Dr. Ernst Lengyel

Biography

Ernst Lengyel is a trained scientist and physician whose career is focused on the biology of ovarian cancer (OvCa) treatment. He received his M.D. from the University of Munich in June 1992. His Ph.D. thesis involved the role of proteases in ovarian cancer. As a surgeon and clinician, he is familiar with the presentation of ovarian cancer in patients and has experienced the significant obstacles they face in treatment. He has established a laboratory dedicated to effective ovarian cancer research and has elucidated critical steps in ovarian cancer metastasis while paying close attention to the host microenvironment. He has collected 25 commonly used ovarian cancer cell lines worldwide and has established various mouse models for OvCa research. His extensive clinical experience allows him to enroll patients in proposed clinical trials and collect tissue required for translational studies. Together with laboratory findings, his clinical expertise provides a unique perspective on finding new treatments that can benefit patients with ovarian cancer.

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