Date:4/26/2012

) and the downstream factor VII interact in the process of blood coagulation and how this knowledge can be utilized to develop a therapeutic strategy. While demonstrating that these coagulation factors and the entire hemostatic system can have additional effects on cancers and promote the growth of tumors, he also showed that the cellular processes induced by platelet tissue factor can be appropriately modified without any negative consequences for blood coagulation.

Professor Wolfram Ruf, born in 1958, currently works at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA. He has held a position in the Department of Immunology and Microbial Science there since 1988 and a full professorship since 2005. Ruf has until May 14, 2012 to decide whether to accept the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship and relocate to the CTH in Mainz.

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Contact: Dr. Rene Dillinger-Reiter pr@unimedizin-mainz.de 49-613-117-7424 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Source:Eurekalert

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