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PD Dr. med. habil. Stefan Fest

Guest Scientist

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research – UFZ
Department of Environmental Immunology
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

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• Immune regulation in neuroblastoma, the most common extracranial solid tumor in childhood
  
• Interaction between immune cells in the feto-maternal contact zone and its modulation by exposure to environmental factors
• Genetic and environmental factors on child development

• Regulatory B cells and their role in the galectin-1 network of immune suppression in neuroblastoma; Funding: Deutsche Krebshilfe, 70112537, Duration: 3 years until 15.07.2021, Responsible: Dr. rer. nat. Christine Weißenborn, Otto-von-Guericke University, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg
• T regulatory cells and their role in the network of galectin-1 mediated immune tolerance in neuroblastoma; Responsible: Sophie von Lenthe, PhD scholarship, Kind-Phillipp-Stipendium, Otto-von-Guericke University, Faculty of Medicine, Magdeburg
• Characterization of a new Nav1.4 channel mutation as a cause of congenital myasthenic syndrome; Responsible: Dr. Saskia Wolf and Dr. rer. nat. Christine Weißenborn, Otto-von-Guericke University, Faculty of Medicine, Magdeburg
• Etiology and clinical presentation of developmental delay and its correlations with genetic chromosomal aberrations; retrospective study, Responsible: Julia Wienke, University Children's Hospital Magdeburg, Malformation Monitoring Saxony-Anhalt and Institute of Human Genetics, Otto-von-Guericke University, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg
  

since 02/2021

Guest Scientist, Department of Environmental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

since 01/2021

Chief Physician, Pediatric Clinic, Städtisches Klinikum Dessau

since 12/2020

Guest Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University (OvGU), Magdeburg

01/2017 - 11/2020

Senior physician, University Children's Hospital, OvGU, Magdeburg

11/2013 - 01/2017

Specialist, University Children's Hospitals in Leipzig (UKL) and in Magdeburg

11/2016

Neonatology focus examination

04/2015

Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, OvGU, Magdeburg

11/2013

Specialist examination in pediatrics and adolescent medicine

11/2011

Habilitation (PD Dr. med. habil.), OvGU, Magdeburg

08/2008 - 11/2013

Training as a specialist in pediatric and adolescent medicine in Magdeburg and Leipzig

since 05/2008

Research Group Leader Pediatric Immunotherapy in Magdeburg (OvGU) and Leipzig (UKL), intermittently funded by: DFG (FE 914/2-1), Walter-Schulz-Stiftung, Deutsche Krebshilfe (70112537)

Postdoc at the Charité, Berlin and Yale University, New Haven, USA

07/2003 - 02/2005

Training as a specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Charité, Berlin

11/2003

Graduation (Dr. med.), Charité, Berlin

10/1995 - 05/2003

Study of human medicine, Charité, Berlin

• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes; 1999 to 2003
• DFG postdoctoral fellowship; August 2006 to July 2007
• Research fellowship of the Berlin Charité (place 1); August 2007 to April 2008
• Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (travel grant); 2009
• Hexal award; 12/2009