Prof. Dr. Heike Bantel
Head of Translational Hepatology and Senior Physician – Department of Gastroenenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology – Hannover Medical School (MHH)
c-tip-hcc Co-Coordinator
Role in LiSyM-Cancer
- Co-Coordinator and project leader in C-TIP-HCC
- Access to patient cohorts for cirrhosis with or without HCC, preclinical liver tissue cultures und WD mouse model; access to (longitudinal) sera/plasma samples and clinical data, including imaging and transient elastography reports from patients with cirrhosis with or without HCC
- Analyses of pathomechanisms and biomarkers of liver disease progression and hepatocarcinogenesis in patient-derived liver tissue and blood samples
Expertise
- Cell death mechanisms and their role in metabolic, viral or autoimmune liver diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma
- Identification of biomarkers for monitoring of liver disease progression and early detection of HCC
- Immunoassays and Akoya multiplex staining technology
- Patient-derived liver tissue and cell culture
- WD/HCC mouse model
Degrees
- 2003, Habilitation in Molecular Medicine (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Düsseldorf)
- 1996, Doctorate in Medicine
- 1989 – 1996, medical training, Universities of Göttingen, Tübingen and Ulm, Germany
Professional Experience
- Since 2009, W2 Professorship (Translational Hepatology) and Consultant (Oberärztin) at MHH (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology)
- 2009, Board Certification in Gastroenterology
- 2008, Board Certification in Internal Medicine
- Since 2002 Head of the research group “Experimental and Translational Hepatology” at MHH (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology)
- 2002-2009, Fellow in Internal Medicine (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, MHH)
- 1999-2002, Research group leader at the University of Münster (Dept. of Immunology and Cell Biology) and at the University of Düsseldorf (Institute of Molecular Medicine)
- 1998-1999 ,Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Klaus Schulze-Osthoff, Dept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Tübingen)
- 1996-1998, Fellow in Internal Medicine (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Tübingen)
Honors and Awards (selection)
- 2013 MTTC-Award (Medical Education Initiative on Molecular Targeted Therapy of Cancer)
- 2009 Award of the Lower Saxony Cancer Society
- 2008 Innovation Award of the German University Medicine
- 2007 Research Award from the German Society for Infectiology (DGI)
- 2007 Pro-Scientia-Award (Eckart-Buddecke-Stiftung)
- 2002 Martin Gülzow Award from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselerkrankungen (DGVS)
- 2002 Young Investigator Award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases