Ependymoma Awareness Day 2023 - 2022 CERN and Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship Update
Kendra Maaß, scientist at the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), has received the CERN Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship awarded by the National Brain Tumor Society. For the project, Maaß is investigating specific factors in the formation, release and uptake of so-called vesicles. These are transport sacs that cells use to transmit information to specific cellular areas, their immediate environment (healthy and cancer cells), but also to more distant parts of the body via the blood. Maass would like to interrupt these transports and thus suppress the interactions of the most aggressive tumor cells of ependymomas. Ependymomas are the third most common type of brain tumor in children and are particularly common in young children.
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