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Curriculum vitae

THALMANN George Niklaus May 11, 1959 October 2010

Nationality: Swiss

Marital status: Married, 3 children

Languages: English, German, French, Italian

Address: Department of Urology

Anna-Seiler-Haus

Inselspital

CH-3010 BERN

tel. (031) 632 21 11 fax. (031) 632 21 80

e-mail: [email protected]

Fuchshalden 7

CH-3033 Wohlen b. Bern

tel. (031) 829 48 70

e-mail: [email protected]

Education

1964/65 Primary School St. Ignatius of Loyola, New York City.

1966-78 Schools in Bern, Switzerland.

1978 Graduation and immatriculation at the Medical School of the University

of Bern, Switzerland.

1978-84 Medical School of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Diplomas

1978 Matura Typ B

1984 Graduation from the Medical School of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

1988 Medical Doctors Degree from the Medical School, University of Bern:

Thesis: The electrodermal orientation reaction to auditive stimuli with

and without signal character in children with minimal cerebral

dysfunction in comparison to a healthy control group.

1996 Swiss Board (FMH) of Urology

1997 Fellow of the European Board of Urology

2000 Venia docendi for Urology (Associate Professor), University of Bern,

Switzerland

1.3.2005 Titularprofessur (Professor of Urology), University of Bern, Switzerland

Postgraduate Education

1985/86 Resident at the Policlinic for Child Psychiatry, University of Bern,

Switzerland (Prof. W. Züblin).

1986 Replacement of a general practitioner in Göschenen, Switzerland.

1986/87 Swiss Army Medical Officer in Thun and Moudon.

1987/88 Surgical resident Cantonal Hospital Obwalden, Switzerland ( Dr. C. Müller).

1989/90 Surgical resident and chief resident Regional Hospital Thun,

Switzerland (Dr. C. Ghielmetti and Dr. H.P. Müller).

1991-93 Resident at the Department of Urology, University of Bern,

Switzerland (Prof. E.J. Zingg).

1993-1995 Postdoctoral research fellowship Urology Research Laboratory

(Prof. Leland W. K. Chung, Ph.D.), Department of Urology

(Prof. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D.) The University of Texas M. D.

Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

1995 Resident at the Department of Urology, University of Bern,

Switzerland (Chairman and Director: Prof. U.E. Studer)

1996 Oberarzt (Assistant Professor) Department of Urology, University of

Bern, Switzerland (Chairman and Director: Prof. U.E. Studer)

1997-2000 Oberarzt I (Senior staff, Assistant Professor) Department of Urology,

University of Bern, Switzerland (Chairman and Director: Prof. U.E. Studer)

2001-2004 Leitender Arzt (Permanent staff, Associate Professor) Department of Urology,

University of Bern, Switzerland

(Chairman and Director: Prof. U.E. Studer)

2004 Stellvertretender Chefarzt (Vice-chairman, Associate Professor) Department

of Urology, University of Bern, Switzerland

(Chairman and Director: Prof. U.E. Studer)

2005-2009 Chefarzt ad personam (Professor, designated chairman), Department of

Urology, University of Bern, Switzerland

2010 Ordinarius für Urologie (Professor and Chairman), Department of Urology,

University of Bern, Switzerland

Awards/Honors

1994 Travel Award of the European Society for Urologic Oncology and

Endocrinology Meeting in Bern, Switzerland.

1995 Travel Award of the Joint Meeting of the Society for Basic Urologic Research

and the European Society for Urologic Oncology and Endocrinology Meeting

in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

1995 First Prize in the Laboratory Research Category of the American Urological

Association Prize Essay Contest: "Androgen-independent and osseous

metastatic progression of human prostate cancer: Model development and

roles of osteopontin."

1997 Travel Award of the European Society for Urologic Oncology and

Endocrinology, Joint meeting SBUR/ESUOE 1997, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.

