Research Seminar: “Children with Rare Diseases of the Immune System - from Therapeutic Orphans to Pioneers of Personalized Therapies"
Presented by:
Christoph Klein, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Talk Summary:
Dr. Christoph Klein will highlight current challenges and advocate for a rights-based approach to pediatric healthcare. He will present paradigmatic examples how children with rare diseases provide unprecedented insights into novel genes and pathways controlling human immunity. His lecture shows how frontiers of pediatric medicine can be expanded by diligent and disciplined scientific studies. By telling the stories of his patients he will show how interdisciplinary commitment associating clinicians, immunologists, cell biologists, geneticists can make a difference to our patient’s life.
About the Speaker:
Christoph Klein graduated from the University of Ulm and LMU Munich where he had studied medicine and philosophy. He also has a PhD in immunology from the University of Paris. He trained in pediatrics in Munich, Paris, and Freiburg. After a clinical fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Klein held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and Hannover Medical School Germany before being appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics at LMU Munich, Germany’s premier university. He has received numerous scientific awards such as the Adalbert Czerny Prize by the German Society of Pediatrics, the William Dameshek Prize by the American Society of Hematology, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s highest academic distinction. He is spokesman of the German Research Networks on Rare Diseases and father of the international Care-for-Rare Foundation for children with rare diseases.
Hosted by
Mark R. Frey, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine
The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
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