February 16th 2024
Seminar 21 March 2024 - Lessons from the Deceased to the Living and Back
The BRCCH cordially invites you to join our seminar about the use of pathology during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the human body.
When: Thursday, 21st March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 CET, to be followed by an apéro
Where: Hybrid Zoom / Seminarraum U1.197– Biozentrum, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Zoom Registration: HERE
In Person Registration: HERE
Directions and location information
Schedule:
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- Welcome by Prof Danny Jonigk (University Medical Center of RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Keynote by Dr Jasmin Haslbauer (University Hospital Basel, Switzerland): "Cardiovascular Manifestations of COVID-19"
- Keynote by PD Maximilian Ackermann (RWTH University Clinics & Helios University Clinics, Germany): "COVID-19 – A Systemic Vasculo-inflammatory Disease"
- Keynote by Prof Alexandar Tzankov (University Hospital Basel, Switzerland): "COVID-19 Insights from Non-Cardio-Pulmonary Organ Pathology"
- Q&A and Closing
- Networking Apéro
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Speakers:
Prof Danny Jonigk
University Medical Center of RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Moderator
Prof Danny Jonigk is a surgical and molecular pathologist, the Chair of Pathology and the Head of the Department of the Institute of Pathology at the University Medical Center of RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Prof Jonigk received his doctoral degree from Hannover Medical School in Germany. He is also the Head and Founding Principal Investigator of the National Central Pathology Platform within the German Centre for Lung Research and the Head of the Pathology Platform at the German Centre for Lung Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, has received numerous research grants, including the first ERC consolidator grant to a pathologist and authored or co-authored 302 peer-reviewed papers.
Dr Jasmin Haslbauer
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Talk: "Cardiovascular Manifestations of COVID-19"
Dr Jasmin Haslbauer is a resident at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology at University Hospital Basel (USB). She executes autopsies and is responsible for tissue collection, and also provides histopathological examinations, immunohistochemical examinations and data consolidation. She received her undergraduate medical degree from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and an MSc in molecular pathology and genomics from the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her current research deals with COVID-19-associated immunological and cardiovascular pathology.
Dr Haslbauer is a researcher on the BRCCH project: Lessons From the Deceased to the Living and Back. Read more here.
PD Maximilian Ackermann
RWTH University Clinics & Helios University Clinics, Germany
Talk: "COVID-19 – A Systemic Vasculo-inflammatory Disease"
PD Maximilian Ackermann is a professor and pathologist within the Institute of Pathology at RWTH University Clinics and the Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology at Helios University Clinics in Germany. His research focuses on angiogenesis, inflammation and vascular remodelling in disease. PD Dr Ackermann received his medical and doctoral degrees from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz located in Germany. He has received a number of prestigious awards including the Rudolf-Virchow Award from the German Society of Pathology.
Prof Alexandar Tzankov
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Talk: "COVID-19 Insights from Non-Cardio-Pulmonary Organ Pathology"
Prof Alexandar Tzankov is a surgical pathologist and Head of the Department of Histopathology and Autopsy at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology at University Hospital Basel. He currently chairs the European Bone Marrow Working Group and is a joined expert in the field of pathology for the Swiss Accreditation Authority. His major interests and diagnostic expertise lie within haematopathology and mediastinal pathology. Alongside current intensive tissue-based research activity on the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and the human body in COVID-19, his research group has long been involved in translational investigations and precision medicine of lymphomas and myeloid neoplasms. He has authored or co-authored more than 460 papers.
Prof Tzankov co-leads the BRCCH project: Lessons From the Deceased to the Living and Back. Read more here.