2012 OMF Conference - Dr Bosch-Voskens on Ocular Melanoma Immunotherapy
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This talk on "Immunotherapy" is by Dr. Bosch-Voskens from the 2012 OMF Conference.
Dr. Caroline Bosch-Voskens is an Assistant Physician in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Erlangen in Germany. Caroline graduated from Medical School at Leiden University in her home country The Netherlands. During medical school, she conducted her scientific graduation project at the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Blantyre, Malawi, Africa, in 2002. This project evaluated different techniques to diagnose hookworm as part of a large research project on aetiology, pathogenesis and long-term outcome on severe anaemia in Malawian children.
After graduating from medical school in 2004, she started to work as a research fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Here, immuno-monitoring studies of a phase I clinical trial on peptide-based cancer vaccines were combined with basic laboratory studies on cellular immunotherapy. In 2009, Caroline returned to Europe and was awarded a training position in the department of Dermatology, University of Erlangen, Germany under supervision of Prof. G. Schuler. She is currently working as a resident and is involved in clinical studies on RNA transfected dendritic cells in melanoma patients. A large Phase III clinical trial using these dendritic cells as prophylactic treatment in uveal melanoma patients upon primary diagnosis is expected to start recruiting in the coming months.
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