Prof. Klaus Pantel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Klaus Pantel, MD, PhD, is the founder and chairman of the Institute for Tumor Biology at the Medical School of the University of Hamburg. He received his medical training and doctoral degree in mathematical modelling at the University of Cologne. After his post doctoral training at Wayne State University (Detroit)... read morehe was a faculty member at the Institute of Immunology, University of Munich for 10 years before he became a Full Professor of Medicine in Hamburg in 1999. Klaus Pantel has published more than 300 reports and reviews on cancer micrometastasis and the role of circulating tumor cells and circulating nucleic acids as biomarkers in cancer patients.