1997 CaPCURE Research Award: „Targeting Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis By

Mimotopes“ in the amount of 100’000.-$

1999 European Association of Urology (EAU) Matula Award for young

urological academicians in the amount of 10'000.- Euro

1999 Theodor-Kocher Award of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in the

amount of 50'000.- sFr

2002 Award of the Association pour la Recherche sur les Tumeurs de la Prostate

(ARTP), European Society for Urological Research (ESUR), Trento, Italy

2003 First Poster Prize of the Swiss Urological Association

2004-2006 President of the European Society for Urological Research

2003-2010 Board member of the European Society for Urological Research

2005- Member of the Scientific Office of the European Association of Urology

2006- Board member Bernese Cancer League

2008 Pfizer-Research Prize (C.A. Rentsch et al., Am. J. Pathol. 2007)

2008 Poster Prize American Urological Association

2008- Board member European Society for Urological Oncology

2008- Member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science

Foundation (Forschungsrat Abteilung III und Fachausschuss Interdisziplinär)

2009 Prize for the second best abstract of the European Association of Urology

(EAU)

2010 Prize for the best abstract of the European Association of Urology (EAU)

2010 Best reviewer award of the Journal of Urology

2010 Reviewer of the Month European Urology

Grants

1993 Supportive grant Dr. Arnold U. und Susanne Huggenberger-Bischoff

Stiftung zur Krebsforschung

1993-94 Supportive grant Swiss National Foundation

1995 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # 11-795 (3 years)

Title: Osteopontin: (OPN): A mediator of prostate cancer progression and

potential therapeutic target. 297’000.- sFr.

1996 SmithKline Beecham European Urological Scholarship

To: Dr. Ö. Adsan, Ankara, Turkey. Project: Molecular staging of prostate

cancer with the use of reversed transscription polymerase chain reaction.

33’000.- Euro. Institute: Univeristy of Berne, Switzerland. Dr. G.N. Thalmann

1996 Research grant Krebsforschung Schweiz (Swiss Cancer Research

Foundation) Title: Molecular staging of prostate cancer with the use of the

polymerase chain reaction. 75’000.- sFr

1997 Research grant Bernische Krebsliga (Bernese Anticancer League)

Title: Molecular staging of prostate cancer with the use of the polymerase

chain reaction. 150’000.-

1998 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # 11-795 (Prolongation 6 months)

Title: Osteopontin: (OPN): A mediator of prostate cancer progression and

potential therapeutic target. 34’000.-

1998 Research grant Niels und Desirée Yde Stiftung. Title: Targeting renal cell

carcinoma by mimotopes. 75'000.- sFr

1999 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # 32-57118.99.

Title: Markers and gene regulation of prostate cancer progression. 235'000.-

sFr

1999 NFP-37 Project 4037-044804/1: „Targeting the tumor vasculature with

mimotopes“. Prolongation for 2 years (co-investigator). 240’000.- sFr

1999 Stiftung zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung an der Universität

Bern. 15'000.- sFr.

1999 Josephine Clark-Fonds für Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Medizin. 1251.- sFr

2001 Novartis-Stiftung 01B32: “Identification of molecular mechanisms underlying

prostate cancer progression and metastasis” 31’900.- sFr (co-investigator)

2002 Research grant Swiss National Foundation #3200-068409.02.

Title: Osteomimetic peptides in prostate cancer progression and metastasis

sFr. 296'000.- sFr

2002 Research grant Bernische Krebsliga: “From Bench to Bedside –

Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Micrometastases” (Principal

Investigator), 500’000.- sFr

2003 EC 6th

Framework 1.1- HEALTH: “PRIMA: Prostate cancer integral

management approach”. Contracts under negotiation (group leader).

2003 EC 6th

Framework 1.1- HEALTH: “EMIL: European molecular imaging

laboratories”. Contracts under negotiation. (Co-applicant group leader)

2004 Research grant Bernische Krebsliga: “From Bench to Bedside –

Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Micrometastases” (Principal

Investigator), 200’000.- sFr (Continuation)

2005 EC 6th

Framework LIFESCIHEALTH-5: “PROMET: Prostate cancer

molecular-oriented detection and treatment of minimal residual disease”.

Contracts under negotiation (Primary investigator), 4’000’000.-€.

2005 CANCURE project funded by the European Commission Marie Curie actions

(group leader)

2005 Oncosuisse Research grant OCS-01752-08-2005: “Impact of therapeutic and

preventive strategies in prostate cancer on prostate-specific antigen (PSA),

gene expression and tumor cell survival

2006 Prolongation Research grant Swiss National Foundation #3200-068409.02.

Title: Osteomimetic peptides in prostate cancer progression and metastasis.

10’000.-

2007 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # 3100A0-116237 / 1.

Title: The role of stroma in prostate cancer development and progression.

