- What
- Seminar
- When
- 27 May 2025
- Where
- Niels K. Jerne Auditorium, Panum Building, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B
Professor Michelle Monje and Professor Frank Winkler are awarded The Brain Prize 2025 for pioneering the field of Cancer Neuroscience.
Gliomas are extraordinarily difficult to treat and are the leading cause of brain tumour-related deaths in both children and adults. Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler have made transformative discoveries by showing that neural activity in the brain can promote cancer initiation, growth, spread and treatment resistance. Thus, the everyday activity that takes place in the brain promotes the development of cancers within it. These remarkable findings have laid the foundation for an entirely new field of research called ‘Cancer Neuroscience’ that represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of these cancers, and which offers vital new opportunities for treatment.
Programme
16:00: Welcome by Martin Meyer, Director of the Brain Prize
16:05: Chair of the Brain Prize selection committee Professor Andreas Meyer Lindenberg introduces Professor Michelle Monje
16:10: Professor Michelle Monje – “The neuroscience of brain cancer”
16:40: Professor Andreas Meyer Lindenberg introduces Professor Frank Winkler
16:45: Professor Frank Winkler – “Neural influences on adult brain tumors: from bench to bedside”
17:15: Reception