish Dissertation 1993 Habilitation in experimenteller Hämatologie Professional and research experience 1974-1975 Educational grant DFG: Stockholm, Institutet för Cellforskning; and Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried 1976-1977 Research grant DFG: Institute for Hematology GSF, München 1977-1982 Postdoc: Institute for Hematology der GSF, München 1984-1989 Postdoc: I. Medical Clinic, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München 1989-1996 Postdoc: Medical Clinic, Klinikum Innenstadt der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München 1996-1998 Visiting Scientist: MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy 1999 Visiting Scientist: LKH Universitätsklinikum Graz Gemeinsame Einrichtung für Klinische Immunologie, Jean-Dausset Laboratorium 2000-2012 Experimental Hematology und Oncology Clinic for Internal Medicine II Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena Since 2012 Senior Researcher, Transfusion Center Bayreuth, Germany