Frank Winkler | “Cancer neuroscience of brain tumors”

Keynote speech \ Manfred Eigen lecture theatre Neural influences regulate cancer initiation, invasion, growth, metastasis, and therapy resistance. Those discoveries have changed the way we think about cancer, and fueled the emerging field of “Cancer Neuroscience”. In this talk I will cover our discovery of neural-like communicating cancer cell networks in primary and metastatic brain tumors (Osswald Nature 2015; Hausmann…