Pediatric neurosurgery Working Group

As part of both the SIOP LGG 2003 (International Society of Pediatric Oncology – Low Grade Glioma) and the SIOP LGG 2014 European therapy study for low-grade CNS tumors, Univ.-Prof. Thomas Czech served as reference neurosurgeon and was co-responsible for the neurosurgical protocol guidelines.

For the SIOP CNS GCT II therapy study on the treatment of intracranial germ cell tumors (icGCT), Univ.-Prof. Thomas Czech also served as reference neurosurgeon and has been chair of the icGCT group since 2013. Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Christian Dorfer, MBA, has been Chair of the SIOP-BT Working Group for Education and Training since 2021 and, since 2023, Chair of the SIOP-BT Working Group for Ependymoma. In this role, he is also involved in the new European study protocol for the treatment of ependymomas. In addition, he is co-responsible for the development of the new European therapy protocol for the treatment of medulloblastomas (MB6 trial).

Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Christian Dorfer, MBA, and Univ.-Prof. Thomas Czech are also members of various working groups within the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (Société Internationale d’Oncologie Pédiatrique), where new study protocols are being developed.

• Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, USA
• University of California, Los Angeles, Mattel Children's Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
• University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
• Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Deutschland
• Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Deutschland
• Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, 3584 Utrecht, Niederlande