PD Dr. med. Thorsten Götze
Senior Medical Officer
PD Dr. Götze graduated as MD in 2004 at Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz and Goethe University Frankfurt and is a qualified specialist in general, visceral and special visceral surgery and is also qualified for emergency medicine and proctology. He is the founder of the German Registry for Incidental Gallbladder Carcinoma, which he still manages. He expanded his surgery expertise working at the Ketteler Hospital in the city of Offenbach as senior physician and as senior physician at Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics in Wiesbaden. Since 2015, he has been serving as deputy Medical Director at the Institute of Clinical Cancer Research at Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt. In 2017 he was appointed managing director of the University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT) subsidiary at Northwest Hospital and medical head of statewide Hessian Oncology Initiative (HOK) in the Frankfurt-Offenbach area. PD Dr. Götze is the current Senior Medical Officer at IKF.
Biosketch Prof. Al-Batran
Biosketch Prof. Salah-Eddin Al-Batran
Prof. Salah-Eddin Al-Batran is current Director of the Institute of Clinical Cancer Research, a joint foundation of the University Cancer Center (UCT), Frankfurt and Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt. He is also Head of Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at the Northwest Hospital. Prof. Al-Batran is Member of the Board of Directors of the University Cancer Center, a German Cancer Aid (Krebshilfe) certified Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of Excellence.
Prof. Al-Batran is board-certified Hematologist and Oncologist. Further experiences include Internal Medicine (board-certified), Palliative Medicine (board-certified), and Pain Management (board certified). He received his medical degree from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. After the completion of an internship and residency in internal medicine, Prof. Al-Batran completed fellowships in Hematology and Oncology, in Frankfurt. Since 2014, he is full professor (APL) at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt.
Prof. Al-Batran is an internationally recognized clinical researcher and expert in the field of Gastrointestinal Cancer. His clinical research interest has been particularly focused on esophageal and gastric cancer. In his Institute, Prof. Al-Batran guides a comprehensive clinical and translational research program, focusing on gaining a better understanding of the development and treatment of cancer. His works have gained international recognition and led to registrational phase-III studies (as for the IMAB362 antibody) and/or have been considered in guidelines such as the German S3- or NCCN/ESMO-Guidelines (as for the perioperative FLOT therapy). His special clinical interests include Multimodality Treatment, Oligometastatic Disease, Precision Medicine, Immuno-Oncology, and Patient Reported Outcome.
Prof. Al-Batran is Founder and Chair of FLOT Upper GI Cancer Study Group, which comprises more than 200 medical centers located in Germany and European Union. The network that was founded by Prof. Al-Batran in 2001 emerged as one of largest clinical study networks world-wide. Prof. Al-Batran was also the chairman of the Gastric/esophageal Cancer Working Group of the AIO for seven years and chairman of the Quality of Life/PRO Working Group for three years. He is member of the Educational Steering Committee of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and German Representative in the American National Cancer Institute (NCI) Upper GI Task Force. Prof. Al-Batran is member of numerous other global scientific committees. He is coordinating investigator or protocol committee member of multiple international phase III studies and active member of several professional organizations, including the German Society of Clinical Oncology (AIO), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). Al-Batran has written several books and published many original articles in reputed journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet, JAMA, Lancet Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Cancer, and Cancer Research. The mean impact factor of his original articles is 10.2 (by December 2018). The number of PubMed-cited articles is 128 (by December 2018). Prof. Al-Batran successfully achieved significant third-party funding form most important public organizations such as Deutsche Krebshilfe, DFG, BMBF and from almost all global pharmaceutical companies.
Prof. Al-Batran is teacher of Internal Medicine at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt. He has given numerous lectures at national and international symposia and conferences including several oral presentations and late-breaking abstracts at the ASCO, ESMO, ESMO GI, and ASCO GI annual meetings. In 2008, Prof. Al-Batran was awarded with the AIO Science Award by the German Cancer Society in Berlin. In 2017, he received the Bengt Glimelius Honorary Award in Stockholm.
Prof. Al-Batran’s vision is to cure metastatic cancer by integrating immunotherapy and precision medicine into multimodality therapy of localized and oligometastatic cancer. For this, Prof. Al-Batran is currently conducting eight parallel, randomized clinical studies and several large-scale, translational projects.