Our next invited speaker will be Prof. Dr Rajkumar Savai from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He is going to join us at TRON on November 21st, 2024. We are looking forward to his talk “Neighbourhood watch in lung cancer: How immune cells and microenvironment interactions shape tumor outcome” and to exchange our scientific insights.

In his lab in Giessen, at the Institute for Lung Health (ILH), Prof. Savai is focusing his research on the “Microenvironmental Niche in Cancer”. He thereby aims to understand how the lung microenvironmental niche drives tumor initiation and progression and, most importantly, to identify specific targets that will interact with or inhibit the tumor niche’s maintenance and functional competence. The long-term goal of his research is to translate tumor microenvironment-based therapeutic approaches into proof-of-concept clinical trials in lung cancer.

Prof. Savai is also heading the Oncology Basic Research Unit at Medical Clinic V of the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg in Giessen. Furthermore, he is jointly appointed as a group leader at the Department of Lung Development and Remodeling at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.

We are delighted to host Prof. Savai’s seminar and are looking forward to hearing about his work.