St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI)
Ruth Prof. Dr. Ladenstein has extensive work experience in the field of pediatric oncology. Ruth began their career in 1982 as a Consultant at St. Anna Children's Hospital. In 1996, they became the Head of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Children's Cancer Research Institute, where they also served as the Director. From 2006 onwards, they were the Chair of the Austrian Haemato-Oncology Group, and in 2009, they became the President of both SIOPE - European Society for Paediatric Oncology and the SIOPEN European SIOP Neuroblastoma Group. Ruth was also a member of the Oncology Advisory Board at the Ministry of Health Austria. Most recently, in 2017, they took on the role of Coordinator for the European Reference Network for Paediatric Cancer (ERNPaedCan). Apart from their clinical work, in 2019, they became an Expert Board Member at the European Commission.
Ruth Prof. Dr. Ladenstein completed their education as follows:
From 1975 to 1982, they attended the Medical University of Vienna, where they obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree with a focus on Medizin.
In 1989, they pursued further studies at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, earning a DISC- Diplome interuniversitaire de spécialité complementaire de cancerologie.
In 1992, they obtained a Speciality diploma of paediatrics from the Austrian Medicine Association, although the start year for this education is not specified.
In 2006, they enrolled at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and completed a Diplom in Internationales Projektmanagement.
In 2007, they attended the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, where they received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in International Health Care Management.
Also in 2007, they acquired a Diplom as a Senior Project Manager, Certification IPMA-Level B from Project Management Austria.
Overall, Ruth Prof. Dr. Ladenstein has an extensive education background in various fields such as Medicine, Cancerology, Pediatrics, Project Management, and International Health Care Management.
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St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI)
The St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (St Anna CCRI), located in the center of Vienna, the world's most livable city and one of Europe's most important places for biomedical research and life sciences, is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary research institution with the aim to develop and optimize diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic strategies for the treatment of children and adolescents with cancer. To achieve this goal we combine basic research with translational and clinical research and focus on the specific characteristics of childhood tumor diseases in order to provide young patients with the best possible and most innovative therapies. Dedicated research groups in the fields of tumor genomics and epigenomics, immunology, molecular biology, cell biology, bioinformatics and clinical research are working together to harmonize scientific findings with the clinical needs of physicians to ultimately improve the wellbeing of our patients. Through close cooperation between clinic and research, the CCRI provides an ideal environment for cutting-edge research and its translation into clinical practice. To achieve our ultimate goal of advancing the well-being of patients, the CCRI constantly pushes scientific boundaries and strongly promotes close collaboration and exchange with external institutions like the Medical University of Vienna, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) and the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).