250'877.- sFr

2009 PRO-NEST Marie Curie Action "Initial Training Networks" (ITN). FP7-

PEOPLE-ITN-2008 (group leader). Funding A, under negotiation

2009 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # SNF 31003A_127513.

Title: Locoregional treatment of prostate cancer metastase to bone using

implant-mediated hyperthermia 132’803.- sFr (Co-applicant)

2010 Research grant Swiss National Foundation # SNF 320030_130862.

Title: Detection and Targeting of Lymph Node Metastases in Prostate Cancer

370’000.- sFr (Prinicipal investigator)

Clinical Research Protocols

EORTC Protocol 30071: Double blind randomized Phase II Trial in patients with advanced

urothelial tract cancer (T3b, T4/N+/M+) of Gemcitabine and Cisplatin with Sorafenib or

Placebo (Co-Chairman)

Schweizerisches Institut für angewandte Krebsforschung: „A prospective randomized study

for the comparison of two BCG strains (Bacille Calmette-Guèrin) in the prophylaxis of

papillary tumors stage Ta and T1 and the treatment of carcinoma in situ“ Principle

investigator. Closed.

„Prospective, randomized, open-label pilot study for the clinical evaluation of intravesical

iscador instillation in superficial tumours of the urinary bladder.( Co-investigator in

collaboration with the „Kollegiale Instanz für Komplementärmedizin KIKOM“ and the

„Arlesheim Klinik for anthroposophical medicine“). Closed.

Memberships

European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and Secretary

of the Superficial Bladder Cancer Disease Oriented Group

European School of Urology (Staff)

American Urological Association (Corresponding member)

European Society for Urological Research (board member)

European Society for Oncological Urology (board member)

Association of Academic European Urologists (full member)

European Urological Association (full member)

Society for Basic Urological Research (member)

American Association for Cancer Research (member)

Urological Research Society (member)

American Society for Gene Therapy (member)

Swiss Urological Association (member)

Swiss Society for Oncology (member)

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in Medizin und Biologie

Editorial Boards

British Journal of Urology International

Journal of Urology International Editorial Committee

Der Urologe

Annals of Urology

Reviewer

Journal of Urology Prostate and bladder cancer

European Urology Urological oncology

British Journal of Urology Urological oncology

The Prostate Prostate cancer

Der Urologe A Urological oncology

Urology Bladder cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology Bladder cancer

American Journal of Epidemiology Prostate cancer

Clinical Cancer Research Prostate cancer

Cancer Research Prostate cancer

Molecular Cancer Research Prostate cancer

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics Prostate and bladder cancer

International Journal of Cancer Prostate cancer

Carcinogenesis Prostate cancer

Annals of Human Genetics Prostate cancer

Biomed Central Cancer Prostate cancer

The ScientificworldJOURNAL Urology

Gynecologic Oncology Urology

Critical Reviews in Hematology/Oncology Prostate cancer

Swiss Medical Weekly Prostate cancer

Infomed Prostate cancer

Asian Journal of Andrology Prostate cancer

British Journal of Cancer Oncology

Frontiers in Bioscience Prostate cancer

World Journal of Urology Bladder cancer

International Journal of Surgery Bladder and prostate cancer

Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine Prostate cancer

Free Radical Biology & Medecine Prostate cancer

Journal of Zhejiang University Science B Bladder cancer

Cancer Treatment Reviews Prostate cancer

Pathobiology Prostate cancer

International Urology and Nephrology Urological oncology

Human Pathology Bladder cancer

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases Prostate cancer

European Association of Urology 1998 Meeting Barcelona (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 1999 Meeting Stockholm (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 2000 Meeting Brussels (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 2001 Meeting Geneva (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 2002 Meeting Birmingham (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 2003 Meeting Madrid (basic research prostate cancer)

European Association of Urology 2004 Meeting Istanbul (basic research prostate cancer)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Annual Meeting 2002 (Bladder cancer; basic and clinical

research)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Annual Meeting 2003 (imaging techniques)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Annual Meeting 2004 (prostate cancer basic research)







Expert Opinion

Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Urological Association.

