Cancer biology II

The 2x5 credit course Cancer Biology I+II starts in the winter semester and continues throughout the summer semester.

Cancer Biology II covers:

• complex oncogenic signaling networks and hierarchical tumor organization
• tumor metabolism
• cell death signaling and apoptosis
• cancer histology with pratical training

• inflammatory signaling in cancer
• tumor angiogenesis
• tumor cell dissemination and metastasis
• innate immunity: pro-tumorigenic roles of inflammation, NK cells
• adaptive immunity: immuno editing, immune evasion, immunotherapy

Two weeks on tumor angiogenesis will be given by Prof. de Palma, all other weeks and topics will be given by Prof. Huelsken.

The weekly lectures will be followed by exercises. The task for these exercises will be student presentations of scientific articles which illustrate the course in order to consolidate the knowledge of the course topics.