Thorsten Simon
Thorsten Simon is associate professor of pediatrics since 2011 and clinical director of the department of pediatric oncology and hematology of the University of Cologne since 2014. After training in general pediatrics, he completed his pediatric oncology/hematology training at the University of Cologne in 2006.
His special interest is clinical research in neuroblastoma. He joined the German neuroblastoma research group in 1998 and was actively involved in the national clinical trials NB97 and NB2004.
More recently, he was member of the protocol-writing group of the HR-NBL2/SIOPEN trial. He is currently the national coordinator of the SIOPEN registry of peripheral neuroblastic tumours presenting with spinal canal involvement for Germany, chair of the German neuroblastoma registry NB2016, principal investigator of the German NB2015-LR trial for low and intermediate risk neuroblastoma, member of the SIOPEN clinical trial committee.
He was the German country representative within the SIOPEN executive committee and will continue until end of 2025.