Member Editorial Board British Journal of Urology Section Investigative Urology

Gene Therapy Working Group, Interdisziplinäre Schweizerische Kommission für Biologische

Sicherheit in Forschung und Technik, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Landschaft, Bern,

Switzerland 2001-2006

European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) for the Protocol

Review Committee (Genito-Urinary Cancers)

Interkantonale Kontrollstelle für Medikamente der Schweiz (1999)

MD-PhD Thesis Jury T. Tawadros, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2002

Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant review)

Association for International Cancer Research (Grant review)

Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Grant review)

Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank (Grant review)

Oncosuisse (Grant review)

Schweizerische Krebsliga (Grant review)

AKF-Programm der Universität Tübingen (Grant review)

Dutch Cancer Society (grant review)

Deutsche Krebshilfe (Grant review)

MA 40 Med.-Wissenschaftl. Fond d. BM Österreich (Grant review)

The Cancer Research Society, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada (Grant review)

Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale, France (Grant review)

The Prostate Cancer Charity research, UK (Grant review)

Organisation of Meetings

Prostate cancer meeting of the Swiss Cancer League, Swiss Urological Society, Swiss

Medical Association, Interlaken, 14. September 2000.

Member of the organizing committee of the 2nd

International Conference on Prostate Cancer

Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, October 12-15, 2002

Urologie Arena, Treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, Bern, November 28, 2003.

Scientific committee, Annual Meeting of the European Society for Urological Research in

Athens, November 4 – 6, 2004

Urologie Arena, Treatment of testicular cancer, Lucerne, November 19, 2004.

Urologie Arena, Diseases of the penis, Priapism, Bern, November 25, 2005.

17th

Meeting of the European Society for Urological Research (ESUR), Malmö, Sweden, 14-

16 September 2006.

Fortbildung in Allgemeinmedizin Urologie. CME accredited education for general

practitioners. Bern, February 1, 2007.


practitioners. Bern, January 24, 2008.

SAMO Interdisciplinary Workshop on Urogenital Tumors, Lucerne January 9-10, 2009


practitioners. Bern, January 29, 2009.


practitioners. Bern, March 4, 2010.

Chairs

The Second World Congress on Urological Research 1997 (joint meeting of the Society for

Basic Urologic Research and the European Society for Urological Oncology and

Endocrinology) Interventional Biology Session (December 13th)

The Royal Society of Medicine Section of Urology Winter Meeting 1999, Adelboden,

Switzerland, Kidney Cancer Session

The European Association of Urology XIVth Congress 1999, Stockholm, April 7-11, Poster

session: „Prostate cancer: Molecular Genetics“.

Swiss Urological Society Annual Meeting 1999, Freiburg, September 2-4, „Free

communications“.

The European Association of Urology XVth Congress 2000, Brussels, Belgium April 13-15,

Poster session: „Prostate cancer: Basic research“.

European School of Urology Black Sea Meeting, Odessa, 2-3 November 2001, Stone

Session.

16th

Congress of the European Society for Urological Research, Basic Research in Prostate

Cancer Session, Trento, Italy, October 24-26, 2002

2nd

International Conference on Prostate Cancer Research, Epidemiology, Prevention and

Control. University of Iowa, Iowa City, October 12-15, 2002

The European Association of Urology XVIIth Congress 2002, Birmingham, Great Britain,

February 23-26, oral session: „Urological Imaging“.

Urologie Arena, Treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, Bern, November 28, 2003.

5th

World Congress on Urological Research, Imaging in Urology Session, London, Great

Britain, September 24-27, 2003.

The European Association of Urology XVIIIth Congress 2003, Madrid, Spain, March 12-15,

Poster session: „Prostate Cancer: Molecular Tumour Profiling“.

Prostate cancer basic research: androgen receptor/apoptosis.

19th

Congress of the European Association of Urology, Vienna, March 24 – 27, 2004.

Urologie Arena, Treatment of testicular cancer, Lucerne, November 19, 2004.

Gene therapy: the future of tumour therapy or dead end?

European Society for Urological Research (ESUR) Section meeting March 16, 2005

The European Association of Urology XXth Congress 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, March 17-19,

Poster session: „Prostate Cancer: Tumour cell biology – target discovery“.

The European Association of Urology XXth Congress 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, March 17-19,

Debate: „Is preservation of the prostate at radical cystectomy an appropriate option?“.

Prostatakarzinom – Freie Mitteilungen. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Urologie. Geneva,

September 8-10, 2005.

German Urological Association 57th

Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 21-24,

2005

Prostatakarzinom – Therapie lokalisierter Tumoren I

Urologie Arena, Diseases of the penis, Priapism, Bern, November 25, 2005.

