Bone Abstracts

Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary bone tumor that occurs mainly during adolescence. Osteosarcoma is an aggressive mesenchymal tumor that often arises due to mutations in the tumor suppressor gene p53. Treatment of osteosarcoma patients includes chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgical approaches. Nevertheless, at advanced stages the survival rate is rather low. Thus, a better understanding of the underlying biology of osteosarcoma might help to develop novel thera...

Biographical DetailsEric HesseEric Hesse studied Medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany where he became MD in 2003. He was trained in Orthopedic Surgery and graduated as PhD in 2007 in Genetics & Cell Biology in Hannover, Germany. In 2005, he moved as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the German Research Foundation to the laboratory of Dr ...