Prof. Dr. med. Ingo Schmidt-Wolf

Professor Schmidt-Wolf heads an oncology department at a university medicine center (i.e., a top-level healthcare facility in Germany), which is in many ways unique. The concept of the Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) is a holistic approach to the treatment of each individual patient, as well as cancer prevention, including traditional measures such as healthy diet and sports.

Within this concept, it is a German healthcare standard that CIO is part of the Bonn University Hospital, a complex of facilities dealing with all types of cancer: hematology, neuro-oncology, radiology and nuclear medicine, various surgery specialties, pediatrics, palliative medicine and gerontology. Notably, Professor Schmidt-Wolf’s innovative ideas are applied in the development and use of fundamentally new cancer therapies, not typical of conventional German oncology.

The main focus of the department head and his team is research in the field of molecular and immune therapies.

In terms of molecular therapies, the professor concentrates on two main areas:

- the development and application of two-component drugs that simultaneously detect and "exterminate" tumor cells;

- the use of killer T cells to treat hematologic neoplasms as part of stem cell transplantation procedure, both to increase the immune response and suppress a specific target.

In the field of immune therapy, Professor Schmidt-Wolf specializes in the development of multiclonal cytotoxic T-cell substances that neutralize pancreatic cancer cells. Innovative research and drug trials are also being conducted in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Thus, the Center for Integrated Oncology fosters the use of totally new and more effective drugs developed through experimental immunological research. In doing so, Professor Schmidt-Wolf and his team accumulate the results of similar scientific research conducted by three other major cancer centers in Germany – at the universities of Cologne, Aachen and Düsseldorf, which are acting as one team under the slogan "Together against Cancer. Together for Life".

Education

• 1979 – 1983 Human medicine Essen University
• 1983 – 1986 Human medicine Würzburg University

Professional Experience

• 1986 Research assistant West German Tumor Center, Essen University Hospital
• 1986 – 1988 Ward physician Clinic for Respiratory Diseases and Allergies, Norderney Hospital
• 1988 – 1991 Fellow Internal Medicine Department/Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Stanford University
• 1991 – 1996 Research assistant Internal Medicine Department (Hematology/Oncology), Free University of Berlin
• 1996-1997 Senior physician Internal Medicine Department (Hematology/Oncology), Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin
• 1997-2007 Professor, Head of Hematology and Oncology Department Medical clinic & Polyclinic, Bonn University Hospital
• Since 2002 Head of the Bonn Comprehensive Cancer Center
• 2005 Visiting Professor Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC San Diego
• 2008 – 2013 Leading senior physician and deputy department head III. Internal Medicine Department, Bonn University Hospital
• Since 2013 Head of the Center for Integrated Oncology (Bonn)

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