4th

Engadin Prostate Cancer Winter Symposium, Zuoz, March 15-19, 2006

Prostate cancer session 9

European Society for Urological Research Section meeting, Paris, April 5th

, 2006

“-omics in Urological diseases”

The European Association of Urology XXI Congress 2006, Paris, France, April 5-8

Oral session: „Bladder Cancer: Urothelial tumors: Management of infiltrative/advanced

tumours I“.


Subplenary Session 7.


Oral session: „Bladder Cancer: Urothelial tumors: Management of infiltrative/advanced

tumours II“.


European School of Urology Course: Management of infiltrative/advanced urothelial cancer.

Forschung – Freie Mitteilungen. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Urologie. Geneva,

September 7-9, 2006.

Keynote lecture Prof. M. Rubin, Boston, US. 17th

Meeting of the European Society for

Urological Research (ESUR), Malmö, Sweden, 14-16 September 2006.

Epidemiology of Urological Cancers. 17th

Meeting of the European Society for Urological

Research (ESUR), Malmö, Sweden, 14-16 September 2006.

German Urological Association 58th

Congress, Hamburg, Germany, September 20-23, 2006

Postersitzung: Prostatakarzinom – Therapie lokalisierter Tumoren II

The European Association of Urology XXII Congress 2007, Berlin, Germany, March 21-24

Subplenary Session 6.

The European Association of Urology XXII Congress 2007, Berlin, Germany, March 21-24.

European School of Urology Course: Management of infiltrative/advanced urothelial cancer.

Swiss Society of Urology. Basel, September 27-29, 2007.

Neues aus der Forschung.

Session de la prostate et du rein. 2nd

Rencontres Pratiques en Uro-oncologie d’ Alsace-

Lorraine. December 1-2, 2007

Joint Winter meeting of the Department of Urology, University of Bern and The Royal Society

of Medicine Section of Urology, Zermatt January 26 – February 1, Switzerland, Prostate

Cancer Session.

Swiss Society of Urology. Davos, Switzerland. September 4-6, 2008.

Chirurgische Techniken.

Swiss Society of Urology. Lausanne, Switzerland. September 3-5, 2009.

Prostatakarzinom, Diagnostik und Forschung.

Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer. The 6th Engadin Prostate Cancer Winter

Symposium, Zuoz, Switzerland. 03. – 07. March 2010

The European Association of Urology XXV Congress 2010, Barcelona, Spain, April 16-20

Plenary Session 2; Prostate cancer: From prevention to risk calculation


Moderation Poster Session 54: Prognostic biomarkers


Moderation EAU Section Meetings; Superficial TCC: New chemotherapeutics in sight

Swiss Society of Urology. Lausanne, Switzerland. September 1-3, 2010.

Moderation Poster Session 2: Experimentelles Forum

German Urological Association 62nd

Congress 2010, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 22-25

Moderation Forum F1: Kontroversen beim Blasenkarzinom



Moderation V17: Urothelkarzinom Therapie



Plenum II: Kontroversen in der Urologie: Zystektomie offen vs. Laparoskopisch vs. robotic

Invited Talks

Screening in 2010. In whom and how?

International Symposium Update in Uro-Oncology 2010, MD Anderson Cancer Senter,

Santiago, July 8-9, 2010

Localized prostate cancer in a young patient: oncological, functional and QOL issues. Which

is the best option? Open radical prostatectomy



Extended pelvic lymphadenectomy: a new standard?



Biochemical recurrences after treatment with curative intention: What to do? When? Clinical

cases



Conservative management in high risk tumors: When to move along?



Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: difficult cases



Postgraduate Courses

1988 Basic Course Osteosynthesis, Davos, Switzerland

1989 Basic Course Gastroenterologic Surgery, Davos, Switzerland

1990 Small Fragmentary Osteosynthesis Course, Waldenburg, Switzerland

1991/92 Medical Statistics Course, Berne, Switzerland

1992 Basic Course Laparoscopic Surgery, Berne, Switzerland

1995 Urologic Laparoscopic Surgery Course, American Urological

Association, Houston, Texas, USA

1996 Technique of Scientific Presentations

1996 Management Course, Interlaken, Switzerland

1999 Organisation of the operating theatre

2009 Strahlenschutz für Ärzte, Paul Scherrer Institute

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